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“Moderate” imam serving as Australian Defence Force religious adviser turns out to be “extremist”

Jul 3, 2017 10:48 am By Robert Spencer

He opposed a ban on Hizb ut-Tahrir, which openly calls for Sharia rule in Australia, the U.S. and everywhere else it is allowed to operate. He did this before he was appointed a religious adviser to the Australian Defence Force. So who decided that he was a “moderate” and not an “extremist”? It was no doubt simply assumed.

“Muslim imam resigns as Australian Defence Force’s religious adviser after senator reveals the shiekh signed a petition supporting Islamist extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir,” by Stephen Johnson, Daily Mail Australia, July 3, 2017:

A Muslim imam has resigned as a taxpayer-funded Australian Defence Force religious adviser after a senator told parliament he had signed a petition in favour of Islamist extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir.

Sheikh Mohamadu Nawas Saleem quit his $717-a-day post last month, only days after Australian Conservatives Senator Cory Bernardi questioned how the government could justify employing someone who opposed democracy.

Former Iraq war veteran Bernard Gaynor, who launched a petition calling for Sheikh Saleem’s removal as Defence imam, said the government was embarrassed.

‘The government’s been very quiet about the resignation,’ he told Daily Mail Australia on Sunday.

‘They’ve been running politically correct games with in the Defence Force and they’re embarrassed by the scrutiny.’

Defence Personnel Minister Dan Tehan announced late last month Sheikh Saleem had resigned from the Religious Advisory Committee to the Services, which advises the Australian Defence Force.

His spokesman declined to detail the circumstances of the resignation in the wake of Liberal defector Senator Bernardi’s speech to parliament.

Mr Tehan’s short-lived predecessor Stuart Robert appointed Sheikh Saleem in June 2015 to his $717 a day role as a religious adviser.

Four months earlier, in February 2015, Sheikh Saleem added his name to a petition opposing then prime minister Tony Abbott’s plan to ban Hizb ut-Tahrir in Australia.

The petition argued Hizb ut-Tahrir, which supports Sharia law and has a constitution backing the death penalty for ex-Muslims, had never committed terrorist acts in Australia.

But the group’s Islamist ideology is so extreme it is banned in Germany, The Netherlands, Russia and a range of Muslim-majority nations including Indonesia Pakistan, Bangladesh and even Saudi Arabia….

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  1. lebel says

    Jul 3, 2017 at 10:52 am

    Of course if he would have supported a ban it would have been taqqiya so amazingly we get the same conclusion irrespectively.

    jwatch is amazing, you dont even need basic logic

    • Kay says

      Jul 3, 2017 at 11:04 am

      Are you on the Sheikh’s payroll? He could hire several full-time helpers with that income.

      • JAR says

        Jul 3, 2017 at 12:11 pm

        That’s right, Kay. 5 days/week at $717/day = $172,080/year for his religious advising.
        With a great gig like that, shouldn’t he be claiming “victim status” since he has been “smeared by the Islamophobic senator”?
        God help the Aussie military.

        • Westman says

          Jul 3, 2017 at 12:42 pm

          That calculation gives him a month off without pay which wouldn’t be PC enough. For 12 months he would get $186,420 – a great gig, indeed.

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 3, 2017 at 7:09 pm

        Kay, lebel is a long-time apologist for Islam here.

        • John Forbes says

          Jul 4, 2017 at 4:35 am

          JUST SHOWS HOW OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY THE AUSTRALIAN POLITICIANS & POLITICAL PARTIES ARE !
          THEY ARE UTTERLY CLUELESS & SHOULD NOT BE LET OUT ALONE !
          UNBELIEVABLE THAT NOT ONLY DO THEY NOT BOTHER TO CHECK BUT THEY SEEM TO NOT UNDERSTAND AS WELL !
          Corey Bernardi at least picked up the AGAINST DEMOCRACY BIT ! Those in the MILITARY seem to have missed the Point entirely!

      • dibatag says

        Jul 4, 2017 at 7:07 pm

        They payed him $717 a day , a ratbag iman who has not done a days work in his life. My pension is $888, PER FORTNIGHT

    • don vito says

      Jul 3, 2017 at 1:47 pm

      “islam ALL evil ALL the time”

      • john spielman says

        Jul 3, 2017 at 1:57 pm

        and all the the time – islam is evil!

    • Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

      Jul 4, 2017 at 1:47 am

      All Mohammadians are guilty, no matter how we come to that conclusion, lebel. They are guilty of teaching their children that Mohammad was a really, really great guy and he is *the* man to emulate. (And thus, onward continues the madness into the future.)

    • Liza Jones says

      Jul 4, 2017 at 4:32 am

      Lebel—-If he had used his “taquiyya” option and supported the ban he would still have his cushy job. Maybe he was just too stupid to use the “taquiyya” option at the time or more than likely, he didn’t think anyone would go to the trouble of checking names on a petition and felt he was quite safe in anonymity. Nobody said these guys were that smart.
      Has nothing to do with Jihad watch.

  2. FYI says

    Jul 3, 2017 at 11:08 am

    Well,with “devout muslim Nicholas” of the RAN Submarine service {as advertised recently} I suppose that the Australian Army have to have their turn too in creating the exciting new multicult politically correct force for the future.

    It must be comforting for Australian citizens to know that out there in the oceans around Australia a soldier of allah is on board one of their very expensive submarines..

    I suppose it’s OK as long as he stays away from the torpedo tubes and has no access to the Armory or weapons of any kind.

    Just in case the devout follower of allah decides to follow allah’s command:I mean you never know when the urge to “slay the unbelievers” might afflict these devout followers of allah.

    It could get messy in the confined space of a submarine.

    It seems the Australian army and navy are intent on committing suicide.

    • Budvarakbar says

      Jul 3, 2017 at 2:33 pm

      Just like the US Army at Ft Hood — The 1939 movie: “The Real Glory” needs to be required viewing for ALL non-muslims — full length on You-Tube!

    • Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

      Jul 4, 2017 at 1:51 am

      My thoughts exactly, FYI. I wonder if the Australian Navy will retract the ad. Was the Sheikh behind the idea to recruit “devout” Mohammadians?

  3. Agha Ali Arkhan says

    Jul 3, 2017 at 11:16 am

    Dear Lebel: It’s quite logical to those with cognitive awareness.

  4. Jaladhi says

    Jul 3, 2017 at 11:16 am

    I didn’t know there was a difference between a “moderate” and “extremist” Muslim!!

    • todaytonight says

      Jul 3, 2017 at 1:28 pm

      Our useful idiots and domestic Islamic YATAKS are dreaming about those moderate ones while cashing in the future, values and freedom of our kids and our grandkids.

      • todaytonight says

        Jul 3, 2017 at 1:53 pm

        They don’t know the difference between genuine refugees and jihadi hijra.

        Nevertheless, hope OZ universities will soon become the same embarrassed for having mini mosques on campuses which physically segregate female and male students. My child studies at one of those universities and starts hating going to Uni only because of having there something like that under the same roof. That segregation .. despicable! And this suppose to be just the begining.

        Also, the same embarrassment is due to those who, literally, bought cherry picking of Syrian refugees – the trade done by genetically skilled Arab traders (read, Muslim liaison appointees and advisers). Those Syrians who were brought here to OZ from Jordan – are more economic migrants and far away from the needy and genuine refugees. Upon their arrival to OZ they straight away officially registered and founded Arabic Associations (not e.g. Syrian Communities) and instead of worrying how to learn English, they’re tricking everyone and are organising lessons of Arabic and Quran study under “all are welcome” using OZ public community spaces. And yes, do those who believe that they cherry picked them justly among other refugees before bringing them here to OZ – do they know that most of them (if not all of those Syrian families) are quite wealthy radicals who don’t shake hands etc., whose children ‘lovingly’ radicalise their Australian classmates, who give dirty look to Aussie girls in their short skirts of the school uniforms, and who buster other Muslim girls for not ‘properly’ wearing their headscarves. And most importantly, they know what they are doing. They are certain in their mission. All organised. All sold short. Arabic skilful merchandise, centuries old. Nothing new. Historia est magistra vitae.

        Really embarrassing.

        Cory Bernardy, spot on!

