An ABC investigation has obtained distressing videos and victims' accounts of IS sympathisers hunting and bashing gay and bisexual boys on camera in Sydney.
Five teenagers have so far been convicted over the bashings.
Similar attacks have been reported in the ACT, Queensland and Western Australia, but police say many more incidents go unreported.
With a Victorian parliamentary inquiry into so-called Grindr attacks announced last week, there are now calls for a national response to anti-LGBTQIA+ hate crimes, as well as urgent measures to protect events like this weekend’s Sydney Mardi Gras.
Less than three weeks after the assault on James, a 16-year-old boy stabbed Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel during a live-streamed church service in Wakeley. Nine days later, the Joint Counter-Terrorism Team — comprising NSW Police, the AFP and ASIO — carried out sweeping raids against a dozen teenagers, including the group who attacked James.
What should be done to stop this, beyond arresting and charging known attackers? (Obviously in this context we’re talking about government and police, not community efforts.)
Ignored by who? Just from skimming the article:
Aside from a load of hot air being released what’s actually being done to stop this from happening again?
I say this out of curiosity, I’m not arguing:
What should be done to stop this, beyond arresting and charging known attackers? (Obviously in this context we’re talking about government and police, not community efforts.)
Maybe hate preachers could be stopped?
Probably not I guess. Slippery slope to ban people’s religion, ideas, thoughts etc.
But on the other hand, load them on a plane and drop them somewhere that out laws homosexuality if they want that kind of society.
All the people who have been thumping their chests over Bondi to push their Zionist agenda