‘It’s shocking’: Perth muslim community concerned about Islamophobia after radicalised teen stabbing

The moslem assemblage of Perth has condemned the actions of a 16-year-old lad who is thought to person converted to Islam and go radicalised earlier he stabbed a subordinate of the nationalist successful Willeton connected Saturday nighttime and was aboriginal changeable dormant by police.

Imam of Perth’s largest mosque, the Nasir Mosque, Imam Syed Wadood Janud, told media connected Sunday the incidental was peculiarly upsetting arsenic they had mislaid a subordinate of their mosque successful the Bondi stabbing incidental 3 weeks ago.

Imam of Perth’s largest mosque, the Nasir Mosque, Imam Syed Wadood Janud.

“It is not lone concerning, it’s shocking, and I deliberation members of the assemblage are inactive coming to presumption with it,” helium said.

“We condemn immoderate enactment of unit which is committed successful our name, successful the sanction of our religion. Our religion virtually means peace.”

Janud said the Muslim assemblage were acrophobic astir backlash from the incident.

“We’re highly acrophobic astir Islamophobia,” helium said.

“Sometimes the backlash tin beryllium precise harsh, and that’s wherefore we privation to scope retired to the wider community. Our mosques and doors are ever open. Reach retired to speech to america pass and pass your concerns, and we were much than blessed to perceive immoderate concerns that the assemblage would have.

“But it’s besides important to recognize that the idiosyncratic was erstwhile again known to the constabulary wrong 3 years, the idiosyncratic it seems whitethorn person had immoderate benignant of intelligence mental issues.”

Janud said the lad was not actively known to beryllium progressive successful immoderate section mosques.

“Radicalisation of each forms, whether that is anti semitic, whether that is Islamophobic, whether that is close wing, Neo Nazis. We spot this connected the rise, and arsenic Australians, we each request to travel unneurotic and tackle immoderate of these issues that whitethorn beryllium prevalent successful our communities,” helium said.

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Janud said the information defender who died successful the Bondi buying centre stabbing connected April 13 was a subordinate of his mosque.

“We would similar to admit the Western Australian constabulary department, that they were capable to tackle this full incidental wrong a substance of minutes and it did not transportation similar it did successful the East Coast,” helium said.

“And astatine the aforesaid time, I’d besides similar to notation that we arsenic a assemblage and those successful the assemblage consciousness that this lawsuit hits our hearts due to the fact that of what happened successful the East Coast successful the Bondi incident, wherever we mislaid a subordinate of our mosque.

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