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Buddhist converts to Islam, calls on Muslims to murder Australians

Apr 23, 2015 11:11 am By Robert Spencer

Neil PrakashAbu Khaled al-Cambodi never called for the murder of anyone while he was a Buddhist. When he converted to Islam, everything changed. Muslims in Australia and the U.S. would claim that he doesn’t understand his new, peaceful religion. Why did he get it so drastically wrong? How was he wrongly instructed, and by whom? Why is there an entire territory, larger than Great Britain, ruled by those who misunderstand Islam in the same way? How did this misunderstanding become so widespread?

“Australian IS Militant Calls For Attacks On Civilians,” by Joanna Paraszczuk, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, April 22, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

An Australian citizen who appears in a newly released Islamic State (IS) video has called on Australian Muslims to commit attacks against civilians at home in Australia.

“I send a message to my brothers in Islam in Australia. Now is the time to rise up. Now is the time to wake up… You must start attacking before they attack you. How much [sic] of your sisters have been violated? All I hear on the news in Australia is that this sister was hurt, her hijab [head covering] was ripped off…so I ask you, brothers, when is the time that you are going to rise up and stop them attacking you?” the militant says.

The militant, named in the video as Abu Khaled al-Cambodi, has been identified as 23-year-old Neil Prakash, a Melbourne man of Cambodian and Fijian descent. Prakash is thought to have left Australia for Syria in early 2013 and is believed to have links with at least some of a group of Melbourne men arrested this week on suspicion of plotting terror attacks to take place during Anzac Day, a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand.

In the video, Prakash talks about his “dear brother Numan,” who Australian media reports say is Melbourne teenager Abdul Numan Haider.

Haider was after stabbing two police officers from Australia’s Joint Counterterrorism team outside a Melbourne police station in September.

The video in which Prakash appears is not simply a message calling for violent attacks on Australians. Its propaganda message goes far deeper, and uses Prakash’s story to explain what young, Western men — in this case a convert to Islam — are fighting for when they join IS and why they should join the group.

In the video, Prakash testifies at length about his conversion to IS’s version of Islam. First, he describes his rejection of his previous religion, Buddhism, which he derides as idol worship.

Although the video is intended for propaganda purposes, it also provides insight into how individuals — including those who are new converts to Islam like Prakash — are recruited by IS.

Prakash’s journey to Islam started with an encounter with a “brother,” a Muslim man who came to him and told him that he was “confused” and that he should not follow Buddhism just because his family had done so.

After that encounter, Prakash says he started to think more deeply about religion and Islam.’

On a trip to Cambodia with his family, Prakash says he saw “shirk” — the sin of practicing idolatry — in the form of people praying to “statues.”

Prakash is later filmed standing in front of a destroyed statue. He says that “by the will of Allah, the Islamic State destroyed this idol here in Sham [Syria].”

IS has undertaken a campaign of destroying “idolatrous” statues and artworks, among them priceless works of art from both Syria and Iraq.

Prakash addresses what he calls “idol worshippers,” asking them to “think about what you’re doing, think, like what can this idol benefit me or anything like that.”

When he got back to Australia from Cambodia, Prakash said that he attended lectures on Islam. At the time, Prakash describes himself as feeling “very tired, very fatigued and not wanting to do anything.”

Prakash describes how, as he moved toward Islam, he also began to question other aspects of life. An important element of Prakash’s journey to radicalism seems to be connected to his Cambodian roots and the sense of injustice he felt about the United States’ invasion of eastern Cambodia in mid-1970, during the Vietnam War. Prakash says he felt that Western governments were taking money from citizens to go to war abroad and “take natural resources from other countries” like Cambodia.

Prakash’s journey to Islam also seems to have involved a search for a meaningful community. Describing the day that he declared himself a Muslim, Prakash relates how he experienced “one of the best feelings” he had in his life, because of the “unity of the brothers at the masjid [mosque].”

But that was not enough for Prakash, who began to explore whether there was “more to Islam” than “just praying.”

Eventually, he moved toward “Islam and jihad” by “sacrificing” his material goods in Australia.

