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Islamic State jihadi pleads to return to Australia, says he was “misled,” just wanted to learn more about Islam

Apr 3, 2019 4:00 pm By Robert Spencer

The establishment media continues its full-court press to compel non-Muslim governments to accept returning Islamic State jihadis. And to what end? Why is the establishment media so bent on putting non-Muslim states and their citizens at risk? Why should anyone take what Mohammed Noor Masri says here seriously at all? “War is deceit,” said Muhammad (Bukhari 4.52.268)

And didn’t anyone in Australia tell him that the Islamic State has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam? Everyone knows that, right?

“Australian ISIS fighter pleading to be allowed back in the country says he DIDN’T KNOW the group’s militants were violent extremists,” by Mark Brook and Charlie Moore, Daily Mail Australia, April 1, 2019:

An Australian ISIS fighter who wants to come home has claimed he didn’t know he was joining a bloodthirsty terror group when he fled four years ago.

Mohammed Noor Masri, 26, fled Sydney for ISIS in 2015 and is now living in a refugee camp in Syria with his wife and three sons.

He claims he did not understand the group’s brutality even though stories and images of its public executions and torture were broadcast around the world.

In a desperate bid to be allowed back into Australia, Masri told the Sydney Morning Herald he was misled into joining an organisation he now considers to be ‘evil’.

Masri claimed he travelled to Syria not as a terrorist but as an inquisitive albeit misguided person seeking to learn more about Islam.

He claimed he didn’t fight but rather worked as an air-conditioning service tradesman in a hospital.

Masri also told how he saw ISIS fighters starve children to death to save food for fighters.

‘There was kids that were dying from malnourishment. I seen kids die actually, seen it with my eyes,’ he said.

He said he made a mistake in joining ISIS and regrets it….

‘I didn’t see any heads or severed bodies and stuff like that. I wasn’t the type of person to be running around the shops too much … and I don’t like to see beheadings. I don’t like to see those sort of scenes. Nor do I agree with it,’ he said….

‘I’m an Australian citizen and Australia’s a pretty fair country … And they give people chances, especially if it’s a first offence. I know it’s a big offence, but I’m not someone who’s known to have a criminal record,’ he said.

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  1. antonia says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 4:07 pm

    Mohammed Noor Masri “claims he did not understand the group’s brutality even though stories and images of its public executions and torture were broadcast around the world.”

    Yeah, right. He thought all those beheading and hand-chopping shots were faked for the camera. Sure he did. The gay men thrown off the roof were done by trick photography and photo-animation. Yeah, that’s it.

    • Martin says

      Apr 3, 2019 at 5:22 pm

      “He thought all those beheading and hand-chopping shots were faked for the camera.”

      If he had thought that it was all fake he’d have never gone. It was the thrill of genuine throat slitting and sex slaving that turned him on, and turned on all the other Western ISIS punks, all along. This Australian ISIS punk is no better than the other Australian who shot 50 people to death in Christchurch, New Zealand.

      • tim gallagher says

        Apr 4, 2019 at 1:06 am

        I agree with you, Antonia and Martin, when you say it was the thrill of beheading and committing other atrocities that appealed most of all to these maggots who dashed off to join ISIS. And I mean the young girls who dashed off to join ISIS as well as the men. To me, they are the lowest, most sadistic scum you could find in the world. There was no secret about what ISIS were doing. I mean, if a Muslim who was a more decent type of human being wanted to learn about their religion, Islam, (even though I personally can’t find anything good in Islam) they could go and join up with some more average, more peaceful branch of Islam. ISIS was the most vicious, inhumane form of Islam and I’m sure that the chance to join in committing the sadistic types of atrocities that ISIS committed is the main thing that appealed to scum like this guy and all the other scumbags who served with ISIS and now want to return to western, civilised countries. Not one of them should be allowed to return to the countries they used to live in. People with the type of mentality these sadistic creeps have will always be a danger to us all..

