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Sunday, September 14, 2014 5:11:14 PM
[Australian] Terrorist Mohamed Elomar’s father fans the embers of peace by funding a community barbeque in Lakemba
This paper is right-wing bent, and tends to distortion and sensationalism too often. Though this isn't exactly in
the investigative line they do sometimes have some decent investigative reporting and some fair other stuff.
Sarah Crawford
The Daily Telegraph
September 15, 2014 12:00AM
Mamdouh Elomar, Scott Morrison and Jamal Rifi enjoy the barbecue in Lakemba yesterday / Picture: Chris McKeen
HIS terrorist son may have chosen a path of violence, but Sydney businessman Mamdouh Elomar wants peace and was happy to reach into his own pocket to promote it.
The father of IS terrorist Mohamed Elomar donated $10,000 towards a free barbecue that attracted more than 5000 people to Sydney’s Muslim heartland of Lakemba yesterday. He was proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with organiser, Muslim leader Jamal Rifi, wearing matching T-shirts that read: “Proudly Australian”.
More: http://m.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/terrorist-mohamed-elomars-father-fans-the-embers-of-peace-by-funding-a-community-barbeque-in-lakemba/story-fni0cx12-1227058396231
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Homegrown terrorist Mohamed Elomar pledges to bring the horror here: Australians should be worried, he says
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/homegrown-terrorist-mohamed-elomar-pledges-to-bring-the-horror-here-australians-should-be-worried-he-says/story-fni0cx12-1227007825654
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Khaled Sharrouf: a monster of our own creation
Sam de Brito Columnist Date August 16, 2014 Comments 99
Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar, have been regularly posting pictures of themselves.
"Who is Khaled Sharrouf and how did he end up as the poster boy for Western jihadism .. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-14/khaled-sharrouf-the-australian-radical-fighting-in-iraq/5671974?";
It's hard not to scream and head butt a wall when media outlets ask this question about a 33-year-old, schizophrenic, disabled pensioner whose greatest criminal effort prior to fleeing to Syria was getting caught stealing six alarm clocks and 140 batteries from a Big W store.
Even Sharrouf, whom the judge who jailed him describes as "a highly unintelligent man who has no perception of himself .. http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2014/s4067434.htm";, could probably tell you who burnished his image and promoted it to the world: the Australian media.
Some might point the finger at social media, where Sharrouf and his mate Mohamed Elomar, have been regularly posting pictures of themselves holding guns and heads and whatever else they can find lying about in the rear-guard of the Islamic State's murderous rampage through Syria and Iraq.
Social media certainly gave these men the platform to publish pictures of their deeds but, if you follow any of the experts writing about the Syrian conflict, like the blogger Brown Moses .. https://twitter.com/Brown_Moses, you'd have seen pictures and videos just as harrowing as Sharrouf's efforts.
One unconfirmed clip I made the mistake of clicking on showed a Syrian woman being strangled to death by her captors, while the ABC's Richard Aedy said on air last week he'd seen images of young children who had been hanged and a primary school-aged girl who "appears to have been raped".
Aedy was interviewing the head of editorial policy at the ABC, Alan Sunderland .. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/mediareport/reporting-grisly-images-from-the-islamic-state-28is29/5670446, and gave his listeners a warning before he even described those images. Sunderland went on to explain the publishing of grisly images was a fraught process that newsrooms grapple with daily on a case-by-case basis.
"You have to get the balance right between reporting the facts and bringing information and perspective into the arena, and finding yourself used as a tool for propaganda purposes; that's where it can be very difficult and we've struggled with this," he said.
Whatever the intentions of organisations such as the ABC - and I'd wager they put a little more thought into publishing graphic images than many other outlets do - it would appear the picture of Sharrouf's son, posing with a decapitated head, has become one of the Islamic State's big propaganda success stories, prompting comments from our Prime Minister and the US Secretary of State, John Kerry .. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/12/world/asia/australia-boy-severed-head-syria/.
We tend to forget the people Sharrouf and his ilk are reaching out to don't share our values. Where we look at that picture and say "sick", they look at it and say "siiiiiiiiiiiick, bro". When there is this inversion of values, it's all too easy to manipulate the outraged mainstream.
I doubt very much whether the people most impressed with Sharrouf and Elomar even read the bulk of the news stories about them, they just see them on the front pages of newspapers, leading TV news bulletins, being talked about by the PM and think "Wow, that could be me."
