Momena Shoma, dubbed the “little terrorist,” will be freed from prison this week. Momena Shoma supported terrorism, attempted to persuade radicals to join Islamic State, and sent passionate love letters to her beloved.
When she was 18 years old, Hadashah Sa’Adat Khan attempted to persuade a young American to join the terrorist group.
She was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison in June of this year, but the most of that time had already passed.
In 2021, a court heard that Khan and Shoma—known as the “little terrorist,” who is spending decades in prison and even attempted to attack another inmate—had been exchanging steamy prison letters.
She wrote to Shoma in a letter, “I love you to infinity and beyond, I think about you all the time,” the court heard.
When the suspected terror supporter reportedly wrote, “I sobbed for you more than myself,” she also allegedly alluded to Shoma’s prison term.
Roger Singaravelu was sleeping next to his five-year-old daughter at their Melbourne homestay on February 9, 2018, when Shoma, then 27 years old, stabbed him in the neck with a 3 cm long knife. Shoma was sentenced to at least 31 years in prison.
Shoma, who exclaimed “Allahu Akbar,” which is Arabic for “God is great,” during the stabbing, subsequently admitted to police that she had come to Australia with the intention of carrying out an ISIS-inspired assault.
Police were summoned to the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre in Ravenhall on October 30, 2020, after Shoma used garden secateurs to stab a prisoner in the hand.
According to news.com.au, Khan reportedly said in the letters, “Two years ago I was reading about you in the news, and the next thing, glory to God, I’m in the same unit as you.”
She also reportedly remarked, “I say this from the bottom of my heart, what a tremendous privilege to have (you) who will draw me aside and warn me if I am disrespecting Allah),” according to the testimony given in court.
It is obvious Young, fervent Muslims who are prepared to submit to the will of our creator, Shoma responded.
May Allah provide a way out for us all and give us a quick triumph, she said in her letter.
May He lead, guard, and uphold our mujahideen.
Sa’Adat Khan will be granted temporary supervision and freed on Friday with restrictions on her home location, phone number, and internet usage.
The 17 requirements and sub-conditions of the order include for her to participate in a disengagement assessment and program, cooperate with a case manager, and get psychiatric evaluation and therapy.
Additionally, a mobile phone will be given to her, and access to laptops, tablets, and other technology will be limited.
Conditions apply to the use of landline phones, social networking sites, computer applications, and the internet.
Additionally, Sa’Adat Khan must reside at a specific Hallam address.
In a Thursday afternoon hearing before the Victorian Supreme Court, Justice John Dixon avoided going into details about his ruling.
He anticipates publishing all of his justifications for the temporary order, which is valid until September 22, the following week.
It has been postponed until September to consider a request for a three-year extended monitoring order.
The offence committed by Sa’Adat Khan was judged to be in the lesser end of the scale.
When she started conversing with an American guy and others online between 2014 and 2016, Judge Maidment said that he had already been radicalized.
She said that the guy and other people she met online were kind and helpful.
They claimed to love me, she said.
Online interactions, according to Judge Maidment, gave her solace and a feeling of purpose that they pushed her to embrace the violent jihadi philosophy.
He discovered that the tone of her conversations revealed a degree of immaturity and a desire to impress.
He did, however, emphasize that engaging in terrorist action is always very serious and must be condemned.