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  The ticking time-bomb of domestic terror — it can be stopped March 11, 2007 Reporter :Ray Martin  Watch video Prime Minister John Howard and many of our leaders — both Muslim and non-Muslim — believe that a terror attack in Australia is not a matter of if, but when. But two young Muslims, Zouhour el-Ghoul and Fadi Abbdul Rahman, who are destined to become the future leaders of our community, both believe that the inevitable can be stopped — but they say now is the time for action. Looking through the eyes of these impressive young people, Ray Martin accompanies them on a journey to meeting in Old Parliament House in Canberra, where 340 “typical Australians” are exposed to 40 Muslims in a weekend of analysis, arguments and focus groups There they confront the prejudice, fears and ignorance of non-Muslim Australians — people who until last weekend had not met a Muslim — and the results are surprising and hopeful. Fadi, a young man from Lakemba in Sydney’s south-west was on a path to destruction. He was in trouble for petty crime, he felt alienated by Anglo-Australia and turned to God for guidance. He says at the mosque an attempt to recruit him into subversive groups was made. But Fadi is strong — he says there are many others who will succumb to these methods if something is not done to help disaffected young Muslim men feel like they belong here. Law student Zouhour agrees and says the “old men” in the Muslim community have “had their day” and the time has come for the youth to unite the country … |
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