Islamist preacher’s court loss over ‘perverse’ sermons
The Jewish community leaders celebrated their right after being ordered not to repeat an Islamist preacher “deviant” and anti -Jewish tropics.
Sydney -based Al Madina Dawah Center Haddad commented on a series of fiery sermon that has attracted thousands of images from November 2023.
In the speeches, Mr. Haddad, also known as William Haddad or Abu Ouesayd, referred to the Jewish people as “inferiority”, “traitor”, “killer” and “naughty”.
Australian Jewish joint president Peter Wertheim and Vice President Robert Good, claiming that the lessons were aggressive and could cause violence against the Jews.
Justice Angus Stewart decided in favor of Tuesday and found that the speeches contain humiliating impudses that are likely to disturb, insult, harass or scare the Jewish people.
The authority concluded that it contained “destructive disturbing” imputations based on the race or ethnic origin of the Australian Jewish community.
“Impuds contain old tropics against the Jewish people of the Jewish people,“ he said.
“As a group, they make deviant generalizations against the Jewish people.”
Jewish statements, Jewish people, the history of persecution of the Jewish people and the war in Gaza, the increasing sense of insecurity due to the scary and harassment of the war, he said.
Apart from the court, Mr. Werheim and Mr. Good, Jewish people, said that the days of lack of unpunished were approved by the legal victory they approved as “for a long time”.
“No community in this wonderful country, as Mr. Haddad treats us, should not be removed from humanity,” Good said.
“Freedom of expression should not be exploited by the promotion of hated anti-Semitism, and those who want to do so should know that behavior should not be tolerated by us.”
During the turning point that tested the limits of religious expression and hate speech, Mr. Haddad’s lawyer argued that the decision against preacher would be equivalent to restricting the free work of the religious expression.
However, Justice Stewart rejected Mr. Haddad’s defense in good faith while giving historical and religious lessons on events from the Qur’an to context the war in Gaza.
He said that preacher’s words were not a basis for believing that Islam is the teachings of Islam, and that Mr. Haddad was not convinced that he would not lead to controversy.
The lessons are not religious, but rather than a little more than the bigotry polemics, he said.
“This case was not about freedom of expression or freedom of religion, but it was about the abuse of freedom of anti-Semitism and the freedom of encouraging anti-Semitism,” he said.
Mr. Haddad, who came to the federal court to make the judge’s decision, remained silent with cross -weapons while his lawyer was talking outside the court.
“Mr. Haddad protects the sermons on the basis of sacred references in the context of religious education and never aims to insult any group in Australia according to their ethnic identities,” said lawyer Elias Tabchouri.
Preacher was ordered to remove the lessons and not to repeat similar racist expressions about the Jewish people in the public.
In addition, six numbers will be forced to pay the legal invoice for Mr. Wertheim and Mr. Good.
Justice Stewart said that it does not mean a separate interview and sermon racial deterioration because they usually be understood for the Israeli army and Zionists instead of the Jewish people.
Mr. Haddad’s speeches were delivered by Australia after attacking Israel on 7 October 2023.
The epidemic, who left Gaza in turmoil and died tens of thousands of civilians, caused Israel retaliation.
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