Of course it doesn’t. Probably Omar Succarieh and the other Muslim arrested in this raid on an Islamic bookstore got all fired up to commit terrorist acts by reading about the French Revolution. Or maybe they were enraged by the illegal Zionist occupation of Kuraby and Baronia Heights. A politically correct Keystone Kop like Neil Gaughan would never hold the position he does in a society that was healthy and resolute in the face of the jihad threat. Ultimately his denial and willful ignorance will completely overwhelm his ability to investigate cases like these and make arrests, or else he will have to cast them off and face the nature of the threat realistically. The former appears more likely at this point.
“Two men face terror charges as police raid Islamic book store at Logan,” The Courier-Mail, September 10, 2014 (thanks to Kenneth):
TWO men will be charged with preparing to send fighters to join the conflict in Syria, aftera [sic] year-long counter-terrorism investigation.
AFP National Manager Counter Terrorism Assistant Commissioner Neil Gaughan confirmed Omar Succarieh was one of the men arrested today.
He said a 31-year-old from Kuraby would be charged with providing funds to terrorist organisation Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria.
Assistant Commissioner Gaughan said the man was also charged in relation to preparations for incursions into Syria with the intentions of engaging in hostile activities.
He said a 21-year-old from Baronia Heights would also be charged with two offences under the Crimes Incursions Act.
He said one charge was in relation to preparations for incursions into Syria with the intentions of engaging in hostile activities while the other was related to recruiting persons to engage in hostile activities in Syria.
Police will allege the men helped a “small number” of individuals.
Assistant Commissioner Gaughan said there was no information or intelligence available to police to indicate the men were involved in planning any terrorism attacks in Australia.
“This has got nothing to do with Islam, this is criminal behaviour by Australians involved in terrorist activity,” he said.
He said the arrests followed a 12-month investigation.
“We received advice from the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecution that there was sufficiency of evidence to progress to an overt resolution today.
“There were also some issues of public safety that we had to be cognisant of.
“This was not a hasty decision to progression to resolution today.
“Due to public safety concerns, one person in possession of a firearm and also a compound bow, we really had no option but to proceed today.”
Earlier The Courier-Mail reported two Queensland men will be charged with preparing to send fighters to join the conflict in Syria after a year-long counter-terrorism investigation.
A 21-year-old man will be charged with preparing for incursions into Syria with the intention of engaging in hostile activities. He will also be charged with recrutiing fighters to join the conflict.
About 180 police executed nine search warrants at Logan and the southern suburbs of Brisbane today.
A 31-year-old man will be charged with providing funds to the terrorist organisation Jabhat al-Nusra.
He will also be charged with preparing for incursions into Syria. AFP national manager counter terrorism Assistant Commissioner Neil Gaughan said the two men were not accused or suspected of planning terrorist acts in Australia.
He said the 31-year-old was Omar Succarieh. He is the brother of Australia’s first suicide bomber to die in Syria, Ahmed Succarieh.
Mr Gaughan said weapons were found during the raids, including a gun and a crossbow.
He said there were no other suspects in Australia in relation to the year-long investigation, codenamed Operation Bolton.
But he said there were links to Syria and the investigation was ongoing.
Mr Gaughan said there was no indication of plans for a terror attack on Australian soil, nor was there any threat aimed at the G20 leaders summit in Brisbane in November.
The arrests followed the raids in Brisbane and in Logan to the south, including on the iQraa Islamic Centre in the Logan suburb of Underwood.
Mr Gaughan said there was no link to the Islamic State movement.
“This has got nothing to do with Islam. This is criminal behaviour by Australians involved in terrorist activity,” Mr Gaughan said.
“I said at the commencement when I spoke about these charges, that these charges were in relation to Jabhat al-Nusra, not Islamic State.” Jabhat al-Nusra is a Syria-based Sunni extremist group that adheres to the global jihadist ideology of al-Qaeda….
Beagle says
Indeed. What could have less to do with Islam than an Islamic book store, other than perhaps an Islamic state or Islamic center. Muhammad? Nothing to do with Islam. Quran? Nothing to do with Islam.
