"[Australian Federal Police] Commissioner Mick Keelty and NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione have revealed that they are investigating new terrorist threats, particularly in [New South Wales]."
And not acknowledging and challenging the ideology that produces new jihadists, and its origins in Islamic texts and teachings, will only help guarantee that more and more home-grown jihadists will threaten Australia and other Western countries.
"New crop of Jihadis is 'set to step up'," by Natalie O'Brien for The Australian:
A NEW crop of home-grown jihadis, groomed to step up and replace the leaders of Australian terror cells who have been arrested or jailed, is almost "mature" enough to launch an operation, an international terror expert has warned.
The warning came after the release of figures showing the Australian Federal Police had 76 new counter-terrorism cases to investigate in the past financial year. At June 30 last year, the AFP had 83 cases being examined by its counter-terrorism team.
The latest so-called network of militant extremists has been steadily evolving and its members are almost ready to take over from their predecessors, according to Rohan Gunaratna, international terrorism expert and the author of Inside al-Qa'ida.
Dr Gunaratna said the home-grown terror suspects had been under investigation by Australian law enforcement agencies for some time. The new networks were very similar in "character and composition" to those that had been disrupted by law enforcement agencies.
"Law enforcement has only peeled back one layer of jihadis," he said. "The second rung is maturing and ripe for another operation, possibly in the coming months."
Intelligence sources say they are aware of the new threats, but deny there is any evidence that the groups may be close to planning an attack in Australia.
The AFP yesterday declined to comment on Dr Gunaratna's warnings.
AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty and NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione have revealed that they are investigating new terrorist threats, particularly in NSW.
Statistics in the latest AFP annual report show that in 2006-07, they had 76 new counter-terrorism cases, they finalised another 83 cases and at June 2006 they had a total of 83 open cases.
"A NEW crop of home-grown jihadis, groomed to step up and replace the leaders of Australian terror cells who have been arrested or jailed..."
-- from the article above
And this is true everywhere: in Iraq, where the Bush Administration thinks it can "destroy Al Qaeda"; in Afghanistan, where the Bush Administration thinks it can "wipe out" the Taliban; in Australia (see above), in France and Great Britain and Spain and Germany and the Netherlands and Denmark and Sweden and Norway and Belgium and indeed, in Canada and the United States. There is not some finite number of members of a finite number of groups (my god, I feel as though Hilbert and Cantor will be joining us any minute for a nightcap), but an endlessly replaceable, fungible group of Believers, just doing what Muslims are supposed to do, but taking it a bit more seriously, and themselves taking on the task, for the whole community, the Muslims of the Umma, of participating directly in violent Jihad against the Infidels, while other Muslims support them, thus participating only indirectly, or participate in the Jihad by employing instruments other than terrorism, other than qitaal (combat).
I am sure new PM Rudd will do everything he can to help them.
I get the impression that the more long-term thinking "demographic jihadis" would not be impressed with these hot-head types.
Good on the Australian for publishing this type of information more often than other MSM.
I continue to blame Malcolm Fraser and Paul Keating for encouraging these people to come to our fair land.
Paging all my fellow Australians who read here but may not necessarily post here.
Think about this article.
Then let's think about your networks. Do you know people, are you related to, do you go to church with, or do sports with, or go fishing with, people who are in the police force, army, army reserve or coastguard?
A pilot, a flight attendant, an airport or port worker? Do you belong to the RSL (for the benefit of non-Australian readers, that's the Returned Servicemen's League) or the SES (State Emergency Services) or Bush Fire Brigade, or know people who do? Are you connected to journalists or lawyers? Do you know a prison chaplain?
These are the people you should be educating. Printouts of 'Islam 101' from this site, or Hugh Fitzgerald's 'Islam for Infidels' as archived here, or - depending on the relationship - a nice unbirthday present of 'PIG to Islam and the Crusades' or 'The Truth About Muhammad'.
Above all: do not forget your state and federal MPs and your Senator.
Please: report back here and tell everyone else about anything you've tried, that works.
In the USA there's an 'anti-terrorism' caucus in Congress.
Time to find out if any of our Aussie politicians would be game to attempt a bipartisan 'counter-jihad counter-sharia' caucus, or something approximating thereto, in Federal Parliament and in our State Parliaments.
Statistics in the latest AFP annual report show that in 2006-07, they had 76 new counter-terrorism cases, they finalised another 83 cases and at June 2006 they had a total of 83 open cases.
This is exactly why Camus brought up the Myth of Sisyphus. After all, we are committing civilizational suicide.
...and Austrailias upcoming removal of its troops in Muslim countries will not guarrantee a ceasation of future planned Muslim attacks in Australia....
