A convert to radical Islam has appeared in a Sydney court on charges of possessing child pornography and making a hoax terrorist threat against the city's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.Ibrahim Siddiq-Conlon is accused of posting the threat on the Facebook page for 2Day FM's Kyle and Jackie O Show.
Police also allege he viewed child abuse material on the internet using his laptop computer between July last year and his arrest on the night of the Mardi Gras parade.
Siddiq-Conlon has previously come to attention in the media for his outspoken views, particularly his call for Australia to become an Islamic state ruled by sharia law.
He faced Burwood Local Court this morning and was granted bail to re-appear in May.
Speaking to news hounds outside the court, Siddiq-Conlon said he had posted the hoax threat in a moment of passion and had not meant it.
| Sudden Keyboard Jihad Syndrome -- instilling fear in the unbelievers without exerting himself so much as to leave his desk. Such a brave, brave Lion of Islam he is, to be sure. The girls will just love him in prison. |
He denied accessing child pornography from his computer.
| "That was just a moment of passion and I didn't mean it, either," quoth our genius. |