Farhad Jabar: Video reveals extreme view of teen supporter of Parramatta terrorist
AN Western Sydney Islamic schoolboy who paid online tribute to Parramatta teen terrorist Farhad Jabar filmed bathers at a beach as he sang about the end of the world and paradise.
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A WESTERN Sydney Islamic schoolboy who paid online tribute to teen terrorist Farhad Jabar filmed bathers at Wattamolla Beach while singing about the end of the world and paradise.
The year 12 student’s Instagram profile also shows him following jihadists who have posted images of Islamic State fighters with decapitated heads and guns.
On the weekend he posted video shot from behind bushes of families sunbathing on the beach south of Sydney while he sang an extremist Islamic chant.
Two translations obtained by The Daily Telegraph in effect showed the boy’s lyrics saying prepare to leave the world for paradise.
The video was posted just two days after Jabar executed NSW Police civilian worker Curtis Cheng at Parramatta police headquarters. The year 12 student followed a tribute account for Jabar, who also used the name Abu Zaid, and has uploaded an image of himself pointing to the sky in an IS-style salute a week ago.
The salute relates to the prophet but has become an integral party of Islamic State propaganda and is performed both on the battlefield or in the final minutes before a Shaheed — or martyr — carries out a suicide mission.
In between he posts about school and his upcoming HSC exams.
The Daily Telegraph has sent his social media posts to police and understands they are being assessed by counterterrorism police.
The posts were among a number of other sickening online tributes set up by IS sympathisers labelling Jabar a “green bird” and “a brother with impeccable character”.
The Instagram account — which the year 12 student follows and which features a stylised IS flag as its display picture — was set up the day after Jabar, 15, executed the respected accountant outside NSW Police headquarters.
Its first post includes a photograph of al-Qaeda recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki, who gave religious guidance to the 9/11 hijackers, and the phrase: “Never trust a kafir (non-Muslim)”.
The person behind the Instagram tribute account added: “Nor ally with them, nor feel sorrow for them indeed they are the enemies of Allah and he will deal with them accordingly”.
The following day the extremist, who is believed to remain at large in Sydney, posted a screenshot of Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione during a press conference and a headline announcing that Farhad Jabar was the teenager behind the disgraceful attack.
“We considered him a brother with impeccable character and Allah is his judge,” he wrote.
Another fellow ISIS supporter, who claimed to be neighbours with Farhad Jabar for the past eight years, also wrote: “I miss the brother … He is a lion and we are all cowards”.
JIHADISTS’ BIG ASK FOR ONLINE RECRUITS
Taylor Auerbach
TEEN terrorist Farhad Jabar and a cohort of his mates from Arthur Phillip High School were users of Ask.fm, a social media site that has been used by Islamic State recruiters to find and radicalise foreigners.
Set up in a call-and-response format where users send and receive questions with each other, the microblogging service has been used in recent years to lure both radicalised foreigners and jihadi brides to Syria’s bloody war zone.
Just two years ago, Farhad Jabar wrote on the site: “I am 13 years old and like playing basketball and other sports but basketball is my favourite sport.”
Prior to his descent into religious extremism — which resulted in the cold-blooded murder of police employee Curtis Cheng last Friday — Farhad seemed like a typical Australian teenager.
His favourite sport was basketball, he liked cats and computer games.
Asked the question “if you could be invisible, what would you do?”, Farhad wrote: “I would do pranks and scare people.”
The 17-year-old schoolmate of Farhad who was arrested on Tuesday for assaulting and intimidating police in a series of online rants is also a regular user of the Ask.fm site.
Asked what he would do with his remaining time on earth if he had one month left to live, he told his followers: “Get payback on the pigs.”
A number of fellow Arthur Phillip High School students use the site, which contains manuals for wannabe jihadists to get into Syria and chats between terrorists on the front line and extremists back home.