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| Extremist Clerics to visit Australia |
| 2003-08-04 |
| Dear Rantburg: this is a snipped story from earlier this week: I rang SBS news and they told me the Cleric coming out next month is one Khalid Yasin. Has anybody heard of Khalid Yasin doing the Islamic Speakers tour in Britain (Bulldog) Canada or America? Does anybody know where I can find more info on him? Google turned up nothing as did a quick look at some Australian Islamic sites. I am going to try to get a list of the speakers and write an article on who is coming and what they’ve said/done in the past. Also, another angle is that the Jewish Museum’s Courage to Care exhibition got vandalised last night: there is a rising tide of anti-semitism and i want to alert the public. AUSTRALIAN MUSLIM CLERIC WARNS AGAINST RADICAL PREACHERS Australia’s most senior Muslim cleric has warned against what he calls the radicalism of some visiting Islamic preachers. Sheik Taj Din el-Hilaly says they’re promoting disharmony and intolerance, and has called on the Federal Government to stop them coming here. KEYSAR TRAD: They are nurturing rigid views and rigid views, if they are not treated, will fester and grow and lead to more divisiveness. I don’t believe they will lead to terrorism but they may lead to small-scale violence. The company that sponsors many of the visiting international speakers says there’s nothing to fear. ABU ABD AL-RAHMAN, ONE ISLAM PRODUCTIONS: I personally filmed these lectures and I edit them, and I listen to them over and over, and it’s exactly the opposite. They’re actually saying, "You’re living in a country where you have to respect the law," and that’s it. He means Sharia law only Ordinary Muslims who spoke to SBS today agree. SBS’s version of the only Muslims that actually count. SBS actively promotes Islamism. They’ve dismissed Sheik Hilaly’s concerns as an attempt to grab the media spotlight, claiming he has no support among Muslim youth. |
| Posted by:Anon1 |
| #3 no idea, don't know any more details about him but am very keen to profile them all, find out all about who is coming out and what they preach. |
| Posted by: Anon1 2003-8-5 2:31:17 AM |
| #2 He's Islamic - how many passports/ID's is he traveling, preaching under? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-8-4 10:27:16 PM |
| #1 It's likely that Australia's immigration department is going to look those guys over real good. Nothing is assured. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-8-4 9:01:11 PM |