Australia: Muslim cleric sued for antisemitism says his case is
‘a battle between Islam and kuffar’
Is a man with this mindset ever going to be a loyal member of Australia’s secular society? Are his followers?
A Sydney Islamic cleric being sued in the federal court for alleged racial discrimination of Jewish people has described his case as an existential battle “between Islam and unbelievers”.
Wissam Haddad, also known as Abu Ousayd, is being sued by Australia’s peak Jewish body over a series of lectures he gave in November 2023, in which he is alleged to have maligned Jewish people as “vile”, “treacherous” and cowardly.
The lectures quoted ayat and hadith from the Qur’an about Jews in Medina in the 7th century and, the federal court claim alleges, made derogatory generalisations about Jewish people, including that they are “wicked and scheming” and “love wealth”.
The claim, brought by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, alleges Haddad breached section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act – prohibiting offensive behaviour based on race or ethnic origin – during the sermons delivered at the Al Madina Dawah Centre (AMDC) in Bankstown in November 2023, speeches subsequently broadcast online.
But, Haddad’s defence case argues, his sermons were delivered in “good faith” as religious and historical instruction. If his sermons are found to breach 18C, then, he argues, the law is unconstitutional because it restricts the free exercise of religion.
On Tuesday morning, the long-running dispute, which failed to find resolution at conciliation, comes before Justice Angus Stewart in the federal court, in a case set to test the limits of religious expression and hate speech under Australian law.
The court is likely to be asked to adjudicate whether Haddad’s sermons, in which he quotes the Qur’an and offers interpretation of it, amount to incitement or are protected religious expression.
Ahead of the trial, Haddad, argued on Instagram that the case was existential for the practice of Islam in Australia.
“What I am currently facing in the federal court is not an issue of Abu Ousayd or Al Madina Dawah Centre versus the Jewish lobby … rather, it’s a battle between Islam and kuffar,” he said, using an Arabic word, usually translated as “unbelievers”.
Which includes everyone who is not a Muslim, and typifies the attitude that Islam is against the entire world and the entire world is against Islam. As long as Muslims have this attitude, they can never blend into a civilized society.
This paranoid attitude is remarkably similar to communism. Both communism and Islam are godless ideologies. Islam is godless because their god, Allah, doesn't exist. Christianity and Judaism are God-initiated faiths; Islam was invented by Mohammed.
He said the claim against him sought to criminalise Islamic scripture.
As it so very much deserves to be. It is pure madness!
“They wish to take and make those ayat and hadith and historic accounts that speak about the Jews: to what they see as insulting, they seek to make it criminal.”
Ayat are verses in the Qur’an, the Islamic holy book, while hadith are reports attributed to the Prophet Muhammad….
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UK: Muslim lecturer ‘proud’ to support Hamas, says ‘all Zionists’ must be ‘removed from our institutions’
University lecturer ‘proud’ to support legal bid to lift UK ban on Hamasby Michelle Rosenberg, Jewish News, June 5, 2025 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):A senior lecturer at one of Britain’s top universities has publicly backed efforts to de-proscribe Hamas as a terrorist organisation in the UK and previously written that “our work isn’t done until all Zionists are removed from our institutions and shamed, alongside all racists, into nothingness.”What culture could possibly be more racist than Islam? How is this fool teaching in a university, and what is he teaching?
Dr Tarek Younis, an academic at Middlesex University in Hendon since 2019, made the admission on social media, where he said he was “proud to have contributed” to a legal application submitted by London law firm Riverway to remove Hamas from the UK’s list of banned terrorist groups under the Terrorism Act 2000.
The firm behind the application argues that the ban “breaches the European Convention on Human Rights”.The post, made on 9 April on X (formerly Twitter), is the latest in a series of interventions by Dr Younis, who has long platformed extreme anti-Zionist and anti-Israel views….And although he later deleted the post about Zionists being “removed from our institutions and shamed… into nothingness”, screenshots of the remark continue to circulate….According to his now-removed Aziz Foundation profile, Younis is a former British Academy fellow whose research has focused on “the racialisation of Muslims as a result of statutory counter-terrorism policies (Prevent) in the NHS” and who also researches and writes about Islamophobia.Islamophobia - the psychology behind turning terrorists into perrennial victims.As reported by Jewish News, he had been due to speak at an Islamophobia panel at the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, but the session was scrapped after the extreme anti-Zionist sentiments of some of the panellists was exposed….
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