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Australia: Sunni Muslims who firebombed a Shi’ite mosque lose appeals against their terror convictions

Apr 18, 2020 4:00 pm By Robert Spencer

If the people who firebombed the mosque had been non-Muslims, which should never happen, there would be screaming international headlines about this for weeks, UN commissions about “Islamophobia,” and further restrictions on the freedom of speech regarding the motivating ideology behind jihad terror attacks. But the Sunni-Shi’ite jihad coming to Australia? That’s not news.

“Terrorists lose their appeals against convictions over mosque blaze,” by Adam Cooper, The Age, April 17, 2020:

Two convicted terrorists who firebombed a mosque, amid planning an Islamic State-inspired attack on Melbourne landmarks, are to spend at least 28 years in prison after losing appeals against their convictions.

Ahmed Mohamed and Abdullah Chaarani were last year found guilty of torching a Shiite mosque in Fawkner in December 2016 in what was a sectarian terror act aimed at advancing their devotion to extreme Sunni Islam.

They were each jailed for 38 years, to serve 28 years before they are eligible for parole, as they had also been earlier sentenced for planning a terror attack on Federation Square and nearby landmarks, intended for Christmas 2016.

Mohamed, 27, and Chaarani, 29, appealed against their convictions over the mosque fire, arguing a jury should have been instructed to consider the alternative, and lesser, charge of arson. They were instead found guilty of engaging in a terrorist act….

The trio’s trial heard Chaarani spray painted the words “Islamic State” on a mosque wall in Arabic and English while his two friends were inside starting the fire. The blaze caused $1.5 million damage but no one was hurt.

The men’s losses at the Court of Appeal come a fortnight after their friend, Ibrahim Abbas, lost his appeal against sentence for orchestrating the plan for the jihad-inspired attack on Federation Square….

He later argued the sentence was excessive, but the Court of Appeal found Abbas showed an attitude of “unmitigated callousness and evil” in aiming to slaughter people with machetes and improvised bombs in the name of Islaimic State….

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Filed Under: Australia, courtroom jihad, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Sunni-Shi'ite Jihad Tagged With: Abdullah Chaarani, Ahmed Mohamed, Ibrahim Abbas, Melbourne


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  1. Mural says

    Apr 18, 2020 at 4:14 pm

    Australia has decent jail time for such crimes unlike UK which seems to have lost its way.

    • Francis Weber says

      Apr 19, 2020 at 8:10 am

      You should see the filth walking the streets in Sydney Australia, why the Government ever let them in is beyond comprehension!

      • G. Fleming says

        Apr 19, 2020 at 3:48 pm

        A question I ask myself often.

      • starlightmoonbeam says

        Apr 21, 2020 at 2:05 am

        Yep, I see it every day.

    • jimjfox says

      Apr 19, 2020 at 8:25 am

      UK hasn’t lost its way- why, recently the [rotten] BBC broadcast the adhan !!

  2. gravenimage says

    Apr 18, 2020 at 5:35 pm

    Australia: Sunni Muslims who firebombed a Shi’ite mosque lose appeals against their terror convictions
    ………………….

    Well,. this at least is good.

  3. Wellington says

    Apr 18, 2020 at 5:52 pm

    Well, the silver lining in all this, dark as it overall is because wherever you have Islam devoutly enforced you have death, dismemberment, the closing of the mind, et al.—the silver lining being that Muslims killing other Muslims is most definitely preferable to Muslims killing non-Muslims.

    Islam: The worst idea over the longest period of time in man’s history. If truth prevails, a big “if” to be sure, this should read as Islam’s ultimate and final assessment, its epitaph if you will.

    What a curse Islam has been to mankind. Still is. I despise it and I have to wonder, much so, about all those who don’t. Why the Hell not?

    • jimjfox says

      Apr 19, 2020 at 8:23 am

      Concur. Absolutely. “Those who don’t” fall into two main groups- the utterly ignorant [the majority]
      & those who love Islam for its supremacy, cruelty & jihad.

