VANDALS have graffitied hate-filled messages on a mosque in southern Brisbane.

Police were called to the prayer centre in Rocklea about 7pm (AEST) on Wednesday after members discovered the damage.

“Muslims are evil and have no respect for our ways” and the word “die” had been sprayed on the entrance, according to an ABC report.

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“Get the f*** out of our country” was also sprayed in large letters on the mosque walls, accompanied by a cross.

The incident is the second defacing of a Queensland mosque in less than a week. Vandals spray-painted the word “Evil” across a mosque in Mareeba in north Queensland on Friday.

Mayor Tom Gilmore said the prayer site had been part of the area since the 1950s and the Muslim members were a “highly respected” part of the community.

The attack on the mosque did not reflect the attitudes of the wider community, he said.

Islamic Indonesian Community of Queensland president Hamid Mawardi played down the attack, telling the ABC he said he had no idea who had vandalised the mosque but that it was “probably just kids”.

“I think this is a misperception about Islam — we are here, Australian,” he said.

“I’ve been here for years and we live nice and peacefully and whoever did this — respect us as Australians.”