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THORNLEIGH MACDONALDS: Prime Minister Scott Morrison has continued his criticism of the Islamic community in the wake of the most recent Bourke Street terror attack.

Morrison reiterated his call for imams and other members of the community to be better at identifying radicalised people in their congregations and alerting the authorities.

“I won’t cop the excuses,” he said.

“Communities need to ensure they weed this out,” he said.

Mr Morrison drew parallels between the many high-profile figures within the Assemblies of God denomination who had spent days in the chair during the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses To Child Abuse.

“I’m a member of a religious community, and my pastor knows what’s going on in our church community.

“He would know if there was someone, or his wife would know if there was someone leading a local Bible study group or something like that who was teaching things that were not in accordance with what our faith believed. They’d be pointing that out and they’d be dealing with it.”

Morrison pointed out that while he can relate to the Islamic community feeling like they are at the centre of populist witch-hunt launched off the back of a couple of individuals who are very sick in the head, the Muslims need to suck it up and deal with their own issues.

And by that he means they need to get the government to pay $75 million tax-payer dollars to investigate and make recommendations about how to better deal with the anti-social behaviour that comes with a secretive organised religion, like the Christians did when it became apparent that 20% of all Australian Christian clergymen over the last century were either committing or protecting perpetrators of child sex crimes.