Islamic books advocating hate and jehad have been foundin Melbourne bookstores.
The Federal Government wants to create an offence tooutlaw the glorification of suicide bombing, the Sunday Herald Sun said. Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock said the Government ?did not want people encouraged to go out and think about suicide bombing on the basis that it'sgoing to benefit them in the afterlife?.
The objectionable books were found at the Islamic Clothing and Book Store in Coburg and Brunswick'sMichael Street mosque.
The book World Arrogance, by Professor Ahmad Zidan, an anti-Semitic, has written in the book that the western culture bred venereal disease, broken homes, suicide and homosexuality.
Another book, Jehad in the Qu?ran and Sunnah, encouraging the use of force says:
?When you meet those who disbelieve, smite at their
necks till when you have killed and wounded many of them, then take them as captives.?
Mr Ruddock said censorship laws could allow a loophole to be closed, which would effectively ban the books.
?We may not want to prosecute publishers or book stockists for having books of this sort, if we can have matters of glorification of suicide bombing looked at in the context of whether or not a book should be allowed to be sold under the classification regime,? Mr Ruddock said.
