Muslims who don’t like Australia should ‘get out’ – Parramatta mosque chairman
Last Friday, the Parramatta police headquarters was attacked and a Police accountant, Curtis Cheng, was fatally shot.
More than 200 officers swooped on several properties early on Wednesday, police said, arresting males aged between 16 and 22.
Police have claimed that the men are linked to the fatal shooting of police accountant Curtis Cheng outside police headquarters in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta last Friday.
New South Wales Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione on Saturday said Jabar’s actions were politically motivated and therefore linked to terrorism.
Until 2004, when draconian new police powers were inserted into the federal Crimes Act as part of a barrage of “anti-terrorism” legislation, the AFP could only hold a person for questioning for 24 hours without laying a charge.
It’s believed to be terror-related and comes after a teenage boy was on Tuesday charged with assaulting and intimidating police, two counts of resisting arrest and using a carriage service to menace, harass and offend. A fifth man was detained on a fraud warrant and later released.
The men arrested on Wednesday were taken into custody and were being interviewed by police.
And in December, Iranian-born self-styled cleric Man Haron Monis and two hostages were killed following a 17-hour siege at a central Sydney cafe. “It’s a very, very serious concern that in the heart of our community there is attack planning that is underway and that may have led to what we saw on Friday”.
The Board of Studies said it was “experienced in responding to local and national tragedies at HSC time” and the “illness/misadventure application process” would be available to Arthur Phillip High students to ensure they were not disadvantaged by recent events.
The 2014 raids were sparked by a call from Australia’s most senior Islamic State lieutenant, Mohammad Ali Baryalei, in which he called for Omarjan Azari, who was also visited by police yesterday, directing him to kill a random member of the public.
A few experts say that strategy has helped create an environment for radicalized Muslim youth to emerge in disproportionate numbers.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull also advised people to leave if Australian values were “unpalatable”.
However, a counter rally was attended by around 50 people with signs in support of the Muslim community and multi-culturalism, reported the TV channel ABC. We’ve been doing that over the past year and we are working to try and divert people if we think that they are falling under the spell of ISIL in the Middle East.