An extremist group planning a rally in Sydney on Friday night is being told by police bad behaviour will not be tolerated.
The controversial Hizb ut-Tahrir is helping organise a meeting in Lakemba, in Sydney's west, on Friday to condemn negative depictions of the prophet Mohammed.
The group last week organised a rally called "we will not abandon our prophet" to protest against the politicisation of events surrounding the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris.
A police spokeswoman said bad behaviour wouldn't be tolerated.
"Those community members are entitled to express their opinions as long as they're done in a lawful manner," the spokeswoman said.
A video emerged this week of senior Hizb ut-Tahrir member Bilal Merhi calling for Sharia law to replace democracy.
"Eventually, we will bounce back and we will reclaim everything that they have taken from us," Merhi says in the video, which was broadcast on the Seven Network.
"But we leave the laws to the secularists, we leave ruling people's affairs to the most corrupt people on the face of this earth.
"This is not Islam."
In October Prime Minister Tony Abbott labelled the group "un-Australian" and "un-Islamic" after spokesman Wassim Doureihi refused to condemn beheadings by Islamic State.
That same month, 200 people attended a rally in Lakemba organised by Hizb ut-Tahrir to hear Bankstown cleric Ismail Al-Wahwah, who called for a new world order.
"If you want to change, you have to pay the price," the preacher told the lecture - titled The War to End a Blessed Revolution.
A spokesman for Hizb ut-Tahrir told AAP the rally had broad community support.
"It is to show openly and clearly that Muslims are not comfortable with the degradation of a personality we have as very close to our hearts," a spokesman said.
Islamic Friendship Association spokesman Keysar Trad called for calm.
"I just hope this issue goes away and we can all get back on with our lives," he said.
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