A prominent Muslim youth leader who helped young men in his community turn away from drugs and crime has pleaded guilty to supplying $2 million worth of cocaine.
Fadi Abdul-Rahman once publicly declared that "when you stand before Allah, it's not your macho that will make a difference – not your dollars, not your castles, not your cars".
But the 38-year-old is now facing jail for his role in a drug syndicate that smuggled five kilograms of cocaine into the country in a wooden chess set.
"I find it terrible that someone who had a prominent role would fall from grace like this," said Keysar Trad, of the Islamic Friendship Association of Australia, on Sunday. "He was working with prison inmates, he was helping them reform – that makes it all the more sad."
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