The daddy of {the teenager} arrested over the stabbing at Wakeley’s Church of the Good Shepherd spent the night time of the assault driving round western Sydney with a good friend, too afraid to go house.
He turned to neighborhood chief and lawyer Gamel Kheir, who informed the person to come back to the Lakemba Mosque.
“He actually was in shock, he broke my coronary heart,” stated Kheir, the secretary of the Lebanese Muslim Affiliation.
“He stated, ‘I need to see my son.’ He was distraught, in shock, too scared to go house.”
The person then got here to the mosque and spent the night time there with Kheir and a lot of the mosque’s different attendees who had been there to defend it in opposition to threats of firebombing made following the stabbing.
The boy’s father stated the teenager had been more and more “disobedient”, Kheir informed the Herald, however there have been no indicators of him turning into radicalised.
“There was nothing he might see that he had gone that far down.”
The affiliation will undertake an investigation into on-line radicalisation, and how you can cease individuals from consuming radical content material.
Kheir stated the incident spoke to the necessity for additional funding for psychological well being points in the neighborhood.
“It’s not a non secular difficulty. I don’t know of any faith on earth that claims to go to a different parish and stab somebody.”
Kheir stated he was hopeful of assembly Assyrian neighborhood leaders on the mosque within the coming days.