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Australian Muslim leader backs right to fight for the Islamic State

Dec 9, 2014 6:34 pm By Robert Spencer

al-RisalahWissam Haddad, the former head of al-Risalah Islamic Centre, seems to take for granted that the Islamic State is implementing Sharia properly. Where did he get this idea? Is he reading “Islamophobic” literature?

“Controversial Aussie Muslim backs right to fight for Islamic State,” by Ben McClellan, The Daily Telegraph, December 5, 2014:

THE former head of the controversial al-Risalah Islamic Centre in Bankstown said the four El Baf brothers who fled Australia to join Islamic State in Syria would be given a free house and he whole heartedly supported their decision.

Wissam Haddad said he knew the El Baf family but not the brothers Omar, 28, Bilal, 25, Hamza, 23, and Taha, 17, personally.

The brothers told their parents they were going to Thailand but later sent a text indicating they were in Syria.

“Do I support any Muslim wanting to live under a full Islamic system, yes I do,” Mr Haddad said yesterday.

“It’s not surprising to me … I don’t believe it’s out of Muslim character.

“If they just want to live under the Sharia, from what I’ve heard migrants who come to the Islamic State are given housing and all sorts of things.

“They could just be living there. I don’t know if living in Syria is a crime under the Islamic State.

“There is something that Allah is offering more than any person or country can offer and that’s paradise..

“One of the scholars said how can you fight a people who look down the barrel of a gun and see paradise. It’s what we are all after, eternal bliss, eternal paradise, which is a lot better than the world we live in.”

The extremist al-Risalah bookstore closed its doors in September a month after Mr Haddad told The Daily Telegraph he supported Islamic State’s black shaddad [sic] flag and not the Australian one.

Mr Haddad said he was still in limited contact with his friends in Syria, including Khaled Sharrouf, and had plans to re-open “an office or a youth centre”.

The El Baf brothers’ great uncle Abdul El Baf, 75, said the family hailed from Tripoli in northern Lebanon and the boys were born and bred in Australia.

He said the boys prayed at the Sefton Mosque, close to their Yagoona home, with their father Issam but he did not think they were radicalised there.

“Somebody put shit in their heads. I don’t believe in this religious bullshit. I believe in Allah and pray and that’s it,” he said.

“I wonder what happened to these idiot kids. Don’t listen to these idiot political people.

“I am very upset for his family. He is a good father. I hope they would come back to the best country in the world — Australia.”…

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Filed Under: Australia, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) Tagged With: Taha El Baf, Wissam Haddad


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  1. artie says

    Dec 9, 2014 at 6:53 pm

    I don’t know why any government would prevent anybody from leaving the country to move to the “Islamic State”. They would have to relinquish their passport and would never be re-admitted to any country. We would be well rid of a possible traitor. Good riddance, I say.

    • RonW says

      Dec 10, 2014 at 4:12 am

      Don’t forget that every one of these savages who lobs in Syria exacerbates the plight of the non-muslims who live there. Lived there. Especially Christians.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Dec 10, 2014 at 7:59 am

        Well, we must lobby our western governments to do *two* things at the same time.

        1/ If a Muslim from any one of our countries goes to Syria or Iraq..pffft. His passport evaporates. His – or her – citizenship is cancelled. S/he can never come back.

        2/ Bona fide Christians from Syria or Iraq get boosted to the *front* of our refugee/ humanitarian intake queue. We even make extra places – **just for them**. We make sure that people like Barnabas Fund and Canon Andrew White – who’ve been working with these particular Christian communities for *years* and know who everyone is – vet the applicants so we know we’re NOT getting Mohammedans in masks. (And any Muslim who *does* manage to lie their way in, gets the boot, the moment the imposture is detected; let that be made absolutely clear).

        Operation Exodus; Operation Magic Carpet. We get those poor people *out*. Where they are, they are being subjected to genocide. Should they come here – ‘here’ being anywhere in the west – their numbers help tip our demographic in a good direction.

        Muslims out; non-Muslims in.

  2. Michael Copeland says

    Dec 9, 2014 at 7:12 pm

    The three teens who attempted to leave Chicago for Islamic State left a letter:
    “it is.. obligatory upon every able-bodied male and female to migrate there”.
    Let the muslims meet their obligation.
    http://www.barenakedislam.com/2014/12/09/french-mother-sues-government-for-allowing-her-muslim-jihadi-son-to-travel-to-syria-to-fight-with-isis/

  3. Henry says

    Dec 9, 2014 at 7:33 pm

    No one has the right to establish a tyrannical state. No one has the right to enslave other human beings. We are all entitled to freedom of thought, and expression. Equality for ALL before the law. GO TO HELL WISSAM HADDAD!

  4. Salah says

    Dec 10, 2014 at 2:32 am

    “Somebody put shit in their heads. I don’t believe in this religious bullshit. I believe in Allah and pray and that’s it,” he said.

    That’s precisely the *shit* par excellence!

  5. mad-aussie says

    Dec 10, 2014 at 7:19 am

    Just another Muslim Parasite on our HIT LIST. Have a happy time with your virgins arsehole.!

  6. Christian Knight says

    Dec 10, 2014 at 12:16 pm

    Why doesn’t the Australian government deport Wissam Haddad to the land of Sharia, that’ll end their problem of having him live in a civilized country,, In fact get rid of all the Muslims, and put on flights to the ones who want to go..

  7. eric says

    Dec 10, 2014 at 1:30 pm

    Either help them depart to Syria or put them in prison for giving aid to the enemy. Welcome them back and lock them away in a federal prison for life, and make sure they are in a section with a high population of Aryan Brotherhood inmates.

  8. Aussie Infidel says

    Dec 10, 2014 at 7:37 pm

    Christy, I agree that there are violent extremists in every society and religion. I too have suffered from their dogmatic attitudes. As an Atheist, I have no affinity with any religion – they are all simply products of the imagination. Religion was the first attempt by primitive humans to explain their existence and the world around them; but because they were scientifically illiterate, they got it wrong.

    These days, most religions in the West are relatively benign, because they have been subjected to centuries of scientific scrutiny and examination by more sceptical and rational minds. But Islam has not been subjected to such scrutiny, it remains the ‘wild man’ of the supernatural scene; and consequently, it is an order of magnitude worse than any of the other religions.

    Islam’s holy scriptures command Muslims ‘to not take Jews and Christians as friends; to wage jihad against them; to subjugate their religions and cultures; to be harsh against them; to subject them to dhimmitude, and compel them to pay the jizya; and to impose Islamic Sharia law on them’. While ever these commands continue to be a part of their scriptures, they will provide the motivation for future generations of Muslim hotheads to commit acts of violence against their Prophet’s ‘old enemies’. And because Muhammad was a warmongering sociopath, and Muslims are told that they should emulate his example, present day sociopaths in their communities are only too eager to repeat his jihadist activities.

    I find that one of the biggest problems in the West, is that many of my Atheist friends, and people on the left of politics, are only too ready to condemn the misdemeanors of other religions, but are cognitively blind when it comes to the vastly greater number of atrocities committed in the name of Islam.

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