“She studied at the Islamic College of South Australia until 2011…”
Then she apparently joined the Islamic State, which authorities all over the West constantly assured us had nothing whatsoever to do with Islam. How did she come to misunderstand Islam so spectacularly?
“Adelaide woman accused of being Islamic State member faces trial,” by Rebecca Opie, ABC.net.au, August 27, 2018 (thanks to dumbledoresarmy):
A Supreme Court jury has been warned they will be exposed to gruesome and graphic evidence during the trial of an Adelaide woman accused of being a member of a terrorist organisation.
Zainab Abdirahman-Khalif, 23, has pleaded not guilty to knowingly being a member of the Islamic State (IS) group between July 2016 and May 2017.
In his opening address, Commonwealth prosecutor Chris Winneke QC said at the time of the alleged offending, Ms Abdirahman-Khalif lived with her mother and two brothers at Mansfield Park, in Adelaide’s north-west.
He said that in March 2016, she quit her diploma of science and technology at the University of South Australia, which she had been studying in pursuit of becoming a nurse, and decided to “follow a different path”.
“The crown case is on July 13, 2016, unbeknown to her family and using her savings, she purchased over the internet a one-way ticket [from Adelaide] to Istanbul in Turkey … for departure the following day,” Mr Winneke said.
“So on July 14, 2016, without telling her mother and brothers that she was leaving the country, with only hand luggage and very little funds … she set out for the airport.”
The court heard she was detained prior to boarding and prevented from getting onto the flight.
“The crown case is the defendant, in leaving Australia and going to Turkey, was ultimately going to make contact with Islamic State and commence to live in territory held by Islamic State as a member of that society, and as a follower of the leader of that organisation,” Mr Winneke said.
Mr Winneke said Ms Abdirahman-Khalif was in communication with three young African women who carried out a bombing in Mombasa, Kenya, in September 2016, for which IS later claimed responsibility.
“It’s not the crown’s case that the defendant is in any way involved in the organisation or commission of any specific events at all,” he said.
“But the crown does have evidence that suggests that the defendant had some knowledge that the event in Mombasa was going to occur,” Mr Winneke said….
The jurors were told they would also see footage of captives being executed by knife, sword or firearm, but that the videos had been edited to stop just before the person’s death.
“That material that is to be shown is both graphic and gruesome, and you will see things like blood, brain fragments, severed heads placed on bodies,” Justice Peek said.
The court heard Ms Abdirahman-Khalif lived in refugee camps in Kenya until she was 13 years old and moved to Australia with her family, who are of Somalian origin, in 2009.
She studied at the Islamic College of South Australia until 2011 and completed Year 12 at Roma Mitchell Secondary College.
The trial is expected to run for four weeks and will hear evidence from a number of witnesses, including an academic expert in terrorist activities in the Middle East.
mortimer says
Want to learn why this woman joined ISIS? Well read the following:
In 2015, Graeme Wood wrote brilliantly in the Atlantic: “The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse … Nearly all the Islamic State’s decisions adhere to what it calls, on its billboards, license plates, and coins, “the Prophetic methodology … The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic.”
The article by Wood is worth re-reading: http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/
Why is Zainab Abdirahman-Khalif a danger to society who should be locked up?
IT’S THE IDEOLOGY, STUPID!
mortimer says
Sadly, there is little likelihood that anyone will attempt to deprogram Zainab Abdirahman-Khalif during her jail term.
Deprogramming jihadists right out of Islam is the only way to remove the jihad threat.
James Lincoln says
Mortimer,
You have spoken about deprogramming on several posts in the past. As I have said in the past, great if it could work…
Questions:
Who does the deprogramming, how long does it take, on average, and what is its success rate / relapse rate, etc., ?
How can you be certain that the person is not faking a cure, etc.,?
Phil Copson says
There is not the smallest reason for anyone from Somalia, Sudan etc to be living in Australia – they have countries of their own. The sooner the politicians get it through their thick heads that the world is not their personal property, and stop playing “Musical Chairs” with it’s population, the better.
