06 October 2016

'When the Jews are wiped out, then the world would be purified': Muslim scholar on tour in Australia to be sent home after video of anti-Semitic rant emerges

A Pakistani scholar has been sent home after he was revealed to have blamed the world's troubles on Jews and said the world will be purified when they are wiped out.

Muhammad Raza SaQib Mustafai, a sunni Muslim, had been in western Sydney over the long weekend for a speaking tour of Australian mosques.

But he was asked to leave the country by Blacktown's Ghausia Masjid when an anti-semitic video sermon from 2012 surfaced, Sydney Morning Herald reported.

He spoke at the mosque, as well as Al-Madinah Masjid in Liverpool, but further talks in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide were cancelled when he was ordered to return to Pakistan.

Pakistan Association of Australia had alerted Ghausia Masjid of the video, entitled 'Jews are the enemies of Islam and the real peace', when Sydney Morning Herald informed the association of its existence on Wednesday. [Daily Mail] Read more