
Mohammed Trad
December 2023
Sermon as "Brother Muhammad": "a Muslim army"
Al Madina Dawah Centre, Bankstown: "The Muslim community needs a Muslim army to defend it and the lands of Islam ... to fight for them" (The Australian, 17 Dec 2023).
Primary Role
Mohammed Trad is a Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia speaker, identified via online video appearances as 'Brother Muhammad,' who has guest-preached at Wissam Haddad's Al Madina Dawah Centre. He was named directly alongside Haddad in the Sydney Morning Herald's coverage of Jewish community warnings to police before the Bondi Beach attack. Not to be confused with Khaled Ahmed Ibrahim Trad ('Abu Muhammad'), a different man for whom Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia published an obituary in September 2025.
On 17 December 2023 The Australian reported a Friday sermon at the Al Madina Dawah Centre, Bankstown, by "a cleric known as 'Brother Muhammad'". He said: "This (the Israel-Palestine conflict) has to be a spark for the Muslim community and the final solution, to unite (under one leader) who implements the sharia and sends Muslim armies to defend the lands of Islam", and "The Muslim community needs a Muslim army to defend it and the lands of Islam ... to fight for them and protect them. This is the only solution ... everyone has to work for this cause in any way that they can." He said the West "couldn't wait until the butchering began", and that "they want to scare you with laws and legislation ... to silence you." The paper reported that state and federal police had dropped investigations into earlier sermons at the centre (The Australian, Alexi Demetriadi, 17 Dec 2023).
Affiliations
- Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia — speaker
Connections
- Wissam Haddad — guest-preached at Al Madina Dawah Centre fordocumented
- HT Australia (Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia) — speakerdocumented
- AMDC (Al Madina Dawah Centre) — guest preacherdocumented
Documents & Video
- Reporting: Sydney Morning Herald, Daily Telegraph
- The Australian - Radical Sydney cleric calls for Muslim army to fight against West in incendiary sermon (Alexi Demetriadi, 17 Dec 2023) - copy held by The Evidence Project