Online fundraising campaign for terror accused Milad Atai receives more than $3000 in two days

AN ONLINE campaign for terror-accused Milad Atai has raised more than $3000 in two days, including donations from supporters in Mexico.

A GoFundMe page has been set-up for terror-accused Milad Atai and raised almost $3000 in one day, including a donation of $1500 from Mexico. Ironically Atai is facing charges of financing terrorism, after he allegedly handed $5000 to a young Muslim schoolgirl to wire to Syria to jihadi fighter and former Melbourne man Ahmed Merhi. Pic of Milad Atai doing Jihadi Salute

AN ONLINE campaign for terror-accused Milad Atai has raised more than $3000 in two days, including donations from supporters in Mexico.

The 20-year-old, who calls himself Abu Baraa, was last week charged with financing terrorism alongside a 16-year-old girl.

Police allege Atai was the facilitator of money, understood to be upwards of $10,000, and that he procured the schoolgirl to send the funds to former Melbourne man turned jihadi fighter, Ahmed Merhi, sometime between February 3 and March 22.

The GoFundMe page raised almost $3000 in one day, including a donation of $1500 from Mexico.

A GoFundMe page has been setup for terror-accused Milad Atai.

Atai’s supporters created a GoFundMe page on Monday to raise funds for the terror-accused and his pregnant wife. The page was setup by a follower from Point Cook, a suburb of Melbourne.

“Recently a brother has become an aseer (prisoner) at the hands of the tawagheet (nonbelievers) leaving his revert (new convert to Muslim) wife, who is due to give birth in three months, having no income to support herself,” the page states.

The page had raised $3015 last night with 23 people making pledges, including $2000 from a man from Mexico who identified himself as Ahmad El Magherbi.

Atai, who is on remand in Supermax, was a previous target of Operation Appleby in September 2014, and while not arrested at the time, was named in a terrorism control order.

His arrest last week marked the 14th Appleby target to face charges.

Atai’s wife, who calls herself Umm Usamah, said she felt deserted by her friends.

“Everyone always told us they would be here for us but where are you all now?” she said in a social media post.

“By the will of Allah … he will be set free and his innocence will be proven ...(He has) his unborn baby on the way in Sha Allah who he is longing to hold and to meet and now there’s a chance he may never get to hold his first baby in the hospital room … he wanted to raise a lion and it just kills me to think that may never happen.”

Sydney man Ahmed Merhi, armed with an assault rifle. Police believe he left Australia to fight in Syria.

Atai faces a 25-year prison sentence, if found guilty of the charge.

In another post Umm Usamah said money raised would be used to pay for Atai’s court case and to “buy him halal food in the jail as it is not cheap”.

Supermax prisoners are provided with halal options.

Atai’s brother Mohammd, who calls himself Abu Umar Al Khursani, posted his bank account details online on Monday, pleading for support to help finance Atai’s court case.

“My mother went overseas two weeks ago and she was really worried about my (little) brother Milad … by the way she still doesn’t know that her younger son is locked up how can I tell her this news she is coming back in two weeks,” Mohammd wrote.

“It is going to be very hard for he.”

Following Atai’s arrest on March 22, an angry supporter warned of radical action; “don’t they realise the more they arrest, the more awareness they make the more hatred towards them they create”.

Another labelled the government “inhumane”.

A female backer begged for more donations: “(Atai’s wife) is heavily pregnant and her husband has been taken away from her by these dirty kafireen (non-Muslims).”

Atai is close with Raban Alou, 19, who is accused of supplying the gun used to kill NSW police worker Curtis Cheng. Atai was allegedly converted to hard line Islam by former Parramatta High School friend and Omarjan Azari, who is accused of planning to murder a random member of the public in the name of Islamic State.