Well well – another Muslim ‘good news’ story with a ‘bad news’ result – Peter
Sydney’s Muslim community has been told to expect counterterrorism raids in the wake of the Bondi Beach attack, as Islamic leaders reveal it has been sounding the alarm about the hate preacher connected to one of the shooters for 10 years.
This masthead can reveal police held a secret meeting on Thursday night, where community leaders were told about the terror raids and that authorities expected them to help monitor extremism.
Two senior members of Sydney’s Muslim community have also revealed they told NSW Police a decade ago about the behaviour of radical preacher Wissam Haddad. The Bankstown-based cleric has been the focus of new significant attention, given his association with Bondi shooter Naveed Akram.
On condition of anonymity, they told this masthead that police said they wanted to keep Haddad’s Islamic centre open because it was a “good source of intel”.
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