Hate spread at mosque gates

[gilliam]

A RADICAL Islamic group is infiltrating Australian mosques, distributing inflammatory pamphlets urging Muslims to rise up against Australian troops in Iraq and support the insurgency. Hizb ut-Tahrir is telling local Muslims that coalition forces in Iraq are responsible for the mosque bombing in Samarra last month that left the nation on the brink of civil war.

The group - a hardline political faction banned in Britain, Germany and other countries – is using Friday prayer meetings, traditionally compulsory for all Muslims, to distribute flyers inciting hatred against the West. According to one of the group’s Arabic-English pamphlets, obtained by The Australian on Friday outside Lakemba Mosque in Sydney’s southwest, the occupying forces in Iraq, which includes the 1320-strong Australian contingent, bombed the Shia mosque in Samarra.

news.com.au/story/0,10117,18395066-2,00.html

 

[lukechap6]

The same article also says that the organisation has about 200 members in Sidney which doesn’tseem that many. It also says

Ahmad Kamaledine, president of the Lebanese Muslim Association, responsible for Lakemba Mosque, said he was opposed to Hizb ut-Tahrir circulating their flyers outside the mosque but had no authority to stop them.

“We don’t support any type of material being handed out in the mosque,” he said.

“However, we have no jurisdiction over what gets handed out outside the mosque, because it’s in a public place.”

I believe that there are around 300 000 muslims in Australia.