Australia: Who Are The Jihad Sheilas? http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003970.html A story from <http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23161933-5005941,00.htm l> News.com.au, formerly in The Australian, describes how two Muslim women have been complaining about their representation on Australia's national TV station ABC. They claim that last year, an ABC documentary crew approached them about appearing on a show, discussing their conversions to Islam. The women are Rabiah Hutchinson and Raisah bint Alan Douglas. They claim that they were told the footage would be used in the documentary strand Australian Story. Instead, they became the unwilling "stars" of a one-off documentary entitled "Jihad Sheilas". They sent a letter of complaint to ABC headquarters in Sydney, NSW. This documentary <http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2008/s2154414.htm> aired today at 8.30 pm Australian time, though Rabiah Hutchinson has claimed that as a result of the documentary (or its advance publicity) she has been verbally abused. In the documentary, she <http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/05/2154477.htm> stated: "I would defend Islam with my life, so that makes me a filthy, dirty, subhuman terrorist." She was asked if she would die for her faith. She answered: "Of course. The same as if you asked me, would I die defending my children. Does that mean I'm going to go and lob grenades out of the bus in Lakemba? No, it doesn't. But you have just asked me a question that could very well have me put away for a long time." Raisah bint Alan Douglas said on the documentary talking about the burkas she wears: "We hear a lot, "They're oppressed those poor darlings? Are you hot in there?" Well I say look, it's hotter in hell, so you know what, I'd rather wear this now and if I am a bit hot, it's hotter in hell. So I'll just do what God told me to do." She also praised Osama bin Laden, as he followed the "correct" and "undiluted" version of Islam. She said: "It's not a bad thing for Islam, what Osama bin Laden has said. I believe that he has woken a lot of Muslims up to the oppression they were under but didn't realise it." Shortly before US forces swarmed into Afghanistan in late 2001, Rabiah Hutchinson was in the country, staying at a village. She had left by the time the US military arrived. She has also had close links with <http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/000304.html> Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), the terrorist group that carried out the Bali bombings of October 12, 2002. A total of 202 people, mainly tourists had been killed in the suicide blasts, with 88 Australians among the dead. She had stayed at the pesantren called the <http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/001447.html> Al-Mukmin, based at Ngruki, Soya in East Java. This had been founded more than 30 years ago by Abdullah Sungkar, a founder of Jemaah Islamiyah, and Abu Bakar Bashir, who is still the "spiritual leader" of JI. Both individuals had founded JI around 1995. Sungkar died of natural causes in November 1999. A downloadable <http://www.wpngnc.org/International%20Crisis%20Group.pdf> pdf document from the International Crisis Group from 2002 has revealing background information on Jemaah Islamiyah. On the "Jihad Sheilas" documentary, Hutchinson was asked about whether she felt any sympathy for the victims of the 2002 Bali bombings. Her answer has generated controversy in the Australian press. She said: "Do I feel for the people that died? Not as much as I feel for those 200 Afghani people that gave me and my children shelter. Why? Because they weren't holidaying in someone's country, you know, sometimes engaging in child pornography or paedophiiia or drug taking." To suggest that the victims of the Bali blasts engaged in paedophilia and child pornography naturally has caused resentment in Australia, which lost 88 citizens in the attacks. To complain that she and Douglas were duped into making the program is a distraction from the gravity of the words she uttered. If she was verbally abused, it was because of this comment, and not because she did not appear on Australian Story which is generally regarded as less hostile for interviewees. The comments about the victims of the Bali bombings have been reported by the <http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/02/04/1202090322421.html> Sydney Morning Herald and the Melbourne <http://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2008/02/04/1202090328567.html> Age. One victim of the Bali blasts of 2002 who survived is <http://news.theage.com.au/bali-victims-slam-abc-documentary/20080205-1q79.h tml> angry that ABC broadcast the women's opinions. Peter Hughes claimed the airing of the documentary was insensitive. He said: "People are still suffering. It would be the most insensitive thing the ABC could do." Hughes had no good words to say about 54-year old Rabiah Hutchinson. He said she was "uninformed" and "utterly insensitive". He said: "It's like going back to that moment (when) the suicide bomber was standing next to me. The criminals on death row (in Indonesia) are the paedophiles." He