Muslim leader calls for public apology over police 'manhandling' of worshippers at Sydney protest

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Bobby. wrote on Feb 12^th, 2026 at 2:24pm:


tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk.

tallowood wrote on Feb 12^th, 2026 at 2:27pm:



Brian is right - the cops are Islamophobic.

Brian Ross wrote on Feb 12^th, 2026 at 11:18am:


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They never call themselves Australian the name says who they represent.

Perhaps we should send the Lebanese Muslim Association back to Lebanon

This was a provocative stunt by muslims defying police move on instructions and portraying themselves as the victims. 

Looks to me like the police handled it well. They didn't even arrest anyone.

Brian Ross wrote on Feb 13^th, 2026 at 9:23am:




Pray in the mosque, not on the street.

Ratbags.

Can you post the video Bobby?

freediver wrote on Feb 13^th, 2026 at 9:43am:



here:

one man while handcuffed and helpless on the ground
was face and kidney punched multiple times by the cops.






Police cracked down on people in Sydney protesting a visit by the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog. Footage provided to Guardian Australia appears to shows a person being repeatedly punched by a police officer while being subdued on the ground. The New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, has defended the actions of police at a rally against Isaac Herzog’s visit, after video footage emerged showing officers repeatedly punching a number of protesters.

freediver wrote on Feb 13^th, 2026 at 10:23am:



yes - on 2nd glance - his hands were in a handcuff position but the cuffs weren't on.

freediver wrote on Feb 13^th, 2026 at 10:26am:



His hands were in a hand cuff position -
he was just lying there taking hard hits.
I bet he ended up in hospital?
No follow up.

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Watch it again. He was struggling against them the whole way through. That's why they were unable to cuff him. Or better yet, find the video that shows before and after it happened, for a bit of context.

Brian Ross wrote on Feb 13^th, 2026 at 9:23am:


"The NSW Police Force has now become aware that a senior police officer had allowed a group of Muslim protesters to continue praying at Town Hall square on Monday evening," a spokesperson said.

"The senior officer was attempting to relay that message to other officers who were carrying out a move-on direction during what was a noisy, dynamic and fast-moving situation."

Seems one copper lost his nerve and tried to pander to the criminals. Fortunately the majority of Police did their duty.

Enough Bobby!

Police are not babysitters and they're not there to handle these scumbag protestors with kid gloves!  And they're not punching bags either - so if you want a bit of that in return, just keep provoking and trying to push through police lines!

Should have laid in the boots for praying to Terrorism.

Emotional blackmail by Mussos didn't work

No sympathy, if they were praying as part of the protest then they were actively protesting, if they had just decided to pray at that particular time and place then they were out of touch with reality.

Bobby. wrote on Feb 13^th, 2026 at 10:59pm:


Well I'm a bit of an agnostic these days - and turning the other cheek to a musso just gets you slapped down twice as hard.

You surely can't be expecting that of our police force?  They're a "force" or that's basically what the majority of Australians expect of them.  Although that stupid Pommy Police Commissioner Peter Ryan that Labor brought out here to lead our police changed them to a Police Service!  A bit like your "turn the other cheek" example.  Obviously police rebelled and so they became a nothing, just NSW Police.  Until Labor was ditched at the next election, sanity reigned and NSW Police became a Force once again and a force to be reckoned with.  Actually they're the only Australian police to have a Force on their badge.

And believe me, at the end of the day, you need a police force that will not back down.  In spite of Labor in the background with their "softly softly" approach.

They're the only thing standing between mussos and us. 

It was not a Holy place.
So their emotional blackmail attempt and corruption of religious justification warranted all Police action.

But now the ALP have told Police to be compliant to Mussos doing illegal protests and then dropping to their knees to pray when they feel they will be arrested.

ALP = Anti Australian.
We need a Civil War

Jasin wrote on Feb 14^th, 2026 at 1:12pm:


Mussos can pray anywhere in public.  As long as they are facing Mecca.  However they're supposed to have their prayer mats because it's not clean praying on the road or footpath.  And they're supposed to do the whole wash before they pray. 

However this was done just to thwart the police and their move on demands. 

Unfortunately for us, the anti-Australian Labor govt will always side with the mussos over police.  And the Australian public for that matter. 

ps ... it may eventually come to that ... a civil war.  Because it's totally an us and them situation.  Always has been, always will be. 

Brian Ross wrote on Feb 14^th, 2026 at 6:48pm:



Oh, LOOK!!  Bbwiyawn had a new idea!!

No, wait...

And boy, is he articulating?! You can just SEE the mail order Doctor of Divinity at work.

More educated than most here, dont you know. Oh, yes.

Brian Ross wrote on Feb 12^th, 2026 at 11:18am:




Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia was included by the country’s largest Muslim community groups on a co-statement demanding NSW Premier Chris Minns, Police Minister Yasmin Catley and NSW police leadership apologise for the disruption of Muslim prayer during the rally at Sydney Town Hall last week.

