Australia: Islamic leader accused of illegal land clearing claims his group is exempt from Australian law

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Of course Dr. Mustapha Kara-Ali thinks that his group is exempt from Australian law. It is a key element of the Islamic belief system to think that Islamic law is the perfect law of Allah, superseding all “man-made” laws. Dr. Mustapha Kara-Ali will, accordingly, never assimilate, never adapt, never accept Australian mores, customs, principles, and laws. So why is he in Australia at all? To bring Australia to heel and make it obey Islamic law as he does. But that is the one point that seems constantly to elude Australian authorities, just as it eludes authorities all over the world.

“Islamic leader accused of illegal land clearing claims his group is exempt from Australian law,” by Kathleen Calderwood, ABC.net.au, August 18, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A religious leader accused of illegal land clearing on a rural property used for religious prayer has claimed a Western Sydney council is infringing on his group’s religious freedoms by pursuing him over the allegations.

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Hawkesbury City Council has launched civil action against Dr Mustapha Kara-Ali and Diaa Kara-Ali in the Land and Environment Court, alleging they carried out illegal land clearing, earthworks and built gates, fences and driveways without seeking any of the relevant development approvals at a property in Colo, in Sydney’s north west.

Mustapha Kara-Ali, a former member of then Prime Minister John Howard’s Muslim Community Reference Group and past postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, is the Imam of religious guild Diwan Al Dawla….

The Colo property was owned by the members of Diwan Al Dawla and used “for the carrying out of religious activities of devotion, self-discipline, ritual baptism, inter-community prayers, contemplation and religious study,” the letter said.

A council compliance officer visited the property in October last year following an anonymous complaint to find land clearing, including a number of large native trees and the removal of metal waste, according to court documents.

Over the following months, more complaints were made and council staff returned several times to find people clearing vegetation, knocking down trees and that a main gate, driveways and a boat ramp on the river bank had been built, the documents state.

The Council also issued a $8,000 fine for pollution or potential pollution caused by failed sediment erosion fencing….

The conflict between council and the Kara-Alis came to a head last month when three council officers visited the property to provide them with court papers.

A dashcam video tendered to the court shows a man, standing beside Mustapha Kara-Ali, spitting on council staff and attempting to throw a large rock, which hits the fence and then falls to the ground.

“Both men were repeatedly yelling obscenities from the other side of the gate, calling out ‘you dogs, I step on your cross’,” one of the council staff alleged in an affidavit.

“The unknown male person said ‘I spit on you’. He then lunged his head forward towards me and spat at me.”
Religious charity ‘not required to comply’ with law

When the council wrote to Mustapha Kara-Ali directing him to remove a boat ramp and retaining walls at the property, he responded by claiming his organisation was exempt from Australian law because it was classed as a basic religious charity.

“The Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) Act 2012 stipulates that when it is carrying out religious activities that are related to the practice, study, teaching or propagation of its religious beliefs, or other activities ancillary to them … Diwan Al Dawla, as a basic religious charity is not required to comply with Australian laws,” he wrote.

“As the Imam of Diwan Al Dawla and its spiritual leader, I, therefore, ask the Hawkesbury City Council to revoke its letter … on the basis that its demands infringe upon our religious freedom and tamper with our mode of worship in contravention of our ACNC status as a Basic Religious Charity.”

An ACNC spokesperson said basic religious charities did not have to comply with the ACNC Governance Standards.

“However, the exemption of basic religious charities from complying with the Governance Standards does not mean that they do not have to comply with Australian laws,” the spokesperson said.

“A registered charity cannot have a purpose of engaging in or promoting unlawful activity — this can be grounds for revocation of charity status.”

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Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

Typical Left/liberal pro-jihadi politicians/Media from Australia. Will they ever stand up against jihadis like this woman is doing ?

Australian Surrender Monkey Threatens Infidel Women with arrest for going into No-go muslim sharia Area https://tinyurl.com/y8rqpcb6

spacearcadian
spacearcadian
5 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Accept muslim demands peacefully or muslims will radicalize!

santashandler
santashandler
5 years ago
Reply to  spacearcadian

How about FTS! Ain’t going to happen, so you might as well, just move away from the keyboard and whisper that sh*t to your goat (while your giving it the business). Because he’s the only one who will listen. Cheers!

Phil McDonald
Phil McDonald
5 years ago

Spitting on people in Australia is not a crime?

OverIt
OverIt
5 years ago
Reply to  Phil McDonald

Only if done by a native Australian.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
5 years ago

In every WESTERN country where Muslims are in the minority, they are obsessed with minority rights.
In every ISLAMIC country with a Muslim majority, …there are no minority rights!

islam is NOT a religion of peace!!
islam is a sick and twisted terrorist ideology that is completely incompatible with western civilization!!

Deport all muslims, CITIZENS OR not, from the west at once!!
Ban all muslims from traveling to the west, …FOREVER
Implement muslim control, NOT gun control.

Defending your person, your family, your country from attack and invasion from those forcing a violent, terrorist, genocidal ideology on western civilization…is …not … islamophobia ….or racist. ….It is just common sense.

The people of the Australia, Europe, Britain and Canada must throw down their treasonous leaders forcing this evil upon them.

…………….The USA just did, Nov. 2016!

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
5 years ago

The West does NOT need to allow thousands of backward, 7th century, unvetted and violent muslim savages into our counties that have ‘enshrined’ sexual slavery, rape, forced conversion, assault, murder and genocide in their FAKE religion!

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

“Thousands”? Try MILLIONS.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
5 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

All religions are false! Lies invented to control the masses.

The only heaven or hell mankind will ever see, is it what we make for each other, here and now, on this Earth.

Let’s deal with the greed and violence we can control.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

God is dead.
-Nietzsche

Nietzsche is dead.
-God

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
5 years ago

Nietzsche is dead? Yes, but…

-You wrote that, not God.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

Funny how muslum “religious freedom” always comes at the expense of the unbeliever in islum.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

That last paragraph says it all and most anything is preferable to living under the boot heel of muslums.

DJ Cross
DJ Cross
5 years ago

The best thing to do is fire bomb the whole place, slay the Muslim scum where you see them.

Buck
Buck
5 years ago

No Muslims . Keep them out if they are in a country send them out

Gemma Tell
Gemma Tell
5 years ago

Of course they are above the law. How many were allowed in with no vetting and documents? That is also against the law. So the law is complicit. Serves you right morons.

vercingetorix
vercingetorix
5 years ago

BREAKING NEWS: Yet another islamic terror-attack in Paris! Muslim MAN stabbs two persons to death and wounds one seriously in Paris!
GET THE MUSLIMS OUT OF EUROPE!

Ludlow Porch
Ludlow Porch
5 years ago

If they are exempt from Australia law, then they should be exempt from Australia period! As in “Good Bye Mate!”

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

Obviously they consider themselves above the petty laws and restrictions of the “infidels”.

Richoz
Richoz
5 years ago

Any westerner with any sense can see that it is detrimental and even suicidal to have muslims in our countries. This is how and why we should understand that they are being brought here deliberately to undermine and destroy our countries.

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