added: "She will be run down. If I could find where she is... I would ask her to say it in front of the families." Mary Ann Jolley and Renata Gombac were the journalists for ABC, who worked for the station's News and Current Affairs division. It is not unusual for current affairs reporting to cross from one documentary strand to another, said Alan Sunderland, ABC's head of national programs. So who are these two "Jihad Sheilas"? Neither has been charged with terrorist offences, but it is believed Hutchinson has been bugged by ASIO (Australia's security/intelligence forces) for the past two decades. In 2005, Hutchinson had her passport confiscated by ASIO. Both women are followers of the extremist Wahhabist doctrine propagated by Saudi Arabia. Rabiah Hutchinson Hutchinson.jpg <http://www.westernresistance.com/images/Hutchinson.jpg> Rabiah Hutchinson is a former hippy, who comes from the wine-growing community of Mudgee in New South Wales, where she apparently still lives. She first came to our attention in <http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003441.html> December 2006. At that time, her two sons, Mohammed and Abdullah Ayub, had just been released from custody in Yemen. They had been among seven individuals who had been arrested on <http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003313.html> October 17 that year. Ayub <http://www.westernresistance.com/images/Ayub.jpg> Hutchinson had come into contact with the circle around Abdullah Sungkar, founder of JI, in the early 1980s. She married her husband Abdul Rahim Ayub (pictured) in 1984. She had traveled to Bali to marry him. She had first met Ayub in Jakarta, when she had gone there to listen to Abdullah Sungkar preach. She bore two sons to Ayub. He became the leader of Jemaah Islamiyah in Australia. The marriage broke down in 1996, and Hutchinson retained custody of the boys. She says that she kept them at a distance from their father. After she split from her husband, she went to Afghanistan taking Mohammed and Abdullah and four other offspring with her. This move had been made as she apparently wanted her children to experience a "pure Islamic state". She left Afghanistan after 9/11 and before the US invasion, returning to Mudgee, Australia. Immediately after the 2002 Bali bombings, Abdul Rahim Ayub fled from Australia and returned to Indonesia. Rabiah Hutchinson claimed in 2006 that when she telephoned Abdul Rahim Ayub to inform him that his two sons by her had been arrested in Yemen, he said: "This is no business of mine - I don't know and I don't want to know." When the two sons were released from Yemen, they announced that they had no intention of immediately leaving the country. They said through their lawyer, Adam Houda, that they wanted to remain there to "learn more about religion and language". According to Abdul Rahim Ayub's twin brother <http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20695541-5006009,00.htm l> Abdul Rahman Ayub, Hutchinson's two sons had been "indoctrinated in antisocial behaviour by their mother who taught them to hate non-Muslims." Abdul Rahman, who fought with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in the 1990s, was deported from Australia just before the 2002 Bali bombings. He knew Hambali, who led JI after Abdullah Sungkar died, and who is now in detention in Guantanamo. Raisah bint Alan Douglas Douglas.jpg <http://www.westernresistance.com/images/Douglas.jpg> Before her conversion to Islam, Raisah bint Alan Douglas was called Rosalie Bannerman. She now lives in Kenya with her fifth husband. According to a <http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/17/1076779975736.html> 2004 article from the Sydney Morning Herald, her forebears were patriotic Austrlians. Several fought in the Australian Army. One of her forebears was a cricketer, who made six tours of England. She came from Dubbo in New South Wales, where she was born in 1971. She converted to Islam when she was 17. She was married "Islamically" (not under Australian law) at that time to a Somali man called Omar Abdi Mohamed, who was the father of her two youngest children. This man had made five trips to Australia since 2000. She has six other children from an unregistered "marriage" to another Somali man. She then worked for a refuge for converts to Islam. She claimed in February 2004 that she was shocked to find she had been placed on an "alert list" by the Australian government. She spoke of her phone being bugged: "I actually have been hearing funny clicking noises on my line... I thought... gee, this must be really boring for ASIO to listen to me to talk to my mum about, you know, my brother just finished his mechanic's course, and my other brother's just got his lawnmowing business off the ground... and my other brother's running camels up in the Northern Territory.... and my sister's just landed a really good job. Maybe my great uncle would turn in his grave." At the time of the Sydney Morning Herald interview, "husband" Omar Abdi Mohamed was in jail. He had gone to the United States in 1995 from Canada, where he had lived since 1990. He entered the US on a "religious worker" visa, and settled in San Diego. In 2000, he