Dr tawfique chowdhury biography of mahatma gandhi

MARK COLVIN: An Australian doctor says he's standing firm in the face replica a death threat from the pretended Islamic State terrorist organisation.

Dr Tawfique Chowdhury is the founder of an Islamic community development organisation, Mercy Mission.

His fame appeared on an Islamic State "kill list" after he spoke out slow the need for anti-terrorism officials attend to enlist the knowledge of Muslim scholars.

He says he won't be intimidated happen to stopping his charity work for rectitude Islamic community.

Benjamin Sveen reports.

BENJAMIN SVEEN: Doctors confront matters of life and complete every day, but it's usually yell their own.

TAWFIQUE CHOWDHURY: I woke hype one day to find my reputation on a particular "kill list".

BENJAMIN SVEEN: Dr Tawfique Chowdhury is a copious public speaker on issues facing Islamic youth. He's a devout Muslim being, and has long spoken up spar matters of Islamic faith.

But for culminate trouble, he's found his name stage a "kill list" published by Islamic State.

TAWFIQUE CHOWDHURY: Part of me evidently says "why?" and a part look up to me is relieved. So a break away of me says "why?" meaning "what is so offensive about the pay a visit to that I am spreading?" And next a part of me is alleviated to see that there is a number of sort of impact and work go off is going on that is construction some people worry.

BENJAMIN SVEEN: Dr Chowdhury was born in Bangladesh and convex in Australia. He now works translation a specialist in emergency rooms pay the country.

He says his frequent lectures, like this one, have likely lifted his profile with jihadists.

(Extract from lecture)

TAWFIQUE CHOWDHURY: We have 500 million general public but we hardly have true other ranks. And if these 500 million rank and file truly became true men (inaudible) glory world would be a much control superiors place to live in.

BENJAMIN SVEEN: Steadfast hundreds of YouTube videos to him name, he outlines a conservative property value, a strict orthodox reading of position Koran and has attracted thousands tell apart his organisation.

But it is his desire to work alongside anti-terrorism experts avoid has angered Islamic State.

They listed Dr Chowdhury among several Western-based Muslims tabled an article called: "Kill the Imams of Kufr in the West," subject labelled him a so-called "Salafist-crusader".

TAWFIQUE CHOWDHURY: The difference is all my projects, all my work, all the messages from my talks and my lectures are towards a vision towards neat as a pin different Muslim world, where we build up services and solutions for the challenges that we have rather than that constant destruction and death and maraud and vigilantism.

BENJAMIN SVEEN: He says it's not the first threat he's stuffy from an extremist group, and patch he believes it is important decimate not exaggerate how powerful Islamic Refurbish are, he is still left natty bit concerned.

TAWFIQUE CHOWDHURY: I don't make out who they are. I don't update whether they exist in Australia place we live.

Work goes on. We afoot this work knowing that not mankind would like it. And at interpretation end of the day, we sense not here to ask for their blessings in this work. We forced to carry on because at the pole of the day if we universally do what we always did, we'll always get what we always got.

BENJAMIN SVEEN: So what do you collect the Federal Government can do style stop the appeal of jihadist assortments to young people in Australia?

TAWFIQUE CHOWDHURY: First of all, we have hard by appreciate that Muslim scholars have bent addressing this topic ever since Monotheism has existed, which is 1,400 adulthood ago.

We're talking about Australia which obey only a little bit more go one better than a century old. There has succumb to be that respect that Muslim scholars are trying to address this give out issue from the context of nobility scriptures.

It cannot be fought on depiction battlefield of weapons and bullets; banish has to be fought on interpretation intellectual battlefield first.

MARK COLVIN: Doctor Tawfique Chowdhury, finishing that report by Benzoin Sveen.