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Australia: Muslim teen who plotted jihad massacre was referred to “deradicalization” program, but didn’t go

Jun 30, 2018 10:00 am By Robert Spencer

“The boy was referred to a diversion program to address his risk of radicalisation and counter any tendency towards violence and extremism, but the judge said the boy did not attend the sessions because he was working.”

Even if he had gone, it was unlikely to have made much difference. Deradicalization programs have been notorious failures virtually everywhere they have been put in place.

“Sydney teenager jailed over 2016 Anzac Day terror plot,” by Mazoe Ford, ABC.net.au, June 28, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A Sydney teenager who said he wanted to attack and terrorise “infidels” at a memorial service on Anzac Day in 2016 has been sentenced to 12 years’ jail.

The boy, who cannot be identified because he is a child, was sentenced last Friday.

The case was suppressed, but the judge’s sentencing remarks are now public.

New South Wales Supreme Court Justice Megan Latham ordered the boy to serve a maximum term of 12 years’ jail with a non-parole period of nine years.

“On any view, the offender clearly contemplated an attack which was ideologically and religiously driven, and chosen for the impact such an attack would have had on a public holiday of great national significance,” Justice Latham said.

“The offender said that he had a time and a place in mind for an attack, that it would be April 25 because it was an important day for the ‘infidels’ and that he wanted to terrorise them on that day.”

The boy pleaded guilty in March 2017 to one count of doing an act in preparation for, or planning, a terrorist act, an offence which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.

According to an agreed statement of facts tendered to the court, he first came to the attention of the Joint Counter Terrorism Team (JCTT) in May 2015 because he was accessing violent religious extremist material on the internet.

“The offender’s home was searched by the JCTT, an event that shocked the offender and disclosed the offender’s activities to his family for the first time,” the judge said.

The boy was referred to a diversion program to address his risk of radicalisation and counter any tendency towards violence and extremism, but the judge said the boy did not attend the sessions because he was working.

Boy pledged allegiance to Islamic State

The agreed facts state that in mid-April 2016, the boy accessed an encrypted online messaging application using a pseudonym and initiated conversations with two people who turned out to be undercover police officers.

“The offender told these two individuals that he was a Muslim Australian who supported the Islamic State, that he planned to attack the ‘infidels’ at a memorial service on Anzac Day and that he wanted assistance in making a bomb and obtaining a gun,” Justice Latham said.

The boy was arrested on the eve of Anzac Day 2016.

When police searched his mobile phone they found photos and links about Islamic State and a video depicting beheadings and executions in the name of religious extremism.

Officers also seized handwritten notes in which the offender declared his allegiance to Sharia law and to the caliphate….

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Filed Under: Australia, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) Tagged With: Megan Latham, New South Wales


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  1. St. Manuel II Palailogos says

    Jun 30, 2018 at 10:02 am

    It wouldn’t have worked anyway.

    • J D S says

      Jul 1, 2018 at 9:15 pm

      Can a rattle snake be deradicalized…..No but one could pull his fangs.

  2. Tom says

    Jun 30, 2018 at 12:34 pm

    Canada’s deradicalizationprogram designed by the Trudeau Liberals and specifically touted as THE way to treat returning ISIS barbarians by Justin Trudeau includes poetry, art and music.

    SURE, that will work on the murdering, brainwashed, barbaric, uncivilized neanderthal ISIS fighter returning from participating in beheadings, burning alive,and disembowelling people.

    Perhaps the best deterrent would be to dispatch them before they are able to get back to their home or host country.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 30, 2018 at 10:45 pm

      There are lots of Jihadists in Iraq. They are only killed if they target the stat

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 30, 2018 at 10:46 pm

        state.

  3. Santa Voorhees says

    Jun 30, 2018 at 1:10 pm

    “The boy pleaded guilty in March 2017 to one count of doing an act in preparation for, or planning, a terrorist act, an offence which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.”

    This should be an offence carrying the death penalty, period!

  4. infidel says

    Jun 30, 2018 at 2:31 pm

    The only viable thing that will work here is a single bullet..by inserting the barrel into the mouth of this pest.

  5. elee says

    Jun 30, 2018 at 2:33 pm

    Hey kafirs, the scriptures really DO say to do all that stuff. The jihadis are telling the truth, our deradicalization programs are transparent lies.

  6. gravenimage says

    Jun 30, 2018 at 10:44 pm

    Australia: Muslim teen who plotted jihad massacre was referred to “deradicalization” program, but didn’t go
    ……………………

    What–and no one even bothered to check? Just nuts.

    But no–this program would almost certainly have done no good, in any case.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 1, 2018 at 9:22 pm

      Ha ha

  7. Aussie Infidel says

    Jul 1, 2018 at 5:20 pm

    Why bother going to a deradicalization program, if you can simply ignore the court order? At least the little arsehole was given a stretch in jail. But no doubt the other Muslims in prison will make sure that after nine years, he returns to the community as a fully ‘re-radicalized’ jihadi.

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