Sounds like they might be having trouble recruiting jihadists:
A radical Australian cleric drew widespread condemnation Thursday over a series of videos in which he encourages children to become martyrs for Islam and ridicules Jews as pigs.Read the rest here.
Sheik Feiz Mohammed, head of the Global Islamic Youth Center in western Sydney, made the remarks on a series of video lectures for sale in Australia and overseas.
"We want to have children and offer them as soldiers defending Islam," the Australian-born cleric said in one video broadcast on Australian television.
The lectures were denounced as offensive by Australian government leaders and as not helpful by the head of the Islamic Friendship Association. The chief of the opposition Labor Party called them an incitement to terrorism.
In one video, the cleric said many parents were stopping their children from attending Islamic lessons for fear that they "might create a place in their hearts, the love, just a bit of love, of sacrificing their lives for Allah."
"Teach them this: There is nothing more beloved to me than wanting to die as a mujahid," or holy warrior, he added. "Put in their soft, tender hearts the zeal of jihad and a love of martyrdom."
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"We are the most humiliated nation on the face of this earth, there is no doubt," he says. "Why? Because martyrdom to us is not appealing, it's not as appealing to us as it was to those ancestors, the great warriors."
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There's a video here.
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