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Man Haron Monis is the muslim involved in the recent 'so called' terrorist attack in Australia. The following is a basic profile of his more recent history, drawn from Wikipedia (sorry about that but it is up to date). It's a bit long but I ask you take the time to read it to understand the issue.

Man Haron Monis was an Iranian Australian who at the time of his death had recently converted from Shia Islam to Sunni Islam, and pledged his allegiance to the caliphate declared by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.  He had sought political asylum in Australia in 1996 which was granted in 2001. He was also known as Sheikh Haron, Mohammad Hassan Manteghi and Ayatollah Manteghi Boroujerdi.

On 15 December 2014, Monis took hostages in a siege at the Lindt Chocolate Café at Martin Place, Sydney, lasting until the early hours of the following morning; he was confirmed by police to be dead at the conclusion of the siege.

Monis, together with a colleague, Amirah Droudis, undertook a campaign protesting against the presence of Australian troops in Afghanistan, by writing letters to the families of soldiers killed there, in which he called the soldiers murderers and urged the soldiers' families to petition the government to remove its troops from Afghanistan. According to justice Heydon of the High Court, the letters compared the deceased son of one family to a pig and to a dirty animal. It called the son's body 'contaminated'. It refers to it as 'the dirty body of a pig'.

In July 2011, Monis was charged at a St Mary's police station for intimidation of his ex-wife, Noleen Hayson Pal, following a confrontation in a McDonald's car park in Green Valley. Pal claimed Monis had threatened to shoot her and told her that he held a gun licence. On 21 April 2013, Pal's body was found stabbed 17 times and alight in a Werrington apartment stairwell. Monis' girlfriend Amirah Droudis was formally charged with Pal's murder, and on 15 November 2013, Monis was charged by NSW Police with being an accessory before and after the fact to the murder of Pal.

On 14 March 2014, Monis was arrested and charged with sexually and indecently assaulting a young woman who went to his consultancy in Wentworthville, New South Wales, for "spiritual healing", after seeing an advertisement in a local newspaper. Monis claimed he was an expert in "astrology, numerology, meditation and black magic" services. Seven months later, on 13 October 2014, a further 40 charges were added, including 22 counts of aggravated sexual assault and 14 counts of aggravated indecent assault, allegedly committed against six more women who had visited his business.

Esmaeil Ahmadi-Moghaddam, Iran's chief of police, told reporters that Monis had "a dark and long history of violent crime and fraud" in Iran and had run a travel agency in 1996, before fleeing to Malaysia and then Australia. "It lasted 4 years to collect evidence on Manteghi [Monis]'s identification documents and we reported this to the Australian police but since Australia has no extradition treaty with Iran, they didn't extradite him to Iran". The London-based Persian TV channel Manoto 1 reported that Monis had been working as the managing director of a tourism agency in Iran, and had fled Iran after taking US$200,000 of his customers' money. The same source reported that he was protected from extradition by his refugee status.

Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency states that he was "under prosecution by the Interpol" and Iran provided information to the Australian government about his criminal record, mental and spiritual status. Despite this, he was granted asylum in Australia. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham, publicly questioned the Australian government's having taken his criminal status "completely clear", after several discussions.

So here is a man wanted in his own country of Iran for prosecution on a number of crimes, known to be violent. Despite pleas from the Iranian government, Australia refused to extradite him back to Iran because he had been given refugee status.

Since then he has been charged and convicted for sending abusive correspondence to the families of dead Australian soldiers, been charged with being an accessory before and after the fact to the murder of his wife, as well as numerous charges of aggravated sexual assault of female customers.

He is on welfare and as such the Australian taxpayer has paid for his numerous unsuccessful appeals to the Supreme Court and High Court to overturn his conviction for the letters he sent.

Despite all the information from the Iranian government, he was still given refugee status. Despite claiming his allegiance to the caliphate declared by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, he has kept his Australian status. Despite the charges of accessory to murder and multiple aggravated sexual assault charges, he was still allowed to walk the streets.

Now he has topped it off by carrying out what is described as a terrorist attack, resulting in the deaths of two innocent Australians.

You wonder why I have no faith in my government.

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