....many Islamic leaders have virtually declared war on the non Islamic world...and it is time to fight back...in every way possible....surveillance, espionage, arrests, trials and long sentences help...so would a ban on Muslim Immigration...
exsgtbrown
New PM Rudd is just a populist. I am sure he knows this won't make OZ immune from terror attacks.
We have 500 active troops there out of a population smaller than the state of California . As far as I know they mainly guard the airport.
He said he would withdraw before the election, (vote getter), so now he is doing it.My guess is he will drag it out until the US has a democrat in the White House with whom he will further intensify the Aussie US alliance .
I didn't vote for the little blonde mandarin-speaking geek!
"As far as I know they mainly guard the airport.
Posted by: Gramfan
....and they are doing a great job....The Muslims stay away from the airport....
"Homegrown"? They arent assimilating?
"And not acknowledging and challenging the ideology that produces new jihadists, and its origins in Islamic texts and teachings, will only help guarantee that more and more home-grown jihadists will threaten Australia and other Western countries".
It is amazing. It's as if a doctor treated symptoms and not the disease. For example, the Muslim beliefs re Jews is a disease and the symptoms are the never ending Jihad to return them to their Dhimmi status in Israel. The disease is also the Muslim belief that the Jewish Holy Books have been deliberately forged and Christians (also the people of "the falsified Book") are either Muslims who deliberately distorted Islam (Jews) or were led "astray" (Christians). Islam is what it is and what it is in Islamic texts. Time to deal with reality....
".....mainstream Islamic tradition regards the Jewish and Christian Scriptures as corrupted: they don’t, after all, confirm what is in the Qur’an, and so Jews and Christians must have dared to alter them – and now “their forgeries deceive them as to their own religion” (v. 24). Asad therefore emphasizes that “it is to be borne in mind that the Gospel frequently mentioned in the Qur’an is not identical with what is known today as the Four Gospels, but refers to an original, since lost, revelation bestowed upon Jesus and known to his contemporaries under its Greek name of Evangelion (‘Good Tiding’), on which the Arabicized form Injil is based. It was probably the source from which the Synoptic Gospels derived much of their material and some of the teachings attributed to Jesus. The fact of its having been lost and forgotten is alluded to in the Qur’an in 5:14.”-Robert Spencer
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/07/22/blogging-the-qur%e2%80%99an-sura-3-%e2%80%9cthe-family-of-imran%e2%80%9d-verses-1-32/
and deception with kuffar is fine for Muslims sincew they are dealing with pople who deliberately distort Islam in tjheir Holy Books. Folks, it doesn't get sicker than this...
"Verses 28-32 is mainly concerned with warnings of Allah’s judgment, but v. 28 warns believers not to take unbelievers as “friends or helpers” (َأَوْلِيَا — a word that means more than casual friendship, but something like alliance), “unless (it be) that ye but guard yourselves against them.” This is a foundation of the idea that believers may legitimately deceive unbelievers when under pressure. The word used for “guard” in the Arabic is tuqātan (تُقَاةً), the verbal noun from taqiyyatan — hence the increasingly familiar term taqiyya. Ibn Kathir says that the phrase Pickthall renders as “unless (it be) that ye but guard yourselves against them” means that “believers who in some areas or times fear for their safety from the disbelievers” may “show friendship to the disbelievers outwardly, but never inwardly. For instance, Al-Bukhari recorded that Abu Ad-Darda’ said, ‘We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them.’ Al-Bukhari said that Al-Hasan said, ‘The Tuqyah [taqiyya] is allowed until the Day of Resurrection.” While many Muslim spokesmen today maintain that taqiyya is solely a Shi’ite doctrine, shunned by Sunnis, the great Islamic scholar Ignaz Goldziher points out that while it was formulated by Shi’ites, “it is accepted as legitimate by other Muslims as well, on the authority of Qur’an 3:28.” The Sunnis of Al-Qaeda practice it today".-Robert Spencer
The Quran blog is a real eye opener.-Frank
"Law enforcement has only peeled back one layer of jihadis," he said. "The second rung is maturing and ripe for another operation, possibly in the coming months."
Like a shark's teeth - one falls away, another springs up to replace it.
Looks like the Aussies are losing the game of whack-a-jihadi-mole.
Meanwhile, new crops of jihadists in the United States are being ignored, sometimes even protected by 'cultural diversity' programs. Of course, that's because in America we only have honest, just, and compassionate muslims...
"Islam is a faith that brings comfort to people. It inspires them to lead lives based on honesty, and justice, and compassion."
