Authorities in Britain, the U.S. and elsewhere, and now in Australia, are concerned about Islamic jihadists returning from Syria and continuing to wage jihad at home. Australian authorities are calling upon Muslim communities to tell their people that “by fighting overseas they are committing a crime” — meanwhile, these same Muslim communities are funding the Australian Muslims’ jihad in Syria. More clueless wishful thinking and fantasy-based policymaking from Western officials.
“Australian jihad recruits fughting [sic] in Syria may bring their terror skills home,” by Matthew Benns for The Daily Telegraph, January 29 (thanks to all who sent this in):
UP to 120 Australians fighting in the Syrian civil war and learning deadly skills which could be used on their return are being funded by Muslim communities here collecting money for humanitarian aid.
Federal Attorney-General George Brandis also warned yesterday that some fighters could commit terrorist acts in Australia.
“These individuals not only potentially breach Australian laws and commit offences offshore, but upon their return to Australia pose a significant national security risk,” he said.
Australians fighting in Syria would gain new skills “including the ability to conduct an attack on Australian soil,” he told 200 policing experts from around the world at the Interpol Global Security and Counterterrorism Convention in Sydney.
Australian Federal Police counterterrorism chief Assistant Commissioner Neil Gaughan confirmed most of the AFP’s counterterrorism attention was focused on the 120 Australians known to be fighting or assisting in the fighting in Syria.
A special unit was investigating how the Australians got there. “We are looking at the money,” he said. “A lot is being raised in the community with the expectation it is not to fight jihad but for humanitarian aid.”
However he said he was sure some of the money was being handed over with a knowing wink to support the fighters.
“The problem for us is when those 120 people come back,” Mr Gaughan said. “These people have seen horrific things, been exposed to a more radical form of Islam and they come back with a combat capability.
“International studies show that about one in nine persons who comes back is a concern and can be engaged in hostile activity in their own country.
“The question for us is trying to determine who the one in nine is. We have to monitor all these people and make sure.”
Last month the AFP arrested two Sydney men, Hamdi al-Qudsi and Amin Mohammed, whom they allege helped at least five people to travel to Syria.
“The community needs to take some responsibility here,” Mr Gaughan said “They need to be telling people that by fighting overseas they are committing a crime.”
Good luck with that.
Meanwhile Facebook pages are filling up with photographs of Australians posing with rifles and tanks on the battlefront.
Yesterday The Australian revealed one of the fighters, Mohammed Ayub, was the son of “jihad sheila” Rabiah Hutchinson and alleged former Jemaah Islamiyah cell leader Abdul Rahim Ayub.
Mr Gaughan said: “We are seeing Australians killed over there. It is not weekend warrior stuff. This is real war and some of them are now dead.”
This month Sydney woman Amira Ali became the first Australian woman to die in the war after travelling there to join her husband Yusuf Ali, who was also killed.

Champ says
islam is an evil cancer spreading throughout the world …
james says
…AUTHORITIES CLAIM 1 person in 9 who returns from Jihad is suspect to home grown terror…………..THIS IS NOT VIABLE;IT SHOULD 9 OUT OF 9 WHO RETURN.THEY ARE ALL MURDERERS………….MIND -CONTROLLED LUNATICS ….CONTROLLED JUST LIKE ANY OTHER CULT……………DESTROY THE MASTER BRAIN AND WATCH THEM ALL DISSAPATE INTO NOTHINGNESS………..GET THE MEDICINE MAN YOU BIG DUMMIES……..NOTICE THE MARK ON HIS FOREHEAD.
JIMJFOX says
“fighting overseas they are committing a crime”
Then arrest and charge them!
At least the authorities there are not blinded by leftist PC nonsense
JamesonRocks says
“‘A special unit was investigating how the Australians got there. “We are looking at the money,” he said. “A lot is being raised in the community with the expectation it is not to fight jihad but for humanitarian aid.'”
Always, follow the money!
Jay Boo says
US Muslims doing the same no doubt as Obama administration focuses on campaign financing of a film maker who criticized him an his Islamic leftist connections. Film makers are not the problem Pres. Obama.
mortimer says
Cancel their passports.
Jihadists only fear loss of citizenship and residency.
PJG says
“International studies show that about one in nine persons who comes back is a concern and can be engaged in hostile activity in their own country.”
“International studies”, eh? So useful. So very useful.
