Sheikh Mohammad Tawhidi (pictured, with an al-Qaeda flag in Melbourne) said Muslims felt 'oppressed and depressed' by recent statements by local preachers

Australia is awash with hardline Islamic preachers whose statements ordering Muslims how to live are increasingly oppressive, an outspoken imam says.

Daily Mail Australia has uncovered a series of extreme remarks in sermons by sheikhs and hardline groups across Sydney.

They include claims that Muslim women should not pluck their eyebrows, or reveal their necks and ears in public.

Or that men should not line up 'like animals' to use urinals in public toilets, or make friends with non-Muslims.

Sheikh Mohammad Tawhidi, whose calls for a 'reformation' of the Islamic faith have seen him ostracised by many Muslims, condemned such 'extreme, sharia' positions.

He said Muslims in Australia were being 'oppressed and depressed' by such comments which were preventing Muslims from 'actually (being) part of the world.'

Uthman Badar - a spokesman for Hizb ut-Tahrir - said in March 'apostates (people who leave the Islamic faith) attract capital punishment and we don't shy away from that'

Abdulghani Albaf (pictured left) complained 'every public, every male public toilet now has urinals where they just stand up like animals and urinate in front of one another'. Pictured right is Sheikh Feiz Muhammad. He said it was a 'major sin' for Muslim to attend non-Muslim events, and a group associated with him expanded the warning to the Royal Easter Show

Sunni preacher Nassim Abdi said in a recent video that it is sinful for Muslim women to reveal their ears or neck

Several prominent Australian Muslim women, including academic Susan Carland (pictured) and TV host Yassmin Abdel-Magied, have worn clothes showing their ears

He argued some of the controversial positions, reported by Daily Mail Australia, were doing a disservice to the Islamic community. These included:

A Western Sydney preacher's claim it is sinful for women to reveal their ears or necks in public: 'Why are you wearing it like this? You show only your face and your hands. Not your neck and your ears'

A Sydney imam raging that Muslim men were peeing 'in public, without concealing, hiding themselves or hiding their private parts' at urinals - in a fiery sermon about death

Another western Sydney sheikh saying 'plucking your eyebrows' or making friends with non-Muslims will see you go to hell: 'Any friendship that is not built on the fear of Allah is going to lead to hell fire'

An Islamic Lectures Facebook page warned 'the Easter Show is on this week' and linked to a sheikh's warning that it was 'sinful' to take part in a festivity belonging to another faith

The spokesman for hardline pro-caliphate group Hizb ut-Tahrir saying Muslims who leave the religion should be put to death: 'The ruling for apostates as such in Islam is clear, that apostates attract capital punishment and we don't shy away from that'. An apostate is someone who leaves Islam

'These are all matters that form the extremist version of Islam,' Tawhidi said.

'These are all radical interpretations of Islam and Islamic teachings.'

'That just adds onto the depression that several Muslim and Muslim females live every single day.

'You have Muslims that are oppressed, and depressed, and these matters just add onto their depression.

'It doesn't give them an opportunity to actually be part of the world.'

Tawhidi - a Shia preacher from South Australia whose calls for a 'reformation of the religion has sen him and disowned by many Muslims - on Thursday made headlines for a fiery clash on national TV with Muslim GP Dr Jamal Rifi.

Tawhidi waved an al-Qaeda flag on Channel Seven's Sunrise program, which he claimed to have purchased from a Melbourne store, and said the religion was 'infested by extremism'.

His views were rejected by Muslim GP Dr Jamal Rifi, who pointed out local Islamic leaders had 'shouted from the rooftops' their condemnation of terrorist acts.

Asked to justify his previous, separate statement this week, Tawhidi pointed to Sydney's Hyde Park riots in 2012 - where signs said 'behead all those that insult the Prophet' and attendees included Australia's most infamous ISIS export, Khaled Sharrouf.

'Behead all those who insult the Prophet': Demonstrators are pictured protesting against an anti-Islam video in Sydney on September 15, 2012

'These radicals, when they finish from their protests, they go back to their workplaces within our society - which basically means that our society is infested by Muslim extremists,' he argued.

The Australian National Imams Council (ANIC), a Sunni group. has said Tawhidi is 'not recognised (by it) as an Imam, Sheikh or Muslim leader' in Australia.

And the Islamic OnePath Network has rejected him as 'bogus'. He refutes those claims.

Tawhidi is the son of an Iraqi-born ayatollah and has admitted he shares views with the conservative side of Australian politics.

He has been a guest on Andrew Bolt's Sky News program and frequently appears on radio station 2GB.