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Sydney jihadi: Sheikh Man Haron Monis, on bail for accessory to murder

Dec 15, 2014 9:14 am By Robert Spencer

1512_sheikharon2_aAccording to Wikipedia (never a wholly reliable source, to be sure), he has been arrested as an accessory to murder and for sexual assault. It says he is a former Ayatollah from Iran who has announced that he is no longer a Shi’ite, but a Sunni. And now he is a jihad terrorist.

He has pleaded guilty also to sending offensive letters to the families of Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

Imagine: a Muslim cleric becoming a Misunderstander of Islam! How could this be?

“Martin Place siege: Live rolling coverage,” The Daily Telegraph, December 16, 2014 (thanks to Kenneth):

POLICE have authorised the naming of the man who has taken hostages at Lindt Cafe in Martin Place.

He is Sheik Man Haron Monis, who is a self-styled preacher of Islamic State on bail for accessory to murder, is the gunman who was last night holding 15 terrified hostages in Sydney’s Lindt cafe.

A police spokesman said: “There is no operational reason for NSW police to continue to ask for the name to be withheld any longer.”

Five of the hostages fled the Lindt Cafe in Martin Place earlier today.

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  1. Jax Tolmen says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 9:16 am

    You have reported on him before Robert; http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/08/australia-muslim-cleric-pleads-guilty-to-sending-offensive-letters-to-families-of-australian-soldier
    Hopefully this helps wake people up to your message from now on.

    • Champ says

      Dec 15, 2014 at 2:41 pm

      Thank you for finding that old thread, Jax! …wow the world was warned, but nobody listened.

  2. Rezali Mehil says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 9:25 am

    So …the kuffar hostage taker is already an imam…who would have thought that?

    He has already converted from a muslim to a sunni Imam …well well well…who would have thought it.

    On a more serious note..this now fills me with dread …because is already familiar with the religious connotations…he wants to get known, have his names in lights and possible go out with a bang …let’s hope it’s only him.

    On a different note…being a lone wolf …what does he do with the hostages when he wants to go for a number one or number two …I think he already lost 5 hostages like that in the process.

    More Later …

    Rezali

    • eib says

      Dec 15, 2014 at 10:45 am

      He is no kufr and you know it. He is a Muslim obeying the letter of the Quran and spirit of your tradition.

      • ahmad says

        Dec 15, 2014 at 10:58 am

        Wow You Ignorant Moron, You know nothing You asshole. He is committing/has committed the greatest Sin Ever

        • Go;den Rule says

          Dec 15, 2014 at 12:21 pm

          Ahmed,

          You have enough brains and morals left to understand that this man was a sinner. why is it difficult to understand that Muhammed who was thousand times worse was the most evil person to ever live ??

        • Angemon says

          Dec 15, 2014 at 1:47 pm

          ahmad posted:

          “He is committing/has committed the greatest Sin Ever”

          Huh? He’s associating other with allah? Isn’t that the greatest sin in islamic theology?

    • Salah says

      Dec 15, 2014 at 2:06 pm

      Both of you Sunni and Shia idiots admit that your filthy prophet shared his wives with other men. IT’S IN YOUR BOOKS.

      http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/04/threesome-in-islam.html

  3. cs says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 9:27 am

    Yet the Guardian is reporting him as been a “peace activist”. Who denounced Iranian Regime.
    British Media…

    • KrazyKafir says

      Dec 15, 2014 at 9:34 am

      Well, if he switched from Shia Muslim to Sunni Muslim then denouncing the Mullahs would be expected.

      • KrazyKafir says

        Dec 15, 2014 at 9:54 am

        Oops, I just noticed the name that was attached to the spurious BS about converting.

    • wtd says

      Dec 15, 2014 at 1:28 pm

      cs said “Yet the Guardian is reporting him as been a “peace activist“

      Well, it is after all, ‘The Guardian’ one of several infected msm tools which simply follow the narrative – ‘islam means peace’ . . .and is likely reporting the words Munis himself was filmed spouting several times:

      Video clip from Fairfax Media (via: TheAge) illustrates “Man Haron Monis” (aka ‘Sheik Haron’) in 2010 waving a flag and making a public statement to reporters while wearing a white turbon and flowing robes, as he states for the cameras:
      [transcript of video]

      “I do everything I do for the safety of all nations – including the nation of Australia. We want peace. We don’t want war.”

      Video clip picks up with Fairfax Media’s Crime and justice editor, Nick Ralston reporting:

      “Man Monis is definitely known the New South Wales police force and the state judiciary. He was convicted in 2013, after a very lengthy legal battle over a number/series of letters he wrote to families of dead Australian soldiers who had been fighting in Afghanistan. (image of Man Monis walking on sidewalk with hand written signs stating ‘Kevin, don’tkill Afghan children anymore.’)

      Last year he was charged with being an accessory to murder of his ex-wife. He and his current girlfriend are being charged with his ex-wife’s murder. And earlier this year he was charged with a number of offenses relating back to 2000 and 2002 when he was a ‘so-called-spiritual-healer’ operating a shoppe in Wentworth Hills (sp?) in midwest.

