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Mosque buyers in appeal to Saudis [Jews and Buddhists want to take it over]
The Australian ^ | June 09, 2004 | Trudy Harris
Posted on 06/09/2004 10:22:59 AM EDT by SJackson
AN offshore bank account has been established by supporters of one of Australia's most hardline Islamic clerics to raise donations in Saudi Arabia to help pay for a $2.65 million mosque in southwestern Sydney.
Supporters of Sheikh Abdul Salam Mohammed Zoud are trying to raise the funds before next month's settlement date on the property, which is near their existing small prayer hall in Lakemba.
Monitored by ASIO, the prayer hall has been at the centre of controversy. Members of its congregation include alleged terrorism suspect Faheem Khalid Lodhi, charged with preparing a terrorist attack and recruiting for a terrorism group in Sydney and Pakistan.
Sheikh Zoud married French terror suspect Willie Brigitte to Australian Melanie Brown at the hall before the Frenchman's deportation last October. Other members include Bilal Khazal, charged last week with allegedly publishing terrorist material and whose release on bail triggered criticism by Attorney-General Philip Ruddock.
It is unclear if the hall will close and its growing congregation move to the larger, unused mosque in Belmore when the purchase is settled.
Sheikh Zoud - who refuses to comment on the mosque purchase - is among clerics teaching a fundamentalist form of Islam called Salafi.
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Our own people hold our own heritage against us to let things like 911 happen. Is there any doubt that the body count on 911 could have been held to just 19 (the number of Hijackers) if all the pilots had been armed and known how to use a gun in close, violent situations? Yet the handwringing, whining liberals are even now trying to pass a new and strengthened assault weapons ban and new more draconian restrictions on the single "right" which could save us all, next time! Even GWB had to be kicked in the pants to allow guns in the cockpit. It was his FAA and TSA that dragged their feet on allowing this.