So-called "moderate Muslims" at Lakemba mosque violently accusing the Australian government of supporting "genocide" should be a wake-up call that dangerous Islamic radicalism is hiding in plain sight, according to Family First.
"The truth is that no genocide has occurred in Gaza, but thousands of Gazans tried to commit one on October 7, 2023," Family First National Director and New South Wales Legislative Council candidate Lyle Shelton said in response to the wild scenes at today Australia's biggest mosque.
"Women were raped, 1200 innocent people brutally murdered and hundreds taken into terror tunnels as hostages.
"It is alarming that Muslim leaders do not have the moral compass to see this and that they continue their victim blaming.
"Israel has waged a war of self-defence and continues to do so against Islamic extremists in Lebanon and Iran.
"The only attempted genocide has been via calls to kill Jews 'from the river to the sea' and to 'globalise the intifada'," Mr Shelton said.
"Australian politicians have lacked the courage to forcefully and respectfully tell the truth to Muslim leaders and their partners in the radical left. That truth is that Israel has committed no genocide.
"By all means critique Israel's battle tactics but even that must be in the context of the existential threat Israel faces from Islamists who are trying to destroy it.
"It's time the lies about 'genocide' stop because lies are fuelling hatred and violence in Australia, as we saw with Bondi and now with today's violent scuffles in a mosque in the Prime Minister's presence.
"We do not want foreign hatreds playing out in our nation and pressuring our government to take unconscionable policy positions against an ally like Israel.
"What is more humiliating than the Australian Prime Minister sitting on the floor taking foreign policy advice from a cleric?
"Australia's Muslim leaders need to realise that the Islamists of Hamas and Iran were the aggressors on October 7 and it is their on-going bloodlust for Jews that has destabilised the Middle East.
"There would be no civilian casualties if Gazans had not tried to invade Israel and commit genocide after decades of using international aid money to build military terror tunnels.
"Political courage to confront Australian Muslim leaders with this truth is what is needed for social cohesion in our nation," Mr Shelton said.
"I'm sure the majority of Muslim people just want to get on with their lives and enjoy being Australian. Ancient hatreds should be left behind."
