First identified Bondi shooter Pakistani-Australian man #Naveed_Akram, studied at the Salafist Al Murad Institute. Sectarian salafist disciples have been used by the US and the Israelis to attack Iraq, Syria, Iran and Hezbollah and resistance groups in Gaza. Israel has publicly blamed Iran for the Bondi attack, but emerging details point in a different direction. A 2022 Facebook post shows one of the attackers, Naveed Akram, studying Qur’anic recitation (tajwīd) under a Salafi teacher. The photo provides several key clues: 1. The books behind him are clearly authored by major Salafi–Wahhabi scholars You can see titles by Ibn Bāz, al-‘Uthaymīn, and other scholars associated with Saudi/Wahhabi Salafism, a sect that is openly hostile to Iran, Shia Islam, and the Iranian state. 2. His teacher is part of a Salafi institution The instructor’s post praises Akram’s mastery of tajwīd according to classical Sunni methodologies commonly used in Salafi circles. Taken together, the material points toward Sunni–Salafi ideological influence, NOT Iranian/Shia influence. This doesn’t prove a motive, but it directly contradicts the claim that the attacker was acting on behalf of Iran, a state and religious tradition that Salafis typically view as heretical.
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