[ April 19, 2024 ]
So much for the notion of moderate Muslims — because the so-called moderate who was serving on Australia’s Defense Force as a religious adviser actually turned out to be quite the extremist.
As Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch found: This was a guy who opposed a ban on Sharia law in Australia and in the United States.
“He did this,” Spencer wrote, “before he was appointed a religious adviser to the [ADF]. So who decided that he was a ‘moderate’ and not an ‘extremist?’ It was no doubt simply assumed.
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You know what they say about assuming, right?
Well, Sheikh Mohamadu Nawas Saleem’s extremism didn’t really come to light until a senator found he had signed a petition in favor of the Islamic group, Hizb ut-Tahrir.
The Daily Mail Australia reported:
A Muslim imam has resigned as a taxpayer-funded Australian Defence Force religious adviser after a senator told parliament he had signed a petition in favour of Islamist extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir.
Sheikh Mohamadu Nawas Saleem quit his $717-a-day post last month, only days after Australian Conservatives Senator Cory Bernardi questioned how the government could justify employing someone who opposed democracy.
Former Iraq war veteran Bernard Gaynor, who launched a petition calling for Sheikh Saleem’s removal as Defence imam, said the government was embarrassed.
‘The government’s been very quiet about the resignation,’ he told Daily Mail Australia on Sunday.
‘They’ve been running politically correct games with in the Defence Force and they’re embarrassed by the scrutiny.’
Defence Personnel Minister Dan Tehan announced late last month Sheikh Saleem had resigned from the Religious Advisory Committee to the Services, which advises the Australian Defence Force.
His spokesman declined to detail the circumstances of the resignation in the wake of Liberal defector Senator Bernardi’s speech to parliament.
Mr Tehan’s short-lived predecessor Stuart Robert appointed Sheikh Saleem in June 2015 to his $717 a day role as a religious adviser.
Four months earlier, in February 2015, Sheikh Saleem added his name to a petition opposing then prime minister Tony Abbott’s plan to ban Hizb ut-Tahrir in Australia.
The petition argued Hizb ut-Tahrir, which supports Sharia law and has a constitution backing the death penalty for ex-Muslims, had never committed terrorist acts in Australia.
But the group’s Islamist ideology is so extreme it is banned in Germany, The Netherlands, Russia and a range of Muslim-majority nations including Indonesia Pakistan, Bangladesh and even Saudi Arabia.
You’d think someone would’ve noticed the connection with the banned group earlier, right?
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37 Comments
6 years ago
I never would have guessed he is extreme from his picture. Just looks like a regular Aussie.
6 years ago
“Australian Conservatives Senator Cory Bernardi questioned how the government could justify employing someone who opposed democracy”.
The politically correct liberal socialists have no idea what they are talking about, like the fools they are, they think that muslims will accept others and integrate with the rest of society. They never do any research even a brief look at who believes what. Voters who put the stupid into office are no better, they still haven’t figured out that an elected official is supposed to act on the behalf of those he represents, not accept payment to accept ideologies hostile to the nation. Elections have consequences, it is time that got taught in schools.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
I think we are beginning to understand why they do not,It should be taught along reading writing and arithmetic.
6 years ago
Reply to
bluewren
The school system has been taken over by idiots who think they are obligated to reinvent the wheel every few years. If it was up to public educations, civilization would be totally islam primitive.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Progressive Liberals have only one aim: to destroy our civilization. This aim is shared by Jihad.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Australian governments are normally run by platypus’s who have no interest in anything other than mud.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
Now you’ve done it, that will be featured in muslim pizza joints next.
6 years ago
I can’t believe the Australian Security Agencies ASIO and ASIC didn’t vet him thoroughly prior, or maybe even they fell into thinking “PC” and that all levels of view need to be catered for?
The amount he was being paid is quite shocking (and for what exactly?). Just at the time they take weekend penalty rates away from ordinary workers. That pay is an slap in the face to your average worker.
Hopefully the lesson is learnt and there won’t be a next time.
6 years ago
Reply to
EB
If any muslum is vetted it’s under the hubris of the lie that islum is a religion of peace.
6 years ago
Reply to
EB
To be fair and balanced here, the Australian Security Agencies and the Federal Police have in the last couple of years intercepted a number of attacks in the late stages of planning or even just prior to commencement. (By far the bulk) . If there is any difficulty I think it likely down to lack of funding and a lack of laws to eliminate ongoing threat from those extremists post. Inadequate prison sentences in increasingly radicalised prisons really isn’t cutting it. There appear to be no laws to remove people with a hatred for Australia. I am sure there will be a few MPs that will stir things up in sitting in this case and it won’t go away quietly.
Re: – My original comment. What we don’t know is if the Defense forces requested background checks by Security Agencies or if they even did any checks themselves.
6 years ago
Reply to
EB
Obama has accepted a deal with the Australian’s to take 1,000+ males that they have detained on an island and would not let them in their country from the countries that Trump as banned from traveling here. THAT WAS A SLAP IN AMERICAN’S FACE! Some of these men have mental issues. A few are due here this month! Trump said it was a bad deal! Now he is considering it! The rest are due in October. Please contact
WhiteHouse.gov and tell him “NO” , click the top R corner to contact him. Spread the word!.
