Mohammed Waleed Kadous, a senior research fellow at the University of NSW,Sydney , Australia in the school of computer science and engineering, has been offered a two-year contract by Google to work in software engineering, reported THE Australian in November 2007((http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22717435-16123,00.html)
Dr Kadous has dedicated his spare time to civil rights. In 2001 he founded the Australian Muslim Civil Rights Advocacy Network which, in conjunction with the University of Technology, Sydney, released a 2004 booklet ASIO(Australian Security Intelligence Organisation) , the Police and You, detailing anti-terror laws.The booklet is essentialy a guide to getting around anti-terror leigislation.
Dr Kadous has told THE AUSTRALIAN that civil rights work helped further his career."My volunteer work has improved my ability to communicate ideas, especially under a lot of pressure," he said."I'm hoping to volunteer for several civil rights groups ... and when I come back to Australia use both the skills I learn from volunteering and from working for Google. Lobby groups in the US have done some amazing work for civil rights."
(http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22717435-16123,00.html)
He is active in the UNSW Muslim Students Society.In one of his Friday sermons he said:
Now, as far as I can see, these are three of the pillars of Western Society. The problem is that these three are Great Lies.
The First Great Lie is that if a majority of people say something is right, then it is right. This Lie is called democracy.......anyone who looks, who reads, who pays attention and applies the Islamic filter - those ``green-coloured glasses'' can see that Western Society is falling to pieces. The idea that I said earlier about the three great lies: I'm not the first person to see these problems - Western intellectuals have been discussing the problems for a long time. All three issues are being discussed right now, but it looks like all three are on a downhill slide, and the West doesn't seem to have anything to slow down these society-breaking developments. So we've got to be here to offer them the right alternative, that is Islam. How many more years do you think Western Society will survive before collapsing? 30 years? 40 years? If it's lucky. I'm telling you now, that there is very little doubt in my mind that within our lifetimes, something is going to happen. And we have to be ready to fulfill our Islamic responsibilities when that happens.
Full article at http://isoc-unsw.org.au/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=73
Waleed Kadous was interviewed on Channel Nine's SUNDAY programme, aired on 16/10/2005.(http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/cover_stories/transcript_1891.asp )
His exchange with reporter Adam Shand:
ADAM SHAND: But there is also ambiguity and political orthodoxy inside the Muslim community on the question of home-grown suicide bombers.
WALEED KADOUS: I'm sure that there are some in the community who are involved in terrorism , but it is important not to exaggerate either the threat or the number. I would — actually, can I retract that. Let me just think of a way to phrase that better. If they do exist — and I'm not sure that they do exist — we only have ASIO's word to say that.
See also article by Sharon Lapkin at http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=bc38ae46-70c6-4060-81f1-b5d64a56254f
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