(Sydney Morning Herald) Seven teenage boys allegedly belonging to a terror cell have been arrested in police raids across Sydney as part of a major counter-terrorism investigation launched after the stabbing of a Christian bishop last week. A further five people, including […]
(ABC-Australia) A teenage boy has been charged with a terrorism offence by police after he allegedly stabbed a bishop in Sydney’s south-west on Monday night. The 16-year-old allegedly stabbed Sydney bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel during a live-streamed service at Christ the Good […]
(AP) The father of a boy accused of stabbing two Christian clerics in Australia saw no signs of his son’s extremism, a Muslim community leader said on Wednesday as police began arresting suspected rioters who besieged a Sydney church demanding revenge. The […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) A 16-year-old boy who was previously suspended from school for carrying a knife and last year faced a weapons charge is at the centre of a counter-terrorism investigation after a frenzied knife attack on a bishop at the pulpit […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) A teenager has been arrested after a church leader and several worshippers were stabbed during a service in Sydney’s west on Monday night, triggering a near-riot that required hundreds of police to bring under control. Graphic footage captured on […]
(NCA NewsWire) A young girl facing a sweep of serious terror charges has fronted court for her first public hearing, hiding behind [a] long black cloth as she entered and left the court. South Australian terror cops swooped in on the Adelaide […]
(Radio NZ) A Muslim organisation wants the justice minister to explain why he is abandoning proposed hate speech law reforms that were recommended following the Christchurch mosque attack. The terror attack in 2019 left 51 people killed and 40 others seriously injured. […]
(Australian) A radical, terrorism-backing Sydney cleric who described Jewish people as “descendants of pigs and monkeys” and urged people to “spit on Israel” so that “Jews would drown” is a Saturday school principal teaching sharia to children as young as five. The […]
(NZ Herald) Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau says a review of noise limits in the capital was never intended to allow mosques to broadcast the call to prayer from loudspeakers five times a day. Whanau introduced an amendment during recent District Plan discussions […]
(Newshub) Wellington City Council is looking into if mosques should be allowed to broadcast call to prayers, even for special occasions. Councillor Nureddin Abdurahman raised the conversation, asking about how calls to prayer might be made — even for significant occasions like […]
(Age) TikTok is the only social media giant not signed up to a global anti-extremism pact, Australia’s top internet regulator says, as MPs call out the Chinese-owned company for the proliferation of graphic content stemming from the Hamas-Israel war on its platform. […]
(ABC-Australia) Australia’s eSafety commissioner has put the big social media companies on notice, demanding they do better to stop the proliferation of violent extremist material and activity on their platforms. Julie Inman Grant said YouTube-owner Google, Meta (owner of Facebook and Instagram), […]
(NCA NewsWire) A witness will be forced to give evidence against an accused Australian ISIS recruiter after she refused to do so following legal advice. The case against Neil Christopher Prakash, 32, returned before the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Monday for a […]
(ABC-Australia) Muslim community organisations are unhappy after grants announced five months ago for Muslim and Jewish communities to improve social cohesion were given to SBS, news organisation AAP and the Human Rights Commission instead of Islamic and Arab groups. The ABC has […]
(ABC-Australia) A woman charged with willingly entering Syria to be with her ISIS fighter husband will be sentenced in June after indicating to a court that she will plead guilty. So-called “ISIS-bride” Mariam Raad was arrested in January 2023 and charged with […]
(Radio NZ) Authorities’ designating the LynnMall attacker as a person of national security interest meant “the die had been cast on his future,” a coroner has heard. The Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand was the last group to make its […]
(Radio NZ) A group of officers who were surveilling LynnMall terror attacker Ahamed Samsudeen say they did not have the right equipment to prevent the attack. Samsudeen was shot 12 times by police after injuring seven people in a knife attack at […]
