In 2013, two Australians who once attended the Al-Noor mosque were killed in a drone strike on an al-Qaeda convoy. They were reportedly radicalised by Al-Noor preachers, a claim which mosque leaders denied.
Milo Yiannopoulos, a right-wing public speaker who was denied an Australian visa the other day for his comments on the New Zealand shootings, has claimed that one of the mosques targeted on Friday had introduced worshippers to radical Islam.