Australian officials are split on whether to ban a radical Muslim group that has called for the establishment of an Islamic superstate.
About 500 Muslims packed a hall in the Sydney suburb of Lakemba to hear speakers of Hizb ut-Tahrir (Party of Liberation) outline the vision of a single Islamic state created by overthrowing "dictators, invaders and governments" in all Muslim countries of the world.
One of the group's leaders, Indonesian firebrand cleric Ismail Yusanto, called on "all the sons and daughters of Islam, both domestically and externally" to support the establishment of a Muslim state under a single religious leader.
He said the members of such a state would have to be prepared for jihad, or holy war, to defend it.
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