        • elee says

          Apr 4, 2019 at 11:10 am

          One does not learn about Islam by going among “moderate Muslims.” “Moderate Muslims” want to talk about anything but their scriptures. I suspect that they avoid the scriptures in their thoughts as well as their speech. It keeps getting said, I submit because it’s true: ISIS is not some aberration, it is scriptural Islam. Note all the accounts of ISIS survivors: their abusers would quote the Koran while raping them or killing the people around them. It now appears that Muslim theology was a mainstay of conversation among the soldiers of Allah at the front lines. I guess it helped pass the tie between atrocities.

          I applaud your posting and agree entirely with your conclusion. I suppose a corollary is that these guys will face no punishment in Dar es-Salaam, they’ll live at the expense of their foreign-aid-subsidised Muslim governments till the governments think no one is looking and then be allowed to walk. Well, the region is already lousy with armed Muslims anyway

    • elee says

      Apr 4, 2019 at 11:34 am

      Hey folks…..especially Antonia whose posting opens this thread: remember that Hitler’s Nazis concealed their extermination camps from the world. People died trying to expose what they were doing at their camps. When Germany finally fell the world was mostly astounded, the American soldiers made German civilians and pressmen of the world march through the stink of incinerate humans and look at the skeletal survivors and the piles of dead and the killing chambers…..because the shock was so severe, no one would believe it otherwise.

      Islam is not so decent or reticent. The things Hitler concealed, Islam films proclaims and posts on the Internet. In their culture it’s a recruiting appeal. You know, like “See the world, join the Navy” in America.

      • tim gallagher says

        Apr 4, 2019 at 4:28 pm

        You are no doubt right, elee. My belief is that all Muslims are bound to have a nasty, hate-filled attitude towards non-Muslims because that’s basic to Islam’s scriptures. Therefore, I don’t like Islam and I don’t trust any Muslims. But the point I was trying to make in my comment up above was that there are plenty of Muslims who are living in our societies who are not trying to kill us in terrorist attacks or wanting to behave the way the ISIS crowd behaved. They are probably people who, as you said, don’t bother much with the texts of Islam. I don’t know much about them. No doubt, they all want to impose barbaric Islam on all of us. This man in this report could have just lived his Muslim life in Australia amongst those people. I feel sure that he, and all the others who dashed off to join ISIS, loved the idea of murdering and bullying the ISIS victims. As you say, ISIS is what scriptural Islam is all about. So, maybe, we could say the people who joined ISIS were really exactly what “devout” Muslims are like. What hideous creatures they are. Anyway, the main thing is, it would be insane to let such sadistic scum back into our countries. What a gamble it would be to let them back into our countries. And, of course, these monsters don’t deserve to be let back in.

  2. somehistory says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 4:14 pm

    This was predictable. If only there hadn’t been any “news” or videos of what isis was up to. If only he hadn’t thought about “learning” more about islam by seeing isis at work…carrying out every order written in the filthy unholy book.
    If a guy drives a car, and others in the car commit a crime, the driver is also guilty. He says he didn’t kill anyone…but he joined those who did.
    Perhaps seeing little kids dying of starvation has made him *think* about what he did. But how far can he be trusted?

    • antonia says

      Apr 3, 2019 at 4:22 pm

      Yep. Good analogy. He was a willing accomplice to crime, whether or not he pulled the trigger. It is almost a certainty that he was required to use weapons while he was there. When there are no front-line troops left, cooks and drivers and everyone is sent to the front line to hold a rifle.

    • Terry Gain says

      Apr 3, 2019 at 4:36 pm

      We don’t even know whether he raped, tortured or murdered. He’s obviously a very poor liar.

      • K WAGNER says

        Apr 3, 2019 at 4:41 pm

        LIAR ..LIAR. PANTS ON FIRE

    • Martin says

      Apr 3, 2019 at 5:25 pm

      “He says he didn’t kill anyone…”

      Go to any prison and 95% of the inmates will tell you that they are innocent.