Huck Folder says
There is nothing on Google about any internal police fifth column like UK’s National Association of Moslem Police (NAMP). Maybe that’s why such a raid can be successful, or even take place at all.
NAMP has over 2,000 card-carrying moslem members, some in senior positions, not only privy to confidential plans (like upcoming raids?) but even able to influence future policies. Do they enable Andy ‘fornicator’ Choudary and pedophile rape gangs?
I hope the investigations into the Rotherham cesspool, AND OTHER SIMILAR CITIES include inspection of all NAMP members’ activities in any of the affected areas, as well as other police of ALL ranks who acted improperly, or failed to act.
UK readers and Liberty GB members should keep their eyes and ears open for NAMP:
Imagine it’s 1938; you see the gathering storm, and amongst your police there are 2000+ proudly card-carrying members of the Nazi party, who worship a monster and his sock-puppet. You know that despite any taqiyya oath to The Queen, the UK and their police service, they are duty bound to serve their religious masters…
That’s why WWIII is so much more threatening than WWII.
“We are not at war with islam.”
But islam, sure as hell, is at war with us in Dar al-Harb.
Ibn sufi al kitab says
The moron contradicts himself, no end to the stupid is there:
Mr Gaughan said there was no link to the Islamic State movement.
“This has got nothing to do with Islam. This is criminal behaviour by Australians involved in terrorist activity,” Mr Gaughan said.
“I said at the commencement when I spoke about these charges, that these charges were in relation to Jabhat al-Nusra, not Islamic State.” Jabhat al-Nusra is a Syria-based Sunni extremist group that adheres to the global jihadist ideology of al-Qaeda…
KrazyKafir says
Mr Gaughan doesn’t want to lose his, all cultures are equal badge, that the liberals gave him.
Tradewinds says
“This has got nothing to do with Islam. This is criminal behaviour by Australians involved in terrorist activity,” Mr Gaughan said.
Fool! Idiot! Moron!
Gail Griffin says
Keep saying it, “Nothing to do with Islam” Why??? What does this man know about Islam? Were these guys atheist? Maybe Hindu? Maybe JW’s? Nope, just Auzzies doing terroristic things because they don’t like wallabies.
Jovial Joe says
‘This has nothing to do with Islam’: why don’t they at least mix it up a bit, it’s getting tedious now; the occasional ‘Islam has nothing to do with this’ wouldn’t hurt.
gerard says
“This has got nothing to do with Islam”
“This has got nothing to do with Islam”
“This has got nothing to do with Islam”
“This has got nothing to do with Islam”
I swear if I hear that one more time!…..
Michael Copeland says
To the tune of “Follow the Yellow Brick Road”
John Alexander says
Almost everything these days is about Islam. But despite Muslims best efforts to give us the message our leaders just aren’t listening. The problem isn’t fanaticism or Islamism it’s Islam. There is no “moderate Islam” there is only Islam with one goal but different methods at its command.
ISIS and Islamic terrorism generally are just the tip of the jihadist iceberg.
The in your face touchiness is another.
Lying to infidels as mandated by Mohammad is part and parcel of the struggle.
Wearing the burqa is another.
Protests against offence to Islam are another.
The Muslim rape gangs running amok across England are another. There is a direct sanction from Mohammad himself to rape infidel captives.
Incidentally, there’s a great post on that called: “They Are All Guilty”
at:
http://john-moloney.blogspot.com/2014/09/they-are-all-guilty.html
The essential problem with Islam as Robert Spencer says is its dual morality. Muslims are taught
to divide the world between the faithful and the infidels.
gerard says
“I said at the commencement when I spoke about these charges, that these charges were in relation to Jabhat al-Nusra, not Islamic State.” Jabhat al-Nusra is a Syria-based Sunni extremist group that adheres to the global jihadist ideology of al-Qaeda….
Nothing to do with Islam.
btw Mr Gorgo, you acknowledge the terrorism. Terrorism is always linked to some ideology. If this was not linked to Islam then you have a duty to tell us what it was that motivated these terrorists or else STFU about “Nothing to do with Islam”!
