1.Adelaide Masjid 20 Little Gilbert St. Adelaide SA 5000
2.Islamic Centre SA 658 Marion Road. Park Holme SA 5043
3.Gilles Plains Masjid 52 Wandana Avenue. Gilles Plains SA 5086
4.Al-Khalil Masjid Torrens Road. Woodville SA 5011
5.Elizabeth Masjid 139 Hogard Road. Elizabeth Grove SA 5112
6.Whyalla 5 Morris Crescent. Whyalla-Norrie SA 5608
7.Renmark Society 230 Fourteenth Street. Renmark SA 5341
8.Adelaide Union House, Adelaide University
9.Playford building, UniSA
10.Murray Bridge Masjid Old Swanport Rd. Murray Bridge SA 5253
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
Notorious family patriarch 'shot dead'
By staff writers
13 August 2010
A MAN in his 60s, believed to be Macchour Chaouk, has been shot dead in Melbourne.
Paramedics and police are at the scene of the shooting, which occurred at the corner of Cypress Ave and Geelong Rd.
The area has been cordoned off and has yet to be declared safe.
It is understood that the gunman responsible has not been apprehended.
The public has been urged to stay away from the area.
The Chaouk family has allegedly been embroiled in a feud with a rival Lebanese family from Melbourne's north, the Haddaras.
Family patriarch Macchour, 64, and his two sons, Walid, 36, and Omar, 18, were arrested in July at the same house where Mohamed Chaouk was killed by police during a dawn raid in 2005.
Macchour and Walid were released without charge before Omar was released on bail after police found a stash of weapons, ammunition and blank passports.
Born in Tripoli, Macchour Chaouk migrated from Lebanon in 1969, working at a tyre factory in Sydney's west.
He returned to Lebanon to marry Fatma, and then the couple settled in Brooklyn, in Melbourne's west, in 1974.
Over the next 20 years the couple produced five sons and a daughter, and built several houses on Geelong Rd in Brooklyn.
For a time, Macchour Chaouk worked in a wool store in Sunshine and then a fruit shop, but he was never out of trouble for long.
In 1975, Macchour Chaouk was charged with his first offence - assault with a weapon after he beat another man with metal bars at a factory.
In 1983 he was convicted of trafficking heroin, and two years later was charged with assaulting police.
And his crimes were not just restricted to Victoria. In 1984 he was charged with assault and burglary by NSW police.
In 1985 he was incapacitated by two motor accidents, and has not worked since.
In 1986, Macchour Chaouk was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, and spent years on anti-depressants.
He was charged with recklessly causing serious injury after beating a man over an allegedly stolen bike in 1991.
That year he also invested in an unsuccessful grocery shop, a failure that resulted in the loss of his home.
In 2000, Chaouk was sentenced to five years in prison for trafficking in heroin.
This year, a coroner investigating the 2005 police shooting death of Mohamed Chaouk said the family had a "violent and unpredictable nature".
http://extras.geelongadvertiser.com.au/rss_article.php?news_id=42973541
13 August 2010
A MAN in his 60s, believed to be Macchour Chaouk, has been shot dead in Melbourne.
Paramedics and police are at the scene of the shooting, which occurred at the corner of Cypress Ave and Geelong Rd.
The area has been cordoned off and has yet to be declared safe.
It is understood that the gunman responsible has not been apprehended.
The public has been urged to stay away from the area.
The Chaouk family has allegedly been embroiled in a feud with a rival Lebanese family from Melbourne's north, the Haddaras.
Family patriarch Macchour, 64, and his two sons, Walid, 36, and Omar, 18, were arrested in July at the same house where Mohamed Chaouk was killed by police during a dawn raid in 2005.
Macchour and Walid were released without charge before Omar was released on bail after police found a stash of weapons, ammunition and blank passports.
Born in Tripoli, Macchour Chaouk migrated from Lebanon in 1969, working at a tyre factory in Sydney's west.
He returned to Lebanon to marry Fatma, and then the couple settled in Brooklyn, in Melbourne's west, in 1974.
Over the next 20 years the couple produced five sons and a daughter, and built several houses on Geelong Rd in Brooklyn.
For a time, Macchour Chaouk worked in a wool store in Sunshine and then a fruit shop, but he was never out of trouble for long.
In 1975, Macchour Chaouk was charged with his first offence - assault with a weapon after he beat another man with metal bars at a factory.
In 1983 he was convicted of trafficking heroin, and two years later was charged with assaulting police.
And his crimes were not just restricted to Victoria. In 1984 he was charged with assault and burglary by NSW police.
In 1985 he was incapacitated by two motor accidents, and has not worked since.
In 1986, Macchour Chaouk was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, and spent years on anti-depressants.
He was charged with recklessly causing serious injury after beating a man over an allegedly stolen bike in 1991.
That year he also invested in an unsuccessful grocery shop, a failure that resulted in the loss of his home.
In 2000, Chaouk was sentenced to five years in prison for trafficking in heroin.
This year, a coroner investigating the 2005 police shooting death of Mohamed Chaouk said the family had a "violent and unpredictable nature".
http://extras.geelongadvertiser.com.au/rss_article.php?news_id=42973541
Chaouk and Haddara family : A disgrace to Islam !
These people have got nothing to do with Islam. Islam is strongly against alcoholism and drugs. Islam does not allow people to take the law into one's own hands. Good practicing Muslims never do so.
It is disgusting that these people dare to call themselves Muslims when everything they do is against Islamic teachings!!!
Many of these Lebanese people, when they board a flight they drink alcohol like nobody's business. This is clearly unIslamic. May God punish them for what they have done.
Jail them or send them to live in Sahara deserts. Do whatever you want as these people's actions have got nothing to do with Islam. Everyone involved in crime and drugs should be punished by the laws.
It is disgusting that these people dare to call themselves Muslims when everything they do is against Islamic teachings!!!
Many of these Lebanese people, when they board a flight they drink alcohol like nobody's business. This is clearly unIslamic. May God punish them for what they have done.
Jail them or send them to live in Sahara deserts. Do whatever you want as these people's actions have got nothing to do with Islam. Everyone involved in crime and drugs should be punished by the laws.
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