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A SURVIVOR of the first Bali bombing said the "star" of last night's ABC documentary Jihad Sheilas would be hunted down after her hardline comments about the victims. Peter Hughes said Rabiah Hutchinson, the so-called matriarch of radical Islam in Australia, was uninformed and utterly insensitive. "It's like going back to that moment when the suicide bomber was standing next to me," said Mr Hughes, who nearly died after the October 2002 attack in which 202 people, including 88 Australians, were killed. Mr Hughes warned there would be some people in the community who would hunt down Ms Hutchinson, who, fearing exactly that, attempted to have the show stopped on the grounds it misrepresented the views of herself and friend Raisah bint Alan Douglas.[[[[In the hour-long documentary, Ms Hutchinson, who was married to the former Australian leader of Jemaah Islamiah, the terror group responsible for the bombing, was asked about the attack. "Do I feel for the people that died? Not as much as I feel for those 200 Afghani people that gave me and my children shelter," Ms Hutchinson said."Why? Because they weren't holidaying in someone's country, sometimes engaging in child pornography or pedophilia or drug-taking."]]]]John Harrison, who lost his daughter Nicole in the bombing, said Ms Hutchinson's comments followed the news that the Bali bombers had been granted another appeal. "I hope to Christ that someone belonging to her, like a son or a daughter, gets killed somewhere along the line and she suffers like we have," he said.Ms Douglas and Ms Hutchinson have accused the documentary makers of deceitful and unethical conduct, saying they were tricked into participating.They have told The Australian they were approached separately by an ABC crew last year. They said they were explicitly and repeatedly told the material would be used on the ABC's long-running Australian Story, a show Ms Douglas described as patriotic and sympathetic. She was told the program would focus on the women's conversion to Islam, not their alleged links to extremists. The women, neither of whom was allowed to see the program before it went to air last night, are concerned it portrays them as traitors.Ms Hutchinson said she had already been abused after being recognised from a promotion for the show.They delivered a letter of protest to the ABC's Sydney headquarters on Monday. Neither Ms Hutchinson nor Ms Douglas has ever faced terrorism-related charges but both are known to the authorities for their alleged links to extremists and terrorist groups.[[[[Ms Hutchinson also mounted a spirited defence of her religion in the program but denied having any involvement with militants."I would defend Islam with my life," she said. "So that makes me a filthy, dirty, subhuman terrorist that deserves anything that anybody and everybody wants to do to them. Does that mean I'm going to go and lob grenades out of the bus in Lakemba? No, it doesn't."]]]]As in the days of Noah....
