Sheikh musa cerantonio biography of mahatma
Jail term awaits Islamic 'wunderkind' over doomed travel plot.
Musa Cerantonio
Former Australian jihadist
Robert "Musa" Cerantonio is a former ISIS propagandist[1] who has been called perhaps "the most famous jihadist in Australia".[2][1] Cerantonio converted to Islam in 2002, he became an Islamic preacher a few years later, then a supporter of the restoration of the caliphate, and of the Islamic State.
He has been arrested and deported once, and is currently serving a prison sentence for trying to travel by boat from Australia to ISIS territory in the southern Philippines due for release in May 2023.
Sheikh musa cerantonio biography of mahatma
Early life
Cerantonio was born on 28 January 1985 in West Footscray, Melbourne, Australia to a Catholic family of six. He is of Italian and Irish heritage.[1]
He has described his upbringing as nominally Catholic.
"We weren’t very practising, and whilst we were Catholic by name, we didn’t go to church except on Christmas or Easter, or when someone died or was getting married," he said.[3]