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Controversial Sydney muslim sheik Ismail Al-Wahwah has passport confiscated as he tried to enter Jordan
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CONTROVERSIAL Muslim sheik Ismail Al-Wahwah has had his passport confiscated as he tried to enter Jordan.

The Australian citizen, who lives in Sydney, has a long and growing list of border dramas to his name with this blockage at Amman International Airport simply the latest.

Hardline group Hizb ut-Tahrir - which is banned in parts of Europe and the Middle East but not Australia - is outraged by the news. Ismail Al-Wahwah is the spiritual leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir.

"The Jordanian intelligence services have demonstrated with this action, once again, the well-known reality that in the 'Hashemite Kingdom of Jordon' the state is little more than the intelligence service and the intelligence service is the state," spokesman Uthman Badar said in a statement.

The sheik was bundled back on a plane in Jakarta in 2007 after arriving in Indonesia to promote his calls for the creation of a 

15th November 2011
 

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