If Geert Wilders comes to Australia to give some talks he is ostracised from pillar to post by the libertarians. However this piece of dirt can spread his hate speeches at will.
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Islamic extremist Wissam Haddad back on the preacher’s circuit
THE AUSTRALIANAPRIL 16, 2016 12:00AM
Paul Maley
National Security Editor
Sydney
In a nondescript community hall deep in the heart of southwestern Sydney, one of Australia’s most notorious Islamic extremists has quietly resurfaced.
Until recently Wissam Haddad was the director at Sydney’s al Risalah Islamic Centre, considered by counter-terrorism authorities to be a hub for radical preaching and a meeting point for Sydney’s small community of Islamic extremists.
Late last year Mr Haddad shut the centre’s doors, citing ongoing harassment by police and security officials.
By his own estimation, 90 per cent of al Risalah’s attendees had been approached by ASIO, including Islamic State terrorist Mohamed Elomar and a notorious associate, who were regulars there before fleeing for Syria, where they joined Islamic State.
Yesterday, Mr Haddad reappeared at a small council community hall in the Sydney suburb of Georges Hall promoting a group called Ar Ridwan Dawah Projects, which for three weeks has been holding Friday prayers at the western Sydney community centre.
Mr Haddad’s re-emergence has prompted concern among counter-terrorism authorities that al Risalah has risen, phoenix-style, from the ashes of the small Bankstown operation that for years caused police and ASIO so must angst.
Mr Haddad denies that al Risalah has been reborn. “It’s got nothing to do with al Risalah,’’ he told The Weekend Australian yesterday. “It’s not a prayer centre.’’
Mr Haddad has been promoting Ar Ridwan on his Facebook page, although he claims not to know who runs the mysterious new organisation.
“Is the personality important or the truth being delivered?’’ Mr Haddad said two weeks ago.
Yesterday, about 20 to 30 young men turned up for Friday prayers. Among them was Junaid Thorne, a controversial Islamic preacher who was convicted for using a false name to book flights.
One man, who identified himself only as Mohammed, complained about the constant police harassment he said young Muslims were now subject to as they prayed or went about their business.
“They give all the boys a hard time,’’ Mohammed said at the gates of the community centre. “They pull me over, strip search me. Mate, they’re more racist than we are. We’re not even racist.’’
Not racist perhaps, but in the case of Mohammed, deeply and violently misogynistic.
Mohammed said he served 10 years’ jail for what he called “petty shit’’. As he recounted his story he became steadily more worked up, culminating in an expletive-laden rant against the “f..king sluts’’ he says are at the heart of his woes.
“Then you get a f..king pedophile, a f..king priest playing with f..king children gets 18 months jail,’’ he said.
Mr Haddad has been relatively quiet since al Risalah shut up shop. He has avoided the media and until recently appears to have steered clear of social media.
Counter-terrorism authorities say there have been leadership tensions within Sydney’s small community of Islamic radicals, which perhaps explains why Mr Haddad has re-emerged into public view. Mr Haddad was a friend of both Elomar, who was killed last year in a drone attack while fighting with Islamic State in Raqqa, and his associate, an infamous Islamic State terrorist.
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