Feiz Mohammad (born 1970-71) is an Australian Muslim preacher of Lebanese descent and formerly the head of the Global Islamic Youth Centre in Liverpool, a suburb of Sydney. He was featured on a British television documentary called Undercover Mosque. He is noted in media sources for his fundamentalist beliefs, and has been referred to as a Wahhabi.[1]
He is of Lebanese origin, and was born in Sydney, Australia. He is a former boxer.[2] Mohammad fled to Lebanon and has lived in hiding there since November 2005.[3][4]
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In March 2005, he gained notoriety for blaming women for being rape victims. At a $15-a-head lecture to more than one thousand people, he said:
"A victim of rape every minute somewhere in the world. Why? No one to blame but herself. She displayed her beauty to the entire world...
"Strapless, backless, sleeveless, 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? No... 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.[2]
In 2007, the Australian Federal Police investigated whether 16 DVDs of Mohammed's sermons, called the Death Series, broke laws against sedition, racial vilification, and inciting violence and terrorism.[1][5] The DVDs came to public attention when they were featured in the documentary Undercover Mosque, which aired on Britain's Channel 4; the DVDs were being sold by children in the parking lot of a Birmingham mosque.
In the documentary, he says of non-Muslims, in his 'Signs of the Hour' speech', "Kaffir is the worst word ever written, a sign of infidelity, disbelief, filth, a sign of dirt."[3] In one DVD, Mohammed said that children should be encouraged to become jihadists: "We want to have children and offer them as soldiers defending Islam... Teach them this: there is nothing more beloved to me than wanting to die as a mujahid. Put in their soft, tender hearts the zeal of jihad and a love of martyrdom."[1] Elsewhere, he said, "Jews are pigs that will be killed at the end of the world".[4] He also said concerning Jews, "They have got the most extreme racial pride in them. They say that every single non-Jew is a slave created to serve the Jews ... Their time will come like every other evil person's time will come."[6]
He has since apologized in an interview for referring to Jews as pigs, and said that his reference to jihad was misunderstood.[5]
It became known in September 2010 that in an Internet conference, Mohammad incited Muslim followers in the Netherlands to behead the Dutch politician Geert Wilders, the reason being that those who insult the teachings of Islam must be killed.[7][8] The Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf released an excerpt of the talk.[9]