"Muslim woman faces possible jail after refusing to remove veil, stand for NSW judge

NSW authorities have given the green light to prosecute Moutia Elzahed, after she stated she wouldn’t “stand for anyone except Allah” when appearing before Judge Audrey Balla in December....Elzahed is one of two women married to convicted criminal and Islamic State extremist Hamdi Alqudsi.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/a/34380244/muslim-woman-faces-possible-jail-after-refusing-to-remove-veil-stand-for-judge/#page1

It's about time. These people enjoy our generosity then thumb their noses at us and until now we have been too soft. I also see the first convicted terrorist is about to lose his Aus citizenship. Horay!

Just to add to the insult she was one of 2 wives the man had, don't know how many children, I would lay odds on both wives on welfare.

Yeah, let's all punish people for not dressing up in their Sunday Best. Because that is such an efficient use of our court time.

Contempt of court is a made-up offence, designed to extract heftier fines from the irreverent. Won't swear on the Bible? Contempt! Fine: 50 dollarpounds, Do Not Pass Go etc.

Bit of a poor rub if you're a committed but desperately poor atheist without even 5 dollarpounds to your name... you'll wind up greater than 45 dollarpounds in debt for no worse crime than having courage in your convictions.

Judges are decent, nice people - as far as I know. But I've only met one personally, and my appreciation for the wisdom and grace of the Honourable Raymond Burke (retired) can't excuse the failings we have inherited from the English system of law.

Respect is earned, not demanded. If the court does naught to earn my esteem, and merely demands it, why should I be so freely giving of it? They've not bloody earnt it.

Phuck the courts and their archaic, forelock-tugging rules. Their pomposity and grandeur serves no useful purpose except to artificially inflate the cost of legal procedure. I used to have a mate whose dad was barrister. I remember one afternoon when we were hanging out, and Alan came into show off his new wig. I'd want to show it off too - the price tag was astronomical. I don't even want to tell you; you'd just shed bitter tears over all that is wrong with the world. It cost way too much for a shite wig.

They pass the costs onto the consumer. Barristers would be just as effective without the shite wigs, but they have to have them or it's contempt. If they could get rid of them they could charge the customer less, and cut down on the court's air-conditioning bills.

But they don't want to give up all the pomposity and grandeur and wank, and we all end up footing the bill.

I used to think like this lady and even refused to stand on occasion.
What has this court/judge done to deserve my respect I thought.

But then I saw something from Japan that changed my mind.
Respect should be our default position. Respect does not need to be earned. It should be the way we act at all times in a civilised society.
Respect can be lost but it does not need to be earned. Life would be much better if we all showed a bit more respect all the time.

Clever people those Japanese.

//Clever people those Japanese.//

Really? Why is all their pornography so rapey, then? I mean, western pornography is quite often rapey... one has to go out of one's way to find decent porn.

But I've yet to find any Japanese porn that is not creepy in some way... just sayin'.