It was at this point that an IS recruiter approached Prakash, asking him if he wanted to “come to Dawlah,” using an Arabic word meaning IS or the lands under its control.

The recruiter told Prakash that there were “a lot of brothers from Australia” in IS who wanted to meet him. The recruiter took Prakash to meet IS militants in Syria.

In the final part of the video, Prakash addresses his fellow Australians, calling on them to join IS.

“If anyone were to ask me this three years ago and tell me that I would be living under Shari’a as a Muslim, I would tell them they’re crazy! But look at the mercy of Allah…look what he has planned for me. He can do this for you too,” Prakash says.

“All you have to do is believe,” the Australian militant says, adding that IS has established a state on the lands it controls, with “hospitals and doctors” as well as “children playing in the park.”

“This is the land of life,” Prakash adds of the territory under IS control….

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Filed Under: Australia, converts to Islam, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) Tagged With: Abu Khaled al-Cambodi, Neil Prakash


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  1. Jaladhi says

    Apr 23, 2015 at 11:18 am

    Islam is an inherently vile, murderous religion that’s how!! He is only preaching what his mosque mullah told him to do so. How long the West is going to deny the truth about Islam??

    • Godwin says

      Apr 24, 2015 at 12:54 am

      This guy was infected with a certain virus from the ME in his brain that makes him a violent killer.

  2. Theo says

    Apr 23, 2015 at 11:19 am

    Looks like we have a deeper worrying problem. More and more people convert to islam and then becomes violent with a thirst for killing. The governments should deport all the families whose offspring commits these crimes or any crime for that matter.

  3. cranky.white.woman says

    Apr 23, 2015 at 11:24 am

    “This is the land of life.”

    No, it is the land of fear, misogyny, subjugation, sex slavery, rape, torture, savagery and death. But thanks for playing.

  4. Lee Hicks says

    Apr 23, 2015 at 11:32 am

    Murder, violence, and rebellion against the One True God are three examples of the corrupt fruit of Satan that appears when people convert to Islam. As the most transparent mask that the enemy wears, his nature and actions are rapidly transferred to his new followers.

    Violence and calls for murderous Jihad are all too common in new converts, people who previously had no such inclinations. A tree is known by it’s fruit, and this is true of religious groups, as well as with individuals. The fruit of Islam manifests in such things as pedophilia, murder and violence, hatred (especially of women, children, and all non-Muslims), deception (whether overt or covert), and the choice to mindlessly follow Allah and Mohammad to judgment and destruction.

    Far from being a “religion of peace”, Islam is the most destructive, deceptive, and violent religion on the planet currently, which is why Satan will use it as his vehicle for bringing the Antichrist/Mahdi to power.

  5. boakai ngombu says

    Apr 23, 2015 at 11:45 am

    strange it is that there is not a mention of Muhammad (lately contrived; filled with lusts) in this article

  6. Allan says

    Apr 23, 2015 at 11:52 am

    From Buddha to Mohammed!!!!!

    Look here, upon this picture, and on this,
    The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.
    See, what a grace was seated on this brow;
    Hyperion’s curls; the front of Jove himself;
    An eye like Mars, to threaten and command;
    A station like the herald Mercury
    New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill;
    A combination and a form indeed,
    Where every god did seem to set his seal,
    To give the world assurance of a man:
    This was your husband. Look you now, what follows:
    Here is your husband; like a mildew’d ear,
    Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?
    Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed,
    And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes?

  7. Brian says

    Apr 23, 2015 at 12:03 pm

    This video explains Islam and what that means in less than 10 minutes..

    • Davegreybeard says

      Apr 23, 2015 at 2:54 pm

      Good video, Brian.

  8. nicu says

    Apr 23, 2015 at 1:28 pm

    shame on him ! This man never was a real Buddhist !

    I am ashamed for him !