We have tried to tell these people, these Australian authorities, to stop with the nonsense, but they won’t listen. “Tiny minority”, “most are peaceful” and all that. So now this is what they believe; a tiny minority of Muslims are jihadists or jihad sympathisers, and a tiny minority – only one in nine, which is pretty good, really – of those who actually wage jihad are..um…a “security risk”…with, um, “jihad skills”. Well, let’s look on the bright side: maybe only a tiny minority of that tiny minority of “skilled” jihadists will get around to waging a tiny number of jihad attacks back here in Australia.
It’s best to be optimistic, because after all, “our” Multiculturalism works better than any other country’s, doesn’t it? Because we hand out citizenship like sweets, so everyone loves us, except of course those few with a “radical form of Islam” in their heads…
gravenimage says
Australia: Muslim communities funding jihadis fighting in Syria who could return home to wage jihad there
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How many parts of Dar-al-Harb have we heard this from now? Several countries in Europe, Britain, and the US—and now Australia.
And why not? Pious Muslims never feel they are really part of any Infidel country—so they go off and wage violent Jihad, and if they don’t blow themselves up, they may well return with their shiny new Jihad skills to the civilized country that gave them sanctuary, with likely negative effect to the good Infidels there.
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Australian authorities are calling upon Muslim communities to tell their people that “by fighting overseas they are committing a crime” — meanwhile, these same Muslim communities are funding the Australian Muslims’ jihad in Syria. More clueless wishful thinking and fantasy-based policymaking from Western officials.
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Yes, indeed—it is often those same “community leaders’ who are enabling Jihad in the first place. What fools these dhimmis be!
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UP to 120 Australians fighting in the Syrian civil war and learning deadly skills which could be used on their return are being funded by Muslim communities here collecting money for humanitarian aid.
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This is a *very* important point, although they may not realize it.
There is no distinction in Islam—”Zakat”, usually mistranslated as “charity”, can be used for any purpose that furthers the cause of Islam—and tha is more likely to be funding violent Jihad than for anything we would recognize as charity.
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“A lot is being raised in the community with the expectation it is not to fight jihad but for humanitarian aid.”
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As I noted above, I’m not so sure I’d count on the idea that most of these Muslims were duped—most of them know *exactly* what their Zakat is apt to be used for.
Assuming that most Muslims assume that their Zakat is going for “humanitarian aid” is part of the problem.
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However he said he was sure some of the money was being handed over with a knowing wink to support the fighters.
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Yup…
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“The problem for us is when those 120 people come back,” Mr Gaughan said. “These people have seen horrific things, been exposed to a more radical form of Islam and they come back with a combat capability.
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Pffft—they were already ‘radicalized’ or they wouldn’t have gone off to wage Jihad in the first place. They shouldn’t let non-citizens re-enter Australia at all, and should keep the others under strict surveillance.
Western nations should also render waging violent Jihad abroad specifically illegal—then any Jihadists who returned could be arrested.
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“International studies show that about one in nine persons who comes back is a concern and can be engaged in hostile activity in their own country.
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How many of these Jihadists consider Australia—or any part of the civilized world—to be “their own country”?
Even with this probably lowball figure, that means that 13 or 14 of those 120 returning Jihadists are likely to try to murder Australians—that’s a pretty horrific figure, and could result in dozens, or hundreds, or thousands of murders. After all, the almost 3,000 deaths of 9/11 were caused by just 19 Jihadists.
And how many more, in the rest of the West?
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“The question for us is trying to determine who the one in nine is. We have tomonitor all these people and make sure.”
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Wouldn’t that be “Islamophobic”? sarc/off
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Last month the AFP arrested two Sydney men, Hamdi al-Qudsi and Amin Mohammed, whom they allege helped at least five people to travel to Syria.
“The community needs to take some responsibility here,” Mr Gaughan said “They need to be telling people that by fighting overseas they are committing a crime.”
Good luck with that.
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Good luck indeed—since pious Muslims consider these homicidal Jihadists to be admired “Mujahideen”.
alan says
Muslims never integrate. Even in the workplace they wear hijabs and ugly beards and take most of Friday off to go to their weekly anti-infidel hate-fest at their local mosque. I am surprised that after 9/11 and even the last 1435 years of Jihad this cancer of Islam has been allowed such freedom to grow like diseased ideological tumors in all western democracies. The only real success against Islam was (until they were foolishly allowed to build mosques again) the Spanish reconquista… Freedom is not free. Under Obama’s US presidency, Islamics the world over have felt emboldened to assert their evil and arrogant bullying.
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