Australia: Radical Islam recruitment and a call for Muslims to kill Australians
A small but high-risk group of radicals in Australia are causing concern to Corrective Services by preaching a misrepresented Islam to Aboriginal inmates in prisons. Sheikh Omar Habbouche said Islam was taught face-to-face and knowledge needed to be properly explained. He cited British soldier Lee Rigby's murder as being due to a wildly misinterpreted sentence in the Koran ‘kill unbelievers wherever you see them’. On Monday IS called for Australian Muslims to kill Australians indiscriminately. On Tuesday Melbourne Police shot dead a ‘known terror suspect’ after he stabbed two officers in a chaotic scuffle. Last Thursday 800+ police were involved in a security operation in Sydney and Brisbane to thwart an IS plot to behead a member of the public. Two men recently photographed holding the severed heads of Syrian soldiers were Australian IS members. (The Aboriginal recruitment article was reported by the Australian Prayer Network.)
- Pray: for Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to have much wisdom in using the much tougher counter terrorism measures proposed in parliament on Wednesday 24th. (Pr.2:12)
- More: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2014/09/australia-police-shoot-dead-terrorism-suspect-2014923222433282444.html