  3. CogitoErgoSum says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 4:15 pm

    If he doesn’t believe in beheading then Islam is not the religion for him. If he tells me he has converted to another religion I might take him seriously.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Apr 3, 2019 at 5:00 pm

      Yeah just ask Admiral Perry about Islam and head-chopping. That’s where the moniker Leathernecks came from.

      • CogitoErgoSum says

        Apr 3, 2019 at 5:24 pm

        Semper fi.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 3, 2019 at 8:31 pm

        +1

  4. Anjuli Pandavar says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 4:22 pm

    “but I’m not someone who’s known to have a criminal record.”
    —
    I love it.

    But yes, “Why is the establishment media so bent on putting non-Muslim states and their citizens at risk?” I’m trying to imagine what the media would’ve had to do convince the world the Nazis were basically good people who deserved a second chance.

    • antonia says

      Apr 3, 2019 at 4:24 pm

      Now you have a serious criminal record. How about jail time?

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 3, 2019 at 8:33 pm

      Yeah–I like this hedging–his saying he is not “known” to have a criminal record. In other words, what happens in Raqqa stays in Raqqa…

  5. Jaladhi says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 4:51 pm

    Yup – you learn about Islam by killing non-Muslims!! Hmm ..let him stay in Caliphstan, if it exists!!

  6. keith Oades says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 5:18 pm

    Another arsehole who committed treason. Execute him. Send him to the perfect islamic paradise,,,HELL.
    We don’t want him here and if the government has some balls they will leave him to rot.

  7. seabird says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 5:19 pm

    If he didn’t know of isis’ genocidal savagery he’s just too dumb to be an Australian besides his questionable past.
    I’d pass.
    Send him to a Yezidi war crimes trial instead.
    They’ll know exactly what to do with him.

  8. DHazard says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 5:40 pm

    And if you can, after you let me in would you mind providing me a nice house along the coast? I need a safe space to work through all my ISIS issues. Unfortunately I am also now incapable of working and will need full benefits. And some help with food, daycare and healthcare would be appreciated. Gee, I forgot how much I love the West. Thanks guys.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 3, 2019 at 8:36 pm

      Grimly hilarious.

    • Ken says

      Apr 4, 2019 at 2:26 am

      And I’ll have a couple more wives as well so I don’t get lonely sitting on the dole.

  9. Jennifer says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 5:54 pm

    He knew all about what Isis is, he’s just lying now cause Isis is defeated & now the POS, wants to come back to the lucky Country, let him rot where he is, He didn’t give a shit about all the innocent ppl murdered by his new found Ideality no doubt he participated in the rapes & killings, hope the Bastard rots in hell.

  10. m. says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 8:08 pm

    gtfo & stay out

  11. gravenimage says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 8:39 pm

    Islamic State jihadi pleads to return to Australia, says he was “misled,” just wanted to learn more about Islam
    ………………………..

    And now he knows so much about Islam that he is a clear danger to Australia. Keep him out.

    • JM says

      Apr 4, 2019 at 4:25 am

      Great comment! Agreed.

  12. Rarely says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 9:21 pm

    That great American philosopher, Groucho Marx, covered it when he said: “There he is, my ENTIRE argument to restrict immigration”. Such wisdom.

  13. Kirsch says

    Apr 3, 2019 at 11:37 pm

    I wonder why Milo Yiannopulous, Gavin McInnes and Tommy Robinson were blocked from entering Australia to talk?
    A couple of weeks ago here in Sydney I received a flyer about the QUEST FOR SUCCESS 2019 UMA CONFERENCE uma.org.au.
    Some of the speakers at this event are talking on the following themes..
    “Why wait 100 years?” ,a talk on the 100 year process of demographic replacement of the kuffar,should we wait or excelerate?
    “Change or be Changed”, a talk on muslims being the agents to change the community, not being taken over by kuffar culture,
    “I am a slave to whom?”, a talk on being submitted to only allah and his law and not submitting your values to the kuffar,
    ” I am not led, I LEAD”, a talk on your responsibility as a muslim to lead your community and society out of the darkness of a perverse culture led by the kuffar, into the light of a society lead by the Ummah under the Sharia, following the divine wisdom of the Koran and the Sunna.

