In what must be the first time that the word ‘jihad’ has ever been paired with the word ‘sheila‘ the ABC are screening:
ABC News Special - Jihad Sheilas
8:30pm Tuesday, 05 Feb 2008 NewsA journey behind closed doors into the world of radical Islam. An intimate, unguarded and irreverent insight into the lives of two extraordinary Australian women converts, whose stories are like no other.
I suspect it might have something to do with this story.
Update: It looks like our guess was correct.
Update 2: You can watch the documentary here.
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http://livenews.com.au/Article.....n_outcasts
The title reminds me of this skit.
Apparently they’ve been misled as the ABC reporters claimed the episode was for Australian Story and was portraying them in a positive light.
Read it here http://www.news.com.au/story/0.....-2,00.html
I am absolutely infuriated that you would put my beautiful name of Sheila to the title of this program. My mum who was a truly beautiful English lady and my Royal Naval father gave much consideration to my name and I love it. I was appalled when I first came to this country in 1970 to find that my name was used describe so-called “Australian women”. I am also appalled as a true believer in the Messiah Jesus, his birth, his life, his death and ressurrection and therefore not a nominal Christian but a true Christian born again anew of the Holy Spirit that my name should stand alongside that which is all evil and which I stand against strenuously. Islam’s god is a pagan god of Mohammed’s Quairish tribe. The Kuran is written under the direction of “another spirit” and comes out of the pit of hell. The Holy Bible was written under the direction of the Holy Spirit given by the Triune God - Father, Son and Holy Ghost co-equal and co-eternal. Little wonder that the Koran which is a diatribe of evil promotes the killing of all infidels and cannot provide any peace to those who believe in it. I expect a profuse apology for having my name associated with the demonic religion of Islam.
‘Apparently they’ve been misled as the ABC reporters claimed the episode was for Australian Story and was portraying them in a positive light.’
As opposed to portraying them in an accurate light perhaps? This is the ABC, so hardly the home of minority bashing in Australian media.
Sheila it sounds like you could do with a good exorcist.
Sheila, you should probably apologise to the Jihad Sheilas for having the same name as them. They must be terribly embarrassed.
So Sheila…which bit of Islam do you think has come out of ‘the pit of hell’??
Is it the fasting, or perhaps the praying…oh I know it is the compulsory charity that every Muslim has to give (2.5% of savings per year); oh yes that and the modesty….true marks of Satan.
Are you getting the sarcasm here or do I have to be more blunt??
Well, that set Muslims back about 100 years. They would have had to detonate a suicide belt on national television to do more damage.
Muhammed, the average ABC viewer is intelligent enough to view it as a story about two particular serial monogamists with issues and their assorted husbands and offspring (and a supporting cast) rather than a reflection on every Muslim in the country. I can’t promise the same for readers of the Herald Sun or Daily Tele. I’m more interested in whether my taxes are paying for Raisah to pop out another few kids every time she marries. Bit cheeky of her referring to a kufr as direct from Sluts-r-us when her version of marriage is little deeper than a lengthy one-night stand.
Er, Sheila, maybe you should direct your complaint to the ABC. No one here has anything to do with the program.
(Thank God.)
Well, they’re not really the same thing. Although, I do agree with your assessment of their marriage views.
The most interesting and useful part of the program was her description of the ASIO agent’s breasts and her chilling warning that in the likely event that the Australian Navy invades Kenya, her sons would go there to defend it.
These people made me sick, two arseholes with an axe to grind. They had a strange idea about holiday makers in Bali and the comments about the ASIO officer are irrelevant.
I hope they hunted like dogs for the rest of their miserable lifes.
These 2 deluded scum-bags are not true muslims. They belong to a cult called Wahabi, which metered out brutality to the Afghan people for many years.
The Hutchinson women should be deported to Afghanistan to stand trial for aiding the Taliban in oppressing the Afghani people.
Kenno,
‘Afghani’ is the currency. ‘Afghans’ are the people.
LUD,
Very picky.
Check your dictionary. however you are straying from the point.
Kenno, the Taliban were not Wahabis.
I was approached by the producers of the show for this doco, they both informed me it was about converts to Islam and their stories. After asking them if they would in anyway use the material to vilify Islam, they denied this and said it was to “build bridges” and has nothingt o do with radical Islam. If you actually watch the doco, there’s about 10-15 minutes of actual talk from the ladies about Jihad or radical Islam. Throw in a few opinions from the “experts”, and voila, a nice little piece of trashy tv. No wonder they claimed they were duped. I almost was.
I have found this blog set up for the purpose of addressing the entire documentary. I have been informed by one of the women in the documentary that she will be answering and criticisms of her representation of Islam.
The sister I know is not extreme in the way it was presented in this documentary. Her ideas are in agreement with mainstream Islam. The difference being she had the guts to say them.
May I also say that most of the footage was fabricated.
So if you really want to find out what went on why not come directly to the source and have your say and perhaps you might even learn something.
http://jihadsheilas.blogspot.com
Ola,
It doesn’t matter. These women said more than enough to do damage and they didn’t need the experts on Islam to help them.
The whole show was a completely selfish piece of work. It was all about them, them, them. They only wanted to have their fifteen minutes of fame so they can talk about themselves and their messed up lives (most of which is their own doing) on television.
Hi,
I think you can make comments directly to the “Jihad Sheilas” via their blog. http://jihadsheilas.blogspot.com
May I also say that most of the footage was fabricated.
So those weren’t their words coming out of their mouth?