~President George W. Bush, October 11, 2002
Empty the prisons by exiling these losers and sharply cut off immigration from the ummah. These two simple steps will greatly reduce the threat of jihadism. And exile those native born jihadists too.
..terrorist plots uncovered in UK, the Nederlands, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, the US, the UK, Algeria, Lebonon, Amsterdam, Norway, Sweden, Indonesia, India, and many others....
....common denominatior....culprits study Islam....do they study to be misunderstanders or perfect understanders..?......
....what do they study?>....oh yeah...the QUR'AN...
....WHO do they listen to?...oh yeah...crazed, bearded, fingerpointing Islamic clerics....
....What is their plan....oh yeah...just kill, baby...just kill....
....if it walks and breathes, it is an Islamic target...
"A NEW crop of home-grown jihadis, groomed to step up and replace the leaders of Australian terror cells who have been arrested or jailed..."
If there were't any Muslims in Australia, there wouldn't be anyone to step up and replace the leaders of current Australian terror cells.
Get smart like us, keep importing more of them into your country.
A German's point of view on Islam
A man whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism.
"Very few people were true Nazis "he said," but many enjoyed the return of German pride,and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories."
We are told again and again by "experts" and "talking heads" that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace.
Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectre of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam. The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history.
It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honour kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. The hard quantifiable fact is that the "peaceful majority", the "silent majority", is cowed and extraneous.
Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.
The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.
And, who can forget Rwanda , which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were "peace loving"?
History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points: Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.
Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up , because like my friend from Germany , they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.
Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghanis, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.
As for us who watch it all unfold; we must pay attention to the only group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life.
Lastly, at the risk of offending, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just deletes this email without sending it on, is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand. So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on and on! Let us hope that thousands, world wide, read this - think about it - and send it on.
A German's point of view on Islam
A man whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism.
"Very few people were true Nazis "he said," but many enjoyed the return of German pride,and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories."
We are told again and again by "experts" and "talking heads" that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace.
Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectre of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam. The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history.
It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honour kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. The hard quantifiable fact is that the "peaceful majority", the "silent majority", is cowed and extraneous.
Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.
The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.
And, who can forget Rwanda , which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were "peace loving"?
History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points: Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.
Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up , because like my friend from Germany , they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.
Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghanis, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.
As for us who watch it all unfold; we must pay attention to the only group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life.
Lastly, at the risk of offending, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just deletes this email without sending it on, is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand. So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on and on! Let us hope that thousands, world wide, read this - think about it - and send it on.
Dear Dumbledoresarmy,
Seeing as you paged fellow Aussies, I thought that I should reply. I hope that I can give you some good news.
You see, I am a teacher in a private Catholic school. One of my subjects is religion. When we dealt with World Religions I made wide use of Jihad Watch, especially Islam 101. Many of the boys were astounded with what they learnt. They too, just as I used to, bought the line that Islam is a religion of peace. I also found the videos available on MEMRI invaluable. As many posters have said, the greatest way to show the world what a threat Islam poses to the West is to listen to Muslims themselves. Finally, those who are now apostates from Islam are a great resource. They know the religion inside out and their personal testimonies and courage are inspiriing.
The hardest people to convince about the threat that Islam poses to us were my colleagues. They just wanted to believe all that they had heard about Islam being a religion of peace and that the radicals had perverted its true message. I doubt any of them had bothered reading the Koran for themselves. Some went into no more depth than looking at the five pillars of Islam.
So mate, some of us are fighting back with the most powerful weapon of all, the mind.
Cheers.
If you see Islamic societies start having hopping contests for the kiddies and long-jump exercises for the adults, beware Oz.
No telling what a jihadi in Kangaroo costume could carry in that pouch!
Jihad Joey alert.
aussie_antipodean,
Well done! It's refreshing to hear from teachers who study, think, and teach.
Off topic to you, as well as dumbledoresarmy, voltaire, & gramfan, I was not aware until the last few days of the extent of the Muslim infiltration in Australia. My wife and I were planning to travel there to celebrate our 25th anniversary next January, but are there safe areas? Reading through some of the links provided recently, it sounds as though some of your cities are under siege. I had never heard of this.
Any reply would be appreciated, if you feel it appropriate in this forum.
From xmale's post:
History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points: Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.
Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up , because like my friend from Germany , they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.
So true.
Lt. Presley O'Bannon
Yes, of course there are safe areas here!
Please come.
I know how you feel, tho'. My first trip to the US was in 1993. I was convinced I would get mugged.
Everywhere we went was fine, although we were told to avoid certain parts of New Orleans!
aussie_antipodean
Great job! The word has got to get out, and starting with youngsters is a great way to do it.
