Muhammad Raza Saqib Mustafai

‘Urgent need’ to act on genocide advocacy

A PAKISTANI cleric who was sent home from an Australian speaking tour last week after a video emerged of him declaring, “It is the guarantee of world peace when the last Jew is slain” illustrates the “urgent need” for a new criminal offence of advocacy of genocide.

That is the view of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ), which said the presence in Australia of Muhammad Raza Saqib Mustafai “raises many questions”.

Mustafai, who spoke in Blacktown and Liverpool in NSW over the long weekend, was also due to deliver talks in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.

But his visit was cut short after the Pakistan Association of Australia was made aware of a 2012 video in which the cleric stated, “As long as there are Jews in this world, peace cannot be established in the whole world.”

Read the full article by Evan Zlatkis at the The Australian Jewish News.