He returned in as Sheikh Feiz and promptly established a musallah, or prayer centre, in Haldon Street, Lakemba. His sermons were an almost instant success. Feiz's following grew rapidly thanks to the fact he spoke English - a huge advantage in an area then dominated by Arabic-speaking imams, whose sermons were largely lost on the youth.
But equally important was his ability as a communicator. In short, Feiz is a dynamite performer. His talks, which you can see on the web, are an oratorical roller-coaster ride, jam-packed with pregnant pauses, repetition and radical gear shifts - serene to severe in a nanosecond - not to mention the hysterical hand gestures, elaborate syntax and, perhaps his signature device, the lingering, sibilant "s" "sinnerssss" Coupled with his glowering features - the beard, the brow, the thunderbolt eyes - Feiz's talks are rarely less than mesmerising, scouring admonitions on the perils of everything from illicit intercourse to the USA, or "the United Snakes of America", as he prefers to call it.
By , Feiz had set up another western Sydney musallah, the Global Islamic Youth Centre in Liverpool, which regularly hosted hundreds of his supporters, including former rugby league star Hazem El Masri and boxer Anthony Mundine.
Mundine would often visit Feiz's farm and ride his horses. El Masri, whom Feiz had met in Saudi Arabia while the footballer was on pilgrimage, was a particularly vocal supporter.
Neither Mundine nor El Masri would comment for this story. Yet Feiz's sermons were, more often than not, pure invective. He would warn his flock to avoid the dreaded kuffar, or non-Muslims "They are evil, they are cunning, they desire to harm you severely" , as well as "filthy, disgusting" Jews.
One lecture told the story of the Jewish man who seduces and impregnates a Muslim virgin, only to then kill her and the baby. For some in the audience, such talk proved intoxicating. He was released in By , Feiz's following was estimated at people - mostly impressionable, dispossessed, angry young men. They all came from a gangster background.
And that was what attracted them to Feiz in the first place. They thought, 'Cool, I get to keep my ways and I go to heaven. But Feiz's influence was not going unnoticed. In , defying his father's wishes, the year-old Elomar followed Feiz to Lebanon, where the sheikh had gone to care for his ailing father.
All four were arrested in Tripoli a year later, when police uncovered a large cache of Kalashnikovs, rocket-propelled grenades and landmines in Hadba's garage. According to Lebanese police, the weapons were intended for Fatah al-Islam, a Salafi group fighting to replace the Lebanese government with an Islamic regime. Basal and Elomar were released, but Hadba and Sabouh were convicted in Lebanese authorities also wanted to interview Feiz, but the sheikh had already left, this time for Malaysia.
Boxing teaches you lots of things: how to attack, obviously, but also, perhaps more crucially, how to duck and weave. Feiz understands this. Despite what one Islamic leader calls his "big mouth", the sheikh has remained adept at double moves, a master of the slip and feint. As early as , for example, at the same time he was comparing the West to a stinking toilet, Feiz was regularly updating ASIO on his own congregation. ASIO would return the favour, protecting him from what the sheikh alleged was police harassment.
In , however, while still overseas, Feiz again ran into trouble, this time thanks to his Death Series, DVD lectures in which, among other things, he called for the killing of kuffar. The series was a big hit; copies turned up for sale outside mosques in London. Back in Australia they were labelled "an incitement to terrorism"; Australian federal police even raided the Global Islamic Youth Centre.
For a while, the sheikh seemed close to being charged with sedition. Yet by , Feiz was back. For a time he stayed quiet. Catastrophic devastation, sexual harassment, perversion, promiscuity. In a DVD, Muhammad stated that all non-Muslims particularly atheists were "dirt" and called upon his followers to go about murdering atheists and people of other faiths.
In a sermon, he stated that Jews are scum and likened them to pigs, while also claiming that Muslim parents should commit suicide and ritualistically sacrifice their children for the glory of Allah.
He also believes that all Western culture is Satanic especially television and fashion and that because of this, Muslim youth should stay away from youths of other religions or risk divine retribution. And if they do, so what! Muhammad also called for the beheading of Dutch politician Geert Wilders , who criticised fundamentalist Islamic culture and said it was violent. But he later said that these comments were taken "out of context" and he only meant them metaphorically.
Strangely enough though, he spoke out against the worldwide Muslim protests following the release of the controversial "film" Innocence of Muslims and stated that the Muslims who committed the violence were disgraceful, and that violent protests are forbidden in Islam.
After the protests, he stated that he was not a "hater" anymore [8] , and is now much "wiser" than what he was when he made the statements regarding rape victims, Jews and homosexuals. In the aftermath of the April Boston Marathon bombing , a personal YouTube playlist under the name of alleged bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev now deceased was revealed which featured videos of several controversial sermons by Sheik Feiz Muhammad.
Death Series - Lectures 5 - 8. Death Series - Lectures 9 - O you who believe! Save yourselves and your families from a Fire Hell whose fuel is men and stones, over which are appointed angels stern and severe, who do not disobey the Commands they receive from Allah, but do that which they are commanded. Ramadan Lecture Series. In this four part series Sheikh Feiz explains many of the virtues of Ramadan aswell as anwering many common questions asked on the rules of fasting in the month of Ramadan.
Allah says in the Qur'an: 'Oh you who believe Observing As-Saum fasting has been prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you, so that you may become Al-Muttaqun the pious '. Fruits Of Ramadan. One of the scholars said: The person who is fasting must fast with his eyes and not look at anything that is not permissible; with his ears and not listen to anything that is not permissible; with his tongue and not speak any obscene words or slander any one or tell lies or backbite. Part 1 Part 2.
Tafseer Al Falaq. He was its head in , and in was still active at the centre. Even after he left Australia for Lebanon, he continued to direct the centre from abroad. A Centre spokesman said that the Centre was "for all those kids out there who are lost," and would "encourage them to try to follow the right path.
In March , Mohammad blamed women for being rape victims, in a speech that he gave at the Bankstown Town Hall. A victim of rape every minute somewhere in the world. No one to blame but herself. She displayed her beauty to the entire world Strapless, backless, sleeveless, showing their legs, nothing but satanic skirts, slit skirts, translucent blouses, miniskirts, tight jeans: all this to tease man and appeal to his carnal nature.
Would you put this sheep that you adore in the middle of hungry wolves? It would be devoured. It's the same situation here.
You're putting this precious girl in front of lustful, satanic eyes of hungry wolves. What is the consequence? Catastrophic devastation, sexual harassment, perversion, promiscuity. It says the children should be taught that there is "nothing more beloved to me than wanting to die as a Muhajid [holy warrior]," and that the parents should "put in their soft, tender heart the zeal of jihad and the love of martyrdom", preach jihad. He said: " Kaffir non-Muslim is the worst word ever written, a sign of infidelity, disbelief, filth, a sign of dirt".
He also calls Jews "pigs," and laughs about killing them, as he makes snorting noises.
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