On Saturday afternoon, a radical Muslim organization held a rally. On this rally, members and their children were prevented from singing the Australian national anthem, and members were banned from denouncing ISIS.
Hizb ut-Tahrir, a global Islam political group, rented a community hall in Campsie, southwest Sydney, to host the event.
Rally used yellow tape to separate the male and female participants, and journalist saw in rally the entourage leading the man to sit in the front row of the auditorium.
This is contrary to a 2016 New South Wales Civil and Administrative court ruling. At that time, the court ruled that Hizb ut-Tahrir `s gender segregation policy in public was an illegal gender discrimination.
About 300 Muslim men, women and children arrived wearing veils or headscarves.
Asked why the media were not allowed to attend the four-hour "unapologetic Muslim" forum, the journalist was told it was a "Islam meeting" and was instructed to leave.
Hizb utt-tahrir Australia on fb live broadcast this event, high school English teacher Sufyan Badar interviewed Wassim Doureihi. on the stage
Doureihi told the audience that he did not encourage his children to sing < Advance Australia Fair > in school.
`My children go to public schools,`he said.`I think they sing the national anthem once or twice a year, no matter what it is.
"personally, out of respect, my children will stand up, but they will not sing the national anthem."
Doureihi, leader of Australia`s Islam Liberation Party, claims that the Australian national anthem is an oppression of Muslim.
"should we stand up and sing? or should we take the stand against the national anthem? it`s colonialism," he said.
`as Muslim, we are in the spotlight, as Muslim, we have to take a stand on something uncomfortable,`he said. `
In another part of the conversation, when the moderator asked Doureihi if ISIS should be blamed, Doureihi smiled.
In 2014, Douihi refused to condemn ISIS in an interview.
On Saturday night, he likened the denunciation of the ISIS terrorist group to being asked to banish relationship from paedophilia.
