Posted on 10/23/2009 1:52:09 AM PDT by Cindy
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The Mystery Mufti is No Great Sheik
By Janet Fife-Yeomans
HE CALLS himself Mufti Sheik Haron and purports to be a Muslim cleric, a Shia spiritual leader.
But despite an extensive website and swamping everyone from the Prime Minister to Qantas and ASIO with letters over the past two years, Sheik Haron is coy about his real identity and his past.
He is rarely seen, usually speaks on YouTube through a 28-year-old recent convert to Islam, the niqabwearing Sister Amirah. And no one in Sydney’s Muslim community knows who he is. But 10 years ago, he was much more forthcoming.
As Ayatollah Manteghi Boroujerdi, the tall, bearded Iranian chained himself to the railings outside the NSW Parliament in Macquarie St where he lived in a tent for several weeks in a bid to persuade the Federal Government to put pressure on Iran to let his family join him in Australia.
Boroujerdi later changed his name, becoming known as Sheik Haron.
As at May 2008, the NSW Government Gazette showed he had a company called Daftar-E-Ayatollah Manteghi Boroujerdi Incorporated.
Following Victoria’s bushfires, he wrote to Kevin Rudd blaming the fires on the Government’s refusal to condemn the Bali bombers execution.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw-act
>”I think they knew who he was...until he embarrassed them, now, suddenly they don’t remember him.”
Quite possible.
>”But here he is reciting arabic poetry in Sydney”
I just watched the YouTube video link you posted. He definitely sounds Iranian. The poem is in Farsi not Arabic.
A couple of thoughts:
- Presumably the Australian government did a thorough background check on him before letting him in, and before granting him citizenship. So, the Australian government must know who he is or at least claimed to be.
- Based on the date of the article published by the Australian (28th Jan. 2008). This Sheikh, first, insulted the family of an Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan in November (November 2007 ?). I think his arrest and trial is long overdue.
I think he may very well be an Iranian government plant. Not unusual for IRI to send its people to other countries, often pretending to be “dissidents”. In any case, if this “sheikh” did lie about his background/identity before being granted residence or citizenship, under current Australian laws, and if convicted, it would mean that his citizenship can be revoked and he can be deported.
Some people just need killin’
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