        • Jaladhi says

          Jul 3, 2017 at 2:42 pm

          The Western governments, elites, media, academia and those “pseudo” experts(or thecso called experts) have invited this Muslim catastrophe on their countries. These are the people who are brainwashing their citizens and are convincing them of no consequences of Muslim immigration. Essentially these people are the traitors who have sold their souls and their countries to Islam. Now in all the Western nations Muslims are showing their real colors. Muslims cannot and will not assimilate in any non-Muslim society and that is what is happening all over Europe, UK, Canada, Australia and soon in USA also.

          Muslims are laughing all the way to the bank at this stupidity of West!1

    • john spielman says

      Jul 3, 2017 at 2:03 pm

      there isn’t, and sheik /caliph Erdogan of turkey agrees there is no difference! all muslims are potential terrorists as they may decide to ” cash in their chips – go suicide bomber on us to die and, according to islamic FICTION, -go directly to their islamic whorehouse in the sky!

  5. Savvy Kafir says

    Jul 3, 2017 at 11:38 am

    This is insanity. Just try to imagine the British or American army having a Nazi political adviser during World War II, for the sake of political correctness, and to avoid offending Nazis.

    We are at war with Islam, because the True Believers of Islam have declared war on us. And millions of stealth jihadis secretly support the same agenda. And there is no way to sort them out.

    It’s easy for our military leaders to learn all they need to know about Islam. Just have them read the Qur’an, read a bio on the prophet Muhammad, & visit Jihad Watch. They don’t need Muslim “religious advisers”, for f**k’s sake.

    • WPM says

      Jul 3, 2017 at 6:59 pm

      +1

  6. Fred H says

    Jul 3, 2017 at 11:54 am

    What a surprise.

  7. Hugh Fitzgerald says

    Jul 3, 2017 at 11:59 am

    $717 a day — is that really the market rate for an imam eager to help spread his Islamic propaganda? A maddening and extravagant rate. Why should not Muslim imams volunteer their time, as part of showing their willingness to pitch in and defeat those “extremists” they are said to deplore? As for all those chaplains now being extravagantly maintained on college campuses, let them be supported, let all the chaplains be supported, by those who are part of their own congregation – imams by Muslims, ministers and priests by Christians, rabbis by Jews, There is no reason to support imams — teaching such Qur’an verses as 9.5, 9.29, 8.12, 98.6,2,191-3 — with money from those they rail against.

    • Shmooviyet says

      Jul 3, 2017 at 3:24 pm

      Choudary would claim it’s already their money.
      All kuffar salaries belong to muslims, it is owed them, he said some time ago.
      I’d like to ask those homeowners hanging the silly, bigoted ‘i heart my muslim neighbors’ banners: are you willing to sign just two or three months of paychecks over to those same neighbors?

  8. Pal says

    Jul 3, 2017 at 12:27 pm

    Rally in Poland:
    “We don’t wish Anjem Choudari’s British sharia in Poland!”
    “Islamic Imams, you will never introduce your rules in Poland”
    “We have our values and rules”
    “Yours in not our culture and faith”
    “Jesus Christ is our King Here!”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kGB_2ViAPk

    • Malcolm (SouthAfria) says

      Jul 3, 2017 at 12:55 pm

      @ Pal

      : good post, Mo not welcomed in Poland, also not welcomed here.

  9. Jamesp says

    Jul 3, 2017 at 1:31 pm

    “They send the wrong message about Islam and they should refrain and have better judgment about preaching a message of inflammatory nature,’’ said Imam Mohammadu Nawas, a spokesman for both the ANIC and the Grand Mufti of Australia, Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohammed.

    “The vast majority of Muslims in this country do not subscribe to anything what they say. We call on them, and any other organisation making inflammatory statements that can cause upset among the general public, to restrain. We want them to stop.’’

    Comment from 2014 from the Imam about the noted group (http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/australian-islamic-leaders-call-for-an-end-to-hatred-and-provocation-claim-radical-group-hizb-uttahrir-is-tarnishing-religions-reputations/news-story/ec77bf44025683e622c5146a1347a4d4).

  10. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jul 3, 2017 at 1:48 pm

    So who decided that he was a “moderate” and not an “extremist”?

    Anybody intent on deciding between Islamic moderates and extremists is already lost, and prone to putting Islam in the most favorable light. There are Moslem inactivists and Moslem activists. Islam is already extreme out of the box. The only decision is who’s gonna do the murdering, and who’s gonna silently cheer the slaughter from their living rooms.

