Monday, March 26, 2007

DAR AL HARB - AUSTRALIA: MODERATES v RADICALS & AUSTRALIA'S SUPREME COURT

Court to expose Muslim radicals

SUPREME Court action is planned this week against the governing committee of the Gold Coast Islamic Society in an effort to 'expose and remove' radicals in the Muslim community.


Muslim community member Mustafa Ali has already filed official complaints about the Islamic Society of the Gold Coast with ASIC (Australian Securities and Investment Commission) and the Department of Fair Trading.

"I'm hoping to have the paperwork ready for the Supreme Court later this week," said Mr Ali.

"I will do whatever I have to do to stop this radical group ruining our peaceful way at our mosque and, fortunately, I have a lot of support."

In other developments at the divided Gold Coast mosque:

* The three radical leaders, codenamed 'The Gypsy', 'The Painter' and 'The
Village Idiot', disciples of radical Sheik Taj Aldin Alhilali, are behind a push
to have the controversial mufti visit the Gold Coast mosque again.

* Opponents of the extremists are circulating a petition among Gold
Coast Muslims which opposes any planned visit by the Sheik.

* At least two families have left the Gold Coast Muslim community in
recent weeks and moved to Brisbane to escape the tensions at the Arundel
mosque.

* The extremist group, believed to number between 75 and 100 people, is
grooming a central Gold Coast high school teacher for a place on the governing
committee at the next elections, in July or August this year.


Muslim sources told The Gold Coast Bulletin that the moderates fear the teacher will use his position to influence Muslim students at the high school to follow the extreme teaching of Sheik Alhilali.

[You may know this man, Sheik al Hilali, as the 'UNCOVERED MEAT' imam, amongst other comments...ed. A.I.]

In October last year, The Bulletin exclusively reported that Sheik Alhilali had stayed at the Gold Coast mosque three times in 20 months as a guest of the hardcore Muslim group.

The radical Arabic and Afghan group was trying then to have the moderate Gold Coast Imam Husain replaced with an Arab imam with similar views to Sheik Alhilali, but their att-empts failed. Yet the group had not given up on that plan, according to Muslim moderates.

Mr Ali, who was suspended by the governing committee from the mosque for 40 days for speaking to The Bulletin last year, said the radical group had recently asked Imam Husain to invite Sheik Alhilali to the mosque.

Mr Ali said he will fight on behalf of a large number of unnamed moderates 'for as long as it takes'.


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