StellaSaidSo says
Well said, Phil.
Somalis and Sudanese have brought nothing but trouble to Australia. Especially Melbourne, where car-jackings, home invasions, and street brawls are now a regular occurrence.
Walter Sieruk says
First, it comes very natural , in an extremely evil sense, that the Islamic /Qu ‘ran base ideology of ISIS does and has spread ,just like a plague of an infectious disease, from the Middle East into other continents and countries around the world . Especially since all those Muslim migrants have ,though lax immigration policies , have entered to those non–Middle Eastern countries. Some of those Muslim migrants are literally a human Islamic time -bomb just waiting to go off.
Second, concerning ISIS there remains the ,very important, question “How to truly defeat ISIS once and for all ?” The answer to that question was provided in a speech by the ISIS spokesman, Abu Muhammad al Adnani, now dead, in this speech he had declared “True defeat is a loss of willpower and desire to fight…” he further explained “We would be defeated and you victorious only if you are able to remove the Quran from Muslim hearts.” All this leads to a very important question: “Is the Quran the Word of God or is it a fabrication of a man. Thus, is the Quran the truth or a fiction and a hoax ?” The jihadists, as those of ISIS use many verses from the Quran as the main source of justification for their violence, mayhem and murders. As found in For example, 2:191.. 4:47 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4 The answer is clearly given on pages 145 through 157 in THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey in which he wrote a section on the Quran with its self-contradictions. Just two of the many he cited are the following “The Quran differs on whether a day is a thousand years or fifty thousand years in God’s sight’ and “Who was first to believe? Abraham or Moses [Sura 6:14 versus 7:143]? The above is inconsistent and illogical. Further, Morey wrote about “The fact that Judaism and Christianity broke up into different sects was used in the Quran to prove that they are not of God [Suras 30:20-32. 42:13, 14]. Yet Islam has broken up into many warring sects and therefore cannot be true if the Quran is right.” Moreover, Morey in his book shows many more contradictions and absurdities in the Quran, there are and how Muhammad incorporated extra Biblical and Jewish folklore along with pre-Islamic Arabian myth and parts of Zoroastrian and Hindu stories into the Quran. Furthermore, the Muslims claim that “the Quran is the direct, literal word of God unmodified in any way by the Prophet who uttered them at the bidding of God.” Nevertheless, in the book UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet and Eethi Caner has shown that the Quran was modified in the following account on pages 45. “Muhammad felt the need to improve on the words of Allah, since he changed Allah’s wisdom for his own on several occasions. A hadith tells of the nonchalant emendations of Muhammad:’ On a number of occasions he [a scribe] had, with the Prophet’s consent changed the closing words of verses. For example, when the prophet had said ‘God is mighty and wise ‘ Adbollah b. Abi Sarh suggested writing down ‘Knowing and wise’ and the Prophet answered that there was no objection. Having observed a succession of changes of this type, Adbollah renounced Islam on the grounds that revelations, if from God could not be changed at the prompting of a scribe such as himself. After his apostasy he went to Mecca and joined the Qorayshites.’ Other writers reveal that later Muhammad and his people did go war with the Qorayshites and he personally killed Abdollah. Obviously Abdollah knew too much and Muhammad wanted Abdollah’s knowledge to die with him.” In conclusion, the Quran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.
Walter Sieruk says
This Muslim woman as well as male Muslims be they migrants into a nation of the West or even born in a Western nation as Australia ,France , England, they still can be terrible affected infected and infested with the Islamic ideology that had its entire foundation on the theology of Islam with its Qu ‘ran based violence and killing that is ,in reality, Muslim terrorism, which the worlds news media calls by the vague and nondescript term “Radical extremism.”.