had applied for citizenship, and was then interviewed by immigration officials. He lied to these immigration officials, leading to a suspicion that he was a terrorist suspect. He denied that the Western Somali Relief Agency, with which he was connected, had received funding from the Global Relief Foundation. He also lied about his "wife" and child in Australia. He failed to mention that he had worked for the Saudi government for 10 years, and he lied about working for San Diego's Masjidul Taqwa Mosque. Mohamed was issued with an indictment on <http://www.tkb.org/CaseHome.jsp?caseid=711> December 19, 2003. According to Raisah bint Alan Douglas, he had been forced to leave Australia on December 25, 2003, days after their second baby was allowed to leave intensive care. When he reached the US he was arrested on January 22 and placed in custody at the federal prison in Otay Mesa, 15 miles south of San Diego. He was accused of gathering more than $351,000 from the Global Relief Foundation. At that time, Mohamed was married in the US, and had six children there. In the 1980s he had traveled frequently to Saudi Arabia, where he traded in animal hides, livestock and incense. Global Relief (GRF), based in Bridgeview, Illinois, (also known as Fondation Secours Mondial or FSM) was designated by the US as a terrorist-linked organization on <http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/po3553.htm> October 18, 2002. It was designated by the UN as a terrorist entity on October 24, 2002. In 2000, it received $18,521 from the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF). The US Treasury <http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/key-issues/protecting/charities_ex ecorder_13224-e.shtml> states: "In November 2001, during the air strikes in Afghanistan, a GRF medical relief coordinator traveled to Kabul and engaged in dealings and negotiations with Taliban officials until the collapse of the Taliban regime. A set of photographs and negatives discovered in 1997 in a trash dumpster outside of GRF's office in Illinois depicted large shipping boxes displayed under a GRF banner. These boxes contained sophisticated communications equipment valued at $120,000. GRF has stocked and promoted audio tapes and books authored by Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, who was co-founder, with UBL (Osama bin Laden), of MK (Makhtab al-Khidamat) as well as spiritual founder of Hamas; these tapes and books glorified armed jihad. Despite Azzam's terrorist background, GRF enthusiastically promoted Azzam's materials to the public." In <http://www.somaliuk.com/News/archive.php?month=3&year=2004> March 2004, he was allowed permission to post bail of $225,000, conditional upon him wearing an electronic tag, and not leaving San Diego County. He had <http://www.peterholderness.com/SomaliSD/omar.html> support from the local Somali community in San Diego. The <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13266-2004Aug18_5.html> Washington Post of August 18, 2004 stated that investigators had not been able to trace all of the GRF funds that Omar Abdi Mohamed received. In documents from his court case (USA v. Omar Abdi Mohamed: 03-CR-3433), most of the money went to an individual named Dahab Shil in the form of 65 checks, which ranged in payment from $370 to $60,000. Mohamed claimed the funds went to the Ogaden region of Ethiopia (where ethnic Somalis live). US officials suspected he sent money to the al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group founded by Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, <http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/000431.html> Al Ittihad Al Islamiya. Omar Abdi Mohamed won his case on funding of terrorism, but was convicted of immigration crime, found guilty on six charges of lying on his naturalization applications. He remained in jail. On <http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20060201-9999-7m1somali.html> January 1, 2006, it was revealed by his lawyer Mahir Sherif that he no longer wished to fight against deportation. He had said: "I don't want to fight. I want to be deported. I'm tired of being in jail... I have exonerated my name as far as terrorism. They prosecuted me for terrorism. The jury acquitted me of that. I have won.... America has become so much anti-Islam, I will be very happy when I am back between my Muslim brothers and sisters.'" In December 2005, U.S. District Judge John Houston had tripled his jail sentence, citing national security reasons. Houston said that the amount of money received by Mohamed (which he channeled overseas) was not in dispute. He was also concerned about his $20,000 annual salary from Saudi Arabia. This wage <http://www.somalilandtimes.net/2003/109/10908.shtml> came from the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Islamic Affairs. Raisah Bint Alan Douglas said that the money her "husband" received from the Saudi government was legitimate, and was used for him "to marry people, to translate, as police liaison with the Somali community... to teach people how to read the Koran." (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. 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