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HUNGER STRIKERS HUNGRY

Ten terror suspects in Melbourne are on a hunger strike, reports the BBC:

One of those on hunger strike, Ahmed Raad, said the group would continue their protest indefinitely until their conditions were improved, according to his wife.

She said her husband also complained he and the others were not getting enough food.

(Via UK reader Adrian)

Posted by Tim B. on 01/13/2006 at 10:20 AM

  1. Hmmm.

    The irony implicit in that is almost zen in it’s simplicity, stunning condemnation of humanity and the ultimate desire to slap Mr. Ahmed silly.

    Posted by memomachine on 2006 01 13 at 11:46 AM • permalink

  2. Let me get this straight.  A hunger striker is complaining he’s not getting enough food?  This, of course, just reinforces my previous opinion that the Muslim mind is completely schizoid:  they can hold, and utterly believe, two opposing ideas at the same time.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 01 13 at 11:53 AM • permalink

  3. Rebecca:

    And it’s all aided and abetted by ‘reporters’ who never, ever seem to challenge gravity-defying statements like that.

    Posted by cosmo on 2006 01 13 at 12:11 PM • permalink

  4. Perhaps the UN could induce Michael Moore to increase his intake, thereby more than offsetting this latest blow to world agricultural markets.

    Posted by Bill Spencer on 2006 01 13 at 12:13 PM • permalink

  5. I guess this makes sense.  Now they have more than enough food for current purposes.

    Posted by dazed on 2006 01 13 at 12:58 PM • permalink

  6. Maybe it’s a serial hunger strike: today Ahmed goes without food, tomorrow it’s Abdullah, the day after that it’s Mohammed . . .

    Posted by paco on 2006 01 13 at 01:21 PM • permalink

  7. Al Sharpton was once given a short jail sentatnce for one of his usual insanities.  He declared he was going on a hunger strike.  However, right before he declared it, he went to a vending machine and wolfed down some Buffalo wings.

    Posted by Room 237 on 2006 01 13 at 01:29 PM • permalink

  8. Buffalo wing vending machines.  The mind boggles.

    Posted by Achillea on 2006 01 13 at 01:32 PM • permalink

  9. I know, Achillea.  Is this a great country or what?

    We can only hope these Islamonutters do indeed continue to starve themselves “indefinitely.”

    If I was running the jail, I would have smelltastic dishes, perhaps prominently featuring delicious pork items, placed outside of their cells, just out of reach.

    That reminds me.  Its time for lunch!

    Posted by R C Dean on 2006 01 13 at 02:32 PM • permalink

  10. Why don’t I care? Perhaps the BBC reporters can express their normal sympathy with the terrorists by foregoing their usual fantastic English Breakfast of eggs cooked in Kerosene with side orders of bacon, sauage and ham and sending it all to the monsters to feast upon.

    Posted by stats on 2006 01 13 at 02:40 PM • permalink

  11. "Eat, eat! What, you don’t like it?”

    Posted by mojo on 2006 01 13 at 03:16 PM • permalink

  12. Let them eat bacon.

    Posted by Oafish and Infantile on 2006 01 13 at 03:57 PM • permalink

  13. The classic prisoners’ lament: 

    The food is bad and there’s not enough of it.

    Posted by Mystery Meat on 2006 01 13 at 04:04 PM • permalink

  14. Howard turned me into a newt!

    Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 01 13 at 04:09 PM • permalink

  15. I didn’t use any formatting! I swear!

    Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 01 13 at 04:10 PM • permalink

  16. testing...someone was using formatting…

    Posted by Kathy K on 2006 01 13 at 04:32 PM • permalink

  17. I was framed!

    Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 01 13 at 04:54 PM • permalink

  18. Quick send over Barnra Plett and Orla Guerin to arrange protests outside the Prison.
    “I’m standing outside the notorious Australian GITMO, where it is claimed hundreds of peaceful militants are being brutalised under John Howard’s harsh governmnent emergency laws.”
    “tell me MR Negus, is John Howard bending to pressure from Bush and the Zionist lobby?”
    “Well...”

    Posted by davo on 2006 01 13 at 05:12 PM • permalink

  19. Can’t waait for the Fawning that will ensue from the SBS ABC AGE and SMH after this item from the MINISTRY OF TRUTH.

    Posted by davo on 2006 01 13 at 05:16 PM • permalink

  20. Mr. Bingley, you were italicized, not framed.  Sheesh!

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 01 13 at 05:17 PM • permalink

  21. Waiter!  This food is terrible!  And if you don’t bring me more of it right away, I’m going to continue to refuse to eat it!

    Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 01 13 at 05:33 PM • permalink

  22. But I’m mostly irish!

    Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 01 13 at 05:37 PM • permalink

  23. In other bizarro-Islamoworld news, the Dutch are considering a wide ban on hejabs. This has led to protests along the lines of “but in the west we have freedom of religion” from one woman featured on an ABC news report.
    Such a ban is tinkering at the margin - the real question raised by this woman’s statement is:
    How do you reconcile Freedom of Religion and Islam, if the latter endorses Sharia, which in turn totally negates FoR?

