Jihadi bride Zehra Duman regains Australian citizenship after becoming a member of Islamic State in Syria and sending threatening messages to Day by day Mail reporter
Australia’s first jihadi bride has had her Australian citizenship formally restored, with taxpayers set to pay her authorized charges.
Zehra Duman, a former scholar at Isik Faculty Keysborough in Melbourne, grew to become a infamous on-line supporter for ISIS after transferring to Syria in 2014 to marry Melbourne jihadist Mahmoud Abdullatif.
Abdullatif, often known as the ‘playboy jihadi’, was killed in 2015 and Duman is believed to have married twice extra to different ISIS fighters.
Duman was a key ISIS recruiter on social media, posing with machine weapons and on the bonnets of luxurious automobiles stolen by the terrorists as she urged different Westerners to depart civilisation and be a part of their lethal Islamic regime.
She additionally despatched a threatening message to a Day by day Mail reporter after she was contacted about various regarding posts she made on Twitter in 2015.
Australia’s first jihadi bride, Zehra Duman (pictured), has had her Australian citizenship formally restored
Mahmoud Abdullatif , often known as the ‘playboy jihadi’, was killed in 2015 and Duman is believed to have married twice extra to different ISIS fighters
In 2019, Duman was notified her Australian citizenship had been rebuked because of her membership and help of ISIS.
She lodged an attraction for herself and her two youngsters in 2020.
The case was not formally resolved till final week, when the Excessive Court docket signed off on a consent order which learn: ‘The courtroom declares that the primary plaintiff is an Australian citizen.’
The Commonwealth of Australia, because the defendant, has been ordered to pay her authorized charges, in keeping with The Australian.
It’s understood Duman and her household had been dwelling in Turkey after she escaped the al-Hawl detention camp for ISIS households in 2021 and travelled throughout the Turkey-Syria border.
She was taken into custody however launched shortly afterwards into the group.
Throughout her time in Syria, Duman used social media to advocate for assaults on the West, calling for opposers of the ISIS regime to be killed and assaults launched on Australia, the UK and the US.
In 2015, Duman despatched a threatening message to a Day by day Mail reporter after she was contacted for remark.
She instructed Day by day Mail Australia on the time: ‘All you need to know is that the following time I’ll ever step into Australia, is once we come and make it part of the Islamic State bi’thnillah.
‘Oh and do I miss my household? Effectively I feel you’ll miss yours quickly (sic). Thanks and have a terrific day mate!’
Duman despatched a threatening message to a Day by day Mail reporter on January 22, 2015 (pictured)
Duman was a key ISIS recruiter on social media, posing with machine weapons and on the bonnets of stolen luxurious automobiles
Duman left Melbourne aged 19 to affix the fear group. Pictured: Duman alongside support employees
The restoration of Duman’s citizenship comes nearly a yr after the federal authorities suggested her authorized staff it could not dispute her declare to have her citizenship restored.
It adopted the winding up of the earlier Coalition authorities’s citizenship cessation legal guidelines in June final yr, which had been discovered by the Excessive Court docket to be invalid as a result of they relied on a ministerial determination as an alternative of a judicial one.
The collapse of the legal guidelines meant a few dozen ISIS fighters, members and supporters had been eligible to have their citizenship reinstated instantly.
Whereas Duman’s was the primary such attraction lodged towards the legal guidelines, the case which introduced the laws down concerned Delil Alexander, who’s jailed within the Syrian capital of Damascus.
His household launched an attraction for him and his case was upheld in June final yr.
Each Alexander and Duman are twin Turkish-Australian nationals.
The federal government intends to plug the loophole left by the ending of the citizenship cessation legal guidelines with laws that might require a courtroom order to strip citizenship from an Australian twin nationals.
Propaganda photos on social featured a collection of extremist ladies standing beneath an Islamic State flag
In 2015, a Twitter account believed to be run by Duman posted photos of ISIS ladies carrying assault rifles and standing subsequent to luxurious automobiles, head to toe in Islamic costume.
In a single tweet, Duman mentioned: ‘US + Australia, how does it really feel that each one 5 of us had been born n raised in your lands, & now right here thirsty for ur blood?’
In different tweets, Duman known as for violence towards ‘kuffars’ or non-Muslims.
‘Stab them and poison them. Poison your lecturers, go to haram eating places and poison the meals in giant portions,’ she wrote.
ISIS was lastly defeated in 2018 after a number of years of combating in Iraq and Syria.
The defeat displaced 1000’s of jihadi brides who had fled their house nations to affix the combat and marry ISIS troopers.