  11. Edgar Allen says

    Jul 3, 2017 at 4:44 pm

    I’ve been following this story for a while. The Aussie Brass were actually PROTECTING HIM EVEN AFTER THE FACTS CAME OUT. THIS IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF BLATANT, PROVABLE, DOUBLE STANDARDS, FAVORING MUSLIMS OVER CHRISTIANS, EVEN WHEN THE MUSLIMS ARE CALLING FOR DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY.

    AUSTRALIA: FEDERAL SENATOR DEMANDS ARMY’S IMAM BE SACKED FOR ‘SUPPORTING ISLAMISTS HIZB UT-TAHRIR AND SHARIA LAW AND OPPOSING WAR AGAINST ISIS’
    DEFENCE MINISTER MS. PAYNE SAID HE WOULD CONTINUE TO HAVE THEIR ‘SUPPORT’.
    DEFENCE DOES NOT NECESSARILY AGREE WITH (HIS VIEWS)… (BUT) WE, OF COURSE, SUPPORT HIS RIGHT TO EXPRESS THOSE VIEWS.’

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4609586/Cory-Bernardi-calls-army-sack-radical-imam.html

    Now compare the nonsense above with how they treated a Catholic reserve officer:

    JUNE 26, 2017 – THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY IS NOW ADVERTISING FOR DEVOUT MUSLIMS

    http://bernardgaynor.com.au/15191-2/

    http://www.defencejobs.gov.au/navy/why-join-the-navy/unique-lives/nicholas/

    It is so desperate to secure their services that it is even kitting out mini-mosques on every base for them. Presumably, they get space at sea to pray as well.

    This pro-Islamic attitude is far different from the one shown towards Defence members who are Christian.

    Here is an excerpt from a letter sent to me by the former Chief of Defence Force, Lieutenant General David Hurley, about my expression of my Catholic faith:

    “I RESPECT YOUR RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND YOUR RIGHT TO HAVE AND EXPRESS, OPINIONS CONTRARY TO ADF AND GOVERNMENT POLICY. HOWEVER YOUR PUBLIC ARTICULATION OF THESE MATTERS WHILST A MEMBER OF THE ARMY RESERVE, WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE ON DUTY, OR IN UNIFORM, UNDERMINE MY CONFIDENCE IN YOUR ABILITY TO UPHOLD THE VALUES OF THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY AND YOUR EFFECTIVENESS AS A LEADER IN TODAY’S ARMY.”

    COMPARE THE ABOVE PARAGRAPH WITH THE ADF POSITION ON PUBLIC ARTICULATION BY MUSLIM EXTREMIST SHEIKH MOHAMADU NAWAS SALEEM WHO IS THE ADF DEFENCE IMAM.

  12. gravenimage says

    Jul 3, 2017 at 7:07 pm

    “Moderate” imam serving as Australian Defence Force religious adviser turns out to be “extremist”
    …………………………..

    I’m shocked, shocked! Oh…wait….no, I’m not…

  13. TheBuffster says

    Jul 3, 2017 at 8:19 pm

    For anyone in Australia who doesn’t already know, this guy:

    “Former Iraq war veteran Bernard Gaynor, who launched a petition calling for Sheikh Saleem’s removal as Defence imam, said the government was embarrassed.”

    is a member of the new political party, the Australian Liberty Alliance, party whose primary goal is to fight Islamization.

    https://www.australianlibertyalliance.org.au/

  14. Garrick Carpenter says

    Jul 4, 2017 at 4:34 am

    I wonder what the next brilliant proposal by Stuart Robert will be [ he had better hurry because he and his un-Australian cronies will be gone at the next Federal election ]

  15. Anne Smith says

    Jul 4, 2017 at 5:32 am

    Well done Senator Bernardi

  16. Telh says

    Jul 4, 2017 at 6:31 am

    Deport this parasite.

  17. Aussie Infidel says

    Jul 4, 2017 at 5:05 pm

    Unfortunately the Islam illiterate, politically correct useful idiots appointing people like Sheikh Saleem, do not understand that Islam effectively declared war on all non-Muslims at its inception 1,400 years ago. But because of their ignorance, this is a one sided war – the Muslims fight us, while we continue to appease them.

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