'I didn't want to sit and watch': Jailed Australian IS fighter says 'charity banquet' convinced him to go to Syria

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An Australian member of the Islamic State group says he was convinced to go to Syria to fight after attending charity banquets in Australia.

An Australian member of the Islamic State group says he was convinced to go to Syria to fight after attending"charity banquets" in Australia.Shqeir says he was convinced to go to Syria to fight for IS after being"moved" by speeches at"charity banquets"

"Back then in Australia, Syria was all over the place, everybody was talking about Syria," said the man, who gives his name as Jamil Ahmad Shqeir."That's what influenced me, at the mosque, the speech would move me.Shqeir told a Syrian television reporter that he was able to easily travel to Syria to join the conflict in its earliest stages.He said he left Australia for Syria in early 2013.

Shqeir said that when IS commanders discovered he spoke English he was assigned to train foreign fighters.

 

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Oh. Sad story. Now it must be time for you to die now. Bye Bye.

Go to Syria by all means, just dont come back

he wanted to behead syrians throw away the key!

there is one born every day

Anyone tried to bring him to Australia should be regarded as enemy of whole Oz

Way is this news ABC? He left he to go and be part of a terrorist Group, it did not work out now he needs to suffers for what did. It is call cause and effect.

Let his enemy dead with him

let him rot in hell

When you say, go to Syria, ABC, you mean go join an evil, murderous group committed to destroying non-Muslims & Australia as we know it.

Hang on hang on whoa, there was a fundraiser for IS at a Mosque in Australia?

Well that's all okay then. Give him a ticket home and don't forget to backdate his Centerlink to when he left. Is there anything else we can do for you dear? The Minister's signed apology letter is in the post.

IS and radical Islam is still a global threat.

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