      So, Monis appeared in the high court last Friday where he filed a last failed attempt to get some of the current charges against him dropped. He was believed to be very upset that had occurred. A number of high court challenges were thrown out in recent years. He also was making a number of bizzare and sort of unusual posts on his personal website and facebook in recent days. So his ongoing legal battle over him sending letters to families of dead Australian soldiers has somewhat consumed him. It’s a battle that’s been going on since 2010. And his appearances in court have been rather irratic. He’d come straped in chains. Other times he’d held up signs. Other times he’s chained himself up outside of the courtroom. He’s always been very vocal about his opposition to Australian involvement in the war in Afghanistan. In recent times he’s taken to making a number of posts against Tony Abbott.

  4. jihad3tracker says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 9:29 am

    It will be fascinating to see if this guy kills himself rather than being taken alive . . . if the situation plays out thus.

    In other words, does he REALLY believe what his “holy” book contains about dying in the cause of jihad ?

    He looks to soft and fat for me to think he would actually do such, but you just never know for sure until the final outcome.

  5. vbeem says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 9:38 am

    Checkout his web page.

    He explains that killing “criminals” (ie non Muslims) is actually peace. IE Muslim peace is only for Muslims

    http://www.sheikhharon.com/

    “Islam is the religion of peace, that’s why Muslims fight against the oppression and terrorism of USA and its allies including UK and Australia. If we stay silent towards the criminals we cannot have a peaceful society. The more you fight with crime, the more peaceful you are. ”

    He’s a peaceful man representing a peaceful religion. All you have to do is redefine the definition of the words.

    The US govt, Obama and this guy all feel the same way about Islam.

    Somebody has to be lying..

    • jihad3tracker says

      Dec 15, 2014 at 10:13 am

      THE SHEIKHARON SITE IS NOW SUSPENDED — AS OF 10:13 EASTERN US TIME . . .

      • vbeem says

        Dec 15, 2014 at 10:34 am

        I have a screenshot before they pulled it down.

        Another interesting bit from it.

        “I used to be a Rafidi, but not anymore. Now I am a Muslim, Alhamdu Lillah”(December 2014)

        Google for Rafidi, but basically he’s saying it’s now time from him to embrace the real Islam and follow along better with core Islamic teachings. He’s been “rejecting” some of the important parts of Islam up until now…

        Wonder what he has in mind?

        OH wait..

        What’s so fascinating is how the Islamic killers see themselves as peaceful.

        Slaughtering non believers is easy when you’ve been taught a pyramid of humans with Muslims on top. Is they arn;t full humans, then slaughter is just food, ya know.

  6. Jax Tolmen says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 9:39 am

    The question I’m sure everyone will be asking is; why was he released on bail? Why was not more attention paid to a notable hate preacher in our midst who is being prosecuted for heinous crimes and has a litany of charges against him?
    The most disturbing part is footage the News networks have of him is that he can be seen preaching to a sizable crowd at a mosque. What mosque was that, and what investigations are being launched regarding that mosque now?

    • pumbar says

      Dec 15, 2014 at 11:19 pm

      None I’d imagine.

  7. maqabim says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 9:41 am

    Of course this has nothing to do with islam – he has simply confused the ISIS flag with the pepperoni pizza he is demanding for lunch. No, wait…

  8. mortimer says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 9:59 am

    Acts of terrorism should result in exile to a Devil’s Island-style penal colony.

    Such penal colonies could be shared in common among NATO countries. All jihadists could be dropped there with no hope of parole.

  9. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 10:07 am

    There is no operational reason for NSW police to continue to ask for the name to be withheld any longer.

    Yeah, but there is an operational reason for them to figure out what the black flag symbolizes. If Oz is gonna continue importing Moslems, and they are going to continue, then the cops need to bone up on their Islam.

  10. Trend Prophet says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 10:44 am

    He would be too dumb to have a bomb on him + security services would have had him on their radar as everyone in the counterjihad in Australia knows of this guy. Really the ADL should have found out where he lived and he should have had a long ride to the countryside 12 months ago. If he recently converted then I doubt he has had time to make acquaintances and be trusted by other Sunni nutters. It angers me that thanks to incompetent government workers and politicians we are going to have to do some nast stuff over the next 30 years and our children will have to fight a totally unnecessary war. I remember Australia in the 70s before all these scum from the middle east and other backward cultures turned up.

  11. Trend Prophet says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 10:47 am

    Switching from Shia to Sunni but clearly had cultural problems before then. He arrived in 1996. I wonder how many of the 50,000 that came in over the past few years from middle eastern dumps will do something similar in 2030?

  12. Bika says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 11:34 am

    Did Barack Obama condemn the Sydney police yet for “acting stupidly”?

    I find it hard to hate people that I don’t even know, but that ISIS scum makes it easy.

    But, the problem is – Barack Obama is in over his head.

    Obama has sat on his hands while ISIS took over Iraq and the middle east. He is a fool domestically and internationally. Obama has ruined our country.

