Khalid Yasin: The new voice of Islam?

Sunday (Channel Nine) ^ | 9 Oct 2005 | Sarah Ferguson

[Fair Go]

Khalid Yasin: The new voice of Islam? October 9, 2005 Reporter : Sarah Ferguson Producer : Nick Rushworth

Muslim preacher Sheik Khalid Yasin grabbed the headlines recently with a speech saying Muslims couldn’t have non-Muslim friends. Sunday investigates the United States-born convert to Islam who’s testing Australian tolerance to its limits. He is setting up a new radio and television network here to spread his extremist message. Launched last weekend, the Islamic Broadcasting Corporation aims to attract a quarter-of-a-million subscribers. Its driving force is this charismatic preacher who’s capturing the hearts and minds of young Australian Muslims with a radical mix of pleas for the understanding of terrorism, anti-Western conspiracy theories and radical homophobia.

For Yasin, terrorist bombings in Bali are justified by hundreds of years of Western oppression of Muslims. Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda did not carry out the September 11 attacks on the United States — they were a “rogue operation” by Western governments. The AIDS virus was designed in the United States and injected into black Africans to meet the West’s desire to reduce the world’s population.

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Not all Americans are welcome in Australia.

[expatguy]

Years from now we will hopefully look back on how stupid we were with all this tolerance and diversity BS.

[katana]

Suppose that in the Year of our Lord 1943 a person of whatever outward appearance stood in public in America or Australia and proclaimed that it was God's will that the Japanese Empire should rule all and that he favored the destruction of said countries' men and women and the conversion of their populations to servitude to the emperor.

Please, Australia, do to this piece of sewage what your (or our) ancestors would have done to the fellow mentioned above. We've hung traitors on our soil before and give you full leave to take care of this one.

Got Rope?

[injin]

It does seem a bit odd that people like this are allowed to stand there and throw more fuel on the fire. Isn't that akin
to aiding and abetting arson?
There has never been anything like this , and allowing it is like allowing someone to stand there openly while burning your house down .

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What upsets me is that those who condemn the US, Britain and Australia for taking a stand on terrorism are appeasing this filth. The present offers many parallels with the 30s and 40s. However, this character is not alone. In a certain country that shall remain nameless, you will find numerous letters that express views akin to those expressed by this creep.

[Sociopathocracy]

extremist?????? This piece of dirty slime unfortunately represents mainstream Islam.

[Hegemony Cricket]

new voice - same ol' crapola...

[From One - Many]

This person will cease to exist, should he keep
up with his crap.

I love Australia and the Australian people.

Australians are fair minded people just as are
Americans, but push either (Australians or Americans)
too far, and the pusher will see the crap befall him.

[CaptRon]

DISCUSSION GROUP PARTICIPANT: It's an absolute joke how far this has gone about everyone being prejudiced about Muslims. If anything was going to happen, like a terrorist activity or anything, it would be basically because of the pressure being put on Muslims by non-Muslims causing dramatic pain, you know what I mean?

See? They're the victims! And 'terrorist activities' are brought on by the infidel!

[Valin]

85% of the worlds Muslims might disagree.

[Fair Go]

Well said.