The International Herald Tribune yesterday quoted Australian Prime Minister John Howard as saying that he supported sending people into mosques and Islamic schools to determine whether they were promoting violence or extremism. On Australian radio, he said: "We have a right to know whether there is, within any section of the Islamic community, a preaching of the virtues of terrorism, whether any comfort or harbour is given to terrorism within that community".
Meanwhile, Britain has adopted new criteria for deporting radical Muslim preachers from abroad. According to a report today from the Los Angeles Times, deportation may be ordered for any non-British citizen who has been found to "foment, justify or glorify terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs; seek to provoke others to terrorist acts; foment other serious criminal activity or seek to provoke others to serious criminal acts; or foster hatred which might lead to intercommunity violence".
