Radical western Sydney preacher delivers warning to people who attack Islam

A controversial Bankstown preacher has been referred to the police after delivering a fiery sermon on Friday claiming those who attack Islam will be “met with men who love death”.

A controversial Bankstown preacher has been referred to the police after delivering a fiery sermon on Friday claiming those who attack Islam will be “met with men who love death”.

Vision of the sermon reveals the preacher, who goes by the names Abu Ousayd and Wissam Haddad, telling the congregation at Bankstown’s Al Madina Dawah Centre that Islam is “peaceful, but there is a limit.”

“Muslims are being killed, oppressed, at the hands of the worshippers of cows, rats and monkeys.”

“If you attack Allah, if you attack our prophet, our religion and our fellow brothers and sisters, and if you attack our lands, you are going to be met with men who love death more than you love life,” he said, calling on followers to be “worshippers by night and warriors by day.”

Mr Ousayd also called on the congregation to follow the example of those who “solved their (problems) with the Koran and the Sunnah (sayings and teachings of Mohammed), not with democracy, not with man made systems, and definitely not with the UN.”

Abu Ousayd (aka Wissam Haddad) on Friday at Bankstown’s Al Madina Dawah Centre.

“(If you) abandon jihad, Allah will send upon you humiliation and he will not remove it,” he said.

The sermon came just days after the Executive Council of Australian Jewry filed a complaint against Mr Ousayd and another preacher, Sheik Ahmed Zoud, with the Australian Human Rights Commission, asking that previous sermons calling Jews “monsters”, “criminals” and “bloodthirsty” be removed from the internet with an apology.

NSW Attorney-General Michael Daley said hate speech had ‘no place” in this state. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Bianca DeMarchi

It can be revealed that the remarks will be investigated by police, with a spokesman for NSW Attorney-General Michael Daley saying, "There is no place in NSW for hate speech or incitement to violence.”

“The NSW Government has urgently referred these latest comments to the NSW Police Force for review.”

Mr Ousayd has a long history of controversial statements, having challenged the government in 2014 to revoke his citizenship so that he could take up jihad overseas.

More recently, Mr Ousayd has attracted attention for his extreme comments including a speech last year that looked forward to “the end of times” when Muslims will the Jews and “the trees will speak”.

“They will say ‘oh Muslim, there is a yahud (Arabic for Jew) behind me, come and kill him’,” Mr Ousayd said, citing a famous Islamic saying.

Peter Wertheim, co-CEO of the ECAJ, said the action was being brought in the Human Rights Commission “to defend the honour of our community but also to protect the future of Australia as a peaceful and socially-cohesive society.”

“One of the rules of Australian multicultural society is that we do not bring the hatreds, prejudices and bigotry of overseas conflicts and societies into Australia.

“It is truly regrettable that governments and law enforcement agencies have failed to show proper leadership to enforce this rule, and that it has fallen to our community to stand up to the hatemongers in our midst.”

Blaxland MP Jason Clare said there was “no place for hate in our community”.

Shadow multicultural minister Mark Coure said, “these are incredibly concerning things for a religious leader to be saying (at) a time when we should all be working together to build tolerance and cohesion.”

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