A Melbourne mother is being investigated by police over her alleged links to Somali ‘jihadis’ and accusations she supports Islamic martyrdom. She is accused of being a ‘friend’ to a SydneyAustralia since she was once married to a suspected Jemaah Islamiah member and of attempting to start a terror branch in Australia. based ‘militant Islamic matriarch’ (though we wonder what does this mean) Rabiyah Hutchinson. Rabiyah is accused of being the queen of Islamic Jihad in

The convert, whose name is not released by Australian police, allegedly declared herself and her family “soldiers of Osama bin Laden” in Australia and would act on his orders. Australian Muslims however told Wfol the Australian authorities are desperate to keep the ‘terror’ tag on Muslims in the country.

“They would do anything to accuse the Muslims of terrorism. Formal talks at your home and even in restaurants can be considered as ‘terror’ chats and indicate (to the Aussie police at least) that Muslims are planning terror attacks and so on,” Wfol was told.

The allegations against the phantom Muslim convert are contained in an official statement given to the Australian Federal Police in relation to its investigation into Somali community figures suspected of encouraging dozens of young men to return to their homeland and join Islamic jihad.

The statement accuses another Australian convert, Aisha Whitehead, of encouraging her Somali-born Australian husband Ahmed Ali to fight alongside terrorists in his war-torn homeland.

The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) is Australia's national security service and its main task these days are to spy on Muslims of Indonesian, Somali and Australian converts origins, Wfol was told.

“It has little to do with the security of the country as it is a race based spy agency that is collecting information on Muslims in particular,” said a source in Australia.

ASIO's main role is to gather information and produce intelligence that will enable it to warn the government about activities or situations that might endanger Australia's national security. The ASIO Act defines "security" as the protection of Australia and its people from espionage, sabotage, politically motivated violence, the promotion of communal violence, attacks on Australia's defence system, and acts of foreign interference.

Most of the Muslims in Australia fall under the Foreign Incursions Act, implemented after the discovery of Australian born Muslim militants in Afghanistan. The Act says that “Australians who engage in hostile activities in a foreign state can be charged under the Foreign Incursions Act.”

The Act prevents Muslims living in Australia to travel to other countries, such as Afghanistan, IraqSomalia to carry out ‘Jihad’ or war against foreign occupation of Muslim land. Those who are found to have done so might fall victim to ‘rendition’, which is the unofficial kidnapping of people allegedly involved or supporting Osama bin Laden and his group. and

According to the charges against Ms Whitehead, she is alleged to have told a small gathering (private) of Muslim women in Melbourne that she supported Islamic jihad and was a follower of the hardline Wahabi form of Islam (which is the Saudi form of Islamic practice.)

"We are Wahabi," the mother is quoted as saying in the sworn statement seen by The Australian and given by a Somali community member to the AFP in August. Asked at the gathering whether it was bad to be a Wahabi, she replied: "No, we are soldiers of Osama bin Laden. We take orders from him. If he tells us to go somewhere, we go."

However, there are no indications that her statement meant harm to Australia or was made to encourage terror in the country or in any other countries. Being a Wahabi, which most Saudi citizens are, has nothing to do with terrorism, Wfol was informed by some Muslim Ulema.

The mother rejected the claims against her and denied she was an extremist or an advocate for terrorism.

"The allegations are absolutely untrue and without basis," she said.

Ms Whitehead, whose former name is Carla Marie, traveled to Somalia with one Mr Ali in November last year, several weeks before he went missing while fighting with an Islamic militia.

Ms Whitehead was interviewed by AFP officers in July, the day she arrived back in Australia from Somalia.

“It is only a question of desperation by the AFP and the reason is to harass Muslims and converts in the country,” claim some Muslims in Aussie land.

The Queensland's Islamic community says its numbers have more than doubled in recent years, and it now boasts more than 15,000 followers, including those who've turned away from other religions such as Christianity.

Hundreds of people have embraced Islam in Australia since the 911 events, sources said. There is around 300,000 Muslims in Australia.