“Despite it being linked again and again to young jihadi warriors from Melbourne, it keeps a reputation as a ‘moderate’ Islamic centre.”
Why?
“The Islamic Centre in Melbourne linked to Christmas terror plot,” by Chris Johnston, The Age, December 24, 2016 (thanks to Rod):
From their own social media posts, it is clear that several of the young Melbourne men accused of plotting a Christmas Day terror attack have spent time at a place called the Hume Islamic Youth Centre in Coolaroo.
Despite it being linked again and again to young jihadi warriors from Melbourne, it keeps a reputation as a ‘moderate’ Islamic centre, primarily a place for young Muslims from the northern suburbs to meet informally. It has a gym, table tennis and pool tables, a boxing ring, a cafe and a shop. Next door in a shopping centre is another gym; nearby is Paradise Hijabs and Imran’s Warehouse, a discount store.
Speaking from the site of a potential terrorist attack on Saturday, the Victorian Police Chief Commissioner, the Victorian Premier and the Lord Mayor of Melbourne urged residents and visitors to use the city as normal.
Today the centre ran classes for kids, with the teachers coming from Tanzeel, a company offering Koran tutoring in Melbourne and Sydney as well as Malaysia, Canada and South Africa. On Christmas Day the centre will hold Koran classes for young women.
“This Qur’an Program is our attempt at serving the Book of Allah,” Tanzeel’s website reads, “such that we may assist our students in developing a relationship with the Qur’an that is based on correct and proper recitation and an appreciation of the magnanimity and beauty of that which they read.”
So the centre is not a place where young Muslims would as a matter of course hear firebrand clerics advocating violence against the West. But authorities believe it is a central focal point of the Melbourne community, and they know it is watched over by Sheikh Mohammed Omran, a veteran and very senior leader of Australia’s Islamic fundamentalists.
He is the highest ranked cleric in the country for the Salafi movement – Salafi being a more conservative strand of Sunni Islam, advocating a return to older and more purist traditions. Sheikh Omran also heads a Sydney Islamic Centre, ASWJ.
Hardcore preachers Musa Cerantonio and Junaid Thorne, who have had their passports revoked by the federal government, have both given talks at Omran’s centres. His Brunswick mosque attracted 18 devotees who were later convicted in Victoria and New South Wales by Operation Pendennis, Australia’s largest counter-terrorism sting.
Some of those, including men known to have attended the Hume Centre, were accused of being a part of a terrorism cell led by Abdul Nacer Benbrika (aka Abu Bakr), who was jailed for 15 years in 2009….

somehistory says
So will the authorities close it? Not likely.
mortimer says
This is WAR ON CHRISTMAS and a WAR ON CHRISTMAS.
THIS IS CHRISTMAS GENOCIDE.
Saleem Smith says
The Islamic Centre in Melbourne, Australia and Islamic Centres throughout the world essentially teach two things. The infallibility of the Quran, and that Muslims are to emulate the words and deeds of Muhammad the prophet of Islam found contained within the Sunnah.
Islamic Sharia law, with its allowances for wife beating, pedophilia, the killing of apostates and blasphemers etc. are all derived directly from the Quran and Muhammad’s Sunnah.
Unfortunately, the more thoroughly a Muslim emulates Muhammad’s behavior the more evil they must inevitably become.
We ex-Muslims know that Muslim believers are diligently obedient to the words of Muhammad the prophet of Islam and attempt to follow his example in every detail.
The Quran itself says that Muhammad’s example is a good example to follow. Unfortunately Muhammad was a duplicitous psychotic killer so more jihad terrorism is surely on the way.
Quran 033:021:
‘There is a good example in God’s apostle for those of you who look to God and the Last Day and remember God always.’
Here is a recent statement from a group of Bangladeshi apostates living in the UK explaining the reasons why they have abandoned Islam:
“One who claims to be a messenger of God is expected to live a saintly life. He must not be given to lust, he must not be a sexual pervert, and he must not be a rapist, a highway robber, a war criminal, a mass murderer or an assassin. One who claims to be a messenger of God must have a superior character. He must stand above the vices of the people of his time. Yet Muhammad’s life is that of a gangster godfather. He raided merchant caravans, looted innocent people, massacred entire male populations and enslaved the women and children. He raped the women captured in war after killing their husbands and told his followers that it is okay to have sex with their captives (Qur’an 33:50). He assassinated those who criticized him and executed them when he came to power and became de facto despot of Arabia. Muhammad was bereft of human compassion. He was an obsessed man with his dreams of grandiosity and could not forgive those who stood in his way…
The statement continues,
Muhammad was a narcissist, like Hitler, Saddam or Stalin. He was astute and knew how to manipulate people, but his emotional intelligence was less evolved than that of a 6-year-old child. He simply could not feel the pain of others. He brutally massacred thousands of innocent people and pillaged their wealth. His ambitions were big and as a narcissist he honestly believed he is entitled to do as he pleased and commit all sorts of crimes and his evil deeds are justified.”
