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To: lorne who wrote (10344)	10/5/2007 6:50:51 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

Judge slams car-racket mum who blames Islam Herald and Weekly Times ^ \| October 05, 2007 \| Kate Jones news.com.au A YOUNG mother has argued her Muslim beliefs forced her into a life of crime. Shahida Karim-Hawchar, 24, sold stolen cars to unsuspecting buyers because it was her cultural duty to obey her father and her husband... Her lawyer, Tom Danos, said her father, Omar Zayden, and husband Imad pressured her to join their car rebirthing racket. "This was a religious Muslim family, where the hierarchy was the father, the husband, and then the wife," Mr Danos told the County Court. "It's an additional pressure on her to be involved." But Judge Felicity Hampel, suspending a 2 1/2-year jail term because the young mum has three sons aged under five, said that argument was an abuse of religion. "It's a very sad and debasing thing to hear it suggested that adherence to a religious tenet can justify criminal behaviour," Judge Hampel said. "I don't accept that Islam requires a daughter to obey a directive of the husband or the father, where the directive involves the commission of a criminal offence." However, Judge Hampel accepted the obedience argument last year when she allowed Karim-Hawchar to change her plea to the charges. Cars were stolen in NSW and taken to Victoria to be sold through the Trading Post after their licence plates were switched with those from write-offs. Police linked six cars to Shahida, whose primary role was to advertise the cars and sell them. She lied to buyers, telling one she needed to sell the car because she was buying a new house, (Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ....