00:00400 counter-terrorism police, 13 raids and 6 teenagers charged with planning or preparing
00:08to commit a terrorist act.
00:10We will allege that these individuals adhere to a religiously motivated violent extremist
00:15ideology.
00:16Now an alliance of Islamic groups is calling for an immediate inquiry into the processes
00:21that led to the raids.
00:22The lack of evidence pointing to a concrete threat or plan among these youths, as noted
00:27by senior police officials, calls into question both the necessity and the manner of these
00:33operations.
00:35The groups also singled out ASIO head Mike Burgess, accusing him of using charged language.
00:41Sunni violent extremism poses the greatest religiously motivated extremist threat in
00:46Australia.
00:47They want the term religiously motivated terrorism removed from Australia's terrorism laws.
00:53The presumption that terrorism is inherently tied to religion is not only inaccurate but
00:59also harmful.
01:00ASIO says the term religiously motivated violent extremism allows it to accurately categorise
01:06a security threat based on its primary motivation.
01:10Saying ASIO does not investigate people because of their religious views, ASIO is concerned
01:15with actual or potential violence.
01:18The Premier agrees.
01:20The truth of the matter is that we do need to confront religious extremism.
01:24Some of it manifests itself in terrorism and it's important that there's a comprehensive
01:28police and security response.
01:30A sensitive debate with no easy answer.
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