http://www.faithfreedom.org/
Lia Wissing says
‘Serving the Book of Allah’; ‘developing a relationship with the Qur’an’; ‘based on correct and proper recitation’; ‘appreciation of the magnanimity and beauty of that which they read’ … No word about a personal relationship with a personal God who cares for each person individually? Doesn’t the moongod do this?
Susette says
I noticed the “recitations” too…that’s AKA cult-like brainwashing. Their personal relationship is with Satan.
Ross Lloyd says
Don’t worry, most media orgs will bury that information and look for a story involving some “far right” nut saying mean words to a girl in a hijab somewhere, even if they have to make it up…
Freija says
Indeed! Main Stream Media are the inventors of so called “fake news”. They are the people who are totally brainwashed with the Cultural Marxist Illusion and think it’s their duty to brainwash the rest of us.
A Harris USA says
Ross, you are so right!! The media is to busy whining about Trump!! They never whine about the horror that these pig savages plan, do, and plot against us EACH AND EVERY DAY!!! NO shock here!! Where are the tough Aussie men?? Hiding in the Outback, ?? Get your Trump on Australia, and do it now!! Time is running out.. stop importing the savages, and throw the rest out… Close the Islamic Centers, and put your foot down… NOT our country, NOT our people, and NOT going to be victims or let our children become targets for these pigs!!! And for the left, let them move to Syria,, and any other Muslim country.. ASAP!!
eur says
Islamic Centre in Melbourne….. WTF?
gravenimage says
They are all over Australia now, I’m afraid.
Tom says
Yes, and Australia has a very hard line gun control policy as well. This means non muslims cannot fight back against the hoards of murderous muslims.
Damocles Junior says
I give full credit to our state and federal police forces for taking a very tough stand against Islam, there is not too much PC. (That is my personal observation)
As for Islamic Centres, Islamic Welfare Centres,Islamic dress and Mosques, yes, this is Australia and I find them all TOTALLY OFFENSIVE. The very sight of any of these almost makes my blood boil!
And then every night on the TV news we see the ongoing litany of Muslim related crime both overseas and here in Australia and around the world I almost despair, are we, particularly our leaders just so blind that they we can not see.
It has been Christmas day here in Australia, celebrated by most of us, good crowd in the Melbourne Cathedral that was going to be targeted by Muslims here in Oz. (That scum are now under arrest)
Happy Christmas to all readers of this site and may there NOT be a mosque or Muslim in sight wherever you are.
Charles of Perth says
We are gone. Just like European surrender monkeys. Unless we are brave enough to deal with the violent mental disease that Islam fosters – we will not be safe from their evil. So we have to destroy the threat to Australian existence….by banning Islam. Banning it forever – as it has done no one any good…. By making ownership of the Koran a capital act – the ‘religion’ dies or goes deeply underground…..And then – shipping them out….With enough money, financialliy it can come from welfare savings, to get them established into their home culture – their preferred sandpit. Where allah knows best, and their fake profit – will forever continue to lead them to the sewage of humanity. And no one will care. They had their chance….Game over. Time to pick up their marbles and go home……Australia can do far better with other ethnic and religious groups…Successful ones….
davej says
Any class, center or school that reinforces the words of the Quran is endorsing jihad, period. One contains the other and they are inseparable.
This evil book should be banned, at least until someone produces a version without the incitements to hate, the lists of who to hate and the instructions to deceive and murder all non-Muslims. Of course it would be a very thin volume after that.
somehistory says
“Cultural Centers”…a big thing in the U.S., that claim not-for-profit status, get grants and other funds. That is one big reason they build their barracks along with a *cultural center*…so they can apply for money…which funds their world-wide warfare.
mortimer says
Islam is a supremacist political movement. Without understanding that, there is no hope we can deal with it.
The counterjihad now has hope that a US president has appointed several cabinet secretaries who GET IT.
