He is likely to be released in only six years, in 2022. What will be done between now and 2022 to disabuse him of his jihadi beliefs? Why, nothing. Nothing at all. Any endeavor of that kind would be “Islamophobic.” Sevdet Besim is likely to come out of prison even more fanatically committed to jihad than he was when he was plotting to behead a police officer.
“Sevdet Besim, 19, gets 10 years’ jail for plot to behead police officer,” by Neelima Choahan, Adam Cooper and Nick Miller, The Age, September 5, 2016 (thanks to Graeme):
An Australian teenager who admitted plotting to behead a police officer during the 2015 Anzac Day parade has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Sevdet Ramadan Besim, 19, had pleaded guilty to planning a terrorist act.
In the Victorian Supreme Court, Justice Michael Croucher said he was not fully satisfied the teenager had renounced radical beliefs, but had shown some prospects of rehabilitation.
Justice Croucher said that had Besim not pleaded guilty, he would have sentenced him to 15 years.
He said the teenager had also shown respect to the court, and had the support of a tight-knit family.
Justice Croucher set a non-parole period of 7½ years. Besim is deemed to have already served 507 days in custody. That time will be included in his sentence, so he could be released some time in 2022.
Besim was clean shaven and dressed in a dark suit for his court appearance. His family and friends called out “love you” and “see you soon” from the public gallery as Besim left the court.
Besim blew then a kiss as he was escorted away by police.
Justice Croucher said Besim’s plans to kill a law enforcement officer by “deliberating crashing into him with a car and then to behead him” was “unfathomable” to the vast majority of the community.
He told the court that Besim had wanted to commit the “putrid act” in name of violent jihad to, in Besim’s words “make sure the dogs remember this as well as their fallen heroes”.
Besim was communicating with another young would-be terrorist in the United Kingdom, sending him messages from his bedroom in his parents’ house in Hallam on what he thought was a secure telegram messaging device.
Justice Croucher said they discussed the different ways in which the “unspeakable crime” might be committed as if talking about “football tactics”.
Justice Croucher said Besim’s mind had been “corrupted” by “lunatic clerics”. He was also influenced by the death of his friend Numan Haider who was shot dead by police in 2014 after he stabbed them outside the Endeavour Hills police station….
Police say that on March 17, 2015, Besim told the boy: “all I wanna say is that insha’Allah im ready to fight these dogs on there doorstep.
“I’d love to take out some cops,” Besim said, according to court documents.
“I was gonna meet with them then take some heads ahaha.
“The more equipment im provided with the better but ill still go with jst a knife in my hand. I want to be among those Allah laughs at …”
Besim pleaded guilty in June to one count of doing an act in preparation or planning for a terrorist act, which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
Besim, from Hallam, has been in custody since April 18 last year, when 200 heavily armed officers swooped on the city’s south-east, arresting five teenagers and seizing knives and swords.
In near-simultaneous raids in the near-west of England the 14-year-old was also arrested,
Further details of the Anzac Day plot were revealed at Manchester Crown Court in England where the boy was on trial last year.
The teenager, from Blackburn, in Lancashire, was sentenced to life in jail, with a minimum, five-year term.
The court heard that he was in contact with an Australian IS propagandist and recruiter “Abu Kambozz”, also known as al-Cambodi who at the time was operating out of Raqqa in Syria.
Al-Cambodi told the boy about a “brother in Australia who wished to carry out a terrorist attack but needed a guide or mentor”, the court heard.
The boy volunteered to act as this man’s guide. The man, who appears in evidence tendered to the court under the pseudonym “Illyas”, was identified as Sevdet Besim.
At an earlier hearing, it was revealed that Besim had drafted a martyrdom note for his family in the hours before his arrest….

Baucent says
What ethnic group is this guy from ; Chechen?
mortimer says
Ethnic Albanian Muslim from Macedonian. The journalist was afraid to called ‘a racist’. But Mother Theresa was also an ethnic Albanian from Macedonia.
Sibila says
But Mother Teresa was a Catholic Albanian, not Muslim Albanian.
Moses says
Kill kill kill that’s what ISLAM only knows.
Crusades Were Right! says
Not true! It also knows how to enslave, persecute, rob and rape. So there!
Praeceptor Maximus says
Ten years? Is that all? He should be locked up for life.
mortimer says
Mother Theresa, an Albanian, was canonized. Sevdet Besim, an Albanian, was sent to prison. The difference? Their religion.
