SYDNEY, April 17 — The father of the teenager that stabbed an Assyrian bishop during a church service in Sydney saw no signs of radicalism, a community leader said on Wednesday,...
Singapore DPM Wong: PM Lee to stay on as senior minister after handover, bigger Cabinet changes ‘likely only after GE’A man is greeted by a clergyman outside the Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd Church after a knife attack took place during a service on Monday night, in Wakely in Sydney , Australia, April 17, 2024.
Lebanese Muslim Association Secretary Gamel Kheir, who was with the boy’s father after he fled his home on Monday evening for fear of reprisals and took shelter in a local mosque, said he had seen no signs of radicalism in his son. The stabbing has stirred up fears of persecution for the Assyrian community — predominantly Christians from the Middle East — some of whom fled their homeland because of their faith. Roughly 40 per cent of Australia’s 42,000 strong Assyrian population live in the area around the church.
The Lebanese Muslim Association said the Lakemba mosque in Sydney’s southwest, one of Australia’s largest, had received firebomb threats on Monday night.Monday’s incident at the western Sydney suburb of Wakeley triggered clashes outside the church between police and an angry crowd of the bishop’s followers who demanded the attacker be handed over to them.
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