(Radio NZ) Authorities’ failure to provide the LynnMall terror attacker with religious support in custody may have contributed to his radicalisation and later violence, a lawyer for his family says. Ahamed Samsudeen seriously injured five people in a stabbing at a West […]
(Radio NZ) Survivors and witnesses of the LynnMall terror attack have together asked a coroner to hold a public inquest into the event. A hearing is under way in Auckland to determine the scope and form of a coronial inquiry into the […]
(Radio NZ) A hearing starts on Monday to determine the scope and form of a coronial inquiry into the death of the LynnMall terror attacker more than two years ago. Ahamed Samsudeen was fatally shot by the police after stabbing multiple people […]
(WA Today) The first Muslim woman to wear a hijab in federal parliament was forced to cancel a planned iftar dinner featuring her Labor colleagues after pushback from the West Australian Islamic community. Labor WA Senator Fatima Payman’s March 23 iftar fundraising […]
(ABC-Australia) An annual Iftar dinner hosted by the Victorian government has been cancelled after the state’s peak Islamic body criticised Premier Jacinta Allan’s position on the Israel-Gaza war. Ms Allan said she called off this year’s dinner out of respect for those […]
(Radio NZ) Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has designated the political wing of Hamas as a terrorist entity. New Zealand designated the military wing of Hamas as a terrorist entity in 2010. Foreign Minister Winston Peters said the government unequivocally condemned the “brutal” […]
(Age) The interview began unremarkably. Just after 8am on Wednesday, Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV) president Adel Salman joined ABC journalist Patricia Karvelas on RN Breakfast to explain why his organisation had asked the Victorian government to cancel an official Iftar event. […]
(Age) More than 70 Muslim community organisations have vowed to boycott the Victorian premier’s annual iftar dinner next month in protest over the ALP’s position on the Israel-Hamas conflict. The state’s peak Islamic body — the Islamic Council of Victoria — has […]
(Sky News) The government is being urged to urgently block a pro-Palestinian activist and member of a listed terrorist organisation from entering Australia. Leila Khaled is booked as a keynote speaker at the Socialist Alliance and Green Left’s Ecosocialism conference in Perth […]
(ABC-Australia) Greens senator David Shoebridge has labelled comments by the Australian Federal Police as “chilling” and “extraordinary” after it defended its handling of terror charges against an autistic teenager. The 13-year-old boy had become fixated with the Islamic State terror group ISIS […]
(Iran International) Australia says it will not tolerate Iran’s attempts to suppress dissent abroad amid threats by regime officials to Australian citizens. In a statement communicated to Iran International, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs emphasized that “Australia does not tolerate, under […]
(Sky News) A radical Islamic preacher has started a firebrand speaking tour of Australia by calling on Muslim doctors to “take advantage” of their “kaffir” patients, lashing the government for legislating matters that are “only the right of Allah to legislate” and […]
(ABC-Australia) A Sydney man has been ordered to surrender personalised number plates that appear to reference the October 7 attacks by Hamas on Israel. A utility vehicle with the registration number “OCT7TH” was spotted in Sydney’s west on Wednesday afternoon. Tom, who […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) NSW Premier Chris Minns has been accused of “specifically targeting” the Muslim community after he flagged a review of hate speech laws, with an extraordinary letter from the Australian National Imams Council (ANIC) saying it would deepen feelings of […]
(AAP) A man accused of terrorism-related offences will again be granted bail despite facing allegations that he breached the conditions of his release. Ahmed Luqman Talib was arrested by the Australian Federal Police in Victoria in March 2021, then aged 31, and […]
(Iran International) In spite of Iranian denials, the Australian government admits it is “concerned” by Iran’s ongoing espionage activities. A spokeswoman for Australia’s Home Affairs Department told Iran International: “Last year, the Australian government made it clear that it is concerned by […]
