Australian Islamist returns home to surveillance, not jail
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By Matt Siegel
SYDNEY (Reuters) &#; An Australian Islamist preacher who has expressed support for militants fighting in Syria and Iraq will face police surveillance but no criminal charges in Australia, where he arrived on Wednesday after being deported from the Philippines.
Melbourne-born Musa Cerantonio, who has been a vocal supporter of the Islamic State militant group and its leader, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, was deported due to &#;invalid travel documentation&#;, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said.
This month, Cerantonio, who converted to Islam from Catholicism at 17, said he would be travelling to fight in Syria, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported, although Australian police said he never got there.
&#;Mr Cerantonio&#;s known social media postings are considered offensive and disturbing, however, have been assessed as not breaching Australian law to this point,&#; the AFP said in a statement.
&#;The AFP will continue to monitor and assess this material for any breaches of Australian law into the future.&#;
Cerantonio has emerged as perh
Musa Cerantonio was born in Australia to parents of Italian and Irish heritage. At age 17 he embraced Islam and began his studies of Arabic and Islam. At university in Australia he specialised in history and media, and he furthered these studies with additional education specifically regarding the rich Islamic history from Muslim sources, deciding to devote his time to a subject that is of great importance yet is often not taught. He continued his Islamic studies in Australia as well as abroad, spending time studying in Mindanao as well as in the Middle East.
Along with teaching regular classes about Islam and Islamic history in Australia, Musa regularly filmed with the Islamic channel Peace TV and took part in many conferences and seminars around the globe in various countries such as Australia, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, India, Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE and the Philippines. Combining his Islamic knowledge with his media experience, he began working with various TV channels while based in Egypt for a number of years, hosting a Q&A program 6 days a week as well as producing a series about Islamic history.
He has consistently been one of the few voices among the Muslims
Why an ISIS Propagandist Abandoned Islam
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“Seeing individuals dedicate themselves to tyrannical death cults led by suicidal maniacs is bad enough. Knowing that I may have contributed to their choices is terrible.”
By Graeme Wood
On February 7, , Musa Cerantonio told a friend that his fame as Australia’s best-known ISIS supporter had become a burden. Fellow ISIS supporters felt mysteriously compelled to email or call him before committing crimes. “Why,” Cerantonio lamented, “does everyone, before they do stupid shit, get in contact with me?” In this case, the doer of stupid shit was Alo-Bridget Namoa, the “Bonnie” half of the terror couple she herself had dubbed “the jihadi Bonnie and Clyde.” She and Clyde, a.k.a. Sameh Bayda, were both later convicted of terror offenses. Namoa had contacted Cerantonio, the Australian authorities tapping his phone later revealed, because she needed to know where to get an ISIS flag in Sydney. ISIS supporters were treating him like a jihadist help desk. If you see her, Cerantonio told his friend, “slap her for me.” Later that year, Cerantonio was arrested for trying to travel by boat from Australia to ISIS territory in the
How Australian tinnie terror ringleader turned into a 'rabid dog' ahead of audacious Philippines plot
Jesse Morton, a former Al Qaeda recruiter and propagandist from the US who turned FBI informant, can vividly remember his final communications with Robert 'Musa' Cerantonio, the jailed Melbourne ringleader of the so-called tinnie terrorist plot.
Cerantonio, who was already on the radar of Australian counter-terror intelligence agents, had turned into a "rabid dog", Morton says, speaking exclusively to from his base in the US.
What Cerantonio did not know, as he covertly interacted over the Internet with the one-time American extremist, was that Morton was now working as undercover informant for the FBI.
It was , and Morton had just been released after spending four years inside a US prison, following his capture in Morocco and extradition back to America. Morton had been convicted of soliciting the murder of the writers of cartoon comedy South Park via his notorious Revolution Muslim website, a propaganda platform which spread the vengeful ideology of now dead Al Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden.
While inside that federal US pri
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