On July 14th 2007 the Islamic Council of Victoria is promoting a 'FAMSY' conference at Melbourne University.

http://www.famsy.com/famsy/modules/news/article.php?storyid=107

A guest speaker is "Imam Mahdi Bray" an African American convert to Islam, who is alleged to have connections to the Muslim Brotherhood.

What kind of activities has this man been up to? For example.. would he speak 'sympatheticaly' of a man like Ahmed Omar Abu-Ali

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Omar_Abu_Ali
Ahmed Omar Abu-Ali is an American citizen who was convicted of providing material support to the al Qaeda terrorist network.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/05/006028print.html
“MAS Freedom Foundation's Executive Director, Mahdi Bray, called the continued detention of Ahmed Abu-Ali, an American born citizen and an honor student, in a Saudi Arabian jail a "national disgrace and tragedy."

If he did, would that then disqualify him for admittance to Australia on comfort to terrorist grounds? I SURE HOPE SO!

On December 22, 2000, MPAC's Mahdi Bray organized a rally in Lafayette Park outside the White House to celebrate a "Worldwide Day for Jerusalem." In Arabic, the crowd responsively chanted with the emcee, "Khaybar, Khaybar oh Jews, the Army of Muhammad is coming for you!"

Has anyone NOTICED my many_repeated references to KYAYBAR?
Hezbollah Missile "Khaybar II"
Amrozi "Jews..remember Khaybar"

Any person who comes to this country to support and nourish a value system which has at its heart the call for destruction of Christians and Jews on the basis of their core beliefs, is a danger, is unwelcome (by me at least) and a risk to our national security.

This man called Muslims to attend Abu Ali's court hearing and to MOCK the proceedings.

http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/2011 (see refs to MAS Muslim American Society)

Mahdi Bray.. would you like some Australians to do for you as you did to the American Justice system ?

Take a deep breath and think about it.
Stopping such idiots from coming is not going to help, let the Goose come, record every thing he says.
Review the tapes and know who are our enemy's, show the clown on every TV station and let us see the danger extremists are and we just may benefit from his hate and lies.
A better world awaits us if we understand we need no man made God.
Any of the many we have invented.

The problem is Belly is that there are many people in Aust who feel alienated just like David Hicks and our tribal instincts very often over ride any logic.Hicks left his family to find adventure and tribal bonding.

These lunatic fringe dwellers offer simplistic solutions in an increasingly complex world and many do find solace in their teachings.

I think that our science and technology progress has out stripped our genetic ability to cope with environmental change.

We don't need the lunatic Islamic Facists to preach their bile here,since our society has been made too vunerable by the destruction of the family unit.

And the first nomination for the Boaz Perpetual Whack-a-Mozzie trophy, for the least edifying, most vacuous insult against Islam is.... Arjay!

This is a doozy, Arjay.

>>We don't need the lunatic Islamic Facists to preach their bile here,since our society has been made too vunerable by the destruction of the family unit<<

It has all the ingredients that we have come to expect, plus a couple of extras - here is an excerpt from the judges' comments.

"The first thing we noticed was that it concatenates two concepts - a condemnation of the visiting speaker coupled with a condemnation of our own society - classy.

Looking at the two separately we can see some marked differences in style, almost as if they were written by two different people. The first phrase could easily have been written by a knuckle-dragging neanderthal, while the second is a thoughtful piece of self-loathing, wittily leavened by the cuteness of a single misspelt word.

The judges award extra marks for the sheer brilliance of the non-sequitur contained in the sentence as a whole. The author makes the claim that the fact that his own society is already rooted, is sufficient rationale for rejecting the visiting preacher. Quite how the two are related is not made clear, which is in itself a stroke of artistic genius - the keep 'em guessing approach is always appealing."

To add my own observation to that of the judges - why should we be scared of people like this, and what they might say?

The preacher, I mean.

I tend to agree Boaz.

Australia is strict as to who it allows in to this country. It has banned people like Peter Thatchel, a respected representative on the Greater London City Council, for his protests against Robert Magabe. This was before Australia admitted that Zimbabwe was a problem.

Rock groups from Oasis to radical punk groups have been banned from comming to Australia. Even Eminem was banned to come, at first, and only came after an appeal. Banning people from coming to Australia is not rare and is usually protocol to keep the peace.

It the man wants to cause trouble, why should he be treated any differently?

Perhaps you're right. We don't need to let any fundamentalist extremists into the country.
We have enough of our own already.