The standard hanky-wringing pabulum from the tilty-headed morons advocating for so-called ‘ISIS brides’ to be turned loose on the country they rejected so violently takes two forms – each as cretinous as the other.
The first is to witter that ‘they were teenagers who made a mistake’. No, teenagers who make mistakes do things like crashing mum and dad’s car on a joyride, or sneaking in to the liquor cabinet. These swivel-eyed Mohammedan fanatics saw ISIS videos of beheadings, immolations and Yazidi girls being sold into sex slavery and decided they wanted in on the action.
The second is to blub crocodile tears about ‘but won’t somebody think of the children?’ This is as disingenuous as any time somebody blithers about ‘think of the children’. This is, as Michael Reagan wrote, “an emotional and irrational appeal made in desperation by those who don’t have a reasonable or legitimate argument”. It also ignores that these ‘children’ are now hulking grown jihadis who’ve been stewed their entire lives in a feverish brew of the most violent extremism imaginable.
An accused Australian ISIS bride seeking freedom on bail had allegedly filmed herself training her toddlers how to use a rifle and demanded they show her how jihadist fighters “slaughter” an infidel.
Does anyone seriously think this family will ever be productive, peace-loving contributors to Australia? If so, then I invite them to move in with the Jihadi Joneses right next door, with no police on call.
The disturbing clips were not aired in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court because playing the footage would have distressed the 34-year-old accused, Rayann El Houli.
Yes, well, being caught in the act is often distressing to the criminally indefensible.
Instead, Ms El Houli teared up as harrowing transcripts of the videos she allegedly captured in Syria were read aloud.
She faces charges of being a member of a terrorist organisation and entering a declared conflict zone after allegedly fleeing Melbourne to join the caliphate in 2014.
Ms El Houli allegedly recorded her young children being exposed to violent extremist media. In one video she allegedly quizzed her eldest child, then a toddler, about what happens to “disbelievers”. When the child did not initially answer, she prompted them multiple times until the child repeated: “In the hellfire”.
In another clip her children – then aged just two years and nine months and one year and nine months – watched an ISIS production threatening to “fill your streets with terror” in the West. The accused then asked the youngest: “What does the Mujahid do to the infidel?”
Only days later she allegedly filmed the eldest playing with a toy rifle, coaching the toddler on how to hold it like a “fighter” and demanding:
“Did you see how the Mujahideen kill the Kuffar (infidels) with the knife? Look at me. How did they slaughter them with the knife? Look at me, how do they slaughter the apostate? Show me how.”
Police also found photos from 2018 of an AK-47 left unsecured against a wall right next to where her young children slept.
With astonishing chutzpah even for a lawyer, her high-profile defence lawyer, Peter Morrissey SC, told the court his client was no threat. After all, the videos were recorded 10 years ago! No doubt in the years since she joined the Syrian branch of the CWA, took up knitting for the poor and learned how to make the perfect scone.
If you believe that, you probably also believe that ‘Palestine’ is a queer-friendly feminist collective.
The AFP are fiercely opposing bail, stating she is an unacceptable risk to public safety and noting that since her return to Melbourne, Ms El Houli has flatly refused to participate in the government’s Counter Violent Extremism counselling program.
The defence paints her as a victim of strict “marital coercion”. Yet she chose three successive ISIS fighters as husbands, stayed after the first two were killed and personally indoctrinated her toddlers in the fine points of beheading apostates. That is not coercion. That is commitment.
Letting this woman out on bail, even with ‘stringent conditions’ and supervision by her mother, is as lunatic as thinking socialism will work next time. No wonder the Albanese government are so keen to inflict these hijabi harridans on innocent Australians.
The state’s duty is not to rehabilitate the irredeemable at public risk. It is to protect the public from people who have already shown exactly what they think of our laws, our values and our lives. Rayann El Houli and her family belong behind bars or on the first plane out, not in a Melbourne suburb with jihadi offspring and a seething hatred of everything we hold dear.
