Zeinab Ahmad hasn’t renounced it because she believes that it is the embodiment of true Islam. And that’s why her defense attorney, Grace Morgan, has proposed that Ahmad enter a deradicalization program. Yet such programs have failed everywhere they have been implemented. The whole premise of “deradicalization” programs is that Islam is a religion of peace that jihadis misunderstand, twist, and hijack. Since that is a false premise, and warfare against unbelievers is actually taught in the Qur’an and Sunnah, “deradicalization” focuses on other issues, such as “anger issues” that the jihadi may have, or feelings of “alienation” and the like.
But since none of that changes what the Qur’an and Sunnah say about warfare against unbelievers, it doesn’t “deradicalize” the jihadi at all. A British psychologist behind a “deradicalization” scheme has also admitted that there’s no guarantee that jihadis can ever be “cured.” And Jonathan Hall KC, who was at the time the UK’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said there was “no magic bullet or special pill” that could help to change convicted jihad terrorists.
“Woman Accused of Enslaving Ezidi Girl Has Not Renounced ISIS, Australian Prosecutors Say,” Kurdistan24, June 5, 2026:
ERBIL (Kurdistan24) – An Australian woman charged with enslavement crimes linked to the Islamic State in Syria has not renounced her allegiance to the extremist group, federal prosecutors argued in a Melbourne courtroom on Friday, aggressively pushing back against her application to be released on bail.
The proceedings involving 31-year-old Zeinab Ahmad are offering a rare, detailed look into the legal and security challenges Western governments face when prosecuting citizens who traveled to the heart of the Islamic State’s self-declared caliphate.
Ahmad, who returned to Australia last month from a Syrian detention camp, is facing charges of crimes against humanity, specifically, enslavement and the use of a slave.
The charges stem from allegations that her family held a Kurdish Ezidi (also refered to as Yazidi) teenager captive in Raqqa, Syria, during the height of the Islamic State’s brutal reign.
During a fraught bail hearing in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court, prosecutors painted a picture of a defendant deeply entrenched in the ideology of the Islamic State.
Detective Senior Constable Marc Clendenning, a lead investigator on the case, testified that Ahmad remains an unacceptable risk to the community, emphasizing that she had not renounced her support for the terror network, according to reporting by James Oaten of ABC News.
“No conditions of that nature would ameliorate the risk because there’s a lot of unknowns with the accused’s ideology,” Clendenning told the court, referring to proposed bail restrictions….
According to the prosecution’s narrative, detailed in court and reported by Rod McGuirk of The Associated Press, the Ahmad family purchased a Ezidi teenager for $14,000 in 2017. The girl was allegedly forced into sexual servitude and domestic labor at the family’s home in Raqqa.
The court heard that Zeinab Ahmad’s father, Mohammad Ahmad, who is currently incarcerated in Iraq, was the primary purchaser and abuser, allegedly subjecting the teenager to multiple physical and sexual assaults.
However, investigators allege that Zeinab Ahmad, who was in her early twenties at the time, treated the captive “badly” and was complicit in the conditions of her enslavement before the girl was sold to another buyer more than a year later….
Furthermore, Morgan proposed that Ahmad would participate in a countering violent extremism (CVE) program administered by Victoria Police and the Board of Imams Victoria.
To support the application, Ahmad’s uncle, Abraham Abbas, testified that he would house her and provide a $75,000 surety. Distancing his family from the charges, Abbas vehemently condemned the Islamic State in court.
“They’re evil and they don’t represent anything we’ve got to do with Islam at all,” Abbas testified, apologizing for using profanity to describe the group….
Furthermore, Clendenning argued that the CVE deradicalization program is designed for individuals on a “path of radicalization,” not someone with Ahmad’s decade-long exposure to the core of the Islamic State….
ploome says
What is the point of allowing this individual into country? Paying for her TOTAL living expenses and paying for her mental health treatment, and the crimes to be committed by her litter?
Rescind her citizenship…and deport her
Wellington says
Seconded. Too damn bad the West has gone into stupid mode over the past half century (and not just about Islam).
The 11th century West was far more accurate about Mohammedanism than the 21st century has been. Yeah, science and technology have advanced enormously over the past millennium (due almost entirely to one civilization, i.e., Western Civilization) but at the same time rubes aplenty, often times with many college degrees, have eviscerated noble and necessary things things like moral intelligence, common sense and proper knowledge.
Voltaic says
If she was born in Australia she would be returning to the country of her birth so where would you send her to?
The British were able to cancel the citizenship of the notorious Begum woman born in England because she had family ties to Bangladesh but the Banglas didn’t want her either.
Begum is still stuck in Syria somewhere with a cool no-burkha makeover that’s fooling nobody.
She was just 15 when she traded interest in boys for the delicious severed heads of infidels.
So it can be done but not by the Australians (they’ve become rather like Canadians) -the title of their Royal Commission into the Bondi massacre doesn’t mention Islam and its core concern is an irrelevant focus on gun control.
As if by strange coincidence or karma their Prime Minister is looking more and more like a turkey with his thin flapping jowl which has evolved recently -no side photographs please (it’s a thing, a trend -for Prince Spare it’s No back of the head angles please).
ApathyRulesTheWorld says
The Australian PM loves these people because they vote labor. He is trying to get as many into the country as possible.
abu taleb says
What Islamic State ideology? It is Islam ideology.
somehistory says
Yes, to the very core (al queda) of what they believe and practice and lust to follow.
And they’ll lie, lie and lie some more to further the slime and support those willing to rape and murder.
Keeping her in his house on the bond, means she’d still be bending her back and saluting satan.
She can do that in jail.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, a distinction w/o a difference, as they all say
Tim gallagher says
There has been an extraordinary and unprecedented change in the political landscape in Australia in the last few months. No doubt many factors have got huge numbers of Australians really pissed off. Albanese bringing in taxes that he said he would not bring in, ridiculously high immigration levels but also the Bondi atrocity and bringing these Isis scum back have led to one nation becoming the most popular party with 31 per cent to Labor 28 per cent and liberals 18 per cent. One nation used to a fringe party with 8 percent. I’m in my late 70s and cannot recall anything like it in the political scene. Will it stay this way or fade away is the question.