Only a minority of Muslims are not supremacists. This means that the majority of Muslims are not assimilable and will remain outside the fold of pluralism and liberal democracy. They will quietly support jihad and subterfuge against Western governments. Most Muslims will be a kind of counter-democratic group within Western societies.
Angemon says
No, that’s exactly what they would hear from reading the quran – attack the unbelievers on the grounds of their religion.
Salome says
Paradise Hijabs? Must go there to see which one suits me.
Susette says
There is no paradise in wearing a hijab! Look at the people in the picture. The niqab-clad species (can’t say if it’s male is female) is downright frightening… a terror if I ever saw one. Needs to be universally banned in the West.
abad says
Another good reason to shut down Islamic centers and mosques. Both are terrorist training centers.
gravenimage says
Australia: Islamic Centre in Melbourne linked to Christmas jihad terror plot
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Shut it down, deport the Imam if he is a foreigner, and investigate those Muslims frequenting the place.
nick says
The tide is turning in Australia. We have had enough of our resources being stretched to accomodate 2% of our population. Our main political parties are facing decimation at the next federal election.
Peggy says
I haven’t voted for them in the last election and certainly won’t in the next but enough people do.
Minor parties don’t have enough representatives to challenge in all electorates for the lower house so it will be either Labor or Liberal victory.
We can hope that the senate has enough of patriots elected to keep them in check.
I wish Cory Bernardi would form his own party and ask for some minor ones to merge with it.
gravenimage says
I hope you are right, Nick.
marie says
I would suggest our governments knew exactly what evil they have and are still importing! They want to make us 3rd world and to destroy our democracy.
We are actually forced to fund their experiment with our hard working tax payers
money…this is ‘FORCED DISTRIBUTION’ of our citizens money!
We must vote this socialist NWO government out of office!
TassieR says
«would suggest our governments knew exactly what evil they have and are still importing” – but they DO know it exactly! Their words may sound silly or naïve, but their murderous deeds are neither. Take Duncan Lewis (director-general of ASIO, an Australian equivalent of the CIA) for example: “I don’t buy the notion that the issue of Islamic extremism is in some way fostered or sponsored or supported by the Muslim religion”. See? The taxpayers may give for their security any millions, but the guy just doesn’t buy it, whatever Qu’ran says. Some buyers!
Peggy says
I’ve fully believed that for quite a while now.
There is no way that all western governments would have the same policies at the same time by accident.
This must have been planned some time ago and then put in practice. It might go back as far as the first Iraq war. Destabilise ME and flood the west with savages who are going to change our way of life. If Hillary won the US, as the largest and most powerful military, would ensure that the globalists have won. Now with Trump taking office soon and people finally waking up our treacherous governments won’t have the backing they need.
Tony Abbott had the right idea but he had to go because of it.
Susette says
Why would Western governments want to plan a “decivilization” and change our freedom-loving way of life??? While it never made sense to me when “W” immediately proclaimed islam as a religion of peace after 9/11, I can’t accept that any democracy would want/invite these islamic savages in our midst. Yet, they have excused their brutal behaviors (mass rapes, attacks, misogyny, oppression, etc.) and allowed their unconscionable practices to flourish in the West (hijabs, niqabs, islamic schools, mosques, no-go zones, honor killings, etc., etc.) It just doesn’t make any sense…
Charles of Perth says
Islam is a violent and highly discriminatory political ideology – with a murderous religious component – whose bigotry is unmatched – even by the Nazis. It should be totally banned from every civilised country. Including of course – Australia. But our politicians are weak cowards, who would never have the fortitude to deal with anything beyond their bickering with each other. They did manage to break up this mass terrorism threat. But eventually one plot will get thru them – and kill many Australians. Can hardly wait to see Geert Wilders publish a photo of the slobbering fool, Malcolm Fraser – with blood on his hands.
After the religion of death has killed many Australians – which is only a matter of time. Thanks to the weakness of the Labor and Liberal parties – who betray and sell Australia as often as they can. You can bet One Nation will win the next federal election….and the planes and boats will be full of Muslims – leaving. Forever. They can take their medieval views and lifestyles with them to some sandpit on the other side of the planet. And slaughter each other – which seems to be their favourite hobby.
No Fear says
Was that in Auburn NSW?
Truth Hurts says
There are no “good” Muslims.
If you follow the evil book called the “Koran,”
then you are complicit in encouraging terrorism.
Ban the Koran world-wide and those that follow it.
It teaches that it is ok to rape, disfigure, enslave, lie, and kill those that do not conform or believe in Islam.
This cannot be tolerated in a free, safe, or civilized world.