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(36,385 posts)The kid isn't, no more than he's ISIS, as that headline says, but what do you expect from crap like the Daily Mail. Sharrouf managed to slip out of Australia with his four kids (not sure where his wife is now) on someone else's passport. The mob online reaction appears to be calls to deport Sharrouf, but there's some problems with that, mainly that he's no longer in Australia to deport, and even if he was, if they want to deport him back to where he was born, that'd be Australia anyway. Instead they should be asking what I am, which is how did someone who's on a no-fly list manage to get through customs using someone else's passport. The end result of that fuck up is that there's now four children in danger, coz that pic and others I've heard of are blatant child abuse. The Australian Federal Police have issued an arrest warrant for Sharrouf, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise he's got no plans to ever come back here...
Here's the story from a reliable and non-sensationalist source. A translation for Americans who aren't familiar with the language of Bogans. 'Youse' translates as 'you all'. It looks like they're a charming family..
Politicians and Muslim community leaders have labelled it sickening, deplorable and shockingly evil.
But Khaled Sharrouf's brother believes Australia should simply "forget" about a photo of his young nephew holding the severed head of a Syrian soldier.
As the shocking image of Sharrouf's son travelled around the world on Monday, Mostafa Sharrouf, a stonemason from Sydney's western suburbs, said: "He's gone, forget about it. He's forgotten about youse. I'm sure you've seen much worse than that."
Sharrouf, 33, slipped out of Australia last year using Mostafa's passport and travelled with his four children to Syria and Iraq, where he has been fighting with the terrorist rebel group Islamic State.
The jihadist from Punchbowl has become Australia's most wanted terrorist and continues to bait authorities from afar by posting images and threats online.
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Community leader Jamal Rifi said the photos could only be taken "by a very sick person".
"His actions are deplorable," he said. "There's a lot of anger within the community because he's doing much more damage to Islam when he's pretending to be defending Islam."
Dr Rifi has known Sharrouf's father for years and spent time with the family at their Chester Hill home.
A court found in 2009 that Sharrouf, who spent four years in prison on terrorism charges, had a troubled upbringing that included violence from his father, illicit drug use and paranoid hallucinations.
"This does not give him an excuse but may explain his behaviour," Dr Rifi said.
Lebanese Muslim Association president Samir Dandan said the photos were "the act of a lunatic".
http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/boys-uncle-says-forget-about-photo-of-severed-head-20140811-102t0t.html