| A senior cleric of the biggest mosque in Australia’s capital, Canberra, was ordered on Monday to stop attacking fellow worshippers after an outbreak of violence split the city’s small Islamic community. Sheikh Mohammed Swaiti, the Imam of the Yarralumla Mosque, was issued with a court restraining order following a brawl at Friday prayers last week when his supporters attacked rivals seeking to replace him with another cleric. “This Imam is responsible for initiating violence. We don’t want any violence and so want him to step down,” local Islamic Society President Sabre Poskovic said on Tuesday. Swaiti has divided the Islamic community with firebrand anti-Western sermons and accusations while failing to declare US funds paid to him from Saudi Arabia. |