Aust Muslim calls for beheading: report

4 Sep 2010, 12:26 pm   -   Source: AAP
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Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders, the country's most heavily guarded politician, has denounced an Australian Muslim cleric's reported call for his beheading for denigrating Islam.

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Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders, the country's most heavily guarded politician, has denounced an Australian Muslim cleric's reported call for his beheading for denigrating Islam.

"This is really terrible news and a very serious threat, unfortunately," the firebrand politician told AFP by email in response to the threat reported in the popular Dutch daily De Telegraaf.

Wilders, who campaigns for an end to Muslim immigration and a ban on the building of new mosques and the Koran in a bid to end the "Islamisation" of the Netherlands, has been under 24-hour protection since 2004.

According to De Telegraaf, Sydney-born Muslim cleric Feiz Mohammad called on extremists in an internet chatroom to "chop off his head" and accused Wilders of "denigrating" Islam.

An interview with Wilders recorded in June was aired by Dateline on SBS TV last Sunday. He called Islamic culture retarded and violent.

Mohammad's notoriety

Mohammad, as the head the Global Islamic Youth Centre in the Sydney southwest suburb of Liverpool in 2005, gained notoriety for a speech at the Bankstown Town Hall in March of that year in which he told the audience a rape victim has "no-one to blame but herself".

Women teased men and appealed to their "carnal nature" by the way they dressed in "nothing but satanic skirts", the imam told the crowd.

In 2007, he was named by national security sources as one of at least 10 hardliners who were preaching fundamentalist messages in Australia, propagating a Wahabi ideology espoused by al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

In the same year, Mohammad, who was believed to be living in the Middle East, came to the attention of Australia's attorneys-general when his lectures were included in a box set of DVDs which urged young Muslims to kill non-believers.

The Dutch intelligence service, AIVD, which is understood to have a copy of his latest speech, said Mohammad is considered on a par with US Muslim preacher Anwar al-Awlaki, who is seen as the brains behind a failed attack on a plane flying over Detroit.

Wilders shocked by threat

Wilders told De Telegraaf, which published a recording of the speech on its website, that he is shocked by the death threat.

The newspaper claims to have a sound recording of the appeal by Mohammad, who it said had links with terrorists and was influential for Western Muslims.

Wilders' Party for Freedom wants to restrict immigration from Islamic countries and considers Islam a violent ideology rather than a religion.

It is currently involved in protracted negotiations to support a minority centre-right government of free-market liberals and Christian Democrats.

Wilders said he would seek "clarification from the Dutch Minister of Interior/ Justice why the secret service and anti-terrorism unit NCTB have not informed me" of the reported threat, and "what the consequences will be for me".

"The information that has come to the fore will be included in the threat analysis for Mr Wilders," said NCTB spokeswoman Judith Sluiter, who added: "We had contact with Mr Wilders last night. We have permanent contact."

Dutch authorities would not confirm the threat or elaborate on possible steps to be taken.

Wilders barred from Britain

Barred from entering Britain last year to stop him spreading "hatred", Wilders is known abroad for his 17-minute anti-Islam commentary, "Fitna", which was termed "offensively anti-Islamic" by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

His Party for Freedom came third in June 9 national elections, nearly tripling its number of parliamentary seats to 24.

Wilders is set to go on trial in the Netherlands in October on charges of inciting racial hatred against Muslims.

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Man vs Nature, or Nature of Man.

David Falconer - from NSW Centrqal Coast, 2 years ago

Jesus Christ never asked anyone to kill people who don't follow His teaching as He is real and will punish them himself. Instead Jesus asked that we do good for others. Mohamed asked his followers to kill unbelievers, perhaps his version of god can't do anything about people who don't follow his teachings. Who do we condemn, the violent ones or the ones who expose the violence of others.

god at the point of a sword.

thomas vesely - from melbourne, 2 years ago

@rashid the crusades were a reaction to islams expansion into europe,by the sword.

keep our heads

thomas vesely - from oz, 2 years ago

beheading is wrong.send all beheaders to where this is culturally acceptable.

Geert is one man, the Koran guides a billion..

Chris - from Melbourne, 2 years ago

Good point Dawn from QLD, how about this for starters. Sura 5:51 Believers, take neither the Jews nor the Christians for your friends. They are friends with one another. Whoever of you who seeks their friendship shall become one of their number. God does not guide the wrongdoers. I guess we can add in any other group that is not Islamic. How about we all leave Australia and leave the peaceful in peace?

irony prt II

ali - from melb, 2 years ago

so where am i going wrong,who should i listen to?this is like heads you win,tails i lose.coming back to cleric,he'll be targeted here as being minorty preacher,im sure people from other faith get away with similar comments.a colleague from work who converted from being catholic to an athiest told me that in their sermons,the priests reminded then on how young muslims are ready to die, while they are interested in alcohol and womanising. this MP will disgrace himself, i hope dutch wont vote him.

irony part I

ali - from melbourne, 2 years ago

this is a never end battle for muslims,esp if you live in country where you are a minority.give you my example,on a so called aussie night out with a enighbor who told me to come out and see our weekend lifestyle, i braved and went,only fr a few ppl i talked to telling me that im going against my culture etc, and that my religion forbids partying.and same when i went fr fri prayers my bogan( i learned this word here)neigbors laughed ands said im preparing fr jihad and they are calling police,

Sheikhs comments out of context and two years old

Sarah - from Brisbane, 2 years ago

http://muslimvillage.com/2010/09/06/wilders-beheading-comments-two-years-old-and-out-of-context-sheikh-feiz/

A response to Phang from Parramatta

GRT - from Sydney, 2 years ago

I agree that extremist views such as those advocated by *Sydney-born* Muslim cleric Feiz Mohammad has no place in Australia. However, I believe that the views advocated by Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders also have no place in the world. They are also and equally extremist view points. For that matter, your call to 'send this Muslim cleric Feiz Mohammmad to where he comes from or send him to Tasmania' are also extreme, and frankly a little juvenile and ignorant, and have no place in Oz.

The true teaching oc the Quaran must be discussed in public

dawn - from Qld, 2 years ago

Many people are really confused what the Quaran teach. People want to know the reason why people who call themselves Islamist kill themselves to gain a place in paradise. Those who serve as suicide bombmers are held as martyrs when they sacrifice their lives for the sake of their beliefs, Does the Quaran really teach that people outside the Islam faith are infidels therefore should be killed.If the Quaran teach this is worldwide democracy at stake.

Credence

Sol - from Perth, 2 years ago

Extremist clerics like Feiz Mohammed simply provide more credence and ammunition to the likes of Wilders. He is most certainly not representatives of the majority of Muslims who, like everyone else, just want a peaceful life.

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