    Posted by blogstrop on 2006 01 13 at 05:59 PM • permalink

  24. Banning the Hijab or burka is very bad for the economy. These garments use up a whole lot of material not like those decadent western miniskirts.
    How many brave infidelsalesmen have wondered into the friday night sermons to get orders from those oil rich mullahs who pay top dollar for those garments?
    Would you reduce their death defying feats to nothing, Blogstrop?

    Posted by davo on 2006 01 13 at 06:57 PM • permalink

  25. #7--Well, first off, Al Sharpton was so rotund at that point, he needed to drop about 50 lbs, and NYC corrections food is so bad (so I’ve been told!) that a hunger strike is probably healthier.

    Posted by Forbes on 2006 01 13 at 07:42 PM • permalink

  26. I wonder if Roy and HG could call the hunger strike?
    Melbourne Muslim Munchkins Minimising Meals?

    Posted by Paul on 2006 01 13 at 08:15 PM • permalink

  27. Hm.  Can we get them to go on an oxygen strike?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 13 at 08:46 PM • permalink

  28. This is a textbook repeat of what’s happening at Guantanemo Bay.

    Inmates starve themselves. They are then tube-fed by officers (who it should be pointed out respect Ramadan only force-feeding them before and after sunrise/sunset) and will complain about torture.

    Looking forward to tales of the Electrified Treadmill of Tormentulation...

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2006 01 13 at 08:55 PM • permalink

  29. Ladies and Gentlemen, don’t be so culturally insensitive.

    We should be supporting their right to go on hunger strike and enabling that right by applying for an arts grant to superglue their lips shut.

    Posted by Harry Buttle on 2006 01 13 at 09:06 PM • permalink

  30. "You haven’t provided us with enough food to reject! You think people are going to be impressed with us rejecting that little bit?”

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 01 13 at 09:13 PM • permalink

  31. Suicide starvers?

    Posted by Jim Treacher on 2006 01 13 at 09:23 PM • permalink

  32. These people are parodies of themselves—and it would all be very funny or very sad if they weren’t part of a movement of murderous psychopaths.

    Posted by cosmo on 2006 01 13 at 09:26 PM • permalink

  33. maybe one of those new green, glow-in-the-dark piglets could be sacrificed to feed them

    what on earth are buffalo wings?

    Posted by KK on 2006 01 13 at 09:59 PM • permalink

  34. Buffalo wings = Chicken wings marinated in a deliciously greasy hot sauce.  The story is the first such wings were served in an eatery in Buffalo, NY, hence… buffalo wings.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 01 14 at 12:12 AM • permalink

  35. Is it all day, 24 hours, they are going without food, or just from dawn to dusk?

    They want to pray together?

    If they are to be further questioned about their activities they will be kept isolated.

    Poor bloody victims…

    Posted by kae on 2006 01 14 at 12:48 AM • permalink

  36. Makes yer heart bleed..munch munch....don’t it?
    Where are the snivel liberarians? The Refugee Advocates? The dozens of Islamic councils,federations, bingo ,green tree frogs?
    I’ve got half a pork chop I can donate[after I’ve eaten the crackling]

    Posted by waussie on 2006 01 14 at 01:19 AM • permalink

  37. Woody Allen tells us that Ghandi forced many concessions out of the British government by eating only untossed salads.

    That way these guys could eat all they liked AND force the authorities to improve their conditions.

    Posted by Inurbanus on 2006 01 14 at 04:04 AM • permalink

  38. In Sydney, police were thinking of asking for “assistance to the civil authority”.
    It doesn’t get much more serious than that. It is administrative jargon for “call in the Army”.
    If the police are admitting that they are only able to deal with traffic infringements, we may see the army in action any time now.
    Paul Sheehan’s column addresses the issue a lot of people must be feeling has traction: why a protest rally at Cronulla one sunday has resulted in prosecutions, while the blatant trashing of people and cars over the next two nights has not.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2006 01 14 at 06:54 AM • permalink

  39. A couple years ago the Israelis responded to this sort of prison activism by “torturing” the palestinian convicts with savory dishes.

    Notice any strategic hunger bomings in Israel’s prisons lately?

    Me neither…

    Posted by monkeyfan on 2006 01 14 at 04:31 PM • permalink

  40. #38
    The state is getting a shitload of money from speed cameras, why can’t they afford to employ more wallopers?

    Oh, hang on, perhaps noone wants to do a job with their hands tied.

    Posted by kae on 2006 01 15 at 05:41 AM • permalink

  41. Only 3 words. DEEP FRIED HOGBALLS.
    As many as they want, warm, cold, pureed or crunchy.
    Mmmm finger lickin good.

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 01 16 at 06:19 AM • permalink

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