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Muslim community fights extremism | The Canberra Times

It has been almost a decade since then-Attorney General George Brandis put this in response to terrorist attacks orchestrated by the Islamic State in Paris: “The fact that a very small minority of fanatics are defying the tenets of the Islamic religion by engaging in terrorist crimes, both abroad and, as we have seen in three cases over the past year, in Australia, should not have any repercussions on the Muslim community,” he said.