(Reuters) Laws banning the Nazi salute and the display or sale of symbols associated with terror groups came into effect in Australia on Monday as the government responds to a rise in antisemitic incidents following the Israel-Gaza war. The law makes it […]
(Times of Israel) Recordings of a recent Friday sermon at the Masjid as-Sunnah Lakemba Mosque in Sydney, Australia, show Imam Ahmad Zoud making antisemitic comments, saying Jews are bloodthirsty, treacherous “monsters.” The December 22 sermon, broadcast live on the mosque’s Facebook page, […]
(NCA NewsWire) Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah claims one of two Australian men killed by an air strike in southern Lebanon was one of its fighters. Ali Bazzi, 30, was killed after a suspected Israeli air strike hit a two-storey building in the […]
(Sky News) NSW Police say they are monitoring Al Rahman Mosque as it holds a commemorative service for Hezbollah fighter Hussein Ibrahim Salameh, known as Nasser, killed in Lebanon this month. On Christmas Eve, Hezbollah announced six militants were killed between December […]
(NCA NewsWire) Convicted terror cell leader Abdul Nacer Benbrika will be banned from the MCG for life after he was released from prison days before the Boxing Day cricket test. The notorious Muslim cleric walked free from Barwon Prison on Tuesday after […]
(ABC-Australia) Convicted Australian terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika has been released into the community after spending nearly two decades in prison. On Tuesday morning, Victorian Supreme Court justice Elizabeth Hollingworth granted Benbrika’s release on an extended supervision order for 12 months. His movements […]
(Dominion Post) An Islamic marriage contract or nikah is enforceable under New Zealand law, but needs cultural context, the Court of Appeal has decided. It is the first time the question of enforceability of a nikah — under which a husband is […]
(ABC-Australia) A 16-year-old schoolboy is now eligible to apply for parole after pleading guilty to multiple terrorism offences, including possessing “extremely graphic and quite disturbing” videos. The boy, who was aged 14 at the time of the offending and cannot be named […]
(Age) Legislation that gives judges power to strip terrorists of their dual Australian citizenship will be introduced into federal parliament next week, as the government scrambles to reclaim the political agenda after weeks of criticism over its handling of immigration policy and […]
(Newshub) Aotearoa’s largest Islamic association has called on the incoming government to expel the Israeli ambassador to New Zealand. The Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand (FIANZ) wrote to both the incoming and caretaker prime ministers, Christopher Luxon and Chris Hipkins, […]
(Radio NZ) The New Zealand Muslim community says spyware at a government ministry could be used to eavesdrop on local Palestinians communicating with family in Gaza. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) uses internet-scouring tools developed by an Israeli company, […]
(NCA NewsWire) A convicted terrorist has had his sentence slashed by six years after a panel of judges found it was “excessive.” Abdullah Chaarani, 33, returned before the Court of Appeal on Monday, showing little reaction as he learnt his appeal was […]
(AAP) A Melbourne man who admitted setting two bushfires while declaring civilians would be “tasted by the fire of Allah” has been found not guilty of attempting to commit terrorist acts. But jurors found Aran Sherani guilty of doing acts in preparation […]
(News.com.au) A Sydney Islamic preacher who delivered a fiery sermon that defended Hamas for murdering 1400 Israeli civilians has caught the attention of police. “Brother Ismail” delivered the controversial sermon, which was uploaded on YouTube, at the Al Madina Dawah Centre in […]
(NCA NewsWire) A legal battle to bring a group of Australian women and their children stuck in a refugee camp in Syria back home to Australia has been rejected by the Federal Court. A group of 20 Australian children and 11 women […]
(NCA NewsWire) One of Australia’s most infamous domestic terrorists has won a legal bid to restore his citizenship. Abdul Nacer Benbrika launched a High Court bid to the legality of the former Morrison government’s powers to strip citizenship for convicted terrorists as […]
(JTA) The premier of New South Wales, the Australian state that is home to Sydney, apologized to the Jewish community on Wednesday as they reeled from a pro-Palestinian protest that included “gas the Jews” and “f— the Jews” chants. Chris Minns said […]
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