Either respect Australia or leave: Sydney mosque chairman
Sydney mosque chairman Neil El-Kadomi will deliver his speech at his congregation on Friday and ask worshippers to leave Australia if they don’t like and respect the country. He will be addressing the public for the first time after the terror attack where a teenage boy shot to death an NSW police staff last week.
“If you don’t like Australia, you should leave,” El-Kadomi told The Daily Telegraph on Thursday when asked about the message he would like to convey during his sermon. “If you don’t like Australia, why would you cause a problem for the whole community?” he added. He also said that he wants to warn worshippers that if anything suspicious was found about them, he would go to the police.
The chairman of the mosque had to confront the public and address worshippers as the NSW Opposition asked for an immediate inquiry into radicalisation in state-based educational institutions. The opposition also criticised the slow pace of the government in dealing with the matter.
El-Kadomi will address around more than 400 worshippers in the same mosque where 15-year-old Farhad Jabar, who shot NSW police finance employee Curtis Cheng on the back of his neck, worshipped.
“Farhad was a real wake-up call,” El-Kadino said, as quoted by Sydney Morning Herald. “To anyone who has crime in mind, if you come to this mosque we will tell the police.”
Australia’s Grand Mufti Ibrahim Abu Mohamed has also warned Muslim extremists not to mess with Australia. He talked with the media to refuse the “deviant so-called religious teachings” that is supposed to be the reason behind Jabar’s violent behaviour.
Anti-Islamic Party for Freedom leader Nick Folkes has called for demonstrations against the existence of the mosques when Kadomi advocated worship in the mosque’s prayer hall. Folkes said that it was mandatory to keep a strict watch on the Islamic activities to get rid of further terrorist attacks.
However, Kadomi has criticised the protest organised by anti-Muslim groups, asking, “If somebody walks into McDonald’s and shoots everyone, is McDonald’s blamed?”
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