In an interview with New York magazine .. http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2014/08/how-isis-seduces-new-recruits.html?utm_source=cheetah&utm_medium=email&om_rid=AAENbr&om_mid=_BT8k01B870chGf, John Horgan, a psychologist at the University of Massachusetts who specialises in terrorism, said: "People who join these groups are trying to find a path, to answer a call to something, which would basically mean that they’re doing something meaningful with their lives.
"They’re offering an opportunity for people to feel powerful. They’re making disillusioned, disaffected radicals feel like they’re doing something truly meaningful with their lives," Horgan said.
This has always been a huge motivation for young men to go off to war but, due to the efforts of Sharrouf, disaffected young Australian Muslim men now have a narrative to follow, of a nobody just like them, who's now a world famous jihadist.
The great American historian Will Durant, describing Friedrich Nietzsche's thoughts on war, said the "general who uses up soldiers on the battlefield, where they have the pleasure of dying under the anaesthesia of glory, is far nobler than the employer who uses up men in his profit-machine; observe with what relief men leave their factories for the field of slaughter".
"Napoleon was not a butcher but a benefactor; he gave men death with military honours instead of death by economic attrition; people flocked to his lethal standard because they preferred the risks of battle to the unbearable monotony of making another million collar-buttons."
Durant, writing in 1926, describes what's going on in the minds of thousands of foreigners flocking to the Islamic State in 2014: "Work as a labourer for $18 an hour or go be a freedom fighter and blow shit up?"
The reality of war, however, is never what the majority of recruits expect it to be and I wonder if the media's sanitising of the images coming out of this conflict actually does the Islamic State a favour.
See enough pictures of brutalised or dead children, and men and women screaming as a killer saws through their necks with a knife, and even a disillusioned young man looking for adventure is going to question how "meaningful" this sort of life is.
You can follow Sam on Twitter here. His email address is here.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/khaled-sharrouf-a-monster-of-our-own-creation-20140820-104vjl.html
'Radicalized' father of Australian boy holding severed head has mental illness
By Hilary Whiteman, CNN August 13, 2014 -- Updated 0159 GMT (0959 HKT)
(CNN) -- A proud father's boast accompanies an image the U.S. secretary of state on Tuesday called "one of the most disturbing, stomach-turning, grotesque photographs ever displayed."
"That's my boy," Khaled Sharrouf wrote on Twitter alongside a photo of his 7-year-old son using both hands to hold up a man's severed head.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/12/world/asia/australia-boy-severed-head-syria/
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Terror attack warning to army officers
Updated: 7:18 am, Sunday, 14 September 2014
News Corp Australia are reporting a warning that Muslim extremists could attack members of the military in Australia has gone out to army officers, highlighting the case of one officer who was verbally abused in Sydney's CBD.
The warning of such a terrorist attack went out just 48 hours before Australia on Friday increased the public terrorism alert to High.
The memo reportedly details verbal threats made against a uniformed officer who was approached by a group of young men and told to go to the Middle East so we can 'blow your head off'.
The memo underlined the risks of an attack such as that on British army soldier, Fusilier Drummer Lee Rigby, who was run down by a car then hacked to death on a London street by Muslim extremists in May last year.
- AAP
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2014/09/14/terror-attack-warning-to-army-officers.html
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Kings Cross bouncer Mohammad Ali Baryalei identified as senior ISIL recruiter .. Megan Levy September 9, 2014
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/kings-cross-bouncer-mohammad-ali-baryalei-identified-as-senior-isil-recruiter-20140909-10e75m.html
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My life as a terrorist
Sally Neighbour
The Australian
December 04, 2007 12:00AM
Jack Roche tells Sally Neighbour how ASIO failed to act on information he had that could have stopped the September 11 and Bali bombings
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/defence/my-life-as-a-terrorist/story-e6frg8yx-1111115023061
~~~
This article is different. I see in it a grand effort by one who still struggles with a new language which some say is the most difficult
to learn. Some, i guess, may be critical of it's posting in the form it has been, yet it feels flattering/becoming to the author to me.
Australia’s many comparison IS member funnels scores of fighters onto frontline
Ch? Nh?t 14 Tháng Chín, 2014
http://autimes.com.au/australia/queensland/australias-most-senior-is-member-funnels-scores-of-fighters-onto-frontline/
I feel like saying, "Best of luck to the author!". So, there it is. LOL Hope y'all enjoy that last one in the sense i did. :)
This paper is right-wing bent, and tends to distortion and sensationalism too often. Though this isn't exactly in
the investigative line they do sometimes have some decent investigative reporting and some fair other stuff.