    You pick a fight with Russia over an area which is part of their near abroad.

    You ruined health insurance. My health insurance is up to $450/month from just $200/month. My car insurance is currently only $25/month (from Insurance Panda) and renter’s only $15/month (from Eagle)…both private enterprise… but who knows when Obama will try to step in and socialize that?

    With everything Obama touched in shambles, Barry needs a new job. You mean to tell me our troops are supposed to go re-train the Iraqi soldiers who shed their uniforms and ran? Again? Couldn’t 5.6 billion be used for something more useful in our own country? The guy needs to step down before he is impeached.

  13. arthur brede says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 11:44 am

    Flake: mentally haywire, just the job for the terrorist groomers who trawl the loony-bins and deadbeats for patsies to do their filthy work for them. He’s just a turd picked up on the street – the problem is to find the filth that threw it. We know what the dog is: Islam.

    Maybe an immigration filter to weed out the mentally challenged? The only problem there is that the definition includes the whole obsessive-compulsive disorder that is Mohandism.. Back to square one.

    Very old, but worth revisiting: http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/lark.asp

  14. gp says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 12:50 am

    That self proclaimed sheikh bastard did not come to assimilate into the Australian culture as a poor political refugee. No, this Iranian refugee came to his host country seeking political asylum, but in actuality he came to game and milk the system, like so many others! He had no love nor loyalty for his adopted country nor the Australian people. This murderous bastard did however have an abundance of hatred and evil in his heart, probably from his following of the satanic verses.

  15. DaveL says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 1:17 am

    Thoughts on the Siege in Sydney:

    A lot has been made of Man Horin Monis’s mental state in the media today. I honestly believe that he was not a particularly unstable man, or a man that was having difficulties, either in his personal life, or with his mental well being. Put simply, I believe he is nothing but evil. A man with such a loathing for everything but his own self interest that he had no compunction in unleashing the foulness within his soul upon everybody else…

    Let us recap about Man Horin Monis:

    He escaped Iran in 1996, gained refugee status and immediately set about fabricating some grandiose story about his background and who he was. A Cleric, A Sheik, a practitioner of arcane arts and diviner of the astrological.

    Fast forward a few years, and he is fronting court for sending the families of deceased service men despicable tirades in letter form, labelling their sons as murderers and filthy pigs. He and his Partner were both given lengthy community service orders.

    A couple of Years later he becomes an accessory in his estranged wife’s murder, along with his new partner, Amirzh Droudis after a particularly acrimonious split and custody battle. His ex wife was stabbed and set alight at the bottom of a stairwell. Monis and his partner were both given bail in this matter, due to what the prosecution called a weak case. It should be noted that during this time, Monis was incarcerated for a period of 12 weeks as the pre trial proceedings commenced, during which time he vigourously complained about his treatment, stating that he had been “tortured” by being made to stand for long periods and having excrement thrown at him.

    The whole time this was going on, Monis was facing upwards of 50 charges of sexual assault going back several years and involving a multitude of young girls, who were duped into believing he was some sort of spiritual advisor and practitioner of magic, hiding the assaults under the guise of it being good for their spiritual welfare.

    This “Man” is not unstable, I do not think he is even particularly religious or spiritual, if anything he almost fits the classic behavioural patterns of a common sociopath. He has no conscience, no guilt construct within his super ego and has no qualms about hurting or killing others to receive gratification.

    He should never have been granted bail. He should never have seen another day free in this country. He should have either been deported back to Iran or placed in the deepest, darkest, nastiest hole we could find, never to see the light again.

    Because of a weak judicial system and the fawning supplication of the Left towards the great god multiculturalism, this man took two innocent lives, irrevocably scarred the survivors and brought a city to its knees for nothing more than some deluded sense of outrage.

  16. Eva says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 2:21 am

    I live in Australia. I feel unnerved that someone with such a violent history of offences was allowed out on bail. I remember seeing his picture in the paper when there were protests about the security raids a couple of months ago. It gave me the heebie jeebies to know someone like him was in my beloved country.
    I’m an immigrant too. I love Australia. The Australians are generous and welcoming and accepting people. I also love it here because I am far away from the religion of peace and its death cult.
    Bleeding heart liberals call for an end to Australia’s asylum seeker policies and start campaigns like #iwillsitbyyou. Very touching but I live in the real world.
    The gunman was an asylum seeker who had claimed political asylum. Australia gave him a house to stay in and money to spend. And he repayed Australia with a long list of crimes, sexual assaults and possibly even murder.
    It really irks me that the minute something bad happens in the name of the religion of peace, people start talking about islamophobia.
    It really isn’t an irrational fear if they are really trying to kill you. And yes I understand that not all muslims are like that. But for once, when I see stories like this on the news, I would like to be wrong about who did it.
    How many lone wolves do you need to see before you realise they are all part of the same pack.
    P.S: I saw a screenshot on new.com.au with the flag of shahada on the window and the caption – police do not have any idea on the motives of this gunman. Perhaps someone in the news team had a sense of humour.

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