  4. keith says

    Apr 18, 2020 at 7:51 pm

    Only 38 years with a non parole of 28 years.
    A bit soft as no hard labor, but at least they will be in the supermax jail with the scum of the earth.
    With luck the chinese virus will go through the jail and remove these individuals from the face of the earth.

  5. tim gallagher says

    Apr 18, 2020 at 9:51 pm

    Good to see a fairly long sentence being upheld. It is Sunday morning here in Australia and I watch an excellent current affairs program called “Outsiders” on Sky TV News. They often make the point that it is for the outsiders, who have had a gutful of the leftie, PC, woke stranglehold on the news coverage. The hosts are Rowan Dean, originally from the UK (editor of “The Spectator” magazine in Australia), Rita Panahi, from a Iranian Muslim background, but now an atheist, and James Morrow, originally from New York. It is good show and they inject quite a lot of humour into it. Today they interviewed a medical doctor from New York named Qanta Ahmed about her work with the Covid-19 virus patients. I’d never heard of her, but, as they said, she is still a Muslim, but one who is opposed to radical islam, etc. I thought people here at Jihad Watch might have come across her as she is in New York. Personally, I always have trouble with anyone who remains a Muslim. I only have the time of day for those who leave it behind, such as Nonie Darwish, Wafa Sultan and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ibn Warraq, et al. Qanta Ahmed was quite impressive. I don’t understand why people stay in Islam as I feel it is completely rotten. Maybe it is just a sense of solidarity and belonging with their family that keeps some people there. I googled Qanta Ahmed and she seems as if she might be quite well known.

    • Francis Weber says

      Apr 19, 2020 at 8:12 am

      Ever heard of honor killing?

      • tim gallagher says

        Apr 19, 2020 at 5:51 pm

        Thanks for the comment, Francis. Obviously, I, along with everyone else, have heard of Muslim honour killing. So I suppose you mean that people who remain in Islam are afraid of being murdered if they leave it. I accept that as a reason to remain in islam in certain countries, but, I think people can leave the rotting carcass that islam is if they live in western countries. I know that Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the others I mention, who have left Islam, would be under threat. Nevertheless, as I said above, I only really can be bothered with people who have left islam because I think it is rotten to the core. Muslims who talk about reforming islam are, in my opinion, wasting their time. It can’t be done. In what I wrote up above, I was mainly interested in asking people here at Jihad Watch whether they had heard of Qanta Ahmed as she was someone I had never heard of before.

  6. Jayell says

    Apr 19, 2020 at 5:10 am

    I get the impression that the underlying assumption here is that muslims are above anything but their own laws and therefore immune from normal legal sanction in this part of the world, so any sentence imposed on them by Western courts is piso facto a gross violation of their Allah-given rights of natural superiority. Well, things aren’t going to happen any differently until they either get numerical advantage. or until they can corrupt the local systems to their political advantage. They seem to have done the latter in the UK, but good to see that maybe it’s not so bad in Australia.

  7. OLD GUY says

    Apr 19, 2020 at 12:42 pm

    38 yrs. should be enough time for them to experience the harsher side of prison life, beatings, rape, murder. Oh wait that,s the good side of Islamic life. Islam is wonderful in its evil way, these young men are blessed by Allah for their terrorist actions in his name, if they die in prison on his behalf they will be rewarded with 72 virgins, how can you go wrong.

    What kind of IDIOT can believe this crap? What religion now teaches that you are rewarded for killing and destroying GODS creation. Ans. ISLAM! If Islam is truly out to kill the rest of the people on earth or enslave us, that makes islamic followers the enemy of the world, and as Imams, and Clerics put it ” may death be upon them “. Its time to but a stop to their plan of world domination before its too late.

  8. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Apr 20, 2020 at 8:21 pm

    “Just annoying that we, the taxpayers, have to house & feed them at our expense. Even more annoying that our police is tasked to protect mosques from imported a$$holes like this. This is a problem that should be kept out of the country altogether.”

    -SYM –

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