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NSW Leader Vows to Keep Radical Islamic Preacher’s Prayer Hall Shut

Wissam Haddad had delivered numerous hardline sermons to scores of Muslim men in the Al Madina Dawah Centre.
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NSW Leader Vows to Keep Radical Islamic Preacher’s Prayer Hall Shut
Wissam Haddad leaves the Federal Court of Australia in Sydney on July 1, 2025. Two leaders of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry sued the Islamic preacher for racial discrimination over allegedly anti-Semitic sermons. AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts
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12/28/2025|Updated: 12/28/2025
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A prayer hall where a controversial Islamic preacher held “racist, anti-Semitic” lectures will remain closed, New South Wales (NSW) Premier Chris Minns has vowed.

According to an earlier court judgement, Wissam Haddad was found to have delivered numerous hardline sermons to scores of Muslim men in the Al Madina Dawah Centre in southwestern Sydney since April 2021.

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