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'What are you going to do about a backyard mosque?': Muslim sheikh claims there are unofficial religious meeting places flying under the radar of security authorities

Shia imam Sheikh Mohammad Tawhidi says backyard mosques are security risk
The religious leader from Adelaide says houses are hosting extremist preachers
He made emotional video after Sydney Muslim leader said nation was in peace
A Muslim sheikh who campaigns against extremism says Australia has backyard mosques that aren't on the radar of Australia's security agencies.

Shia imam Mohammad Tawhidi said that while the Australian Federal Police and spies could keep an eye on street mosques, there were many houses that operated as extremist cells.

'What are you going to do about a backyard mosque? How do you know which house has a mosque?,' he asked in a Facebook video made under the cover of darkness.
Sheikh Tawhidi, who lives in hiding in Adelaide, said Australia's Muslim leaders needed to stop lying.

‘We have a big problem in our religion. We have a serious problem,' he said.
'We’re infested with radicals. Infested with radicals. The police force know this very well. Which country on earth has the amount of people under watch as we do?

'Why would you lie? Why lie? It’s not good to lie.'
The Iranian-born religious leader, who moved to Australia from Iraq when he was 12, made his late-night video after a heated exchange with Lebanese Muslim doctor and western Sydney community leader Jamal Rifi, on the Seven Network's Sunrise program.

Dr Rifi told David Koch Muslims lived in a 'very peaceful country'.

'These scriptures existed for hundreds of years. They didn't incite violence or terror act,' he said.

Sheikh Tawhidi was so incensed by that statement he made an emotional Facebook video on Thursday night, after appearing on Sunrise to show how easy it was to buy an Al-Qaeda flag at a Muslim store in Melbourne.

'It really hurts. You have a Muslim leader that doesn't want to admit to a problem,' he said.

'We have a radical Muslim community. What do you say to that?'

'All the Australian victims of terrorism, their blood goes down the drain and turn around and say we live in peace.'
With 300 terror suspects in one state at any given time, Sheikh Tawhidi said it was delusional for Muslim leaders to deny there was a problem.

'All of them could possibly undertake an attack at any time. Potential terrorists in one state,' he said.

'Perhaps you guys have been getting away with lying all these years.'

The imam, who wants a reform of Islam, has taken a stand days after a British-born suicide bomber from a Libyan family, Salman Abedi, killed 22 people watching an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester in the United Kingdom.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told the ABC's Lateline program on Thursday night that Australia was in danger of a European-style terrorist attack.

'We're not immune from what we've seen in Paris, in Brussels, in Manchester, in London,' she said.

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