The scenes in Undercover Mosque featuring Australian Islamic leader Sheik Feiz Mohammed spewing hatred and incitement to violence have provoked outrage in Sydney: Radical cleric sparks fury in Australia. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

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SYDNEY, Australia - A radical Australian cleric drew widespread condemnation Thursday over a series of videos in which he encourages children to become martyrs for Islam and ridicules Jews as pigs.

Sheik Feiz Mohammed, head of the Global Islamic Youth Center in western Sydney, made the remarks on a series of video lectures for sale in Australia and overseas.

“We want to have children and offer them as soldiers defending Islam,” the Australian-born cleric said in one video broadcast on Australian television.

The lectures were denounced as offensive by Australian government leaders and as not helpful by the head of the Islamic Friendship Association. The chief of the opposition Labor Party called them an incitement to terrorism.

In one video, the cleric said many parents were stopping their children from attending Islamic lessons for fear that they “might create a place in their hearts, the love, just a bit of love, of sacrificing their lives for Allah.”

“Teach them this: There is nothing more beloved to me than wanting to die as a mujahid,” or holy warrior, he added. “Put in their soft, tender hearts the zeal of jihad and a love of martyrdom.”

He also ridicules Jews as pigs, snorting and saying they will go to hell.

The sheik, who has spent the past year living in Lebanon, was not immediately available to comment. Calls went unanswered Thursday at the youth center, a volunteer-run organization that sponsors pajama parties, pingpong matches and rock climbing expeditions for young Muslims.

Many of the sheik’s online lectures focus on preparing oneself for death, but do not explicitly mention jihad or martyrdom. But in a fiery lecture about the state of Islam posted on the video sharing network YouTube, he says today’s Muslims are not as inclined to martyrdom as their ancestors.

“In our times, it is the fear of death — the fear of sacrificing your finger, your toe, a drop of blood — that is more honorable than anything else,” he says on the video, which features images of violence and death.

“We are the most humiliated nation on the face of this earth, there is no doubt,” he says. “Why? Because martyrdom to us is not appealing, it’s not as appealing to us as it was to those ancestors, the great warriors.”