Why Did a Judge Waive a Jury Trial for an Islamist Who Allegedly Tried to Throw His Sister-in-Law Off a Parking Garage?
- Posted on May 9, 2012 at 3:43pm by
Erica Ritz
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(Photo: The Daily Telegraph)
In 2009, Ismail Belghar reportedly attacked his sister-in-law, Canan Kokden, after she “dared” take his wife to the beach without his permission.
Given away by his wife’s “slightly sunburned shoulders,” Belghar reportedly called Kokden in a rage and said: “You slut, how dare you take my wife to the beach?”
But when he next saw her, things escalated to a frightening degree.
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Kokden was shopping with her brother shortly before Christmas 2009 when she encountered Belghar. He allegedly came up to her, slapped her across the face, and then dragged her to the railing of a high-rise parking garage and dangled her over it.
Kokden was saved only when her brother tackled Belghar, and forced him to let her go.
But this is not why Belghar’s story has made international news. Rather, it is because the man was due to have what is believed to be the first jury-less trial in Australia, because of his religious beliefs.
“The attitude of (Belghar) … is based on a religious or cultural basis. In light of the fact there has been adverse publicity regarding people who hold extreme Muslim faith beliefs in the community, I am of the view that the apprehension by (Belghar) that he may not receive a fair trial is a reasonable apprehension,” Judge Solomon said.
“Are Aussies too biased to try this Muslim man?” the Australian Telegraph asked today.
Still others wonder: Are this man’s religious beliefs somehow granting him special considerations? Would an ordinary accused woman-beater be excused from a jury of his peers?
The Sydney Broadway Shopping Center, where Kokden was shopping (Photo: the Daily Mail)
Australians have been so outraged by the matter that the Crown intervened in the case, saying that every Muslim would have to be granted a judge-only trial if it prevailed.
Belghar’s trial was due to start yesterday, but because he denied the charge of attempted murder and apologized to his sister-in-law, the charge has been dropped. Rather, he is pleading guilty to detaining and assaulting Kokden, and will be sentenced at a later date.
(H/T: National Review)
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Comments (38)
davecorkery
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 1:40pmDon’t come to Canada and try to continue your woman hating ways. You will be caught, prosecuted (very slowly and carefully) and convicted. Period.
Report Post »CapitalistUno
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 12:19pmIslam is a peaceful, non-violent religion, right?
Report Post »1WhoQuestions
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:48amReligeous beliefs are no excuse for commiting abuse. Nations would do well to remember that.
Report Post »justice41
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 6:54amI suspect that there is more to this story. Did the family threaten the woman and here family to get us to not testify against the perpetrator? Islam is violent religion and we should not allow Islam following into the USA unless they swear never to practice sharia and will be expelled should they do so. There is no honor in attacks on women. A Muslim woman in the USA has to right not to follow Islam and to dress like other American women and to go to school and date whomever she wants. Anyone who interferes should be deported immediately.
Report Post »lordjosh
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 6:30amI am sick of this “non-biased” bs. The jury is to rule with all their biases and pejudices. That is the essence of a jury. They are the last word on the law as well as the facts. To say a jury must be unbiased is to allow the state to control the outcome.
Report Post »trueamerican40
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 2:51amRead my lips—NO more Arabs allowed in America until the nations of islam are destroyed by nuclear fire. We are at war with the ******* evildoers.
Report Post »GilbertAcct
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 12:43pmtruehitler40…
Your hate-filled diatribes, nonsensical calls for genocide, and juvenile and obscene language all stand as evidence supporting my theory that you have the lowest IQ on the blaze… and that is not an easy feat. Hopefully foreigners don’t project your low intelligence and radical behavior onto the entire population of America (in the same manner that you do to Islamic nations).
Report Post »getourcountryback
Posted on May 11, 2012 at 6:36amGilbert, I fear you are the idiot.
Report Post »LameLiberals
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 1:36amObama announced lat month that he is building ANOTHER military installation this time IN AUSTRALIA!! Yet another country to USE America to pay for its defense.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 1:14amThis is the strangest reporting. The man in question according to the reporter ends up attacking then dragging someone over to then dangling her over the railing of a high rise parking garage. But according to the story Belghar’s trial was due to start yesterday, but because {he denied the charge} of attempted murder and apologized to his sister-in-law, the charge has been dropped.
Report Post »WHAT? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
.Are You Kidding me? Isn’t denying the charge what a defendant supposed to do
RamonPreston
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 10:51amMaybe he asked the judge “Have you been East?”
Report Post »MrObvious
Posted on May 9, 2012 at 11:13pmLiberal judges seem to like making up their own rules as they go.
Report Post »O well, it happens here too.
We just need to elect politicians who are willing to impeach and replace these tools, and/or start voting bad judges out (when judges are up for election).
USA-Ron
Posted on May 9, 2012 at 10:18pmJudge Solomon is ……………..
Muslim
Report Post »or
Sissy
or
Man of the House
or
Stupid
or
in the Wrong Job
or
Just don’t give a S__t
Rock_A_Lock
Posted on May 9, 2012 at 10:10pmIt seems to me that muslims are getting special treatment because, unlike other groups, they have a tendency to attack and kill anyone that refuses to suck up to them and their religion! It is sad to realize that in every country, their are people willing to make excuses for their rude, and on occasion, violent behaviour!
