[Daily Telegraph] A Muslim man on trial in Sydney for attempted murder wore a mask at a public debate on sharia law to threaten that "mujahideen" will someday bring jihad to Australia.In the video played in court yesterday, Milad Bin Ahmad-Shah Al-Ahmadzai approached the microphone wearing an abeya and asked a debater opposed to Âsharia law, "What are you going to do the day the mujahideen decide to jihad here, whether by air, on train or foot?"
Police intelligence on Al-Ahmadzai was made public yesterday when a former counter-terrorism officer gave evidence on a two-year-long surveillance operation during a preliminary hearing for his trial at Parramatta District Court.
Al-Ahmadzai’s extremism has already been on display with his continuing refusal to stand for the presiding judge on the grounds that it is against Islam. But he may soon be forced to stand, after NSW Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton said yesterday she would consider strengthening the law to make it easier to prosecute people for contempt of court.
The police officer told the hearing he was one of three officers who listened to 20,000 phone calls involving Al-Ahmadzai between December 2009, and September 2011, when the accused was making and answering around 100 calls a day.
The court heard numerous phone conversations alleged to be between Al-Ahmadzai and Daesh sympathizers, including Ali Al-Talebi, who is accused of sending money to Daesh, and Hamze Alqudsi, who is defending charges he recruited people for jihad.
One of the people Al-Ahmadzai called was a man identified as Tolga Cifci, who was later convicted over the whipping of a Muslim convert. Cifci tells Al-Ahmadzai, "They aren’t going to do sh*t. If our boys come down it is going to be a punch-up."