Terror charges
Stabbing video not offensive enough to be removed, X Corp tells court
X Corp’s legal team argues that footage of a Sydney priest being stabbed does not meet the legal threshold for it to be forcibly removed.
- by Paul Sakkal
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‘Vulnerable cohort’: What is it about teenagers and terrorism – and what is being done?
Relations between Muslim communities and the authorities are at rock bottom while commitment to programs to counter violent extremism appears lacking.
- by Deborah Snow
Sydney teen wanted ‘something catastrophic’ for Jews and Assyrians, court told
The 15-year-old – an alleged associate of the boy accused of stabbing Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel – was refused bail.
- by Sarah McPhee
Sydney teen terror accused wanted to attack ‘a bunch of Jews’, court told
Police say they found hand-drawn Islamic State flags when they raided the 15-year-old’s bedroom after the alleged terror stabbing of a bishop in a Wakeley church.
- by Sarah McPhee
Bishop’s response to attack is a lesson in forgiveness – and shows why it is so important
The impulse for revenge is deeply embedded in the human psyche, but Mar Mari Emmanuel immediately forgave his young assailant.
- by Barney Zwartz
We’ve been worried about kids on the internet for 30 years. Is it time to toughen up on tech?
The alleged stabbing of a Sydney bishop by a teenager has reignited Australian alarm at the realities of online harm, reopening a debate about how to protect children.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
Stabbed bishop takes swipe at those using attack ‘to serve political purposes’
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel has uploaded an 11-minute statement to YouTube saying he is not opposed to the video of his stabbing remaining on social media.
- by Olivia Ireland
‘He’s dead tonight’: Two more men charged over Wakeley church riot
Father of three Sam Haddad allegedly made death threats directed at the attacker following the stabbing at the Christ the Good Shepherd Church.
- by Amber Schultz and Mary Ward
Why has one knife attacker been labelled a terrorist, and the other, not?
An uneasy calm has now settled on the city after a horror week, but questions remain about why one attacker was labelled a terrorist, and the other wasn’t.
- by Deborah Snow
Teen charged with Wakeley terrorism attack travelled 90 minutes to church: police
The teenager charged with stabbing a bishop in a church in Sydney’s west has a “long history of behaviour” consistent with mental health issues, a court heard.
- by Jessica McSweeney and Sarah McPhee
‘I forgive you’: Stabbed bishop calls for calm as rioter arrests begin
“The Lord Jesus never taught us to retaliate, the Lord Jesus never said to us ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,’” the bishop said in an audio message released on Thursday.
- by Sally Rawsthorne