Nazis & "Progressives" Love Muhummad Dawood

Tim Blair has an interesting post on the support Adelaide Jihadi David Hicks (or Muhammad Dawood, as he prefers to be called) is receiving from the extreme right and the progressive left alike. The "Adelaide Institute" is an obnoxious Neo-Nazi, holocaust-denying "think-tank" (I hesitate to use the word "think" in connection with the Adelaide Institute) that has got into trouble for Judenhass before.

BYF links to this Gerard Henderson piece in the SMH giving a little of Mr Hicks' background and marvelling at the support that Hicks has received from some of the fashionable members of the professional classes. Henderson points out:

In testimony before a Senate committee on May 28, 2002, the former ASIO director-general, Dennis Richardson, said that "certainly Mr Hicks has received extensive al-Qaeda training". It is understood his training included such areas as weapons firing, landmines, marksmanship, ambush, intelligence, kidnapping techniques, assassination methods and surveillance. If the allegations are correct, this would mean that Hicks is one of the few Muslim converts of Anglo-Celtic background to train to such a high level with al-Qaeda.

Of course he deserves a fair and speedy trial. But all the same, with friends like these...