By Sumayya

SYDNEY: A Melbourne Islamic leader whose religious community center has been linked by lawyers in the United Arab Emirates to the second pilot who reportedly struck the leader of a flydubai plane has expressed he “never met” the man and stressed he has “regularly taught peace.”

The Omani second pilot, now locked up in the UAE, had taken ideas from Al-Qaeda’s September 11, 2001 suicide strikes, and carried out his action “with the goal of causing the biggest possible loss of life,” according to the Emirati lawyer’s findings printed by state press last week.

The lawyer expressed the second pilot initial turned extreme while studying in Australia “through reading extreme books and following internet material praising terrorist groups and suicide strikes.”

The lawyer claimed he stood acquainted there with a group named as “My Center” managed by a Lebanese man called Abu Hamza.

Neither “My Center” nor Abu Hamza remain accused of any crime error.

In a note posted on social networks late on Monday, Abu Hamza — likewise named by local press as Samir Mohtadi — expressed he had “never met” the second pilot identified in records as Hamam Al-Hammami.

“We hold no record of him ever coming to our center,” he expressed.

“The connected authorities should hold proved these claims with me before letting out or printing such data,” he supplemented.

He expressed he had “regularly taught peace” throughout his lifespan.

“We clearly turn down violence in all its forms.”

Police and intelligence bodies in Australia have expressed they remain checking the second pilot’s links to the land.

And police in New Zealand expressed past week he had spent duration in the land on a six-month learner visa, where he finished a part of his flight training, national broadcaster RNZ expressed.