Aussie anti-terror raids protested by 'Islamic State' supporters in Sydney

Yesterday’s raids by Australian police on suspected terrorists sparked protests by a pro-Islamic State Muslim group in Sydney. Police say the raids thwarted a plan to randomly abduct and behead Sydney residents at the instruction of leaders of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Protesters say the state is terrorizing Muslims.

Sydney Muslims launch angry protests over anti-terror #raids, accusing authorities of drumming up hysteria http://t.co/Nl3SHlCQr4 #Lakemba

— ABC News (@abcnews) September 18, 2014

@abcnews

Here we go.

— Paul Makin PORT DOUGLAS (@makin_paul) September 18, 2014

https://twitter.com/KJC135/status/512709341825085440

https://twitter.com/matthewsnelson7/status/512529228181434368

@matthewsnelson7 @M_Taverniti @7NewsSydney what are the logos on those placards?

— Ben Langford (@Lang44rd) September 18, 2014

Good question. We were able to find a large enough image to extract the logo.

Hizb ut-Tahrir is a political party rooted in Islam and establishing an Islamic State. Their website describes them like this:

Hizb ut-Tahrir is a political party whose ideology is Islam. Its objective is to resume the Islamic way of life by establishing an Islamic State that executes the systems of Islam and carries its call to the world. Hizb ut-Tahrir has prepared a party culture that includes a host of Islamic rules about life’s matters. The party calls for Islam in its quality as an intellectual leadership from which emanates the systems that deals with all man’s problems, political, economic, cultural and social among others. Hizb ut-Tahrir is a political party that admits to its membership men and women, and calls all people to Islam and to adopt its concepts and systems. It views people according to the viewpoint of Islam no matter how diverse their nationalities and their schools of thought were. Hizb ut-Tahrir adopts the interaction with the Ummah in order to reach its objective and it struggles against colonialism in all its forms and attributes in order to liberate the Ummah from its intellectual leadership and to deracinate its cultural, political, military and economic roots from the soil of the Islamic lands. Hizb ut-Tahrir endeavours to change the erroneous thoughts which colonialism has propagated, such as confining Islam to rituals and morals.

(emphasis added)

In front of 300 angry protesters, controversial Hizt ut-Tahrir spokesman Uthman Badar warned of a growing anger within the Islamic community and said it was time to stop the victimisation. “We are tired of being made scapegoats. The government is the terrorist,” he declared to the gathering, many waving anti-government placards.

Speaker says Muslims have a right to be angry with what the West is doing.

— Tom Tilley (@TomTilley) September 18, 2014

@TomTilley then fuck off back to where you came from! Simple!

— ?Faustino Rossi? (@4orty6ix) September 18, 2014

@TomTilley I'm sorry when was the last time a Christian beheaded an innocent person ?

— Sir John of Rabbit (@Bunnyboi007) September 18, 2014

https://twitter.com/CoulterCoulter/status/512542916858744832

https://twitter.com/LittleWombat666/status/512632537743499265

https://twitter.com/t_wark/status/512715180006850560

Disturbing account from a senior Muslim figure in Sydney tonight. Estimates there's 5000 muslims in Sydney who would strongly support ISIS.

— Hamish Macdonald (@hamishNews) September 18, 2014

https://twitter.com/LyallMercer/status/512583428391198720

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