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Is this one of those ‘peaceful, moderate Muslims’ Pauline Hanson is being so roundly castigated for wondering if they exist?
A man has been charged with terrorism offences after he was allegedly found in possession of devices containing “violent extremist material” during a traffic stop in Sydney late last year.
Abdallah El Chami, 31, was arrested after his car was pulled over by police in Yagoona in Sydney’s south west on December 31, 2025.
This is separate from the headline-grabbing incident less than a fortnight earlier, where counter-terrorism police dramatically rammed two carloads of young Muslim men. The cars were allegedly en route to Bondi, where dozens of Jewish Australians were massacred by two Muslim men just days before.
Upon searching the Toyota sedan, officers allegedly found and seized drugs, cash and three mobile phones.
Mr El Chami was taken to Bankstown Police Station where he was charged with supplying a prohibited drug, recklessly dealing with the proceeds of crime less than $5000 and using a vehicle that did not comply with standards.
He was refused police bail and spent New Year’s Eve in custody. On January 1, he faced Bail Division Local Court, where he was granted conditional bail.
Police, with assistance from the Counter Terrorism & Special Tactics Command, examined the three mobile phones seized during the December traffic stop and allegedly found violent extremist material on one of them.
Police this week executed a raid in Western Sydney – where else? No doubt, in search of more of these ‘good Muslims’.
About 6am on Wednesday, police executed a search warrant on a Bass Hill home in south west Sydney.
Police video shows officers rapping on the front door of the house and shouting, “police search warrant, open the door”.
When their calls go unanswered, officers force their way inside, ordering the occupants to “get on the ground” as they rush in.
The footage then shows Mr El Chami sitting shirtless and handcuffed on the front steps after he was was arrested by police. After being allowed inside to get dressed, the 31-year-old was led out of the house and locked in the back of a police vehicle.
Police allegedly found and seized multiple mobile phones and storage devices, as well as a knife, during the search.
Mr El Chami was taken to Bankstown Police Station, where he was charged with using a carriage service to possess violent extremist material and possessing or using a prohibited weapon without a permit.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world of the ‘peaceful, moderate majority’, it’s being alleged that the staged ‘street prayer’ moved on by police, during the violent anti-Semitic protests against Israeli President Isaac Herzog, was organised by widely banned extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir. Certainly the hizbies – soon to be listed as a prescribed terror group in Australia – are right in the thick of the ‘peaceful, moderate’ stuff.
Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia was among dozens of signatories on a joint statement released on Tuesday alleging police abused protesters and Muslim worshippers at Monday’s anti-Herzog rally in Sydney, despite the group wiping its online presence last month to comply with the federal anti-hate laws.
It previously vowed to challenge the laws in the High Court and blamed the laws on Israel and “Zionists”.
In other words, ‘Jooos’.
And, just to make Pauline Hanson’s case for her, the ‘moderate mainstream’ Muslim groups are backing the hizbie hatemongers all the way.
The statement was co-signed by the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, Australian Muslim Advocacy Network and political advocacy group Muslim Votes Matter.
AFIC, its president, Rateb Jneid, and MVM organiser Ghaith Krayem previously signed another statement opposing the listing of Hizb ut-Tahrir, refusing to resile from its rhetoric and providing it a support network among mainstream Muslim leadership.
Still want to argue that Pauline is wrong?
