(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 […]
(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 […]
(Age) Three men who planned to shoot and kill innocent members of the public were unlikely to have plotted a terror attack if not for the inducement of a covert police operative, a judge has ruled. However, brothers Ertunc and Samed Eriklioglu […]
(Age) Every time terrorism survivor Rod Patterson closes his eyes, the memory of the 2018 Bourke Street attack is still vivid. Mr Patterson was stabbed to the head as he ran to help someone he thought was the victim of a car […]
(Age) A terror plotter has been depicted by his lawyer as “a simple soul” who made a mistake getting involved in a plan to gun down people in Melbourne and lacked commitment to his cause. Brothers Samed and Ertunc Eriklioglu and friend […]
(Age) A man who, with two friends, planned to buy an assault rifle to gun down people in Melbourne lacked the fanaticism of other terror plotters and is now “ashamed” of his actions, his lawyer has told a court. Hanifi Halis was […]
(Age) On a Friday night in 2018, as Melbourne reeled from the terror attack hours earlier in Bourke Street, Ertunc Eriklioglu excitedly told his brother and their friend about what he had seen and read in the news. “That’s amazing,” Eriklioglu said […]
(Age) An aspiring terrorist who planned to kill new year’s revellers at Melbourne’s Federation Square has had his prison term increased by six years on appeal. Ali Khalif Shire Ali, younger brother of Bourke Street attacker Hassan Khalif Shire Ali, intended to […]
(Age) The brother of the man who killed restaurant owner Sisto Malaspina in the Bourke Street terror attack has been jailed for a decade over his own plan to kill New Year’s revellers in Federation Square in the name of Islamic State. […]
(Age) In an unassuming family home in the heart of Werribee, a 16-year-old boy watched the atrocities of Islamic State with his brother for up to three hours each night. Videos of beheadings and bloody executions in the Middle East consumed his […]
(Age) A failed Melbourne terrorist says the death of his terrorist brother in the Bourke Street attack was the “icing on the cake” in realising his plan to kill innocent people at Federation Square was wrong all along. New Year’s Eve terror […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Australian voters are split on whether to cut the number of migrants coming from Muslim countries, as the Morrison government considers an overhaul of immigration and population rules within weeks. A special Fairfax-Ipsos survey finds only 14 per cent […]
(Age) An Islamic centre in Melbourne’s north that has been linked to the Bourke Street attacker and Christmas Day terror plot is seeking council approval to accommodate up to 500 people at once as its community grows. The Hume Islamic Youth Centre […]
(Age) One of Victoria’s largest Islamic youth centres has rejected suggestions it is linked to terrorism after it was revealed the Bourke Street attacker was a regular visitor. Hume Islamic Youth Centre spokesman Mustafa Abu Yusuf told the Age the centre’s open-door […]
(Age) Prime Minister Scott Morrison has attacked the “lame excuse” of blaming mental health problems for Friday’s horrific attack in Melbourne by Hassan Khalif Shire Ali, after the killer’s family said he was “crying for help” and should not be the subject […]
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