    • Cicero says

      Apr 23, 2015 at 3:29 pm

      This man is dual heritage. Judging from his name(Prakash) one parent was a Hindu INdian from Fiji. The other from Cambodia. Due to colonial influence there are many hundreds of thousands of Indians living in Foji for the past two hundred years. They are suppressed and discriminated by the Native Fijians who ( claim Fiji for IndigenousFijians alone. Hindus being by nature docile and nonviolent endure their poverty and humiliations stoically until they and their unique culture will be obliterated

      • Peggy says

        Apr 23, 2015 at 8:03 pm

        I don’t agree. I’ve been to Fiji and have spoken with Fijians.
        They don’t like Indians, that’s true, but the Indians are not impoverished in any way or forbidden to practice their religion. Most shop keepers are Indian and that is one of the reasons native Fijians are upset. I am not saying that they are right but only that Indians are not persecuted but are envied. From what the Fijians said they are angry that Indians seem to have the businesses and money. Seems the Fijians are jealous.

        • Cicero says

          Apr 24, 2015 at 2:23 am

          Dear miss Peggy. Thank you for this I formative post.

          You say you have spoken toFijians. Did that include the . Indo- Fijians? You say you have been there. We’re you told of the Army Coup which deposed the democratically elected head of state who was of Indian heritage? Do you know why the Fijian Army took such drastic action? It was because the indigenous Fijians did not want to have such person at the head of their nation- however democratically elected he was

          Also what is the majority religion of the indigenous Fijians? And what was their spiritual traditions and beliefs before they were converted to Chrisyianity?do those original beliefs and way of life still persist in their communities? Or have they been slowly obliterated?

  9. Rinzai says

    Apr 23, 2015 at 2:34 pm

    this tard was as much of a buddhsit as all the leftist european politicians are christian… fake garbage, ripe for the islamic plucking.

  10. Theb Nyip says

    Apr 23, 2015 at 2:40 pm

    Australia stopped illegal immigration via boats – demonstrating lessons that Europe needs to learn.

    It now needs to learn from its own history and show the world how to keep citizenry safe from attack.

    During WW1 the threat of attacks by the enemy on ordinary Australians was reduced because likely enemy supporters were interned soon after the 1st jihadist attack on Australian soil on 1/1/1915.

    In WW2 internment was applied before any homegrown attacks occurred.

    Faced with a multiple node global insurgency backed by state and non-state actors means similar measures are required to protect citizens.

    Stop the threat to citizens – Detect, Detain and Deport these traitors.

    • Davegreybeard says

      Apr 23, 2015 at 3:22 pm

      @Theb Nyip
      “It now needs to learn from its own history and show the world how to keep citizenry safe from attack.”
      “Stop the threat to citizens – Detect, Detain and Deport these traitors.

      Well all that’s just fine, Theb.

      But the very best way to keep the “citizenry” safe, is to have an ARMED CITIZENRY.

      I would suggest you get with your fellow Aussies and work toward “sensible” gun laws. A good one would be concealed carry permits for law abiding citizens of legal age and good character. Start with ex police/military and go from there.

      Good luck, you’ve got a lot of work to do.

  11. gravenimage says

    Apr 23, 2015 at 8:12 pm

    Buddhist converts to Islam, calls on Muslims to murder Australians

    Abu Khaled al-Cambodi
    ………………………………….

    “Al-Cambodi”—at some point civilized Australia gave him or his family from a brutal Communist state, and he repays them by calling for his new Muslim thug buddies to murder them. *Ugh*.

    More:

    “If anyone were to ask me this three years ago and tell me that I would be living under Shari’a as a Muslim, I would tell them they’re crazy! But look at the mercy of Allah…look what he has planned for me. He can do this for you too,” Prakash says.
    ………………………………….

    Yeah—follow the mercy of “Allah” and you will leave vibrant, thriving, civilized society to join a sanguinary hell-hole where women are stoned to death, Christians and Yazidis are used as sex slaves, and journalists and aid workers are beheaded.

    “Allah” can do this to you, too—if you are a vicious moron like this creep.

    More:

    “All you have to do is believe,” the Australian militant says, adding that IS has established a state on the lands it controls, with “hospitals and doctors” as well as “children playing in the park.”
    ………………………………….

