EXCLUSIVE: Days after the carnage in London, this is the moment we catch a firebrand Islamist leader on camera saying all former Muslims should be put to DEATH… in Sydney on Saturday night

From Daily Mail Australia

A leader of a hardline Islamist group which campaigns for sharia law says Muslims who leave the religion should be put to death.

Hizb ut-Tahrir spokesman Uthman Badar was frank when asked about the group’s policy at a forum in Bankstown, in Sydney’s south-west, on Saturday night.

‘The ruling for apostates as such in Islam is clear, that apostates attract capital punishment and we don’t shy away from that,’ Badar said.

His extraordinary admission was exclusively captured on camera by Daily Mail Australia and the matter has now been referred to the Australian Federal Police by Justice Minister Michael Keenan. 

Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia removed references to that apostasy policy from its website as Alison Bevege, a freelance journalist, sued the group for making her to sit in a women’s-only section at a separate talk in October 2014.

On Saturday night, Ms Bevege held up a printed copy of Hizb ut-Tahrir’s draft constitution of the khilafah state published on the UK site, which was on the group’s Australian website until 2015.This outlines their vision for a global Islamic caliphate, which has Muslims and non-Muslims living under sharia law.

She asked about their policy of killing people born as Muslims who leave the faith.

Badar’s remarks came after he delivered the keynote lecture for the forum, which was called ‘Sharia and the modern age’. He said Islam was incompatible with a secular separation of religion and state, democracy, individual rights and even the process of science, which he called ‘scientism’.

‘The West seeks to domesticate Islam, to control, to bring within, the way you domesticate animals,’ he said.

Badar described calls to reform Islam from secular Muslims as ‘pernicious’, ‘insidious’ and ‘dangerous’ and called for radical change. ‘Always when you hear these sorts of calls, alarm bells should ring,’ he said.

About 100 people were at the publicly-advertised lecture with men making up about two-thirds of the audience. Women were segregated from the men on the left-hand side of the room, apart from Ms Bevege who stood at the back.

Following the lecture, a group of men followed Daily Mail Australia to a parked car.