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by Lisa Davies

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Filed under: Afghanistan, Justice, Sheik Haron, The Wiggles

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Outside a Sydney court this morning, self-styled Sheikh Haron claimed his views were not being accurately represented.

The sheik outside court in Sydney today

Accordingly he and a female aide – who video-recorded the Sheikh’s long sermon to reporters on the steps of the court - handed out copies of the letter which is reproduced below.

He faced the Downing Centre Local Court today charged with sending harassing letters to the families of dead Australian soldiers.

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Ginny says:

01:04pm | 16/11/09

If he wanted to stop the war in Afghanistan, making Australian society more aware of their casualties would be the right way to go. Eventually society will be sick of their OWN losses [like america] and public opinion will triumph [as with Vietnam.] We ought to have access to all… Read more »
We are citizens of the world and every heart bleed says:

02:42pm | 12/11/09

I suggest part of the sheik’s sentence be he has to sit down with a whole heap of pictures of grieving mothers fathers and families plus the face only pictures of the deceased and see if he can identify the"murderers” and the “victims” and match the mourners to the relevant… Read more »

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