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on May 9, 2012 at 8:56pmb
Report Post »ms2020
Posted on May 9, 2012 at 6:31pmHe doesn’t hold “extreme” muslim views, he just holds plain ol’muslim views, that shouldn’t give him special privileges in a court of law. Its his views and actions which have landed him in this predicament. You dance with the devil you get burned Ismail.
Report Post »The non-muslim world really needs to wake up and stop giving these people special treatment. Or in the end we will be the ones paying the price.
zoro51
Posted on May 9, 2012 at 5:58pmmurdering muslums EXTERMINATE … trial or not GUILTY of PRE MEDITATED MURDER.. these MURDERING MUSLUMS dont care whom they KILL save that they KILL they are in a man made cult of HATE N DEATH even to thier own kind n fanatics alike..
Report Post »spirited
Posted on May 9, 2012 at 5:37pmIt is possible that Judge Solomon has had a life-long fear
>of falling over the railing of a high-rise parking garage.
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on May 9, 2012 at 5:36pmThis wouldn’t even be a story in the united states. Here a trial by a jury of your peers is a right, not a restriction. Anybody can waive that right and agree to a bench trial, and people have in cases of murder, rape, assault, etc. People usually elect for a jury trial when they’re charged with serious crimes because they think a jury will be MORE sympathetic than a judge.
I’m not familiar with australian law, but it seems like much ado about nothing. Unless of course the judge in the case has some sort of obvious conflict of interest in the defendants favor.
Report Post »turbo
Posted on May 9, 2012 at 4:39pmThe Islamic religion is Satan’s most clever creation.
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on May 9, 2012 at 4:52pmPerhaps the Aussies are fed up with the crap. So will we.
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on May 9, 2012 at 5:58pmOh, I thought Obama was…
Report Post »HKS
Posted on May 9, 2012 at 4:16pmNot what you know, it’s who ya know. Unless you have a lot of money, then you know everyone.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 9, 2012 at 4:13pmDiversity… opposes… Assimulation into the Population, Culture, & Language… resulting in Ethnic Conclaves, where Foreign Loyality over comes Nationalism!
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on May 9, 2012 at 4:11pmOne has to wonder how muslims who are raised from birth to do nothing but evil and with hardly an education can litterly accomplish all that they have even getting one of thier own in OUR WHITEHOUSE as leader of the free world.Looks like they are smarter than we thought or we are far dumber than we would like to think we are.
Report Post »turbo
Posted on May 9, 2012 at 6:00pmPerhaps the question to ponder is this-
Report Post »What is G-d’s plan and purpose for allowing all of this to happen to us?
RamonPreston
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 10:49amTurbo
God‘s plan is to prove that we can’t succeed without Him. With all our science and knowledge in the end all life will be eradicated from Earth unless Jesus returns. Then He will show us how it should have been done.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on May 9, 2012 at 4:05pmAnd this is one reason why I choose to live in America……
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on May 9, 2012 at 5:05pmThen why are you so unhappy, little one? Here you are in the land of your dreams! Or, are you saying you think of the USA as just the lesser of mosque filled evils?
AparisiteK, you are selling us foreign values when you should be buying American!
The divisive hyper-partisan politics you spew are similar to the UK ‘no compromise’ system, and way different from the even handed Ronald Reagan governance we used to admire here.
American-haters should not come to America, they ought to love it or leave it.
ENJOY! TEA
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on May 9, 2012 at 5:15pmIts coming here- faster than people understand
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on May 9, 2012 at 5:37pmYou can waive your right to a jury trial here. This wouldn’t even be news in america.
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on May 9, 2012 at 4:03pmAny man who dangles a woman off of a balcony is a coward and should be put down like a stray rabid dog…but in Islam it is perfectly normal…Islam, the ‘religion’ which advocates violence against women….stay classy Muslim horde, stay classy.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on May 9, 2012 at 3:58pmAustralia is being overwhelmed with Muslims and with Muslims everywhere on the planet they take control. They take over the streets with prayer, they take over cities with their numbers, they do not change but expect everyone to change and accomadate them and their beliefs.
This judge was wrong to give in even one inch because Islam always wants the whole mile. Is this judge Muslim? Was this judge threatened? Or is this judge simply a sympathizer?
I don’t know the answers to my own questions but one thing I do know is that the judge was wrong.
Report Post »tsosumi
Posted on May 9, 2012 at 3:55pmThe answer to the leading question is most likely that the lesser charge is not eligible for a jury trial.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on May 9, 2012 at 3:54pmThe Muslim indeed received ‘special consideration’ and we‘ll see more of that here in the good ole USA even after the Marxist POS is fired in November because Muslims are determined to spread their ’religion’ all over the globe.How do I know this? You can see clips on the net constantly of some lunatic Islamist spewing their vile plans.
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on May 9, 2012 at 4:18pmIt is a remarkable coincidence that Muslim tradition speaks of locusts having dropped into the hands of Muhammed, bearing on their wings this inscription – ‘We are the army of the Great God.’ As we see Muslim writers unwittingly connect Islam’s beginnings to the Abyss, we see Muslim writers unwittingly connect Islam to the locusts that come from the Abyss…..Locusts spreading hate.
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