It was the group’s first publicity since it was explicitly targeted in a new tranche of federal anti-hate laws, and a sign that mainstream organisations such as the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils intend to keep up their support of Hizb ut-Tahrir in the face of a ban.



Hizb ut-Tahrir’s presence on the joint statement condemning NSW police marks the group’s first public action under threat of the legislation.

The statement was co-signed by the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, Australian Muslim Advocacy Network and political advocacy group Muslim Votes Matter.

AFIC, its president, Rateb Jneid, and MVM organiser Ghaith Krayem previously signed another statement opposing the listing of Hizb ut-Tahrir, refusing to resile from its rhetoric and providing it a support network among mainstream Muslim leadership.

Frank wrote on Feb 16^th, 2026 at 8:33am:

Oh right!  Hizb ut-Tahrir a banned terrorist organisation elsewhere!  Of course Labor should take note of what they say and abide by their demands.  They are after all their voting base. 

This is a secular nation.  Religions - especially terrorist religions - should play no part in making any decisions about our police!   

Bobby. wrote on Feb 13^th, 2026 at 10:59pm:


He also approved of his followers being armed.

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Feb 16^th, 2026 at 11:26am:


He also used a whip as a weapon:

Bobby. wrote on Feb 16^th, 2026 at 1:14pm:

Make up your mind.
Was ‘turn the other cheek’ so that He could have a whack at it with the whip?

Respect to this police officer. Confronted by radicals demanding the arrest of a Christian preacher on the grounds that Whitechapel "is a Muslim area", she was calm and professional and gave them short shrift. Let's see more of this from the police.

https://x.com/PaulEmbery/status/2024952202872139923



Is it legal to preach Christianity in London? Apparently, the answer to this question isn’t obvious – at least to some residents of Whitechapel in east London.

Last week, a truly depressing video emerged. It showed a young, female Metropolitan Police officer, surrounded by Muslim men on a street in Whitechapel. They demanded to know why a Christian preacher, proselytising outside the nearby East London Mosque, had not been arrested.


To her immense credit, the officer did not allow herself to be cowed or intimidated. ‘In this country we have freedom of speech’, she told them forthrightly. ‘You guys don’t have to see eye to eye, you don’t need to agree, and you’re all more than welcome to stand here and have conversations with them’, she said.

But these men were not interested in ‘conversations’. They wanted the preacher to be punished – presumably for blasphemy, for daring to declare a belief in a faith other than Islam. One of the Muslim men said he called the police because he heard a man say ‘an offensive word about the religion’. According to the Daily Mail, one of the mob told the preacher not to ‘say Muhammed’. Another said, ‘Your God is a Jew’. When the policewoman arrived, a man implored her to recognise that ‘This is east London, this is Whitechapel – it’s a Muslim area’. Another chimes in to say the Christian preacher was ‘offending our prophet’. ‘I would recommend you just move away and don’t listen to him’, she said in response.

Islamic sectarians have been remarkably successful in using the police for their own ends. Whether the police feel intimidated or simply believe it is their role to respond to the demands of certain ‘community leaders’, they have been more than willing to keep certain areas ‘Muslim’ at the behest of sectarian bigots. Just last month, the Met banned a ‘Walk with Jesus’ march, planned by UKIP, from going through Whitechapel on the grounds that it would be ‘provocative’ to local Muslims. Last year, West Midlands Police banned Jewish Israeli supporters from travelling to Birmingham to watch Maccabi Tel Aviv play Aston Villa, after learning that some local Muslims were arming themselves in preparation for the visit. Worse still, the police fabricated evidence to suggest the Jews were the group most likely to stir up trouble. They colluded in a lie to placate Islamic sectarians and to cover their violent intentions.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/02/23/finally-a-police-officer-has-stood-up-t...


If you don't like freedom of speech, *uck off back to Pakistan. (Can I say that?)

NEW YORK CITY — Mayor Zohran Mamdani has strongly condemned New Yorkers for making Muslims throw improvised explosive devices at them.

After two bombs were hurled by ISIS-inspired Muslims at a group gathered near the Mayor's mansion, Mamdani demanded that people stop forcing Muslims to kill them with explosives.

"I am absolutely disgusted that people would make Muslims throw bombs at them," said Mamdani. "I condemn the people who had bombs chucked at them in the strongest possible manner. We will not tolerate the Islamophobia that compels Muslims to construct homemade explosives and toss them into crowds. New York City is better than this."

Mamdani has ordered all of the citizens who had explosive devices flung at them to apologize for making Muslims do so. "This is how we heal," said Mamdani. "Until people accept responsibility for Muslims trying to kill them, we cannot have peace. Or, until they just let the Muslims kill them. Either way."

At publishing time, Mamdani had proposed a new law making it illegal to run away from bombs that are thrown at you.