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Last updated on March 6th, 2018 at 12:31 am
Farewell Faheem:
A jury has today found Sydney architect Faheem Khalid Lodhi guilty of three terrorism-related charges.
A seven-week trial in the New South Wales Supreme Court was told that in October 2003 the 36-year-old was planning a bombing attack, motivated by violent jihad.
He’ll be sentenced on June 29.
- Yes but the question is why?Posted by Looneyc on 2006 06 19 at 04:31 AM • permalink
- Don’t celebrate too quickly . . . .just because a jury of common people found this prick guilt, it doesn’t mean that some judge who knows better than everyone else might let him off with a relatively light sentence.Posted by Oafish and Infantile on 2006 06 19 at 04:42 AM • permalink
- Forgive my typing and sentence construction above . . . . you know what I mean. Let’s wait to see what sentence this prick gets.Posted by Oafish and Infantile on 2006 06 19 at 04:43 AM • permalink
- #6 lingus4,
A self-esteem workshop is more likely.Posted by Daniel San on 2006 06 19 at 05:17 AM • permalink
- Self-esteem workshop for him; tolerance camp for the jurors?Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 06 19 at 05:19 AM • permalink
- #9 Rob Crawford,
And then a big group hug!.Posted by Daniel San on 2006 06 19 at 05:32 AM • permalink
- #1 Yes, it’s funny that. Neither the ABC nor Fairfax explain why he was going to blow up bits of Sydney, though Fairfax does allude to the M word.
It’s even funnier that the people who get their information from those media organisations pride themselves on having superior insight than hoi polloi. Funny how you can be more well-informed with only part of the story?
- But seriously Lodhi should go the way of this guy. http://partisantimes.typepad.com/partisan_times/2006/06/its_a_good_day_.html
- Oafish, they have Justice Anthony Whealey in charge.
He used to adjudicate GPS schools debating in Sydney about 25 years ago when he was a humble barrister and liked to spend wintry Friday nights reminding 17 year old schoolboys and their parents how much smarter he was than them. He was a runt with a capital c in those days, and I can’t imagine much as changed.
Only way this architect could get a light sentence would be if he went to Riverview. If he went to Joeys, expect life. Sydney High, he’ll get the chair.
Posted by Effing & Blinding on 2006 06 19 at 06:14 AM • permalink
- Let’s try and understand where this man was coming from. He was young and middle class, he had a good job, and he lived in a land millions of people would give their right arm to emigrate to. Can we blame him for feeling that only huge explosions would bring him peace?Posted by bonjour triteness on 2006 06 19 at 06:24 AM • permalink
- Unlike other newses,ABC forgot to mention that he is an architect,a member of a well paid and respected profession-Tonight Nanny Monica is waxing eloquent about Brangelina and Kylie Minogue and their various exloits as documented by No Idea and co.As if anyone cares. Scowling and squinting
over her bi focals,she ventured to suggest that Keith Windschuttle,ABC board member-was a very naughty academic,deserving of a jolly good spanking and going to bed without his supper.
Nanny was cross and out of sorts.
There was an old woman who lived at Mediawatch…
O and wasn’t it coincidental that the Catalyst snippet about heart attack victims featured the patient standing “dead” in line with an enormous KFC bucket sign looming ominously over his right shoulder..
- Agh, so Brangelina have finally polluted even this board… can someone explain to me why everyone is fawning over a rich white couple who went to a country chronically short of decent medical treatment for its own people to monopolize those limited resources for their own self-indulgent spawning?
As for Abdul the bomber, well thank god the public will be safe from him for the next six months…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 19 at 09:52 AM • permalink
- Perhaps some cultural sensitivity and diversity training is in order. I think he’ll be alright once he understands that Islamofascism isn’t the only doctrine out there worthy of respect and learns to accept that others have the right to their beliefs even when you personally reject the beliefs themselves. No reason to send the poor fellow to prison. Condemn the sin, not the sinner and help him to sin no more.Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 06 19 at 11:29 AM • permalink
- Porr old Faheem won’t be getting his 72 virgins, but at least he’ll be treated like 72 virgins when he’s inside.Posted by Oafish and Infantile on 2006 06 19 at 04:47 PM • permalink
- My tip: he’ll be made an example of, to deter his friend and fellow travellers. Ten years.Posted by walterplinge on 2006 06 19 at 07:01 PM • permalink
- Cue scene in trendy architectural board-room:
Boss: Faheem, look, don’t take this personally, but we really have to discuss your artistic perspective here.
Faheem: Is this about my work attire?
Boss: Oh, no! No, Faheem, your cultural workwear offends no-one at all! It’s more the.. the um.. creativity you have recently shown in your design work.
Faheem: You find offence in my designs?
Boss: Oh, no, Faheem, no offence, none whatsoever, it’s just that, well, you know, our client is the Department of Defence, and we are commissioned to design the new army barracks at {confdential – striken from record}, and it’s worth quite a deal of money to this firm.
Faheem: Yes, and you find offence with?
Boss: Oh, No, Faheem, no offence at all, it’s just that maybe our client will find all those, um… minarets, a bit…, a bit…
Faheem: A bit what? A bit what?
Boss: Um… a bit outside their um.. design parameters they briefed us with…
Faheem: WHAT IS WRONG WITH MINARETS – THEY ARE SONS OF PIGS AND MONKEYS AND WILL DIE BY THE WILL OF ALLAH! DIRKA! DIRKA! MOHAMMED JIHAD!
Boss: Um… Faheem, I personally, and nor does anyone on staff find anything at all offensive about minarets, and I’m sure the Defence Department likewise. It’s just that Defence wanted a sort of um… modernist, cubist design paradigm, and umm… artistically, ten minarets don’t really umm… conform with cubist design thought.
Faheem: So, my design which is pleasing to Allah is not pleasing to you?
- Justice Whealy was the gent who awarded Rene Rivkin 9 months weekend detention plus a fine of $30000 for having indulged in a bit of insider trading that netted Rene the princely sum of $2664.On that basis our terrorist friend could look forward to enjoying the hospitality of the State for an extended period.
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