Sarah Crawford
The Daily Telegraph
September 15, 2014 12:00AM
Mamdouh Elomar, Scott Morrison and Jamal Rifi enjoy the barbecue in Lakemba yesterday / Picture: Chris McKeen
HIS terrorist son may have chosen a path of violence, but Sydney businessman Mamdouh Elomar wants peace and was happy to reach into his own pocket to promote it.
The father of IS terrorist Mohamed Elomar donated $10,000 towards a free barbecue that attracted more than 5000 people to Sydney’s Muslim heartland of Lakemba yesterday. He was proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with organiser, Muslim leader Jamal Rifi, wearing matching T-shirts that read: “Proudly Australian”.
More: http://m.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/terrorist-mohamed-elomars-father-fans-the-embers-of-peace-by-funding-a-community-barbeque-in-lakemba/story-fni0cx12-1227058396231
~~~
Homegrown terrorist Mohamed Elomar pledges to bring the horror here: Australians should be worried, he says
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/homegrown-terrorist-mohamed-elomar-pledges-to-bring-the-horror-here-australians-should-be-worried-he-says/story-fni0cx12-1227007825654
~~~
Khaled Sharrouf: a monster of our own creation
Sam de Brito Columnist Date August 16, 2014 Comments 99
Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar, have been regularly posting pictures of themselves.
"Who is Khaled Sharrouf and how did he end up as the poster boy for Western jihadism .. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-14/khaled-sharrouf-the-australian-radical-fighting-in-iraq/5671974?";
It's hard not to scream and head butt a wall when media outlets ask this question about a 33-year-old, schizophrenic, disabled pensioner whose greatest criminal effort prior to fleeing to Syria was getting caught stealing six alarm clocks and 140 batteries from a Big W store.
Even Sharrouf, whom the judge who jailed him describes as "a highly unintelligent man who has no perception of himself .. http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2014/s4067434.htm";, could probably tell you who burnished his image and promoted it to the world: the Australian media.
Some might point the finger at social media, where Sharrouf and his mate Mohamed Elomar, have been regularly posting pictures of themselves holding guns and heads and whatever else they can find lying about in the rear-guard of the Islamic State's murderous rampage through Syria and Iraq.
Social media certainly gave these men the platform to publish pictures of their deeds but, if you follow any of the experts writing about the Syrian conflict, like the blogger Brown Moses .. https://twitter.com/Brown_Moses, you'd have seen pictures and videos just as harrowing as Sharrouf's efforts.
One unconfirmed clip I made the mistake of clicking on showed a Syrian woman being strangled to death by her captors, while the ABC's Richard Aedy said on air last week he'd seen images of young children who had been hanged and a primary school-aged girl who "appears to have been raped".
Aedy was interviewing the head of editorial policy at the ABC, Alan Sunderland .. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/mediareport/reporting-grisly-images-from-the-islamic-state-28is29/5670446, and gave his listeners a warning before he even described those images. Sunderland went on to explain the publishing of grisly images was a fraught process that newsrooms grapple with daily on a case-by-case basis.
"You have to get the balance right between reporting the facts and bringing information and perspective into the arena, and finding yourself used as a tool for propaganda purposes; that's where it can be very difficult and we've struggled with this," he said.
Whatever the intentions of organisations such as the ABC - and I'd wager they put a little more thought into publishing graphic images than many other outlets do - it would appear the picture of Sharrouf's son, posing with a decapitated head, has become one of the Islamic State's big propaganda success stories, prompting comments from our Prime Minister and the US Secretary of State, John Kerry .. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/12/world/asia/australia-boy-severed-head-syria/.
We tend to forget the people Sharrouf and his ilk are reaching out to don't share our values. Where we look at that picture and say "sick", they look at it and say "siiiiiiiiiiiick, bro". When there is this inversion of values, it's all too easy to manipulate the outraged mainstream.
I doubt very much whether the people most impressed with Sharrouf and Elomar even read the bulk of the news stories about them, they just see them on the front pages of newspapers, leading TV news bulletins, being talked about by the PM and think "Wow, that could be me."
