Jihadi preacher Wissam Haddad breaks silence

(Paul Shapiro’s post from the DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA on 19 December 2025.)

Wissam Haddad's Bankstown Mosque.

Outspoken Islamic preacher Wissam Haddad has broken his silence, claiming there's 'no evidence' he had a relationship with the prime suspect in the Bondi terror attack. Haddad delivered antisemitic lectures at an Islamic centre frequented by alleged Bondi shooter Naveed Akram, who has been charged with 15 counts of murder.

Akram, 24, is understood to have attended Al Madina Dawah Centre before allegedly carrying out Sunday's massacre with his father, Sajid Akram. Haddad, who is not suggested to have had any prior knowledge of the attacks or any involvement, denied claims that Naveed was one of his followers.

The Islamic preacher shared a statement via encrypted messaging app Telegram on Thursday evening. 'This claim is undefined and misleading,' Haddad wrote. 'The term "follower" is not explained and could refer to something as minimal as a social media follow, which does not establish endorsement, influence or a personal relationship. No evidence has been produced showing any personal, organisational, or instructional link between Naveed Akram and Wissam Haddad.'

Bondi Terrorist Naveed: Follower Of Wisam Haddad

         (Sean Dunlop’s post from ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA on 16 December 2025.)

Bondi Beach shooting gunman Naveed Akram was follower of pro-Islamic State preacher Wisam Haddad: At least one of the gunmen responsible for Sunday's terrorist attack at Bondi Beach had longstanding links to Australia's pro-Islamic State (IS) network, including to a notorious Sydney cleric, the ABC has found.

But in the lead-up to the attack, Naveed Akram, 24, was not on a terrorism watchlist, nor was his father Sajid Akram prevented from legally accessing firearms before they opened fire on a Hanukkah celebration, killing 15 people.

Naveed Akram remains in hospital under police guard after being wounded in a shootout with police in which his father was killed. Australia's domestic intelligence agency, ASIO, examined Naveed Akram in 2019 after uncovering his associations with a Sydney-based IS cell, the ABC reported on Monday.

Bondi (Paki) Gunmen: Mindanao-trained Terrorists?

        (Sean Dunlop’s post from ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA on 16 December 2025.)

Bondi terrorists travelled to Philippines for 'military-style training', security sources say: Father-son gunmen Sajid and Naveed Akram travelled to the Philippines to receive "military-style training" in the month before they killed 15 people at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach, security sources have   confirmed.

The revelation comes after the ABC reported Naveed Akram, 24, had longstanding links to members of Australia's pro-Islamic State (IS) network — including to notorious jihadist spiritual leader Wisam Haddad and convicted IS youth recruiter Youssef Uweinat. Through a lawyer, Mr Haddad has said he "vehemently denies any knowledge of or involvement in the shootings that took place at Bondi Beach".

Investigators are now examining the Akrams' ties to an international jihadist network, after discovering the pair travelled to Manila in early November, according to officials briefed on the investigation. Naveed and Sajid Akram then journeyed to the southern Philippines and underwent militant training, said a senior counter-terrorism official, speaking on condition of anonymity. The pair returned to Australia in late November, officials said, just weeks before Sunday's massacre at Bondi Beach.

The Big Short (Aus) is Coming: Mortgage-Bonds Vs CDS

(My disturbing thoughts on the soon-coming Australian Version of THE BIG SHORT.)

Any Australian wise enough to understand the movie “THE BIG SHORT” and then read Michael Lewis’s book “THE BIG SHORT” would certainly realise that the Australian version of “THE BIG SHORT” has been well overdue here in Sydney.

Last 35 years since late 1990s, when the Capital-Gain-Tax (CGT) was halved by John Howard’s Liberal Government, Sydney houses have been in an incredible floating bubble massively super-inflated by landlords’ favourite the Negative Gearings, for the median house price has risen into the upper-stratosphere. From well below A$ 100,000 in 1990 to well over A$ 1,000,000 now in 2025.

I still remember the day when I bought my first house in Sydney in 1990, I paid A$ 98,000 for that brick-veneer-three-bedders while I was earning A$ 48,000 a year as a production manager in an engineering company and my wife was on A$ 27,000 a year as a tutor in Sydney University.