{"id":28634,"date":"2024-04-17T11:21:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T11:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/17\/father-of-boy-accused-of-stabbing-clerics-saw-no-signs-of-extremism-says-muslim-leader\/"},"modified":"2024-04-17T11:21:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T11:21:25","slug":"father-of-boy-accused-of-stabbing-clerics-saw-no-signs-of-extremism-says-muslim-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/17\/father-of-boy-accused-of-stabbing-clerics-saw-no-signs-of-extremism-says-muslim-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Father of boy accused of stabbing clerics saw no signs of extremism, says Muslim leader"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The father of a 16-year-old accused of stabbing two Christian clerics in Australia saw no signs of his son’s extremism, a Muslim community leader has said.<\/p>\n

The boy spoke in Arabic about the Prophet Muhammad after he appeared to stab Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel and the Reverend Isaac Royel during a church service in Sydney<\/a><\/strong> on Monday, which was being streamed online.<\/p>\n

Neither cleric suffered life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n

The boy, who was overpowered by the Orthodox Assyrian congregation, remains in an undisclosed hospital under police guard. He suffered severe hand wounds in the struggle.<\/p>\n

After the incident, officials said around 600 people gathered outside Christ the Good Shepherd Church demanding revenge, throwing objects and preventing police from taking the teenager outside.<\/p>\n

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Lebanese Muslim Association secretary Gamel Kheir, an advocate for Sydney’s largest Muslim community, said he spent two hours with the boy’s distraught father at the family home after the attack.<\/p>\n

Mr Kheir told Australian Broadcasting Corp the father “was in shock”.<\/p>\n

He added: “He was not aware of any signs of becoming more extreme other than the fact that he was becoming more disobedient to his father. But that was about it.<\/p>\n

“He didn’t see any tell-tale signs, so to speak.”<\/p>\n

The family of the boy have since left their home for fear of retaliation.<\/p>\n

Mr Kheir is among several community leaders who have accused police of unnecessarily raising community tensions with a premature declaration the attack fitted the definition of a terrorist act under New South Wales state law.<\/p>\n

“I’m concerned that we’ve rushed to a pre-judgment of a 16-year-old child,” he said.<\/p>\n

“He used the language of religion, we’re not debating that at all. In a sense that he targeted another religion, that’s not debatable.<\/p>\n

“What’s debatable is what mental state was this child in? Was he of a sane mind to even make such a rational call?<\/p>\n

“All we’re saying is, surely there was time for the police to do a more thorough investigation and a review before they labelled it a terrorist act.”<\/p>\n

New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb stood by her declaration of a terrorist incident, saying she was “satisfied, based on the information that was provided”.<\/p>\n

Of the rioting afterwards, she added: “Not all those people there were rioting against the police, but those people who were, they can expect to be identified and arrested and put before the courts.”<\/p>\n

Read more from Sky News:
‘Carnage’ at Dubai airport<\/a><\/strong>
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The Lebanese Muslim Association runs Australia’s largest mosque in the Sydney suburb of Lakemba, where security has been increased.<\/p>\n

Security has also been tightened at shopping centres around Australia after 40-year-old lone assailant Joel Cauchi stabbed six people to death<\/a><\/strong> at Sydney’s Westfield Bondi Junction mall on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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