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2003-12-22 Down Under

Sheikh al-Hilali sez radical Australian clerics are Binnyâs followers

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Posted by Dan Darling 2003-12-22 12:41:02 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hilali has made plenty of extremist statements of his own in the past, especially about the jooos, but he seems to have mellowed in his old age, around the same time that Salifis like Sheikh Omran have been growing in popularity here.

Posted by Paul Moloney 2003-12-22 12:50:10 AM|| 2003-12-22 12:50:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "...accusing Sheikh Hilali of bringing hatred..."
Has that smell of pro-active. Rantburg got anything on this Omran guy?

Posted by Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-22 12:54:01 AM|| 2003-12-22 12:54:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Yep, look here. He seems like the Australian version of Qazi to me, though I give Hilali a gold star for taking him to task on this.

Posted by Dan Darling 2003-12-22 1:00:59 AM|| [http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com] 2003-12-22 1:00:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Glenn, if you have some time to spare, you can watch an Australian current affairs program's report on him here, and you'll need to have Real Player.

To summarise the story, he is a man who is buddies with Abu Qatada and Abu Dada, the al Qaeda spiritual leaders of Europe and Spain respectivily. Some of his followers are known to have gone to Afghanistan training camps. However, Omran claims to be in regular contact with the Australian intelligence service ASIO, and that when some Indonesian terrorists came to him asking for their blessing to carry out an attack in Australia, he told them it was forbidden.
So he probably is an al-Qaeda spiritual leader, but the Australian authorities seem to think that it is better to have someone who is willing to cooperate with them act as the local Jihadi leader, rather than someone who is less 'pragmatic'.

Posted by Paul Moloney 2003-12-22 1:03:56 AM|| 2003-12-22 1:03:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 DD#3 Thanx, yeah, I was in mid-thought when I realized I shoulda looked him up first. Something new under the sun: an opportunistic fundo NIMBY. Methinks if asked to choose between the two I would not.

I don't do Real Player. Tried for a while, got tired of it taking over everything. It was a pain to stamp out, too. Almost as bad as QuickTime.

Posted by Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-22 1:27:08 AM|| 2003-12-22 1:27:08 AM|| Front Page Top

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