6 years ago
Reply to
jaybird
I can’t believe that Obama took (or made) that deal. It stinks for everyone bar Australia and the detainees. Blame Obama for that. Simple truth is that if it wasn’t for the out of control International Human Rights they would have gone straight back to their original homes. Any attempt to just do the necessary will invoke international sanctions these days.
6 years ago
Reply to
EB
He did a lot of sneaky things, this seems to have been done last June 2016 his last year of office.
If you want to know more about the refugee situation in the US – google Ann Corcoran.
She is an activist in Maryland and has a website “Refugee Resettlement Watch”. Tells about the contractors and the church’s that our taxpayer money goes to, to support the refugees. Tells about the big meat companies that hire the refugees. Tyson’s chicken has over 700 working for them. She has been put on a list by the Southern Poverty something group (I can’t remember the whole name). I e-mailed her and told her that I think I want to go vegan after hearing that or start going to a local butcher.
I think it was in the UK that a Muslim took a container of feces and some liquid in a grocery store and sprayed the veggies.
6 years ago
Reply to
EB
The ADF is running its own pc agenda. They are still calling for the recruitment of more muslims, despite all the evidence that proves how foolish that is. Bernard Gaynor, quoted in the article, was kicked out of the ADF from his senior intelligence position. Supposedly because he criticised the ADF for allowing uniformed personnel to march in the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras when the ADF is obligated to be apolitical.
6 years ago
Reply to
purplej
The ADF have been awash with problems in the last few years, Cases of bullying, sexual harassment, rape, sexual assaults, etc. They are now to an extent running scared and bending over backwards to clean up and to demonstrate an inclusive attitude. This I am sure has resulted in recruitment selecting only the “PC” minded for top posts. I know amongst the Cadet organisations there has in the past year or so been an almost frantic search for all past Cadet records and histories, I can only presume again due to fears of cases emerging there. Add to that senior rankings that have gone through quite public gender changes and you set the lefty tone.
6 years ago
His quitting is not enough. He should be thrown out of the country. Does Australian culture need a cancerous tumor in its midst?
6 years ago
Reply to
Duck
>… You are presuming that most Australians are smarter than a cane toad …
… and you are insulting the cane toads
6 years ago
$717 per day? Not bad for a jihad seekers allowance as Anjem Choudary called the appropriation of western welfare and public sector employment systems. Aussie readers should immediately apply to get on this gravy train. Surah 9 is all the knowledge you require.
6 years ago
In other historical news, “moderate” Nawzi Marty Bormann turned out to be an extwemist as well.
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6 years ago
Bad teeth.
6 years ago
The ADF is now prostituted at polemical and upper levels by the PC nonsense of the Left, The rank and file have nothing but contempt for the leftist changes made within the ADF and the upper echelons and the government want to tread very gently here as the dissension WRT the lunatic muslim appeasement policies of the left, is escalating rapidly. While no military coup is even in the inkling, the constant refusal of sanity RT islam could change this overnight. Just ask the rank and file what they think of the “privileges” given to muslim trainees.
6 years ago
This is a rubbish government headed by the liberal leaning Malcolm Turnbull who knifed the sitting Prime Minister Tony Abbott in the back and who has held dinners for muslims (but none for Christians and Hindu’s etc) to celebrate one of their (un) holy days.. Problem is that this dog Turnbull will lose the next election to the Labor Party who will allow the boat loads of illegals to resume. Australia’s closest neighbour is Indonesia…the worlds most populous Muslim nation. We are in it deeply.
6 years ago
Like military intelligence or big shrimp, moderate moslem is an oxymoron
6 years ago
Why do you need a MUSLIM as a “religious adviser? Is this a fairly new position?
There is no such thing as a “moderate” Muslim.
Their religion supersedes a democracy or freedom. Their religion dictates that they must embrace and see Sharia Law as superior.
6 years ago
A religious advisor on a defense force and making $717 per day? Is that a misprint? Why would religious advisers even be required? We’re talking about the defense of a country right? Religion should not enter into it. But it does, doesn’t it.
I believe our brains are wired to make connections, to stereotype, but to be discerning and fair. In essence to think. Certain groups, of whom we are aware, would have us believe that that is wrong, but that IS nature. It’s survival. That is why we avoid engaging with lions or swimming with large reptiles.
Matters are very very bad, and getting worse, and there is a bottom line, a commonality, if you wish.
I pray for wisdom for mankind, or a supernova, whichever God thinks is best.
6 years ago
Turkish Leader Erdogan–There is no moderate Islam,Islam is Islam.No one seems to pay heed.
6 years ago
Obamma accepted Australia ‘s deal of taking in the boat people (men) from countries that Trump has halted, Australia refused them and detained them on an island before they could dock there. Some are due here this month! Trump said it was a bad “deal”! Now he seems to be considering it – the rest are due here in October. They have mental issues.
Everyone please send a note to Trump or tweet him to stop this deal!
WhiteHouse.gov and click the top R corner to contact. We need a big outcry over this, it is approx. 1,000+ men!
6 years ago
Forget ‘moderate’ muslims.
Will someone please explain to me what moderate islam is?
6 years ago
What a splendid demonstration of taqia. Moderates are trusted by idiots who can’t understand that they are at war with us. As I read the Qu’ran, I find more and more proof of how debased and retrograde Islam is. If only our lunatic politicians could be victims of jihad, it might just begin to reach them about what we experience when some Islunatic goes off on a jihad spree.
