A LOGAN man believed to be the brother of Australia’s first suicide bomber in Syria is running a bookshop south of Brisbane which is accused of promoting extremist views. 
 
The Courier-Mail has been told that the iQraa Islamic Centre at Underwood had developed ties to firebrand Perth preacher Mohammed Junaid Thorne.

The centre this year “promoted’’ and helped raise funds for two “sermons’’ by the self-styled preacher, who is a vocal supporter of jihad and has had ties to the Australian branch of the Millatu Ibrahim group, which is banned in Germany.

It can also be revealed the centre hosted a lecture this year on what followers should do if they were contacted by national security organisation ASIO.

The lecture included being aware of the “tell-tale’’ signs of spies and examples of when a group had been infiltrated.

But a spokesman for the Logan centre said it merely engaged people to speak on a range of opinions.

A key figure in the bookshop is Omar Succarieh, who in an online promotional video is described as “one of the main brothers’’ at the centre.

Succarieh’s brother Ahmed has been investigated by Australian agencies in relation to a suicide bombing in Syria, where a truck laden with 12 tonnes of explosives was driven into an army checkpoint last September, killing 35.

The Courier-Mail tried unsuccessfully to obtain comment from Omar Succarieh but members of Brisbane’s Muslim community who know Ahmed said they had been told he was “living in Turkey’’.

A source told The Courier-Mail: “My concern is that this Islamic centre is supporting extreme views.


“I feel this bookshop needs exposing more widely so the community around it, both Muslim and non-Muslim (which is largely oblivious to the activities), can be aware of what is being promoted.

“I suspect many local Muslims may be unaware of the tone of some of its activities and believe many Brisbane people would be alarmed.’’

Omar Succarieh could not be contacted about the claims the bookshop was “linked to extremists’’.

However, a spokesman for the bookshop said: “As far as my knowledge of the centre is concerned they have invited many speakers and, according to them, they allow speakers of different views to speak without discriminating against them.’’

Muslim community leader Ali Kadri said he believed only a “handful’’ of supporters had attended the talks conducted by Mohammed Junaid Thorne.

“I can assure the wider community that the overwhelming majority of the Muslims in Australia, and across the world, do not condone any form of extremism and violence,’’ Mr Kadri said.


AN ISLAMIC bookshop in Brisbane has been selling literature promoting the subjugation of women and domestic violence, including one book that recommends “hanging a whip in a visible place” in the home.

While the iQraa Islamic Centre does offer books promoting peaceful coexistence and respect for women, it also carries on its shelves books that call for men to restrict the movements and employment opportunities of their wives and some that even assert that “beating” can be used “as a last resort”.

One such book, Forty Solutions to your Marriage Problems, describes the “Jewish plan to emancipate women and thus corrupt them and society” and says women “should remain in (their) homes, but go out only if it is necessary”.

It discourages women working, unless “necessary”, because it may lead to mixing with the opposite sex and possibly “illegal sexual intercourse”.

Author Muhammad Salih Al-Munajjid also lists as recommendation 25 “hanging a whip in a visible place”.

“Hinting at punishment in different ways is one of the elegant methods of punishment,” he writes.

He does note that it has been previously said that the whip is not explicitly “meant for beating”.

Another book, The Ingredients for a Happy Marriage, notes that “it is medically proven that when a woman who has never given birth uses contraceptive pills, she may become barren for the rest of her life”.

A series of children’s books “for impressionable young minds”, called The Need For Creed, detail the torture of non-believers in hell.

Graphic descriptions of eternal damnation and the end days also exist in Christian literature.

If you dont like the books dont buy them, stop your complaining.

Needs a couple of bricks through the windows and a visit from a CFMEU organiser

If you got a drum of fuel and let it pour under the door and lit it, allah snackbar problem solved.

Soren wrote on Sep 7^th, 2014 at 7:47am:


How do you know they sell any books at all? Perhaps it's run at a financial loss.

That article is a shoddy piece of journalism if Sprint has reproduced it accurately. 

shaky3d wrote on Sep 6^th, 2014 at 6:19pm:


A prima facie case of serious racial vilification under Australia law I believe. 

It would be covered by Sections 20B and 20D of the NSW ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ACT 1977.

It would be covered by Section 24 of the Victorian RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE ACT 2001.

It would be covered by Section 131 of the Queensland ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ACT 1991.

It would be covered by Section 4 of the South Australian ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ACT 1991.

It would be covered by Section 19 of the Tasmanian ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ACT 1998.

It would be covered by Section 80A and 80B of the Western Australian CRIMINAL CODE AMENDMENT (RACIAL VILIFICATION) ACT 2004

It may be covered by Section 18C of the Commonwealth RACIAL DISCRIMINATION ACT 1975.

In all, incitement to violence on the basis of racial/religious grounds is illegal.

If you got a drum of fuel and let it pour under the door and lit it, allah snackbar problem solved.