“We are coming for you” – message to ECAJ
Nour Mohamed is alleged to have sent an image of the moment before IS beheaded US journalist James Foley to the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, followed by a message stating, “We are coming for you.”
James Foley
Mohamed faced Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court today by video link from prison. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that he is “accused of offensive conduct in public, one count of using social media to send a death threat and two counts of using social media to menace, harass or offend”.
The alleged threat was sent on October 11, just days after the massacre of 1200 Jews in southern Israel on October 7.
On October 12, the 35-year-old Mohamed posted a private message on Instagram to the ECAJ declaring, “We are coming for you soon, from western Sydney”, accompanied by images of the moments before ISIS beheaded journalist James Foley in 2014.
The magistrate ruled that a bail application would have to be dealt with separately.
He will face court again on February 21.
It is now up to the court to bring down a ruling commensurate with this obscene threat to ACAJ. A lot depends on it, including, if severe as it should be, proper confirmation of all the words from governments, state and federal, in regard to the necessary safety of Australian Jews and the fact that hate speech and threats of this kind would not be tolerated.