Sydeny, Australia - An Australian Muslim spokesman has labelled members of a Sydney mosque as "gullible" for asking a controversial British Muslim leader to address them.
Abdur Raheem Green is a Muslim convert from Britain who has said Muslims and westerners "cannot live peaceably together".
Mr Green was refused entry to Australia this week.
The British man was invited to Australia by the Islamic Development Centre of Australia and was due to make a series of speeches in the country next week, including one at the Lakemba Mosque in western Sydney.
Australian Federation of Islamic Councils chief executive Amjad Ali Mehboob said international speakers should be properly assessed before being allowed into Australia.
"I think we have enough problems here in this country ... to let someone in that we don't know," Mr Mehboob told ABC radio.
"These people (at Lakemba Mosque) are very gullible, anyone who comes along they allow them to speak.
"He has been reported to make some very inflammatory speeches and we don't need that here."
But a Lakemba Mosque spokesman said Mr Green had visited Australia before without any problems and had been properly screened.
Mr Green, whose name appears on Australia's immigration department "movement alert list", attempted to board a plane from Sri Lanka to Wellington on Monday.
However, Mr Green was not allowed aboard the flight, which was to make a one-hour stop in Brisbane en route to New Zealand.
He instead flew directly to New Zealand where he is conducting a lecture tour for an Islamic Awareness Week.
It is not clear if he will be allowed entry to Australia in time for his planned lecture tour starting August 17.
An Immigration official told the Australian newspaper they would consider his case if he tried to board another flight to Australia.
Mr Green has denied claims in the Australian media that he was one of Britain's most radical Muslims converts, saying: "It's the first time I've been called a radical, ever".
He said comments attributed to him in the Australian press were inaccurate, taken out of context and twisted.