Time and again, we’re lectured that this or that swiveled-eyed Muslim hate preacher ‘doesn’t represent the moderate mainstream’. Legacy media repeatedly refer to them as ‘self-styled’ leaders.
Bullshit.
What the legacy media are either completely ignorant of, or deliberately lying about, is how the Islamic clerisy works. Unlike, say, Catholicism, where priests are trained, appointed and promoted by a strict hierarchy representing a central authority (the Vatican), Islamic clerics are not. Islamic clerics are neither officially ordained, although some religious schools certify scholarship, nor appointed by a central authority. Rather, they are elected by their communities or by informal councils.
So, when a preacher spouts unhinged hate, we must take it as read that their community approves.
With that in mind, here are just two of the hate-clerics that Australian Muslims very clearly approve of – and who have the ear of clueless governments.
A Sydney cleric who repeatedly praised Hezbollah fighters and the Iranian regime now accused of sponsoring young men to allegedly set an Australian synagogue ablaze was hand-picked by NSW Health as a trusted community voice and promoted by NSW high schools.
Do you wonder now why the two nurses in Sydney were so comfortable with openly spouting Jew-hatred?
The same preacher has reportedly proclaimed Israel as “the evil Zionist regime”, described the US as “big devil America” and celebrated a founder of Hezbollah’s military wing years after Australia proscribed it a terrorist organisation – all before repeated endorsements by the NSW government.
The Australian can reveal that NSW Health selected Sheik Nami Farhat al-Ameli, the head of the Al-Hadi Shia Islamic Centre in inner-west Arncliffe, to produce several videos in English and Arabic that NSW Health then published as part of official community outreach during the 2021 Covid-19 outbreak.
Videos which probably not even YouTube would allow.
Earlier this month, YouTube deleted Mr Farhat’s channel for “severe or repeated violations of [its] violent criminal organisations policy”, he posted on X.
No doubt the NSW government would plead ignorance – but, if so, why did they suddenly scrub all of his content, when they realised they’d been caught out?
After questions from The Australian, NSW Health began deleting all of its public content referring to Mr Farhat.
A guilty conscience needs no accusing.
We might also begin to suspect why the NSW government was so soft, for so long, on violent Islamic anti-Semitism in Sydney.
At least two NSW public schools further disseminated the videos to their communities, including Blacktown North Public School and Glendenning Public School.
Two years earlier, James Cook Boys Technology High School invited Mr Farhat to its fourth annual multicultural iftar in May 2019, which now-Premier Chris Minns and now-Minister for Multiculturalism Steve Kamper attended.
This, with a creep who was too radical even for the Obama administration.
US authorities denied his visa application in 2012 after he applied to speak at an Islamic conference, the conference said.
In the same week that the government finally admitted that Iran was sponsoring anti-Jewish terrorism in Australia, the NSW government was toadying to a virulently pro-Iranian hate preacher.
In 2018, Mr Farhat reportedly praised Hezbollah’s former second-in-charge and founder of its External Security Organisation, Imad Mughniyeh, at a memorial service for Mughniyeh’s mother – 15 years after the Australian government designated it a terrorist organisation […]
In February 2018, Mr Farhat marked the 39th anniversary of Iran’s Islamist revolution with previous Iranian ambassador to Australia Abdul Hussein Vahaji, at which Mr Farhat cut an Iranian flag-themed cake with Vahaji and reportedly said that the revolution changed the world order and protected Muslims in the region from terrorism.
“We publicly support Iran. We publicly support all the people of the world who are standing against the arrogant powers. And yes, we publicly support, emotionally support, Hezbollah,” Mr Farhat declared in 2018.
He’s not the only foaming jihadi Jew-hater feted by the local Islamic community.
A Zionist-loathing cleric has delivered an extraordinary sermon declaring his support for an overseas Islamic state and sharia law, all while raising millions of dollars to build a sprawling $6.9m Islamic “sanctuary” in Melbourne’s north.
Sheik Abu Hamza, also known as Samir Mohtadi, told followers in a recent online lecture that Australian Muslims should leave the country if they seek the establishment of a khalifa (caliphate), warning the rule of Allah could not be brought on Australian soil and that under strict sharia punishments much of the Islamic community would face brutal penalties.
The self-styled cleric, who The Australian first revealed is spearheading a multimillion-dollar mega Islamic development on a 12ha site in Mickleham after calling Zionists “scavengers” and “bloodsucking humans”, said calls for an Islamic state in Australia ignored the Prophet’s teaching that Muslims should not live among “polytheists”.
And this is the crazy that the Victorian government is showering with half a million in taxpayer’s money to build his massive jihad-recruitment centre.
In 2009, the hardline cleric came under fire for advising a male audience in Sydney that they could force their wives to have sex and beat them if they were disobedient, which led prime minister Kevin Rudd to condemn him and demand an apology.
And yet, here he still is, leading the Australian Muslim community.
What are we to conclude from that?
