(ABC-Australia) An alliance of peak Islamic groups has called for Australia’s terrorism laws to be changed, to remove the concept of “religiously motivated terrorism” from the legislation.
It comes as a sixth teenager, aged 15, was charged after counterterrorism raids were carried out in Sydney on Wednesday.
Five teenagers, aged 14 to 17, were previously charged with several offences and are before the courts.
In a statement, the Australian National Imams Council, the Alliance of Australian Muslims and the Australian Muslim Advocacy Network said it was necessary to “avoid simplistic attributions that target specific communities.”
The group’s spokeswoman Ramia Abdo Sultan said terrorism was driven by political ideology and not religion.
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