{"id":38029,"date":"2026-03-21T15:35:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T04:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=38029"},"modified":"2026-03-21T15:35:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T04:35:46","slug":"lakemba-mosque-violence-is-proof-radical-islam-is-hiding-in-plain-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/lakemba-mosque-violence-is-proof-radical-islam-is-hiding-in-plain-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakemba mosque violence is proof radical Islam is hiding in plain sight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing more humiliating than the Australian Prime Minister seated on the floor taking foreign policy advice from a cleric.<br>\u00a0<br>So-called \u201cmoderate Muslims\u201d at Lakemba mosque violently accusing the Australian government of supporting \u201cgenocide\u201d should be a wake-up call that dangerous Islamic radicalism is hiding in plain sight, according to Family First.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<br>\u201cThe truth is that no genocide has occurred in Gaza, but thousands of Gazans tried to commit one on October 7, 2023,\u201d Family First National Director and New South Wales Legislative Council candidate Lyle Shelton said in response to the wild scenes at today Australia\u2019s biggest mosque.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cWomen were raped, 1200 innocent people brutally murdered and hundreds taken into terror tunnels as hostages.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cIt is alarming that Muslim leaders do not have the moral compass to see this and that they continue their victim blaming.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cIsrael has waged a war of self-defence and continues to do so against Islamic extremists in Lebanon and Iran.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cThe only attempted genocide has been via calls to kill Jews \u2018from the river to the sea\u2019 and to \u2018globalise the intifada\u2019,\u201d Mr Shelton said.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cAustralian politicians have lacked the courage to forcefully and respectfully tell the truth to Muslim leaders and their partners in the radical left. That truth is that Israel has committed no genocide.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cBy all means critique Israel\u2019s battle tactics but even that must be in the context of the existential threat Israel faces from Islamists who are trying to destroy it.<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s time the lies about \u2018genocide\u2019 stop because lies are fuelling hatred and violence in Australia, as we saw with Bondi and now with today\u2019s violent scuffles in a mosque in the Prime Minister\u2019s presence.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cWe do not want foreign hatreds playing out in our nation and pressuring our government to take unconscionable policy positions against an ally like Israel.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cWhat is more humiliating than the Australian Prime Minister sitting on the floor taking foreign policy advice from a cleric?<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cAustralia\u2019s Muslim leaders need to realise that the Islamists of Hamas and Iran were the aggressors on October 7 and it is their on-going bloodlust for Jews that has destabilised the Middle East.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cThere would be no civilian casualties if Gazans had not tried to invade Israel and commit genocide after decades of using international aid money to build military terror tunnels.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cPolitical courage to confront Australian Muslim leaders with this truth is what is needed for social cohesion in our nation,\u201d Mr Shelton said.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cI\u2019m sure the majority of Muslim people just want to get on with their lives and enjoy being Australian. Ancient hatreds should be left behind.\u201d<br>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing more humiliating than the Australian Prime Minister seated on the floor taking foreign policy advice from a cleric.\u00a0So-called \u201cmoderate Muslims\u201d at Lakemba mosque violently accusing the Australian government of supporting \u201cgenocide\u201d should be a wake-up call that dangerous Islamic radicalism is hiding in plain sight, according to Family First. \u00a0\u201cThe truth is that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/lakemba-mosque-violence-is-proof-radical-islam-is-hiding-in-plain-sight\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lakemba mosque violence is proof radical Islam is hiding in plain sight&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38030,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38029\/revisions\/38030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}