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Wednesday 07 Oct 2015 - 15:32 Makkah mean time-24-12-1436
Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull (Pic: AFP)
Canberra (IINA) – Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull highlighted the need for community engagement following Friday’s shooting of a police employee in Parramatta in Sydney’s west by a Muslim teenager, news agencies reported.
"We must not vilify or blame the entire Muslim community with the actions of what is, in truth, a very, very small percentage of violent extremist individuals,” he said.
Turnbull’s statement comes after a 15-year-old boy, Farhad Khalil Mohammad, gunned down police administrative officer Curtis Cheng in Sydney last Friday.
At the weekend the Federal Government reached out to the Muslim community, saying it wanted to work closely with leaders and families at a "grassroots level".
Muslim community leaders said they were shocked by the shooting incident and called for more to be done to stop extremist leaders from recruiting vulnerable youths.
Turnbull used the opportunity to highlight the need for community engagement following the attack, and urged Australians not to blame or vilify the Muslim community.
"It is also important to remember that the Australian Muslim community will be especially appalled and shocked by this," Turnbull said.
The teenager was reportedly mixing with a small group of students spreading Islamic State (IS) ideology, including one student who yelled abuse at a Christian school and brandished the terrorist group’s distinctive black flag.
The shooting incident prompted a series of raids by the New South Wales (NSW) Police Force counter-terrorism officers, with the boy’s older brother and a friend arrested.
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