Wednesday, January 17, 2007
LOCAL BOY IN NEWS
Sheik Feiz Mohamed, Australia’s most influential firebrand cleric, has a starring role in the Channel 4 documentary “Dispatches: Undercover Mosque” (aired this week in the UK). Take a look.
Behind him in that footage is an Australian website address for the Global Islamic Youth Centre, where one may buy the Sheik’s latest selection of audio lectures. Their title? The “Death Series”. Enjoy!
(Noted earlier at Thin Man Returns and LGF)
UPDATE. The Daily Telegraph:
Sydney’s most influential radical Muslim cleric has been caught on film calling Jews pigs and urging children to die for Allah.
Firebrand Sheik Feiz Mohammed, head of the Global Islamic Youth Centre in Liverpool, delivered the hateful rants on a collection of DVDs called the Death Series being sold here and overseas.
"Today many parents, they prevent their children from attending lessons. Why? They fear that they might create a place in the their hearts, the love, just a bit of the love, of sacrificing their lives for Allah,” Sheik Feiz says in the video.
"We want to have children and offer them as soldiers defending Islam. Teach them this: There is nothing more beloved to me than wanting to die as a mujahid (holy warrior). Put in their soft, tender hearts the zeal of jihad and a love of martyrdom."
UPDATE II. Nine’s morning news leads with Sheik Feiz, but doesn’t show any clips.
UPDATE III. The Australian Jewish News:
The director of Islam 1 Productions, Lebanese-born Subi Alshaik, told the AJN that his company had been unaware of the inflammatory nature of some of the DVDs and would “remove them from the shelves” ...
“Obviously we do not agree with racist statements. We are not out to defame anyone. We realise times are changing,” Alshaik said.
However ...
Nonetheless, Alshaik charged Channel 4 and the company that produced the documentary with taking the inflammatory quotes “out of context” and of seeking to “defame Islam”.
He said his company was considering legal action against the documentary’s producers for airing portions of the DVDs without the company’s permission.
UPDATE IV. The Australian government denounces “these reprehensible and offensive remarks.”
UPDATE V: “The Australian Federal Police said it was aware of the DVDs and was making enquiries into the matter.”