In an interview with New York magazine .. http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2014/08/how-isis-seduces-new-recruits.html?utm_source=cheetah&utm_medium=email&om_rid=AAENbr&om_mid=_BT8k01B870chGf, John Horgan, a psychologist at the University of Massachusetts who specialises in terrorism, said: "People who join these groups are trying to find a path, to answer a call to something, which would basically mean that they’re doing something meaningful with their lives.
"They’re offering an opportunity for people to feel powerful. They’re making disillusioned, disaffected radicals feel like they’re doing something truly meaningful with their lives," Horgan said.
This has always been a huge motivation for young men to go off to war but, due to the efforts of Sharrouf, disaffected young Australian Muslim men now have a narrative to follow, of a nobody just like them, who's now a world famous jihadist.
The great American historian Will Durant, describing Friedrich Nietzsche's thoughts on war, said the "general who uses up soldiers on the battlefield, where they have the pleasure of dying under the anaesthesia of glory, is far nobler than the employer who uses up men in his profit-machine; observe with what relief men leave their factories for the field of slaughter".
"Napoleon was not a butcher but a benefactor; he gave men death with military honours instead of death by economic attrition; people flocked to his lethal standard because they preferred the risks of battle to the unbearable monotony of making another million collar-buttons."
Durant, writing in 1926, describes what's going on in the minds of thousands of foreigners flocking to the Islamic State in 2014: "Work as a labourer for $18 an hour or go be a freedom fighter and blow shit up?"
The reality of war, however, is never what the majority of recruits expect it to be and I wonder if the media's sanitising of the images coming out of this conflict actually does the Islamic State a favour.
See enough pictures of brutalised or dead children, and men and women screaming as a killer saws through their necks with a knife, and even a disillusioned young man looking for adventure is going to question how "meaningful" this sort of life is.
You can follow Sam on Twitter here. His email address is here.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/khaled-sharrouf-a-monster-of-our-own-creation-20140820-104vjl.html
'Radicalized' father of Australian boy holding severed head has mental illness
By Hilary Whiteman, CNN August 13, 2014 -- Updated 0159 GMT (0959 HKT)
(CNN) -- A proud father's boast accompanies an image the U.S. secretary of state on Tuesday called "one of the most disturbing, stomach-turning, grotesque photographs ever displayed."
"That's my boy," Khaled Sharrouf wrote on Twitter alongside a photo of his 7-year-old son using both hands to hold up a man's severed head.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/12/world/asia/australia-boy-severed-head-syria/
~~~
Terror attack warning to army officers
Updated: 7:18 am, Sunday, 14 September 2014
News Corp Australia are reporting a warning that Muslim extremists could attack members of the military in Australia has gone out to army officers, highlighting the case of one officer who was verbally abused in Sydney's CBD.
The warning of such a terrorist attack went out just 48 hours before Australia on Friday increased the public terrorism alert to High.
The memo reportedly details verbal threats made against a uniformed officer who was approached by a group of young men and told to go to the Middle East so we can 'blow your head off'.
The memo underlined the risks of an attack such as that on British army soldier, Fusilier Drummer Lee Rigby, who was run down by a car then hacked to death on a London street by Muslim extremists in May last year.
- AAP
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2014/09/14/terror-attack-warning-to-army-officers.html
~~~
Kings Cross bouncer Mohammad Ali Baryalei identified as senior ISIL recruiter .. Megan Levy September 9, 2014
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/kings-cross-bouncer-mohammad-ali-baryalei-identified-as-senior-isil-recruiter-20140909-10e75m.html
~~~
My life as a terrorist
Sally Neighbour
The Australian
December 04, 2007 12:00AM
Jack Roche tells Sally Neighbour how ASIO failed to act on information he had that could have stopped the September 11 and Bali bombings
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/defence/my-life-as-a-terrorist/story-e6frg8yx-1111115023061
~~~
This article is different. I see in it a grand effort by one who still struggles with a new language which some say is the most difficult
to learn. Some, i guess, may be critical of it's posting in the form it has been, yet it feels flattering/becoming to the author to me.
Australia’s many comparison IS member funnels scores of fighters onto frontline
Ch? Nh?t 14 Tháng Chín, 2014
http://autimes.com.au/australia/queensland/australias-most-senior-is-member-funnels-scores-of-fighters-onto-frontline/
I feel like saying, "Best of luck to the author!". So, there it is. LOL Hope y'all enjoy that last one in the sense i did. :)
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