    Amongst the speakers were Irish “revert” Yusef Chambers and Shiek Alaa Elsayed.

    Why is this allowed to go on in this country, yet vilified people who stand up for western culture are banned from even setting foot in this country whilst these aforementioned people can openly talk about insurrection against this culture,which is led by the rule of law and the crown under the Westminster form of government?

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 3, 2019 at 11:46 pm

      Yes–this is insanity.

  14. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Apr 4, 2019 at 5:02 am

    Hey, leave him alone! He’s inbred – and never heard of Internet research.
    Once, to “learn more about fire,” he had to jump into an active volcano!
    (Can you blame him)?

  15. Indiana Tom says

    Apr 4, 2019 at 5:45 am

    Yeah, let us all go to ISIS land and kill people left and right so we can all learn more about Islam. Sounds like a jolly time. School is in session and I do not think this will be Rydell High School.

  16. J D.S says

    Apr 4, 2019 at 7:30 am

    Is he believable? I sure hope Australia thinks he is not…Muslims use lying as psrt of their daily life, actually part of islam per their fake prophet.

  17. Sentinel says

    Apr 4, 2019 at 7:32 am

    The left must be seen to be supporting Islam and Muslims because they want to win elections. Deal with the consequences later.

  18. John Christopher Sunol says

    Apr 4, 2019 at 7:33 am

    If he comitted crimes overseas he should pay the price but if he was born in Australia we have no choice but upon arriveal he should do prison time for joining a criminal terrorist outfit.

    • End PC says

      Apr 4, 2019 at 8:46 am

      Can’t people see that anyone joining IS has fiercely renounced his citizenship elsewhere? They were joining a new STATE, an enemy state. Stupid to take them back as if they are citizens. Why are Western countries such naive suckers acting as if sappy-heart stupidity were a virtue?

      • Kilauea says

        Apr 4, 2019 at 9:35 am

        We are suckers of course. Why else would we elect chicken-feces politicians who won’t even protect the border from Muslims, MS-13, and other general illiterate gate crashers from all over the world. When enough of them come here, here becomes there. Get ready for San Francisco style sanitation all over the country.

  19. Minas says

    Apr 4, 2019 at 9:10 am

    He looks trustworthy, I’m sure our “good friends” the Saudi’s would welcome him with open arms.

  20. Kilauea says

    Apr 4, 2019 at 9:32 am

    How do we know he won’t get “religious” again and decide to attack kiffars when he returns home. Let him stay in the war zone and he may get to see Allah sooner.

  21. Andy says

    Apr 4, 2019 at 11:53 am

    Learn more about Islam? Ever heard of Google? idiot.

  22. infidel says

    Apr 4, 2019 at 1:41 pm

    O U poor thing… such a nice and loving Muslim U are… It does not matter the least that U would have killed a few here and there.. and U made a poo-boo.. Come back darling come back.. We Aussies can hardly wait to have U back among us with Ur Luv and affection,,

  23. ronald says

    Apr 4, 2019 at 3:32 pm

    He claimed he didn’t fight but rather worked as an air-conditioning service tradesman in a hospital. 😂😂

  24. Albert Wiggins says

    Apr 4, 2019 at 8:16 pm

    How do you know that he’s Australian?
    Does he have an Australian passport?
    Did Isis not take the passports of these idiots when they decided to join Isis,making them now people of the state of Isis,ers lol.
    Just let the Kurds deal with them in their own courts of justice, I’m sure they will get what he’s due seeing the assedie wemon and children got justice from Isis RAPED and Murdered.
    Islam needs to be sent back to the 7th century were it belongs and all its adherents.

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