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Tuesday 25 Aug 2015 - 12:01 Makkah mean time-10-11-1436
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Brisbane, Australia (IINA) - A vile video by an Australian far-right group that targeted mosques in Brisbane has been widely condemned by Muslim leaders, saying that this was part of a systematic” campaign that aims to terrorize the Muslim community, according to news agencies.
Posted online on Monday, the video doubled Muslims’ fears, coinciding with receiving a hate mail as well as the gathering of unknown people in Holland Park mosque car parking lots for hours at night.
“These people are running a concentrated campaign and they want a reaction from us, that’s what they want,” spokesman for the Islamic Council of Queensland, Ali Kadri, told The Guardian on Monday.
“To be honest, this whole thing is not taken seriously by police it seems. But it is terrorizing the Muslim community.”
Kadri was talking about the contemptuous video tour of Brisbane mosques by the Australian Defence League (ADL).
ADL’s error-riddled video showed one of its members called Chris who called that the Holland Park mosque an “eyesore” because it is close to a memorial park for soldiers. “We want to ban everything. We don’t want them here. Ban the burqa. Get rid of it all.”
The member aimed to promote false facts about the 108-year-old mosque that once owned the plot of Mount Thompson memorial park and sold it to a Brisbane crematorium.
The far-right group also voiced opposition against the construction of another mosque in Algester.
Founded in 2009, the affiliate of the far-right English Defence League, ADL, is a registered non-profit organization, which fosters anti-Islam sentiment in Australia.
ADL's recent attacks on the Muslim community included stalking and photographing Muslim women on public transport, spraying invective at Muslims on Sydney streets and on social media, displaying anti-Islamic posters outside mosques and even threatening to blow up an Islamic school.
It is noteworthy that Muslims, who have been in Australia for more than 200 years, make up 1.7 percent of its 20-million population.
SM/IINA
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