Posted on 03/08/2006 3:18:08 PM PST by Mount Athos
A RADICAL Islamic group is infiltrating Australian mosques, distributing inflammatory pamphlets urging Muslims to rise up against Australian troops in Iraq and support the insurgency. Hizb ut-Tahrir is telling local Muslims that coalition forces in Iraq are responsible for the mosque bombing in Samarra last month that left the nation on the brink of civil war.
The group - a hardline political faction banned in Britain, Germany and other countries -- is using Friday prayer meetings, traditionally compulsory for all Muslims, to distribute flyers inciting hatred against the West.
According to one of the group's Arabic-English pamphlets, obtained by The Australian on Friday outside Lakemba Mosque in Sydney's southwest, the occupying forces in Iraq, which includes the 1320-strong Australian contingent, bombed the Shia mosque in Samarra.
"It is the occupying forces, with America at their head, who are behind the incidences of killing civilians, bombing markets and mosques, abducting scholars and killing those who are sincere to the Deen (religion)," says the four-page flyer.
The pamphlet blames the coalition forces for creating divisions between Sunnis and Shi'ites and driving a wedge between the two Islamic sects, historically opposed to each other's ideology and religious interpretation.
"What happened in Samarra was of the planning and execution of the occupying forces," the flyer says.
"However what is worse and more detestable is the occupying forces achieve their objective by making the Muslims, Sunni and Shia, fight among each other."
The circulation of such propaganda is typical of the Australian arm of Hizb ut-Tahrir (Party of Liberation), which has praised suicide bombers as martyrs.
The radical group has been criticised by John Howard and investigated by ASIO.
ASIO told Attorney-General Philip Ruddock last year there was not enough evidence to designate Hizb ut-Tahrir as a terrorist organisation.
But the new anti-terror laws have lowered the threshold for proscription of organisations to include groups that advocate terrorist acts, rather than being involved in planning or carrying out terrorist acts.
Hizb ut-Tahrir's website says the party does not "advocate or engage in violence".
But the flyer has a different message, saying: "We urge you to make the calamity of Samarra as a motivator to repel the invaders and that you take them as enemies."
Mr Ruddock expressed alarm yesterday after being sent a copy of Hizb ut-Tahrir's flyer by The Australian.
"The Attorney-General would be concerned about any material distributed in our Australian community that would be seen to be advocating or inciting terrorism or violence," a spokeswoman said.
Hizb ut-Tahrir was set up by a Palestinian judge in 1953 to inspire the creation of a Khalifah (Caliphate) state ruled by a Muslim leader. The party's Sydney arm lists more that 200 members.
Hizb ut-Tahrir spokesman Wassim Doureihi refused to comment yesterday. However, one member of the group agreed to talk on condition of anonymity.
"The group tries to target the entire Muslim community (in Sydney) through different mosques," he said.
"Usually after Friday prayer, members hand out our pamphlets outside mosques."
Ahmad Kamaledine, president of the Lebanese Muslim Association, responsible for Lakemba Mosque, said he was opposed to Hizb ut-Tahrir circulating their flyers outside the mosque but had no authority to stop them.
"We don't support any type of material being handed out in the mosque," he said.
"However, we have no jurisdiction over what gets handed out outside the mosque, because it's in a public place."
Gee, I'm glad that can't happen in mosques here in the US.
Your post was completed 2 min. before mine so I hit abuse on myself.
I guess this makes me a self abuser, LOL.
Ping....
This is strange. If one were to ask the Imam, then one would find out that Shi'a are "not Muslims." I don't see why these guys would have a problem with a Sunni-Shi'a shootout.
That's "over there".
It would never happen here. Islam in America is a peaceful religion. I heard that from our president on FOX.
I has to be true...
(I know sad, a bush bot attempt, but I'm trying.)
Too slow on the draw! I'm the fastest poster in the west.
We know who and what they are, ASIO are patient, they'll gather what they need and then they'll haul them in. We have already tailored the law to fit the crime, hehehe.
That's "over there".
It would never happen here. Islam in America is a peaceful religion. I heard that from our president on FOX.
I has to be true...
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Islam IS hate. Our pandering President is looking more and more like a fool for that ole statement...and just ask the ghosts of the 3000 dead on 9/11. Their opinion of Islam would not be repeatable here...
The Australian/American Gun Law Debate
http://www.gabriellereillyweekly.com/gabrielle_reilly/politics/gun_laws_australia_america.htm
They aren't 'infiltrating' mosques...it's the religion that appeals to those who love death...
Like moths to a flame...
Oh, darn....and Australian citizens caught without the ability to own guns.......
And in the US, you shoot people handing out leaflets outside a mosque without question or investigating their bona-fides, content or legallity, hmmmm?
My my what big teeth you have, and such a big mouth!
I would think that by now the average Australian would be getting a bit more "in" to the gun issue.
Funny. You all know the MSM is nothing but bullsh*te, the stuff the NRA puts out is skewed to suit its own agenda, the information you get about Australian statistics is manipulated so as to be unrecognizable - and yet you swallow it wholesale.
I posted two links that tell the simple story. My daughter works in the 'Outback' she never leaves home without her weapon. She has a licence. And while the weapon is in the home it's kept in a secure place.
Nothing, not even islam gets me more hot under the collar than the stupid lies and misconceptions about Australia and its gun laws.
Read the links, the info is available.
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
Czech TV Documentary Enrages Muslims ( seethe-o-meter alert! )
A television documentary has enraged Muslims in the Czech Republic by taking a hidden camera into a mosque and filming the real opinions of the local Muslim community: “I have to say with 100 percent certainty that by using hidden camera I have learned things that I would never have learned otherwise,” he says. “The result was alarming, and if not for the hidden camera, I would have never had any of this footage.”
CTV documentary angers Muslims. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) link: 121 comments
They should be outraged at what is being said in the mosques, not at the fact that it was exposed.
Re: Steve Emerson's video? ( 1994 Frontline )
Snippet of synopsis:
Hidden cameras inside *American* mosques reveal Islamic militants raising funds for Hamas, baying for the blood of Jews. Even something so innocent as a summer camp for boys is turned into terror training by these apostles of jihad. (Catch the little arab boy hissing "Butcher the Jews!" during that segment.)
Thats right... make all of 'them' that are 'over here' your enemy too ya bigot.
The pollyanna RoP people irritate me to in overplaying their hand with how 'peaceful' islam is... I also loath racist bigots who seek to make millions of more enemys for my country because of their own personal issues.
By the simple act of reading from the unholy koran any muslim or self styled cleric, sheik, imam, mullah or mufti is practicing hate speech. The koran is, as we almost all know by now, a terrorist manual.
The entire cult literature needs to be put on trial.
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