The religion of peace was not mentioned. The most important detail was not mentioned. Is this what our journalists have come to?
Kay says
That’s right. I read it knowing he was Muslim but not knowing where he was born, so I missed that his religious affiliation is not mentioned in the actual article.
It creeps me out that Mohammedens also use the word “martyr” but with such a different meaning than Christians use it. Even in their use of the word, they cast themselves as victims when they attack.
Kay says
And what is being done to stop these lunatic clerics?
dumbledoresarmy says
From the article – He “had the support of a tight-knit family”.
Tight-knit family, eh? So… one must assume they knew what he was up to, and approved.
The Channel 9 report on the sentencing says that this young would-be jihad mass murderer had a “large number of supporters in attendance” whilst in court.
I wonder whether all the women were wearing Gang Colours – i.e. Hijab or other forms of Islamic coverup? I wonder whether all the men were bearded with zebibahs?
And the same Channel 9 report includes this bit of fluff that seems to turn up with monotonous regularity just after someone has been caught plotting, attempting, or carrying out jihadist mass murder – ““The references tendered on the plea speak of a quiet, kind and considerate boy who has behaved completely out of character. ”
Yeah, they’re always “quiet, kind, and considerate” (except for those who are supposedly wild and non-devout party animals, like the 9/11 hijackers who got drunk in bars and visited strip clubs, just before Going Jihad, big-time).
Like the allahu-akbar murderer Smail [= Ismail] Ayad in Home Hill, who was – so I read in one report – dubbed ‘Smiles’ and “Smiley” by his clueless and naive Infidel co-workers on the backpacker working-holiday circuit. He was apparently-secularised and he smiled and smiled and smiled… and then he exploded in murderous jihad and his infidel victims were utterly taken by surprise. Exactly as intended. “We grin at some people, though our hearts hate them”… so says a notorious Hadith about Islamic deception.
When, when, when will our lawyers, jurors and our clueless fellow citizens get it through their heads that “a man may smile, and smile, and smile, and be a villain”? That there is such a thing as “the smiler with the knife under the cloak”? Chaucer and Shakespeare were writing about the smiling assassins one may encounter amongst evil *non-Muslims*; but the concept *must* be borne in mind at all times by non-Muslims dealing with Muslims.
Henry Buxton says
Good to see you back, DDA. I have missed you. Keep it up.
Michael Copeland says
Memo to Justice Croucher:
The imams who influenced Besim are not “lunatic clerics”.
They taught him “exactly what this book says” (Allen West re the Koran).
Angry Aussie says
This lunatic and his friends planned to paint a kangaroo in ISIS colours, pack her pouch full of explosives, and send her into a crowd. That was alongside the plan to run over a cop and behead the cop in public. Despite him continually drawing ISIS flags while incarcerated, the judge believes he has great prospects of rehabilitation because he is now seeing a moderate Imam. The government will now invest a lot of $ on a useless deradicalisation program for him. If only he had tried to carry out the plot and been shot dead. There would have been great savings for taxpayers.
Anne Smith says
It is time to birng back the death penalty for treason and terrorism.
Angemon says
This makes no sense whatsoever.
Mirren10 says
He *might* be referring to these hadiths;
“Allah laughs about two men who kill each other but both enter paradise18.” (Agreed upon it by al-Bukhari and Muslim)
And the hadith:
“Allah marvels about the despair of His creatures (‘ibad), while the changing of their situation from bad to good is very near, He looks at you, and you are very desperate, so He keeps laughing, because He knows that your relief is very close.” (Its isnad is good; reported by AhmadIbn Hanbal and others)
Angemon says
Yeah, could be.
Jay Boo says
10 years?
That is more years than little 9 year old Aisha’s childhood before Muhammad waggled his (Proc Finger / Child Virgin Didler) Islamic Salute at her.
JMB says
10 years is a pretty stiff sentence by Australian standards. He made 2 mistakes only to get this sentence; 1; He threatened a policeman, the law looks after it’s own in this country. 2; He threatened ANZAC Day celebrations, this tradition is sacred in Australia. Other than that I feel his Jihad connection would have got him little more than a slap on the wrist.
But be assured, he is going to get de-radicalisation training while in prison.