Angemon says
The irony here is that “it has nothing to do with islam” is a get out of jail card for dodging “islamophobia” complaints while investigating muslims. “Yes, we were investigating people calling themselves muslims but they were acting upon the kind of extremist beliefs held by organizations like Al-Qaeda or ISIS that have nothing to do with islam, which is a religion of peace”.
What would islamic community leaders say in such a case?
Oliver says
They would say, ” you are branding us all as traitors/teroorists (or whatever the word of the day is) but it is ONLY A FEW who are (traitors/terroists, etc)”.
They (Muslim leaders) spout this crap often enough, as does our leader–Hussein Obama.
Mike says
The clip on the news also had a Malay decked out in salafi attire in conversation with Succarieh. They said the “bookstore” was a “halal” place for Muslims to read and relax. Plenty of cheek they have – and they think they’re so bloody superior.
tpellow says
“Terror threat to increase to high with fears Islamic radicals blocked from travelling are preparing to strike as two face court in Brisbane on charges of recruiting to send to Syria ”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2751299/Terror-threat-increase-high-fears-Islamic-radicals-blocked-travelling-preparing-strike-two-face-court-Brisbane-charges-recruiting-send-Syria.html#ixzz3CxL1XMD8
Realist says
Do people like this fool actually believe it has nothing to do with Islam? If they do we’re in big trouble . If you don’t understand who your enemy is you are unable to fight them.
What Gaughan should have said was, ‘Islam is a disease, a pathological condition that effects all or parts of a society’. It poses more of a threat to civilised countries than the Ebola virus.
deja vu says
“Terror threat to increase to high with fears Islamic radicals blocked from travelling are preparing to strike as two face court in Brisbane on charges of recruiting to send to Syria ”
Why are they blocked? Let them go and revoke their passports while they’re away.
Wtf? says
Even though it was the Federal Police they are all based in Queensland. As every intelligent Australian knows the people of Queensland are different breed,strange and interbred. Lol
deja vu says
Different breed or not, the guy is simply parroting Obama’s latest outburst. Quote:
‘In a televised address this evening, President Barack Obama outlined his ideas on how to defeat the Islamic State. Along the way, he declared the organization variously known as ISIS or ISIL to be “not Islamic.”
In making this preposterous claim, Obama joins his two immediate predecessors in pronouncing on what is not Islamic. Bill Clinton called the Taliban treatment of women and children “a terrible perversion of Islam.” George W. Bush deemed that 9/11 and other acts of violence against innocents “violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith.”
To state the obvious: as non-Muslims and politicians, rather than Muslims and scholars, they are in no position to declare what is Islamic and what is not.’
Perhaps AFP National Manager Counter Terrorism Assistant Commissioner Neil Gaughan should be directed to this article and asked to explain why he considers himself an expert in Islamic belief and practice.
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2014/09/isis-is-not-islamic
GP says
“He said one charge was in relation to preparations for incursions into Syria with the intentions of engaging in hostile activities while the other was related to recruiting persons to engage in hostile activities in Syria.”-
But, he claims, this has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam. Surely he must realize that Hamas, Hezbollah, Boko Haram, Al Qaeda, ISIS, and ISIL, all have IS LAM in common
fair_dinkum says
you tell a lie enough times it becomes truth.
just like the germans in the 30’s
Cobber_Digger says
Aw, strewth throw another shrimp on the barbie. You know there are twenty million sheep in Australia, and quite a few of the woolly variety as well.
Islam is coming and it will destroy everything in it’s wake, even down under.
Will says
Despite the good work done by the LNP in Australia there is still the ,marked presence of the elitist western view that none of it has anything to do with Islam. Now it could just be that the elite are worried about the profit from their multinationals who deal with Malaysia and Indonesia and the Middle East or it could be in keeping with the western elitist view that Islam is not a threat. But in an ideology that has 8 male children per family , overpopulation ALONE is a dire threat to the world
So why are the western elite so determined to hide this or to ignore it?
That is the ONE question that bothers me most. If you ask the average guy in the street the hatred of Islam(and Muslims) is steadily rising here and most are well aware that the idiot above is lying.