Everyone knows the media will cut things down to the explosive bits because that’s like their job and stuff so if you are going to throw them lots of tasty soundbites about ASIO officer’s breast enhancements, sluts r us and how many Somali men you’ve hooked up with, don’t be surprised when your “story” is reduced to that.
Truth Seeker and Mark, there’s nothing special about that blog at all and no evidence that these women are behind it.
Social misfits looking for love. The world is full of them.
Methinks Rabiah’s comments about Bali were a little more representative of her time in Bali than that of anyone who was killed….
also interesting that Rabiah says she would die for her religion, yet when the time came in afgahnistan she chose to let a village of 200 die rather than be brave and step forward herself.
Raisa on the otherhand is happy to orpahn 6 of her children in order to seek fame and power which she believes her husband will get in Somalia. Why can’t she take all her kids?
Neither of these women understand the muslim struggle in Africa or the middle east. They are white middle class australians. Social misfits. fundamentalism and extremism couldn’t exist without these kinds of people.
funny how she made the comment about the ASIO worker calling her a reject from slut-r-us… she was married 5 times with mulitple children from different men… hmmm???
Wouldn’t it be wise if you were going to be interviewed for a programme like this to have some sort of device recording the interview for yourself? Your own personal copy whose contents you could then release into the public domain if you felt that you were unfairly represented.
The media took everything they said out of context and tried to make them look bad. We all know the ABC is biased against Muslims.
There was absolutely nothing out of context. What rubbish. The women have already said after the program that they stand by everything they said. Don’t be a victim all your life.
Wow. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a piece make me more sick. How sick and fickle our Western society has become, that we have allowed our culture, history and pride to be trampled to such an extent that our own middle-class white people are converting to Islam in the face of personal hardship. Absolutely appalling. Immigration from Islamic countries should halt immediately and Australians should cease to frequent Muslim trash-heaps like Bali. You have plenty of beautiful beaches in your own country and in the country of your friendly neighbors, the Kiwis. Cease taking vacations to Muslim countries immediately and supporting them with your money. It only furthers their cause and creates more contempt against us.
It’s time Western people rose up against such madness and defend who they are against such sick, deluded people. I would love to shoot those two black-dick loving whores in the street.
The woman obviously take their religion seriously, more than I can say for the christians and many of the muslims by name. Someone mentioned that this took “dawah” or islamic propagation, 10 year back in Australia. Some how I dont thinks so. I remember reading, that since 9/11 the rate of converts to islam increased at some dramatic rate. Qurans were sold out in US and many westerncountries. Some of my closest friends became muslim, and I can see that they embrace islam to its full extend, its just unfortunate that the west imposes on them its “freedom”.. so that they can’t practice their religion, its sad that some of the born muslims in the west, let the west walk all over them.
If you look at the history, many of the sciences and mathematics were all stolen from the muslims. I think islam is the true religion, as we can see from previous scriptures, the people who followed the truth, were always oppressed .. bullied by the “super powers”. If you look at the muslims.. they are those oppresed people. Even though they own the black gold, which should make them the leading people of the world.. but.. then they wouldn’t be the oppressed people i guess. SO its a catch 22… but i guess its not.. if you believe in paradise.. and one god, you’d accept islam for your salvation.
So, to be a muslim is to pledge the a covenant with Allah, the Creator of the heavens and earth, the Ruler of all that exists, the Lord of Majesty and Highness, and thats what those women did.
And also I testify .. La ilaha il Allah, Muhammad-ur-Rasool-Allah (None has the right to be worshipped but Allah, and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah)
How do you steal science and mathematics?
You sneak it from the 3000 Jews who didn’t turn up for work on 9/11 while they’re not looking…
Boss, I think the Koran was sold out because people actually wish to understand WHY others would want to cause the unwarranted deaths of so many innocents. I know I did, but that does not make me a convert. In fact I am a Catholic by choice, but that does not mean that I blindly follow the Pope without thinking for myself. Fundamentalists of ANY faith, religion, or denomination (call it what you wish) will always take things to extreme. Especially those that became converts out of a desire and need to feel special or different. Fundamentalism tends to convert those with deep seated issues to “be a part of something bigger than themselves”.
Kimmie,
What is fundamentalism actually? Is fundamentalism the same as extremism?
Since Muslims believe that the Qur’an is the word of Allah and so are authentic narrations from the Prophet Muhammad, they’ve got to be fundamentalists. They’ve got to live by what they believe to be from the Divine.
The same could be said about those who believe that the Bible is fully the word of God. What the Qur’an says and contains and what the Bible says and contains, there lies the difference. Which one of the two is really from the Divine, as such could be taken as a complete guidance for living one’s life? Even if one becomes a fundamentalist to it, one will never be a “misfit” in society because one is being a fundamentalist for that which is from the Divine.
Not being from Australia or knowing about its TV channels, is ABC like or linked to Fox News, perchance?
Far from it. The ABC is the public broadcaster and very Left leaning. There was no right-wing spin to that story, the women are exactly as they were portrayed.
G-man I disagree. Just watching the opening sequence shows some severe right-wing spin. First they took quotes out of context to sensationalise them, and then they juxtaposed them with images from 9-11 - don’t you agree that that is biased? I strongly disagree with Hutchison’s views and agree that it was not just the ABC that made her look crazy - some of the things she said were extremely offensive and insensitive. However, to imply that she was a terrorist sympathiser was, in my view, unfair and not well founded. If you look at the article at the top of this page (the “this” link), you can see that she says outright that she doesn’t support terrorism. I’m personally very disappointed with the ABC’s work here.
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