I can walk into any corner shop and buy phone credit. No-one asks me for ID and I can use the credit voucher months later on any prepaid phone from that provider.

I think all prepaid mobile phone users should be rounded up and searched for incriminating evidence. You just can't trust them, they have utter disdain for the Western ideal of an itemised quarterly bill.

In view of the sensationalism the Australian media and left wingers can stir up, it is a pity the powers that be didn't just stick Haneef on his plane,cancel his visa and wave him farewell.
It would have been a lot quieter, a lot cheaper and the civil liberterians plus those idiot pollies would have been deprived of another platform from which to attack John Howard again.
If only!

Yes, it's always easier when we don't have to worry about silly things like due process and rule of law. In fact, let's just round up all the non-white non-Christians in Australia, and put them on a boat and send them away. It worked so well for the Germans in the 1930s. They had the right idea! Can't trust those ethnics! They want to subvert our way of life! Damn civil liberterians insisting on human rights!

That Mugabe fellow may be a darkie, but he has the right idea. Anyone causes trouble or questions the government, lock 'em up! They're all "terrorists", he says. And he doesn't worry about silly things like trials. After all, he knows the truth. He can spot a terrorist when he sees one.

[/end sarcasm because it's too depressing to go on like that]

Interestingly, a couple of Tamil Tigers supporters were released on bail today - http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/17/1980708.htm - and have not been detained by immigration. Apparently, people actually in a terrorist organisation (Tamil Tigers invented the use of suicide bombers with explosives on their body, against civilian targets) can be let out on the streets, but not someone who just knew one once. Could it be that they're Hindu and Haneef is Moslem?

I'm amazed (and concerned) that the immigration laws are stricter than the anti terrorism laws. The Government could not justify keeping him in jail under the very very loose requirements of the anti terrorism laws yet have enough to put him in detention under the immigration laws, wow! That rather smacks of malicious misuse of law, not concern as to whether he is/might be/provides material support to terrorist. If there was any concern, any evidence, they could keep him in detention indefinitely, they did not.

“Which Lebanese sect is truly radical? For Muslim outsiders like myself, they're all as bad as each other.”

Now Irfan is into the blame game; implying that it’s the Lebanese Muslims that are to be blamed and giving Muslims a bad name.

However, another Muslim in OLO remarked

“It gets very complicated. Shia and Sunni, can not live together, you can not stop the pass of terrorist to Shia and Kurdish region , unless you separate them”, Kurdish guy.

Recent terrorist attacks all over the world involved Muslims of different nationalities and races fighting for the cause of Islam. The truth is that at least three of the suicide bombers of the London underground and bus were British males of Pakistani origin. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4676577.stm.
The recent failed car bomb attempts in London and Glasgow were carried out by Muslims from Jordan, Iraq and India.

The Pakistani cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi, leader of the Red Mosque, moved in liberal circles and favoured Western-style clothes as a young man, but was radicalised later in life. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6281228.stm.

So no Muslim is immune from becoming an extremist as long as s/he remains a Muslim.