Posted on 03/19/2019 12:55:47 PM PDT by robowombat
Australia: Muslims plotted jihad massacres to “defeat all the infidels,” prosecutor says “Islam not on trial here”
Crown prosecutor Lincoln Crowley “said the acts planned by the men would have been ‘designed to demonstrate to the unbelievers the righteousness of their particular belief in Islam’, but added, ‘the religion of Islam is not on trial here.'”
Of course it isn’t. The dogma that Islam teaches peace and that any Muslim who commits violence in its name must be twisting and hijacking its teachings must always be maintained. Any examination of evidence to the contrary is ipso facto bigoted and “Islamophobic,” and provokes massacres of Muslims. So all such examinations must be silenced.
“Terror accused plotted to bomb plane and release lethal gas, trial told,” by Georgina Mitchell, Sydney Morning Herald, March 18, 2019 (thanks to the Geller Report):
Two brothers accused of planning an IS-inspired terrorist attack in Sydney plotted to put a bomb on a plane at Sydney Airport and separately planned to release lethal gas, a jury has been told.
Mahmoud Khayat, 34, and Khaled Mahmoud Khayat, 51, have pleaded not guilty to one charge each of conspiring to do an act in preparation/planning for a terrorist act, after they allegedly planned the acts from January 20, 2017 until their arrest on July 29, 2017.
On Monday, at the opening of a trial in the NSW Supreme Court, Crown prosecutor Lincoln Crowley, QC, said the conspiracy was “formed and developed” when the men used apps including Telegram to contact an older brother fighting alongside Islamic State in Syria, and another person called “The Controller” who has not been identified….
A jury of nine women and three men was told Khaled Khayat prepared ingredients for the gas at his home before taking it to Mahmoud Khayat’s home in Punchbowl, where a “test” was done in a carport. The pair were under police surveillance and were arrested that day….
He said the acts planned by the men would have been “designed to demonstrate to the unbelievers the righteousness of their particular belief in Islam”, but added, “the religion of Islam is not on trial here”.
Mr Crowley said the explosive – referred to in one message as “the gift” – was going to be placed on an Etihad flight hidden inside a meat mincer on July 15. He said the explosive was brought as far as the lobby of the airport before the plan was aborted….
Mr Crowley said after the bomb was taken from the airport it was brought to a home in Surry Hills and dismantled. He said the components were placed in plastic bags which were stored in the garage of Khaled Khayat at Lakemba….
Mr Crowley said Khaled Khayat made “a range of extensive admissions” to police upon his arrest and said he was acting alone, while Mahmoud Khayat denied involvement in the plot.
He said police found a sermon on the phones of both brothers which said, in part, “god defeat all of the infidels, disbelievers” and “oh god bring down the airplanes”
Sad, but not surprising.
Looks like there might be less terrorism if there were a little more appropriately applied “Islamophobia”.
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