Islamic centre in Sydney closes as threat level increased

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Islamic centre in Sydney closes as threat level increased

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An interesting article from Auntie, Online. Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-15/a ... ms/5745470
Al Risalah Centre in western Sydney closes as director Wissam Haddad claims members targetted by police and ASIO
By the National Reporting Team's Peter Lloyd and Suzanne Dredge
Updated Mon 15 Sep 2014, 7:21pm


A controversial Islamic centre in western Sydney has closed its doors after claims members and supporters have been harassed by police and counter-terrorism security agencies.

The Al Risalah Centre closed on Friday, the same day the Federal Government announced it was raising the national terror alert from medium to high.

The centre became notorious for giving a platform to hardliners sympathising with global jihad.

Centre director Wissam Haddad cited financial reasons as the primary cause for the closure.

He also said Muslims were being unfairly targeted by the Government's proposed anti-terror laws.

"Ninety per cent of people who come here have been visited by ASIO," Mr Haddad said.

"My family members have been hassled and the family members of people who are regulars have also been hassled."

Mr Haddad said ASIO had asked friends and members of the centre about him and the activities of the Al Risalah Centre.

"They ask things like: 'Where does the centre get funding from? What do we teach? Am I connected to anyone overseas? Who do we fund and where we receive our funding from?" Mr Haddad said.

Mr Haddad supports the Islamic State (IS) cause and knows some of the Australian men who have travelled to the Middle East to join terrorist groups, including Mohamed Elomar and Khaled Sharrouf.

An image of the Shahada flag used by IS features on his Twitter account and he is also close friends with Hamdi Al Qudsi, the alleged ringleader of a criminal syndicate sending Australians to fight in Syria.

Australia's involvement in action against IS 'frowned upon'

Mr Haddad is a strident critic of the Federal Government's decision to send personnel to the Middle East.

"Obviously Australia's involvement is going to be frowned upon if anything else. I'm not happy whatsoever and I condemn Australia's involvement in Iraq," he said.

"Anyone getting involved in killing any Muslims anywhere is going to be a potential enemy or is an enemy of Islam itself and every single Muslim."

Mr Haddad also speaks on behalf of the organisation Millatu Ibrahim, which is banned in Germany and was founded by an Austrian Al Qaeda supporter.

He insisted the group was misunderstood.

"Millatu Ibrahim is not an organisation, it's a platform propagating the deen (religion) of Allah and calling people to Islam," Mr Haddad said.

"It's platform is worldwide. It's not an organisation that is worldwide, that's what people are confusing."

For Mr Haddad, loyalty to faith comes before everything else.

"If I was allowed to live somewhere else, I would do so and it's something I'll be looking into," he said.

"We're talking to lawyers about it and we're talking to some people in Parliament to see how we go about it."
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The group is misunderstood but the guy supports a caliphate.

Rule number 1 with Muslims. There is no God but Allah.


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"Anyone getting involved in killing any Muslims anywhere is going to be a potential enemy or is an enemy of Islam itself and every single Muslim."

Statements like that bother me. That muslims, living within our communities, see us all as enemies. Even though they went to the same schools as us etc, they still see us as enemies, and people living thousands of miles away as allies.
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Look there are good muslims out there...and just common sense will tell you who they are.

Every Muslim I met from India has been really cool. I took 1 Muslim lady out to market a few days ago. I had no idea she was one until her husband said something and she got all bent out of shape when he said it cause of obvious reasons. We passed by 1 mosque and I told her that this is the biggest mosque in Cambodia. She told me is shes secular and non practicing and hasnt been in a mosquie since she was a child. I then go on to tell her Allah Akbar!! and began to decapitate her after reading a passage from the only book that should be on the face of Earth.

Well I had no choice...she wasnt a true muslism. Muhammad gave me the strength. TAKBIR!!
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I wouldn't belong to any religion that would have me as a member.
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The Add Jay wrote:Look there are good muslims out there...and just common sense will tell you who they are.

Every Muslim I met from India has been really cool. I took 1 Muslim lady out to market a few days ago. I had no idea she was one until her husband said something and she got all bent out of shape when he said it cause of obvious reasons. We passed by 1 mosque and I told her that this is the biggest mosque in Cambodia. She told me is shes secular and non practicing and hasnt been in a mosquie since she was a child. I then go on to tell her Allah Akbar!! and began to decapitate her after reading a passage from the only book that should be on the face of Earth.

Well I had no choice...she wasnt a true muslism. Muhammad gave me the strength. TAKBIR!!
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Palmer United Party senator Jacqui Lambie has backed calls for burkas to be banned in public
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-19/j ... ic/5756136

I agree they should be banned.
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UKJ wrote:Palmer United Party senator Jacqui Lambie has backed calls for burkas to be banned in public
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-19/j ... ic/5756136

I agree they should be banned.
On a couple of occasions I've had shop staff in Australia tell me to remove my (biker) skullcap as a security issue - I usually point to the nearest Muslim and say that when the staffer has them remove their burka I'll remove the skullcap. They never seem to have a response for this.
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I was in the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra this afternoon.
Some of the museum guards were cops or military guys in museum uniforms I am sure.
They had a trained athletic appearance and a steely gaze looking at everyone closely.
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