MUSLIM community leaders in Australia's biggest cities issued unified calls for calm today following the emergence of a fresh round of text messages calling for more protests this weekend.

Islamic leaders are calling for any rallies to be peaceful, and say they are holding sermons in mosques and talks with schools this week to spread the message that violent protests are not the Islamic or Australian way.

The calls follow the weekend's violent protest in the Sydney CBD involving clashes with police.

A man has been arrested over the smashing of a police car window, and a woman whose child was photographed with a placard calling for beheadings has come forward to authorities.

A 29-year-old former champion boxer charged with affray, one of seven men facing charges over the Sydney demonstration, said he would fight the charges.

Magistrate Clare Farnan is expected to hand down a decision on Ahmed Elomar's bail application later today.

Victorian Muslim leaders distanced themselves from a pro-Islam rally planned for Melbourne on Sunday.

Organisers of the protest said on Facebook that Islam needed defending because of the controversial video about the prophet Mohammed and last week's anti-terror raids in Melbourne.

''This is a call to Muslims and our supporters - if you condemn all of the above and are outraged by Islamophobia, then come along to this PEACEFUL protest,'' the post said.

The Let's Stop Islamophobia page said that last week's raids in south-east Melbourne were ''heavy-handed, racist and unnecessarily violent manner (sic)''.

It called for a protest on Sunday at 1pm at the State Library of Victoria.

Several people posted comments in support, including members of radical socialist and anti-Israel groups.

Victorian Board of Imams spokesman Sheikh Mohamadu Saleem called on Muslims not to attend the protest.

''We are not going to support any protest whatsoever,'' he said.

''We are not planning anything.''

Islamic Council of Victoria youth worker Mohammed Elleissy said that a young Muslim woman was behind the idea and he had spoken to her.

''She's incredibly young and it was obvious to me that she hadn't thought through fully the repercussions,'' he said.

''She is obsessed with having a peaceful protest as a gesture of 'doing something.''

''She also hadn't worked out how to keep it peaceful and was stumped when I asked her.''

A Victoria Police spokesman said the force was monitoring any possible incidents.

Yesterday, the mother whose young son held a sign calling for beheadings during Saturdays' Sydney protests turned herself in to police.

NSW Family and Community Services Minister Pru Goward says the boy will stay with his parents.

"The police went back to the house and assessed the children and assessed that they were safe so that is where they remain," Ms Goward told ABC radio.

Lebanese Muslim Association president Samier Dandan says while he welcomes the mother's decision to go to police, he disapproves of the behaviour.

"That's something that we don't encourage within our community, it's something we condemn," he told reporters at Lakemba mosque in Sydney's west this morning.

Mr Dandan said he would try to talk to the mother, but added he had been told the boy may have found the sign on the street and was "caught up in the hype" during the demonstrations.

"Does a child really understand what's written on that placard?" he said.

Since the placard incident, video has come to light of an 8-year-old girl adressing a Muslim conference in Bankstown, in Sydney's west, on Saturday.

In it, she is heard calling for holy war and a world-wide Islamic state.

media_camera Eight-year-old Ruqaya speaks at the Khilafah Conference in Bankstown, Sydney. Picture: James Croucher

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"Children as young as myself can be seen on the streets joining the uprisings, risking their lives to bring food, water and medicine to their wounded family members, some of them never returning to their mothers ... Nobody is too young," she said.

Also this morning, a teenager was charged after being captured on camera smashing a police car with a milk crate during Sydney's riots.

Silma Ihram, a board member of the Australian Muslim Women's Association, said she did not believe such incidents were widespread as she fronted the Lakemba news conference with Mr Dandan on behalf of 25 Muslim groups.

"I don't believe that there is a radicalisation of children," she said.

Ms Ihram said that in a democratic nation, parents should feel free to take their children to demonstrations.

"We don't want to see a situation where people are afraid to take their children and participate," she said. "We are condemning in unequivocal terms the violence from Saturday as well as the offensive film.

Mr Dandan said he, like most Muslims, were very distressed by the weekend's events.

"This is a very minority group. It's an image we condemn and we are very distressed to see those images."

He said Islamic communities all over Sydney had been bombed with hate mail and death threats since the protest.

- with Nathan Klein, Lillian Saleh

Originally published as Calls for calm as new protests planned