Bondi Shooter Praised for Studying Quran By Anna Young

Naveed Akram, 24, was tagged in a February 2022 social media post praising him for mastering “all the rules of tajweed” — the recitation of laws of the Quran — at the Al-Murad Institute outside Sydney.

New York Post : Bondi Beach terror suspect Naveed Akram studied at a Sydney Islamic center. One of the terror suspects in the Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre is believed to have studied religion at an Islamic center in Australia that has ties to other Muslim-run organizations in the country.

Naveed Akram, 24, who allegedly opened fire with his father on thousands of Jews celebrating Hanukkah on Sunday night, was tagged in a February 2022 social media post praising him for mastering “all the rules of tajweed” — the recitation of laws of the Quran — at the Al-Murad Institute outside Sydney.

“Another one of my dear students, Naveed Akram, passing the Iqra books and tajweed this morning, perfecting his all the rules of tajweed,” Adam Ismail, head of the institute, said in the since-deleted Facebook post. 

The post showed the pair smiling at the camera in what appeared to be a library, as Akram proudly held up his certificate.

The suspected gunman was investigated in 2019 for possible terror ties by the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO), the country’s version of the FBI, the ABC reported.   

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