    Like you don’t have hospitals and doctors in Australia—and far better ones than you can find in conquered Syria and Iraq. And Australia has lovely parks full of playing children.

    What you *won’t* fine in Australia is *this*:

    “Islamic State children play with severed heads and enjoy crucifixions”

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/islamic-state-children-play-with-severed-heads-and-enjoy-crucifixions

    More:

    “This is the land of life,” Prakash adds of the territory under IS control….
    ………………………………….

    Seems that new “revert” Al-Cambodi still has a lot to learn about this vicious new creed—it is all about death. Only the “filthy Infidels” love life.

  12. Gary says

    Apr 23, 2015 at 8:33 pm

    Are Muslims once again misrepresenting God……?

    “But love your enemies, do good . . . and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil. Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful”

    (Luke 6:35–36)

    ………They seem to be ignoring what Jesus commanded.

    • Davegreybeard says

      Apr 24, 2015 at 4:34 am

      @Gary
      “But love your enemies, do good . . . and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil. Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful”

      Aye, Gary, as a famous man once said:

      “If you have to kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite.”

      Deus Vult

  13. Baucent says

    Apr 24, 2015 at 7:27 am

    A little more on this character’s background would be interesting. There are indigenous “Indians” in Cambodia as well as in Thailand and the rest of SE Asia. Possibly his family fled at the time of the Khmer Rouge, went to Fiji as refugees and later on the Australia.

  14. Mohammed says

    Apr 24, 2015 at 8:09 am

    He feels alienated like a lot of brothers do, how is he supposed to behave when the west has systematically raped Muslim countries. Australians and Kiwi people commemorate ANZAC day, with great pride, but for Muslims in these countries it’s a day of mourning, a disgraceful day. 100 years ago Anzac soldiers invaded our lands and came to murder us, and murder us they did in vast numbers. So western historians change history to suit themselves, the Anzacs weren’t brave they were cowards. In Australia tomorrow 90-95% of Muslims living there will all be in black, mourning for our fallen brothers, why should we put up with this disgraceful commemoration. I know there is a powerful movement amongst the brothers in Sydney, to have ANZAC day banned, God willing it will be in a few years time, it is extremely insulting to us, it should be turned into a national day of shame for Australia and NZ. I know people will tell me to go back to my own country, the usual line. But I was born in Australia, so you can’t. And don’t tell me “if u don’t like it here, go somewhere else” I have as much right to live in Oz as everyone else. Remember it’s the white man who invaded Australia, so white people are immigrants too, Australia was once a Muslim land, and it will be again, in another 100 years or so God willing. The Muslims were here well before white man. Indonesian Muslims came here and built a mosque in the Northern Territory. It was destroyed by white Europeans after they invaded, and all evidence of it covered up, another event changed by western historians, the truth will out, same as America, it was once a Muslim land, even Christopher Columbus stated it, in his diaries. So to Prakash, there was no need for him to leave Oz, the brothers would greatly benefit from your experiences, I don’t mean violence, I mean about the alienation from modern society, many brothers don’t know how to handle it, it should be used to our advantage, the frustration felt can always be channelled to fight the real fight, to remove the politicians from power that enable the brothers to be murdered, arrested, and sent to prison for life, all they’re are guilty of is obeying Allah.
    I feel very sad, but wot makes me feel better is I know I will be in paradise after I die, and most Aussies and Kiwis will be in the hellfire. Especially after tomorrow and their drunken celebrations.
    Peace.

    • Eric says

      Apr 24, 2015 at 1:22 pm

      To follow a religion that teaches paradise for those who murder, rape, pillage, and enslave those who do not agree with a particular stripe of that religion (Islam), and your own death by jihad is the height of delusion.

    • Henry says

      Apr 25, 2015 at 3:12 am

      Mo ham med: You are a deluded ass. I could not be bothered addressing all the nonsense that you have brayed about like the donkey that you are.

  15. Eric says

    Apr 24, 2015 at 1:11 pm

    “But look at the mercy of Allah ….look what he has planned for me. He can do this for you to.” No thanks, I’ll pass on the invite to hell.

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