When will we learn? Maybe when a Muslim terrorist group bombs a nuclear reactor? That’s not an unreal scenario.
Just take this case out of Australia involving an Algerian Muslim spiritual leader occupying its territory.
The terrorist who led the grou p that planned to attack several highly populated Australian locations has been released from a Melbourne prison – with reports saying he’s headed straight for the western suburbs.
Abdul Nacer Benbrika was initially charged over leading a terror cell conspiring to attack the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) during the 2005 AFL Grand Final, as well as Victoria’s Crown Casino and the Lucas Heights reactor in Sydney.
That’s Australia’s only nuclear reactor.
On Tuesday morning, the Victorian Supreme Court ruled that Benbrika was a low risk to public safety but was required to continue a deradicalisation program.
If Abdul is “low-risk”, what’s a high-risk terrorist? A guy who plans to blow up the sun?
Abdul already expressed his views on “radicalization”.
“Osama bin Laden was a great man before 11th September, which they said he did it. Until now, nobody knows who did it. What you have to understand that anyone who fights for the sake of Allah, the first – when he dies, the first drop of blood that comes from him out, all his sin will be forgiven.”
“I am telling you that my religion doesn’t tolerate other religion. It doesn’t tolerate. The only one law which needs to spread, it can be here or anywhere else, has to be Islam.”
That deradicalization program is bound to go well.
Algerian-born Benbrika had urged them to target large crowds at sports matches or a train station to pressure the Australian government to withdraw its soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan, the court heard.
Benbrika had said it was “permissible to kill women, children and the aged,” prosecutors said.
So Islam. Basically.
Handing down her judgment, Justice Hollingworth said the evidence “clearly establishes” that Benbrika had made substantial progress towards deradicalisation in recent years.
And yet she didn’t offer to have him move in with her.
Deradicalization programs should come with refunds. “Terror threat ended or your country back.”