His planning, you see, was “not sophisticated.” People can be murdered in unsophisticated ways, but the judge doesn’t seem to have been troubled by that.
And anyway, never fear. The judge also doesn’t think he will offend again, and he has to attend “deradicalization” programs. Those never work, because they’re based on the false proposition that the true Islam is peaceful and so teaching Islam to a jihadi will make him not a jihadi, but authorities haven’t noticed yet.
“Teenage boy avoids jail over plans for Sydney terror attack,” by Sarah Gerathy, ABC.net.au, November 8, 2026:
A 16-year-old boy has been spared jail for preparing a terror plot after being exposed to extremist content on social media.
The boy was 14 when he was arrested in August 2024, after researching how to make a pressure-cooker bomb and potential target locations.
The judge found the planning “was not sophisticated”.
A teenage boy who admitted he considered carrying out a mass terror attack at the Sydney Opera House after being exposed to extremist content on TikTok has been spared a prison sentence after a Supreme Court judge found there was “very little chance” of him reoffending.
The 16-year-old was handed a three-year community corrections order for the offence, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
The boy, who cannot be identified, had just turned 14 when he was arrested at his Western Sydney home by federal police in August 2024 and charged with committing acts in preparation for a terror attack….
The teen told the court he had first been exposed to extremist material on TikTok, which he found “interesting”, and it led to him viewing increasingly violent material including some from Al Qaeda and recruitment propaganda from the Islamic State group.
The court heard that over a five-week period in 2024, the teen had shared extremist material with others online, praised Al Qaeda on encrypted messaging apps and attempted to contact the surviving Boston Marathon bomber in a US jail via email….
Justice Campbell said since his arrest the teenager had renounced Islamic extremism and would benefit from continuing to live in a “loving home”, with his parents, who were from the persecuted Hazara minority in Afghanistan….
“I am of the opinion that there is very little chance of the young person offending again.”
The teenager was handed a three-year community corrections order and told he must hand over the password to his phone to a youth justice officer, continue to undertake any deradicalisation or education programs as instructed and not have access to any encrypted messaging apps….
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