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Australia: Muslim bookstore owner finances jihad in Syria; his “faith drove him” to do it

Nov 3, 2016 7:30 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

In a statement to the court, Succarieh said as a young Muslim man he felt targeted by authorities, particularly after his brother’s death.

Note the same victimology narrative we have seen in so many cases: a jihadi claims that he was unjustifiably targeted by authorities deemed to an enemy to the jihad cause. Omar Succarieh’s younger brother, Ahmed, blew himself up in a jihad martyrdom suicide attack after leaving Australia five months earlier, and it emerged in court proceedings that “faith drove him [Succarieh] to help those trying to establish a state governed by Islamic law in Syria”. It is rare to see a frank admission of how the Islamic faith serves as a powerful impetus in the jihadist drive to conquer the “house of war”.

Note also that Justice Atkinson stated that “the Muslim community is harmed by your offences because of the fear of them that it might engender in people thinking that you represent the Muslim community, which you most certainly don’t”. While Succarieh obviously does not represent every member of the Muslim community, normative Islam as seen in Islamic states still supports practices that are contrary to human rights (such as the oppression of women, beheadings, the amputation of hands, and the murder of gays and apostates) and democratic institutions; while mainstream mosques on Western soil as well as mainstream Islamic groups are frequently linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and/or the propagation of jihadist messages.

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“Islamic bookshop owner jailed for financing Syrian fight”, New Daily, November 2, 2016:

A Queensland Islamic bookstore owner has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail for sending money overseas to his brother fighting against the Assad regime in Syria.

Omar Succarieh, 33, last month pleaded guilty to four foreign incursion charges after the Commonwealth Department of Public Prosecutions dropped more serious terror-related offences against him.

The Australian-born Succarieh, who has been in custody since he was arrested in a series of counter-terrorism raids in September 2014, was sentenced in the Brisbane Supreme Court on Wednesday.

He was given a non-parole period of three years, meaning he will be eligible for release in late 2017.

Justice Roslyn Atkinson said there was no suggestion Succarieh had encouraged or considered terrorist activity in Australia but his actions had damaged the social cohesion of the community.

“The Muslim community is harmed by your offences because of the fear of them that it might engender in people thinking that you represent the Muslim community, which you most certainly don’t,” Justice Atkinson said.

Succarieh’s younger brother, Ahmed, blew himself up in a suicide attack on September 11, 2013 in the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor after leaving Australia five months earlier.

In a statement to the court, Succarieh said as a young Muslim man he felt targeted by authorities, particularly after his brother’s death.

Covertly recorded conversations taken by Australian Federal Police captured Succarieh’s cryptic conversations with his other brother Abraham, who was in Syria fighting alongside terror group Jabhat al-Nusra.

The pair described cash and quantity in the terms of “sweets” and “kilos” to arrange for Succarieh to send Abraham a total of $US43,700 in early 2014.

Succarieh also gave $7700 to an Australian-born citizen of Albanian descent and Muslim Sunni faith to travel overseas in an alleged attempt to join the fight.

The court heard Succarieh’s faith drove him to help those trying to establish a state governed by Islamic law in Syria.

He also wanted to help his brother, who he believed was in a “life or death” situation.

“I will forever be known as the accused terrorist who owned the bookstore,” Succarieh said.

Justice Atinkson said Succarieh knew what he was doing was illegal because he had been warned by AFP about participating in overseas conflicts when they stopped him at Brisbane Airport on the way to a holiday in Lebanon in August 2013…..

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  1. Angemon says

    Nov 3, 2016 at 10:07 am

    “The Muslim community is harmed by your offences because of the fear of them that it might engender in people thinking that you represent the Muslim community, which you most certainly don’t,” Justice Atkinson said.

    How made her the arbiter and spokesperson of the muslim community?

    • Garry Nosworthy says

      Nov 3, 2016 at 9:21 pm

      You are right Angemon, who made her the arbiter when the reality is the Australian Muslims support jihad and support everything Succarieh was trying to do. They were not harmed by his actions at all and they will continue to support young Muslims quest for violent jihad because that’s what the Koran tells Muslims they should be doing.

  2. Sam says

    Nov 3, 2016 at 10:22 am

    I wonder what the REAL MOTIVE was.

  3. Crusades Were Right! says

    Nov 3, 2016 at 11:20 am

    Since this guy was clearly following clear Islamic teachings to promote Islam, it follows that he most certainly IS representative of the “Muslim community”.

    It is those individuals who DON’T follow the teachings of Islam, but who claim to be Muslims, who are not representative of the “Muslim community”!

  4. Stan Lee says

    Nov 3, 2016 at 11:37 am

    Read Succarieh’s “tale or woe” and the same motivations pop-up with all of these Muslims, and yet democratic nations allowed them into their homelands, believing they were of good-faith. There is no such thing with them,they will not become the citizens they promised to be unless they’ve had a voluntary lobotomy.
    In one case after another, no matter which nation allows them entrance, their natures do not change, no matter how much they lie to secure acceptance to a new homeland. They will always consider themselves part of Islam’s motivation for world conquest.
    Invariably, their Islamic indoctrinations from their formative years overrule whatever good intentions they may have displayed, and what emerges in the final analyises is a full-bred Jihadi waiting for his moment to act upon the instructions of the koran.
    They scoff at those of any other faith but Islam, they will never obey the laws of any nation of the western culture, they carry the deeply embedded dysfunction of shariah above all else.

  5. OMG says

    Nov 3, 2016 at 4:36 pm

    Happy to drive him to the airport for free and wave bye bye and advise him never to return.

    • tom parry says

      Nov 3, 2016 at 5:01 pm

      How about 1 bullet to his head- no need to waste tax dorrars keeping him alive.

    • Anne Smith says

      Nov 4, 2016 at 6:37 am

      Why do all these countries persist in stopping these people from going to fight for ISIS? Let them go – and take a few friends with them – they serve no purpose in the host country and with a fair wind will be quickly wiped out in the Middle east,. courtesy of Putin and his no nonsense campaign.
      Problem solved.

  6. gravenimage says

    Nov 4, 2016 at 1:43 am

    Australia: Muslim bookstore owner finances jihad in Syria; his “faith drove him” to do it
    ………………………

    Violent Jihad and the funding of violent Jihad–both mainstream Islam.

  7. Turn right at Bass Strait says

    Nov 4, 2016 at 5:55 am

    Sharp looking dude. Cool haircut, cool movie star shades, cool hipster beard, tight pec hugging shirt, Levis.

    You got the wrong man guys, I was just practising my own way of life in a free and democratic society.

    And I want my surfboard back. Sure, I was down at Bondi checking out the waves and
    the chicks in their bikinis. Who doesn’t?

    What for do we need armed guards patrolling beaches? Ridiculous. I wouldn’t harm a
    fly. I’m an Aussie, a real Aussie.

  8. Aussie Infidel says

    Nov 4, 2016 at 8:09 pm

    Justice Atkinson stated that “the Muslim community is harmed by your offences because of the fear of them that it might engender in people thinking that you represent the Muslim community, which you most certainly don’t”.

    Succarieh might not represent all the Muslim community, but he sure as hell represents Islam – their hate-filled and criminal ideology – which seeks to subjugate all other religions and cultures. When Western leaders get it through their politically correct heads, that it is conventional, orthodox Islam – as it is written in the Quran and the other Islamic scriptures – which is the primary motivation for all jihadists, we might begin to make some progress against this supremacist, misogynistic creed.

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