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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - 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.
"We want to have children and offer them as soldiers defending Islam," the Australian-born Sheik Feiz Mohammed, head of the Global Islamic Youth Center in western Sydney, said in one video broadcast on Australian television.
The lectures, for sale in Australia and overseas, were denounced by Australian government leaders. The chief of the opposition Labor Party called them an incitement to terrorism, while Muslim leaders sought to distance themselves from Mohammed's comments.
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