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Australia: Muslim who joined the Islamic State says head of Australian charity pushed him to do so

Jun 8, 2018 1:42 pm By Robert Spencer

The article doesn’t say so, but it is likely given the context that this was an Islamic charity. In Islam, zakat — the alms required of every Muslim — can and should be given to further the jihad. So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that there are so many jihad-linked charities.

“Australian teen encouraged to join IS by local charity boss: report,” SBS News, June 8, 2018:

A Sydney teenager jailed in Lebanon on accusations he was trying to join Islamic State has allegedly confessed that the head of an Australian charity pushed him to join the group, according to a report.

The ABC reported on Thursday that 19-year-old Isaak el Matari had spent the past nine months in Lebanon’s Roumieh jail accused of planning to travel from Lebanon into Syria to join IS.

“Mr Matari was arrested by Lebanese security forces in the northern city of Tripoli on August 31 last year, less than two weeks after he secretly flew to Lebanon, shocking his Sydney family,” it said.

He was reportedly only days away from crossing the border into Syria after communicating with IS terrorists, including a foreign IS “coordinator”.

Referencing Lebanese court documents, the ABC said Mr Matari told interrogators he had been encouraged to join IS in Syria by the head of an Australian charity.

SBS News visited the Sydney office of the charity on Thursday but it did not provide comment….

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  1. Emilie Green says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 1:51 pm

    “In Islam, zakat — the alms required of every Muslim — can and should be given to further the jihad” or to give help to other Muslims. But NEVER to non-Muslims.

    Another aspect of Islam that too many in the West are unaware of. There is NO Golden Rule in Islam.

    • mortimer says

      Jun 8, 2018 at 4:51 pm

      Yes, Emilie, you get it. The problem here is the HEAD of the Islamic charity is clearly a supporter of jihad. We must assume some of the charity money GOES to violent jihad against kafirs or lawfare to subjugate kafirs to Sharia law.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 8, 2018 at 7:21 pm

      Yes–Zakat is more about finding violent Jihad than going to any sort of actual charity.

  2. Fred Dawes says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 2:07 pm

    Just one more beast of Satan Army and its on the march and its coming for you

  3. Eur says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 3:19 pm

    Homo korandertalensis.

    • mortimer says

      Jun 8, 2018 at 4:53 pm

      Yes, eur, the Koran takes a human conscience back to the Bronze Age.

  4. Spiro says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 4:11 pm

    Why don’t the heads of the organizations like Hamas etc
    Show us all how to be martyers
    Not just bosses

  5. gravenimage says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 7:15 pm

    Australia: Muslim who joined the Islamic State says head of Australian charity pushed him to do so
    …………………..

    “Australian charity”–would that be a Muslim charity? They should be shut down.

    • Salome says

      Jun 9, 2018 at 4:04 am

      Other reports name the charity as Dar Al Quran Wa Sunnah, so I’ll leave you to draw your own conclusion . . .

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 9, 2018 at 9:01 pm

        Thank you, Salome.

        • deArme says

          Jun 10, 2018 at 11:04 am

          “Registered as a charity 03 Dec 2012

          DAR AL QURAN WA SUNNAH INCORPORATED is a Public Benevolent Institution endorsed to access the following tax concessions:

          Tax concession From 24 Sep 2014

          Income Tax Exemption ”

          They do not work but they get income and yet they pay no tax.
          Charities, Churches, -they pay no tax.
          The signal style of the mufti and the bishop is the pot-belly under the smock, the easy tax-exempt life.

  6. Mantel says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 9:02 pm

    I wish it was Australia closing down mosques and deporting imams. Good work Austria, you have voted for a government who will ensure your cultural existence moving forwards.

    As for Australia, it sinks more into the mire as Islamic population, political and cultural influence balloons.

    People here are too busy fishing, surfing, watching sport, playing sport ,boating,travelling, renovating to worry about what is really important.

    • Eur says

      Jun 9, 2018 at 3:07 am

      People here is living and enjoying their lifes. But you’re right, nothing is free. Our ancestors suffered, fought, worked and died so that today we enjoy freedom. That same freedom that Islamic religious political lobbies take advantage of to diminish our democracies and individual liberties. We will all pay a high price, those on the left, those on the right, the apolitical, the believers, the agnostics, the whites, the asians, blacks … We will all end up under the yoke of Islam if we are not aware of the danger. Islam brings a model of theocratic society that aims to eliminate all the things we like … fishing, surfing, watching sport, playing sport, boating, traveling….

  7. Tom says

    Jun 9, 2018 at 10:38 am

    Let me see, this kid was encouraged to join ISIS by the “Head” of a local charity. Yet his family were surprised at him leaving.

    So either the kid has a special relationship with this mysterious head of a charity, who one would presume to be an elder and respected in the community, OR his parents have a special relationship, perhaps as a family friend,with this head of a charity.

    It’s probably the latter given that, in muslim families, the older paternal head of the family holds the power and control over the family group. So why are the family feigning surprise at the kid leaving under the influence of another influential muslim male figure. I’m not buying the “surprise” element in this one.

  8. TWG says

    Jun 10, 2018 at 6:01 pm

    Speaking of “zakat”……

    Recall for a moment barack hussain speaking to his moslem brethren in Cairo (’09) when one of the horrifying things he said that as POTUS, he would make it easier for his moslem brethren to pay zakat……..

    I recall. That is the day I threw a heavy leaded crystal vase at my brand new plasma tv and busted the screen to pieces.

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