As Islam’s “holy book,” the Quran instructs in 9:111. , for example, “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain they kill and are killed.” Therefore, those who come out of those Quran based mind programming centers .mosque and madrasas, are so terribly harmed and damaged that they are literally, as it has be rightfully called, “dangerous to self and others.” This results in jihad suicide /homicide attack in which those jihadists who commit such murderous actions are so very deluded that they think of that jihad mass murders as “martyrdom operations.” This is Islamic delusion of the most heinous and malicious kind.
This may be, somewhat, explained by the narrative from the fable of Aesop which is entitled THE SCORPION AND THE FROG So “Once upon a time there was a scorpion who really wanted to get to the other side of the river, but he could not swim. Therefore, the scorpion begged a frog to carry him on his back across the river. The kind but foolish frog agreed and then half-way across the river the scorpion stung the frog. In shock and horror the dying frog asks the scorpion “Why did you sting me since this means that we both are going to die” The scorpion replied “The reason that I stung you even though we both will now die is because that just what a scorpion, by nature, does.”
Halal Bacon says
gee, and we got blamed for listening to Ozzy Osbourne…LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwDpAfFzcRQ
Michael Copeland says
Question for Australian authorities:
Islamic College of South Australia …………..Islamic State.
Is there some common ground?
Is it worth pursuing?
Michael Copeland says
Question for Australian authorities:
ISLAMIC College of South Australia ….. and ISLAMIC State.
Is there some common ground? Some shared outlook? Some mutual aim?
It is worth looking into.
Buck Tucker says
This woman was a young girl when she was brought to a strange country. The family never assimilates, she wears funny clothes, she has no white friends. And the liberals encourage this, let them keep their culture they say. But they feel weak at heart, Australia, wherever, it is not their home, and they cannot be apart of where they are, they are encouraged to be apart from the rest of us. I think people like this woman could be released if they were forced to cohabitate with natives and not allowed to practice Islam, they are probably ok people most of the time, it is simply the societal tolerance for backward religion that becomes an individual undoing.
gravenimage says
If she was forced to cohabit with natives then she would have a handy pool of Infidels to target, I’m afraid.
gravenimage says
Australia: Muslima accused of being member of the Islamic State
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If ISIS is not Islamic as so many Muslim apologists state, why do the most pious Mohammdans all want to join? (A rhetorical question, of course).
FYI says
islamic college?What DO they study?
Art,Music,Logic,Philosophy,Infidel History,Science:well.those subjects will be off the curriculum for starters.Chess too{allah hates chess[sahih muslim 28:5612] something to do with pigs apparently..},History of course would be islamic and Geography would be focused on us in the dar al-harb and the lands of the Great Shaitan,islamic Economics{how to get rich quickly by stealing from the infidels using the Jizya tax},Comparative Religious studies{there are no other religions in the world,only sunni islam}
Critical theology that points out the EPIC errors,theological flaws and illogicalities in the “perfect” koran?Definitely not.
Probably course modules in Taqqiya,Tawriya,Kitman,Muruna,jihadist terrorism:make your own IEDs,Guest speakers?..Linda Sarsour :Islamic feminist Icon and “woman of color” ,”hijabs for liberated dhimmiwit women”,Yusuf islam’s music course “how to play music pleasing to allah without using female singers and forbidden sinful infidel musical instruments”,Physics for islamic students “There is only one color of the rainbow and its name is muhammed;all other colors are kuffar”
What do the students do to relax?Music is out,Chess is out,Alcohol is out,sex is out comedy is out if we go by ayatollah khomeni’s famous saying..”There are no jokes in islam.There is no humor in islam .There is no fun in islam”{..and there is no honor,no compassion,no love either is there?}
unless they leave the campus…or abandon the cult…
sidney penny says
“How did she come to misunderstand Islam so spectacularly?”
Spectacular Question.
duh swami says
…Knowingly was a member’…Is there any other way to do it?
Was she planning on being a battlefield combatant or a ‘temporary wife’, to hundreds?
Giacomo Latta says
So she quit her project of becoming a nurse? Well that has saved the lives of at least a dozen Aussies.