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KAMIN GOCK, REPORTER: Wissam Haddad , also known as Abu Ousayd, preaches to his followers in person and online.
KAMIN GOCK: But comments he made in November last year have landed him and the centre in the Federal Court. PETER WERTHEIM, EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIAN JEWRY: We can't allow these sorts of exceptional behaviours to go unremarked, because the standard you walk past is the standard you accept.
DR BILL SWANNIE, AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY: The Toben case was a famous early case in the Racial Discrimination Act, and that case involved a website which had all sorts of Holocaust denial material on it, and that was an important test case which actually proved that point, that Jewish people are protected under the Racial Discrimination Act.
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