Australia has been “under attack” from a group of Muslim men wanting “to kill as many unbelievers as they can” for about 15 years, a Supreme Court judge has said.

Justice Desmond Fagan added that their goal was to “impose the Sharia.” He referred to verses in the Qur’an that he said described the duty of “a Muslim to wage Jihad.”

The points Fagan make cannot be overemphasized, as this is the nature and core of the global jihad. Although Fagan indicated that he “was not making generalizations” about Islamic beliefs,  there are those Muslims who choose to obey  verses in the Qur’an that it is the duty of a Muslim to wage jihad. This is central to what sets Islamic terrorism apart: it is doctrinal, its abuses are widespread, systemic and sanctioned.

Any reasonable Westerner knows that not all Muslims adhere to this doctrine, but that does not change the fact that this problematic ideology incorporates both violent jihad and stealth jihad to subvert unbelievers and their societies. Muslim Brotherhood organizations are well known to employ stealth means, and their founder, Hassan al-Banna, also sanctioned bloody jihad.

Accused jihadist Tamim Khaja stated that he “wanted so badly to be on the battlefield with my brothers,” but because his passport was cancelled, he would adapt and “fulfil my obligation here.” Khaja also said:

I mean to take as many of them down as I can. I’m not going to stop firing… If there’s like a two month old baby, or someone holding a baby…. I wouldn’t buckle in that situation.

The commitment of jihadists to their cause is steadfast, and adaptive in location and methodology. The West has not really begun to fight this war against the global jihad until it understands its nature and stops allowing jihadists and Islamic supremacists to bully them with their labels of racism and “Islamophobia.” It is not racist or “Islamophobic” to strive to protect free societies.

Australia will continue to be under attack from other jihadists who are “on the battlefield” with their “brothers.” The country would do well to heed the warnings of Justice Desmond Fagan.

More on this story. “Australia ‘under attack’ for 15 years from group of Muslim men, judge tells court,” by David Spicer, ABC News Australia, February 16, 2018:

Australia has been “under attack” from a group of Muslim men wanting “to kill as many unbelievers as they can” for about 15 years, a Supreme Court judge has said.

Justice Desmond Fagan made the comments while sentencing Tamim Khaja, 20, who pleaded guilty in October to planning and preparing a terrorist attack two years ago.

The then 18-year-old was arrested while preparing for a lone wolf massacre, either at the US embassy in Sydney, an Army barracks in western Sydney, or at a court complex at Parramatta.

Counsel for the defendant, Ian Temby QC, tendered to the court a list of recent sentences handed down to other men who had been convicted of terror offences.

In response, Justice Fagan told the court that Australia had “been under attack for 15 years by about 40 Muslim men, to kill as many unbelievers as they can and impose Sharia law.”

“The ideology that underlies each is Islam.”

Sitting at Sydney West Trial Courts at Parramatta, Justice Fagan referred to verses in the Koran which he said described the duty of “a Muslim to wage Jihad”.

He said he was not making generalisations about Islamic beliefs and that his courtroom was “not a forum for the rights and wrongs of the Islam or Christian religions”.

An agreed statement of facts tendered to court revealed that Khaja had twice attempted to travel to Syria or Iraq, where he “intended to join the Islamic State terrorist organisation and engage in hostile activities”.

After his passport was cancelled in March 2016, Khaja began communicating via an encrypted messaging app with an overseas police officer, who he believed to be an ISIS supporter.

On May 7, 2016, Khaja told the police officer, known as Person A, that he “wanted so badly to be on the battlefield with my brothers”, but since his passport had been cancelled, he would “fulfil my obligation here”.

“I am currently sourcing a glock [handgun] but I want to do big damage,” Khaja told Person A.

“I am thinking more along the lines of Boston Marathon .. I know how to make a portable microwave b..b [sic]”

Even with a handgun I would be able to cause a lot of damage.”

Khaja told person A that he had been considering locations for an attack, including the US Embassy in Sydney, but it was likely to be heavily guarded, court documents revealed.

He told Person A that another option was the Timor Army Barracks in Dundas, where he could “launch an attack by ramming the lot of them by car and then firing head shots when they are on the ground”.

Mr Temby argued that at the time of the arrest Khaja was only at “a preliminary stage” of planning the offence and that he “had no accomplice”.

However the crown prosecutor said Khaja had accessed documents about bombs and creating suicide vests.

Justice Fagan said Khaja had spoken about “killing innocent people as many innocent people as he could, like [he was] planning a picnic”….