"Islam: What the West Needs to Know" is a fantastic way to spread the word. If you have a multi-region dvd player it will work.
(most are now).
Gramfan,
Thanks! All my life I have imagined Australia as a kind of heaven on earth. Reading about these troubles shook me up a little.
Your comments are reassuring.
Lt. Presley O'Bannon
We have hosted some Americans here. They love it!
Whilst I do not have muslims in my street I do see them in shopping malls - some are Indonesian, not always Middle Eastern.But there are not that many where I am. I think the biggest enclave would be in the Sydney area of Lakemba where there is a large mosque.
There certainly are enclaves in most states but these can easily be avoided. There are lots of tourist places you won't find find too many.
Example: beaches, casinos, pubs and wineries!
(Well, they aren't supposed to be there,lol!)
Good job, aussie_antipodean. That's the ultimate way to alert people to the threat of islam -- through education.
You might consider offering to hold a seminar on Islam, and inviting all your collegues.
aussie-antipodean
Great news. Keep at it! The kids will educate their friends, parents, grandparents, and so it goes.
The important thing is to get people to look at the Quran for themselves - along with Robert's Qur'an blog.
I assume you've got the school library stocked up, by now, with Bat Yeor, Robert Spencer, Andrew Bostom and the other usual suspects?
You say it's a Catholic school? In that case the fact that Robert Spencer is a sincere and earnest practising Catholic should carry *some* weight with the more devout parents.
You can always bring in Benedict 16th's Regensburg speech and get the kids in the higher grades to look up the source and historical context of the Paleologus quote.
If you've got Italo-Australian Catholic kids who either speak Italian already or are studying it, Oriana Fallaci's La Rabbia e L'Orgoglio, La Forza del Ragione and l'Apocalisse, could be added to the Modern Italian Literature section of the school library.
What I'd love to see, in Australia, is Cardinal Pell sponsoring a closed-doors [i.e. no-Muslims-invited] naked-truth-about-Islam emergency information session for Aussie Catholics (selected invitees from other churches and from other non-Muslim faith communities) - with Robert Spencer invited and paid for as the star speaker.
dumbledoresarmy,
your post above, and
"Oh, and hasten the day when cheap, pocket-sized, grubby, dog-eared and heavily scribbled-on copies of 'Onward Muslim Soldiers' and 'PIG to Islam and the Crusades', or even 'The Truth About Muhammad', in English or translation, will be found in every Infidel soldier's knapsack or stuffed in his back pocket, next to his iron rations."
Man, you sure know how to 'cast a vision'!
Our beautiful Australia is still the beautiful serene place it has always been. It will take more than 360,000 devout Muslims to change that...
Good job, aussie_antipodean. That's the ultimate way to alert people to the threat of islam -- through education.
You might consider offering to hold a seminar on Islam, and inviting all your collegues.
Posted by: rational
A seminar was tried out by the Pastor of the Catch the Fire Ministries and they were taken to court by the muslim community for breeching the racial vilification act in the state of Victoria.
I posted a piece on it here:
http://1389blog.com/2007/12/10/big-yellow-taxi-christian-pastors-muslims-and-free-speech-in-australia/
Gramfan,
I clicked over and read your piece in the 1389 blog. Nice work.
It's amazing how often we keep hearing about people getting into legal trouble just for mentioning Islam, or daring to quote from the Koran. England, Canada, here in the US, Australia, Denmark, the list seems endless.
I hope we can just keep shining a light into the darkness that is Islam; creatures that live in the dark can't stand the light.
Lt. Presley O'Bannon
Thanks:)
And also kudos to 1389 for all the hard work and inspiration!
What really annoys me is the fact that we can't say anything, and they can threaten/kill/sue us relentlessly.
Thanks to all who responded to my post with words of encouragement.
Dumbledoresarmy, we have got some lovely books on Islam for the discerning non PC reader. We have two copies of "Why I am not a Muslim" by Ibn Warraq. I have had the library purchase a couple of Robert's books. (It's great, I don't have to buy them myself.)
I'm hoping to get a copy of the DVD "What the West needs to know". Unfortunately the boys here are more likely to pay attention when they can watch rather than read. Anything over 200 words stretches their powers of concentration. Nonetheless I will keep at it.
Thanks again to all who responded.
aussie_antipodean
If you can, try to get a copy of "Obsession". Do you have any friends in the US who could get you a copy?
I managed to get one, but sent it on to a friend who is making excellent use of it.
It may be on Amazon also.
If not, it may still be here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-692071627799119020&q=obsession+islam
Sometimes these clips are removed. I m not sure if it is still there.
It may also be at youtube.
Do a search with "islam + obsession".
Damn - it's not there:(