Notice that he only praises "the mujahidin" in Arabic, never in English. Since Mohammed Swaiti is Australian, and he is praying for his own troops to lose to the mujahidin in Afghanistan, where they are fighting, isn't this treason? Or, at the very least, sedition?

The Australian:

THE most senior Muslim cleric in Canberra regularly praises Islamic jihadists in Iraq and Afghanistan in his Friday afternoon sermons.....

"God grant victory to the mujaheddin in his name in all places," [Mohammed Swaiti called out twice in Arabic over a microphone at Abu Bakr mosque in Yarralumla in front of about 500 worshippers.

"God grant victory to mujaheddin in Palestine, and Chechnya and Kashmir and Afghanistan and Iraq."

Although Sheik Swaiti translated his sermon into English for non-Arabic-speaking audience members, the imam of Canberra's only mosque omitted the praise for Islamic jihadists in the English version.

Islamic Society of ACT president Sabrija Poskovic - a longtime critic of Sheik Swaiti - rejected the cleric's suggestion he was not referring to fighters in his sermons. He said the cleric was too radical and preached the wrong Islamic messages.

"We don't like it when he's talking about jihad," said Mr Poskovic, whose organisation runs Abu Bakr mosque. "He asks God to help fighters fighting against non-Muslims."

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