Far right activist who protested against Islam becomes a Muslim because it is ‘anti-woke’ and ‘the West has lost its way to alcohol, drugs and porn’

Shermon Burgess was a far-right firebrand
He once described Islam as a cancer
He has now converted to the religion

One of Australia’s most outspoken anti-Islamic activists has become a Muslim, claiming the West has lost its way to alcohol, porn and drugs.

Shermon Burgess became a controversial national figure for his role in the far-right groups United Patriots Front (UPF), Reclaim Australia and the Australian Defence League over the last decade.

Burgess once likened Islam and Muslims to a cancer and organised dozens of protests alongside self-declared neo-Nazis Blair Cottrell and Neil Erikson.

He was involved in 2015 anti-Islamic protests against the construction of a mosque in Bendigo, Victoria.

Burgess regularly posted videos criticising Islam to his 30,000 followers on the Australian Patriot Facebook page

He still describes himself as a ‘national socialist’ on LinkedIn.

But the former far-right figure has since converted to Islam, claiming it is the only religion capable of countering the so-called ‘woke’ agenda of the West.

‘The west has lost its way, people are depressed and try fix all life’s problems with alcohol, drugs, porn, sleeping around,’ he wrote on Facebook yesterday.

‘Islam rids you of all of this and allows you to have meaning again.’

Burgess confirmed to Crikey that he had taken his Shahada, an Arabic term for an Islamic oath, and had been welcomed by his local mosque.

‘The Muslim community is so kind and amazing, if you need help they are there,’ he told the website.

Burgess, a former council worker from the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, was a member of metal band, Eureka Brigade, which penned the violent anti–Muslim song Border Patrol, according to ABC News.

The lyrics advocated burning mosques and called the Cronulla riots ‘Australia’s Muslim holocaust’. The band also had a song entitled ‘S*** on a Mosque’.

Burgess ran a Facebook page called the ‘Great Aussie Patriot’ with almost 30,000 followers until he took it down in 2015 after followers mocked him.

He once published a video on the page in which he likened Muslims and Islam to cancer, according to the Online Hate Prevention Institute.

‘This isn’t an attack against our governments, this is an attack against us the people,’ he said about Islam.

‘They [Muslims] are already overly highly represented in crime statistics in this country, so we have to look at if this is what we are receiving now with 500,000 of them, imagine when we hit the one million mark… we cannot afford to sit here until the problem becomes uncontrollable and we cannot get on top of it.’

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