It's galling when our justice system gets used against us by people who wish us harm.  It's even worse when our leaders presume that the right to British (and by extension Australian) justice and its protections is automatically conferred on all comers.   Who are we to say to an Islamist, "sorry mate, your sytem is not good enough for you."

Every Islamist is an enemy of the West, of democracy, of liberalism, equal rights for women and gay people and of the interests of natural justice. 

The bloke in the story below is a doozy.   He's done bad things against the West while he was in Jordan, but the Jordanian sharia justice system is stone-age by our standards, so boofhead the West hating terrorist gets to stay in the UK.   He's an Islamist, he believes in their barbarism, but he gets treated as if he needs to be protected from his own creed.

It's terribly ironic that we in the West have slowly developed a bonzer society over centuries.   We've brought all of the people born in our lands along with us, so that broadly speaking we all share values, customs and an appreciation of the rule of law.   We've built the civic institutions to support our special, unique society too - courts of law designed by us for us.

Islamism is more than a religion, it's a way of government too, it's state-craft.   It has its own law, the Sharia.   Surely where an individual identifies as Islamist he ought to be directed to face the music according to his own legal/customary framework.

Here's how the BBC has reported the latest development in the matter of us versus them.

Abu Qatada: Home Office seeks Supreme Court appeal permission

The government has asked for
permission to appeal to the Supreme Court against a ruling preventing the
deportation of radical Islamic cleric Abu Qatada.

Court of Appeal judges last month upheld a ruling that he could face an
unfair trial if he were deported to Jordan to face terror charges.

The move is the latest in a lengthy government battle to have him
deported.

"The government remains committed to deporting this dangerous man," a Home
Office spokesman said.

"We continue to work with the Jordanians to address the outstanding legal
issues preventing deportation." he added.

In April 1999, Abu Qatada was convicted in his absence on terror charges in
Jordan and sentenced to life imprisonment, and it is on these charges that he
faces a retrial.

In their judgement last month, Court of Appeal judges said the Special
Immigration Appeals Commission was entitled to think there was a risk that
"impugned statements" obtained by the torture of others would be admitted in
evidence at his retrial.

'Dangerous person'

This meant there was "a real risk of a flagrant denial of justice", the
judges said.

The judges said the court accepted that Qatada "is regarded as a very
dangerous person", but that was not "a relevant consideration" under human
rights laws.

The UK government has repeatedly argued that a block on his deportation
should be lifted, saying a fair trial in Jordan was possible.

Abu Qatada was first arrested in October 2002 in south London and detained in
Belmarsh high-security prison. He was re-arrested and released on bail number of
times over the years that followed.

In November 2012, he was released on bail when the courts blocked the home
secretary's attempt to deport him to Jordan, but was arrested last month for
allegedly breaching the strict bail conditions.