Cheers for the guilty verdict follow the collection of millions for tsunami aid to Indonesia

Above the loud dismay expressed over the sentencing of Schapelle Corby to twenty years imprisonment in the hell-hole that is an Indonesian jail, one could clearly hear gleeful cheers for this monstrous outcome. One can assume it was those same ghoulish Islamic youth who held up placards depicting blood-soaked axes during their demonstrations outside the Bali court.

Their cheers and glee at the destruction of a young life was obviously considered premature by the Indonesian prosecution. Before resuming their prayers to Allah, the gentlemen of the prosecution lodged an appeal over the leniency of the sentence. Their prayers will be distracted until they ensure the utter destruction of the young woman before them for the high crime of taking a plastic bag of marijuana into Bali.

All this is enacted in the face of the collection of millions of personal donations by Australians to help the people of Indonesia recover from the tsunami disaster. It was in addition to the Australian government's commitment of one billion dollars over the coming years.

The PC mind will rush finger-wagging to point out that there is no connection between aid donations and criminal trials. Virginia Trioli on ABC 774 in Melbourne was quick to disabuse the ignorant of that connection, as did the Derryn Hinch of 3AW. Of course, it cannot be that aid donations determine what happens in the legal system of another country.

The connection, or rather the contrast, is in the basic humanity of different cultures. Islamic culture sees crime and punishment through a veil of blood and guts. It's the same mentality that hacks off heads of innocent civilians. It's the same culture whose members protect a satanic monster like Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi.

There is a lesson - and a warning- here for Australians, if they want to look. For a start, they should be wary of visiting Islamic countries. It seems not difficult to get caught up in a cruel rigid unyielding legal system. I imagine the couple who found drugs inexplicably in their luggage on arrival in Bali are now breathing deep sighs of relief that they followed the consulate's advice and flushed them down the toilet.