JMB says
PS. He should have got at least 30 years or life, this would send a real message out to potential terrorists who want to bring their ways to our generally peace loving nation.
overman says
This is what the ‘One Finger Salute’ means that you see with all these jihadi scumbags:
“The salute has become common in Islamic State (Isis) propaganda, both from the battlefield and in the final minutes before a shaheed – or martyr – embarks on a suicide bombing. But what does the now ubiquitous hand signal mean?
The single raised index finger has so far escaped analysis, likely due to the fact that those making the gesture have often had a severed head in their other hand, but refers to the first half of the shahada, the affirmation of Muslim faith that his recited before every prayer.
Abu Ali al-Shishani ISIS Lebanon
Anas Sharkas, aka Abu Ali al-Shishani,making “the one” salute in a video from Lebanon.YouTube
It is the passage that so defines the Muslim faith: “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his Prophet.”
“The one” was actually a recognised gesture by Muslims long before IS and signified the tawhid, the belief in the oneness of God. It would traditionally be used during prayer or sermons.
“The shahada is the definitive Muslim doctrine. It is like the trinity for Christians. But it has been taken over by the Islamic State,” said Veryan Khan, editorial director at TRAC Terrorism, which monitors IS propaganda.
The salute was used early on in the days of IS and even by leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi during his first speech at Friday prayers after the takeover of Mosul.
It also has a solid jihadi pedigree, said Rita Katz, director of SITE Intelligence Group.
“The gesture has been used by jihadis for years, including high profile ones like Osama bin Laden. Within the jihadi context, the raised index finger takes on political meaning as well, widely rejecting any form of government not under Shariah law,” she said.
Since then, it is not only used by fighters and supporters of IS but by those celebrating weddings in IS-held areas.
Like the Nazi salute or the raised fist, the gesture has become an integral part of IS propaganda, particularly among the young. Videos from IS-held areas frequently show small children saluting with a single finger in unison while shouting IS propaganda.
“It so much reminds of the sieg heil [Nazi salute] when you see the little kids do it simultaneously,” said Khan.”.
Australia is crazy says
Sevdet Bessim was supported in court by a small army of followers. In prison he will have Halal certified food and access to Islamist propaganda. Islamist psychologist and Hizb ut-Tahrir supporter Hanan Dover has become the court-appointed counsellor in cases such as these, ensuring radicalised youth stay radicalised.
Bob says
I remember when the upraised index finger was used by evangelical Christians, but that was perhaps fifty years ago before the sign was taken over and abused by hell-bound muslims!!
Kay says
Right.
Seems they’re taking over and abusing many things, including words, including this sign.
steve says
Let’s hope a fellow prisoner sends the animal to Islamic heaven ..
Walter Sieruk says
Those who scheme murder police officers are blatant villains. The Bible teaches that a murderer “will not inherit the kingdom of God. “ Galatians 5:21. Furthermore, in the Bible in Romans 13: 1, 2 it is written “Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore, whoever resists the authority resist resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.” [N.K.J.V.] In addition to all this, in verses 3 and 4 in this same chapter of the Epistle of Romans, with emphasis on verse 4 it actually refers to governmental law enforcement officers as a type of “ministers of God” Therefore, it stand, to reason that scheming to murdering police officers is really scheming murdering ministers of God. How evil, how heinously wicked, how demonic, how monstrous. What and affront to all that is decent, good and right.
overman says
Apparently, an lslamic State magazine is calling for ‘Lone Wolf’ attacks in Australia:
‘Lone Wolf’ or as the CIA call it – Lone Extremism.
ls not a social phenomena; it’s a tactic called ‘Leaderless Resistance’. The Leaders provide inspiration, but also encourage hidden cells [individuals] to act independently.
http://www.news.com.au/national/new-islamic-state-magazine-encourages-lone-wolves-to-kill-australians/news-story/c9460ccd304a7cafc598a09e13e11639
“A FRIGHTENING new Islamic State magazine has encouraged lone wolves to attack and kill Australians in public acts of terror.
“Kill them on the streets of Brunswick, Broadmeadows, Bankstown, and Bondi. Kill them at the MCG, the SCG, the Opera House, and even in their backyards,” an article published on Monday in the new English-language online periodical urged.
“Stab them, shoot them, poison them, and run them down with your vehicles.
“Kill them wherever you find them until the hollowness of their arrogance is filled with terror and they find themselves on their knees with their backs broken under the weight of regret for having waged a war against the believers, and by Allah’s will, and then through your sacrifices, this Ummah [community of Muslims] will be victorious.”