Denies any wrongdoing... Mansour Leghaei
Posted on 11/28/2004 6:38:33 AM PST by miltonim
A LEADING Islamic cleric was discovered returning to Sydney with a 150-page notebook on tactics for warfare, intelligence and martyrdom, a court has been told.
Denies any wrongdoing... Mansour Leghaei
ASIO translated Mansour Leghaei's notebook, which focuses on "infiltration, deception tactics, martyrdom and the euphoria of fighting a jihad outside one's borders".
Details of the notebook are contained in documents lodged in a Federal Court case brought by Sheik Leghaei to stop his deportation.
ASIO has twice assessed Sheik Leghaei, who runs an education centre and charity in suburban Sydney, as a risk to national security, leading to multiple visa cancellations.
Questioned about spying
ASIO has interviewed the Iranian-born Shi'ite cleric at least three times since he arrived in Australia with his wife and children in 1994. During one interview, officers repeatedly asked him if he had spied on Iranian dissidents, students or opposition groups in Australia for the Iranian Government or its embassy.
They also asked if he had met members of the Iranian Intelligence Service and about his knowledge of terrorist group Ahlul-Bait.
Sheik Leghaei denied any wrongdoing. His counsel has told the court the cleric was treated unfairly during those interviews because ASIO refused to explain why it was questioning him.
Peter Hanks QC argued that the court should quash ASIO's 2004 assessment against Sheik Leghaei or declare it void because of this lack of procedural fairness.
One section of the notebook, which customs officers photocopied after discovering it in his luggage at Sydney airport in 1996, asks: "With whom should a holy war be fought?
"The enemies of Islam are to be categorised under three headings: 1, the infidels who do not accept the Koran as the Book of Heaven. 2, the oppressive and the unjust and whoever takes up arms against the Prophet. 3, heathens living in the Islamic countries who have broken the agreement to pay tribute to the Muslims."
'University notes'
Sheik Leghaei says in his affidavit that the notebook contains his handwritten notes from a textbook he read while a university student in Iran.
The notebook relates to the former Iraqi regime's invasion of Iran, he says. And ASIO's translation from Farsi and Arabic into English was "seriously flawed".
The hearing in Canberra was adjourned yesterday to give ASIO and the Department of Immigration more time to file further evidence.
The Australian
Evil man.
A cleric for the religion of peace? I'm shocked.
I'm sure the ACLU and CAIR will be right on it.
I'm sure it's just a misunderstanding
Sheiks my @ss.
Must be the black sheep of the family.
"Sheik Leghaei denied any wrongdoing."
That is because to the true believers jihad is the highest truth, therefore it can't be wrong.
Qur’an 2:216 “Jihad (holy fighting in Allah’s Cause) is ordained for you (Muslims), though you dislike it. But it is possible that you dislike a thing which is good for you, and like a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knows, and you know not.” [Another translation reads:] “Warfare is ordained for you.”
Qur’an 4:95 “Not equal are those believers who sit at home and receive no injurious hurt, and those who strive hard, fighting Jihad in Allah’s Cause with their wealth and lives. Allah has granted a rank higher to those who strive hard, fighting Jihad with their wealth and bodies to those who sit (at home). Unto each has Allah promised good, but He prefers Jihadists who strive hard and fight above those who sit home. He has distinguished his fighters with a huge reward.”
Bukhari:V4B52N44 “A man came to Allah’s Apostle and said, ‘Instruct me as to such a deed as equals Jihad in reward.’ He replied, ‘I do not find such a deed.’”
http://www.prophetofdoom.net/quotes1.html#jihad
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Deportation? Prison? Execution? Let him off with a warning? Freep this poll. :')
Now Jan, we must not be so hasty to judge this obviously pious Muslim. It seems obvious to me that he needed his notes on warfare and martyrdom to carry out his "religious duties." Lets be more tolerant of the intolerant.
Why just the other day I had a conversation with a poster right here on FReep that thought "we all worship the same god, in our own way" and "there should not be a problem with this."
BTW, have you hugged a terrorist today? ;o)
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