"Wipe all Jews out" so says Muhammad Raza Saqib Mustafai who has about a million followers on facebook.
Speaking at the Ghausia Masjid in Blacktown and the Al-Madinah Masjid in Liverpool recently, Muhammad was seen in a video sermon speaking to an audience of about 50 Muslims as part of his Australian tour organised by Ghausia Masjid's imam Hafiz Raza.
The visiting Pakistani scholar was ordered to go back home from by Australian authorities after footages of the anti-Semitic video surfaced online.
Hafiz Raza, the tour organizer however declined giving answers to questions shot at him concerning the organised tour or the video titled "Jews are the enemies of Islam and the real peace" published in 2012.
As reactions continue to pour in, Australians expressed their deep and profound commitment to ensuring that peace and tranquility prevailed in their home country.
Mr Mustafai is known however to have given hundreds of speeches about peace and obeying constitutional laws but this didn't stop his tour from being cancelled in a bid to forestall any anticipated misunderstanding.
According to Mustafai, the entire Australian community had welcomed Pakistanis with opened arms, warm hearts and genuine spirits and that they won't support or partake in any activity that will impact negatively on Australians.
Mustafai stated that Muslims weren't terrorists emphasizing that Muslims were true lovers and advocates of peace. He went on further to explain that the world would be cleansed of its woes when every single Jew is eliminated.
In her reaction, Naela Chohan, Pakistani High Commissioner to Australia, said the opinions expressed by Mustafai were naive and would certainly be condemned in Pakistan.
She said she didn't know why such individuals were given media exposure when it so happened that their views were flagrantly ridiculous. She explained further that there was a clear difference between hate speeches and freedom of speech stressing that condemning any religion is a crime in Pakistan. She hoped that other western nations would emulate Australia by taking decisive actions against individuals spreading hatred against any faith.
According to Mehreen Faruqi, who happened to have migrated from Pakistan in 1992 and unsuccessfully became Australia's first parliamentarian, she was shocked beyond words after watching the video.
Faruqi said that it was appaling realising that someone who was supposed to be a islamic scholar was rendering such hate-filled speech.
On record, Mr Mustafai, a sunni Muslim, lectures at a Pakistani mosque in the city of Gujranwala and doubles as the originator of Idaratul Mustafa, a spiritual and intellectual movement that aims at promoting the oral and literal teachings of Islam.
According to Dvir Abramovich, the chairman of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission based in Australia, the video spread nothing but "textbook anti-Semitic lies".
Dvir went on to say that the Australian federal government needed to critically investigate the procedures that facilitated Mr Mustafai's visit to the country. He stressed that the general public genuinely needed to comprehend the fundamentalist and biased rhetoric expressed in the anti-Semitic video and its potential consequences that such speeches could poison the hearts and character of young adults.
Upon queries, the Department of Immigration and Border Protection declined to make any comment on the matter as of yet but a government spokesperson stated that the Australian authorities don't joke with the role of turning down visas on character reasons.
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