https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-25/lgbtq-sydney-teenagers-bashed-on-camera-in-is-inspired-attacks/106381614James*, 16, screams as a pack of black-clad teenagers drag him to the ground and stomp on his head while an attacker films on his phone in Sydney's Strathfield Park.In another video, the gang forces a different 16-year-old into a toilet block and repeatedly punches him while calling him a "f*****" and a "kafir", or nonbeliever. Blood runs down his face as he begs, "I'll do anything."A third clip shows a boy in a cropped top lying silent on the grass, his hands shielding his face as he is repeatedly stomped on and called a "gay dog", while one attacker shouts "Dawlatul Islam" — Arabic for Islamic State (IS)."I'll f***ing shoot you, you little dog," one attacker says, before the victim finally emits a single high-pitched cry, and the video cuts out.The footage is among recordings played in Sydney courts or circulated in chat groups, and obtained by ABC Investigations from court files, victims and members of the public.It documents a surge of violence against gay and bisexual young people in Sydney at the hands of a resurgent IS terrorist network in the two years before the Bondi attack.A two-year ABC investigation into the reawakening of IS can reveal the attackers in the videos were linked to the same terrorist network as Naveed and Sajid Akram, the father and son responsible for the Hanukkah massacre that killed 15 people at Bondi Beach in December.
I smell latkes.
Five teenagers have so far been convicted over the bashings.Several of them congregated around a radical Bankstown prayer hall, Al Madina Dawah Centre, which was ordered to close after the Bondi shooting.In March 2024, James, 16, became the first known victim of the IS-inspired bashings whose case would end up in court.The bisexual Wiradjuri teenager from south-west Sydney met a 17-year-old calling himself "Johnny" on Wizz, an app which markets itself as a safe place for minors to date.About 10:30pm on a school night, "Johnny" picked him up from Liverpool station.He drove James for 45 minutes, while two other teenagers hid in the car boot. Another waited at Strathfield Park.Video recorded by one of the attackers, tendered to the court, shows one wearing a hoodie bearing the Shahada, an Islamic declaration of faith appropriated by Islamic State."I remember them kicking me in the back, in the leg and in the chest and my whole face," he told the ABC.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.Police alleged they were part of an Islamic State network that included the Wakeley attacker and four teenagers charged with planning a second terrorist attack against Jews.Investigators also discovered links to Mr Haddad, who had delivered violent antisemitic and homophobic lectures at Al Madina Dawah Centre, describing homosexuality as "punishable by death" under an Islamic state.
this happened literally years ago but no one in australia gave a shit, it barely made the news and im pretty sure all of them are in prison now. its only getting brought up again because they had a connection to the same ASIO honeypot that the bondi shooter went to. IIRC calling them ISIS inspired is a stretch, they were copying twitter "anti-pedo" gay bashing clips but they are muzzies so they chucked in some retarded muslim edgelord shit.
Fayad, an alleged ISIS recruiter and extreme homophobe who preached alongside him, was also raided but not charged.The ABC last year revealed the violent convicted criminal was associating with a number of the teenagers in the alleged IS network.Fayad had been released from a strict control order in 2023, despite police earlier identifying him as a member of an IS cell recruiting teenagers for attacks.When police arrested the teenager who posed as 'Johnny', they found chat logs suggesting the attacks had been underway for at least 10 months.In May 2023, he conspired in messages with a friend to lure, bash and rob gay young people, who he described as "kafir dogs", or nonbelievers."We keep doing that to gay c**ts on Wiiz [sic]," he wrote."Wallah we gunna make a living off this … We make them pay or we roll them."His friend wrote: "We don't get sins for it since they're gay."The exchange coincided with a spike in IS propaganda calling for attacks on LGBTQIA+ people and events.At the same time, young men across several countries — in the US, UK, Europe, Asia and the Middle East — were posting similar bait-and-bash videos online, driven by extremist influencers across ideological lines.
>>42774979The violence did not stop with the arrests of the IS sympathisers.One video leaked from an Australian chat group shows a bloodied victim held in a headlock as attackers yell "Islamic State lives", demand money and bay for his killing."You wanna be gay?" one attacker repeats, before stomping on his faceThose same words are heard repeatedly in another clip, in which a 20-year-old university student is kicked unconscious.While he lies motionless, his solo attacker stomps on his head repeatedly before leaving him for dead.A 17-year-old boy pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery over the bashing, but walked free on nine months' probation, with no conviction recorded.A police source told the ABC he was linked to the same jihadist network as the earlier attackers, with several relatives who fought with IS during the Syrian war.
Why exactly do people who claim to support LGBT rights also support importing people that have homophobia deeply ingrained into their religion.
>>42775044it is a mystery
>>42774937Yay another psyop.
i said free palestine so im safe
wonderful anthem thosaleel sawarahin nasheedu umma... somwthin somethin
>>42775044because intersectional activism was always going to be a massive set of contradictory beliefsfigure out what you support and drip the rest
>>42774952Shit livo is 10mins from me
>>42775124*drop the rest
>>42774937wtf do you mean returned, the Islamic State never went away. they have a whole country to themselves now and even the US government acknowledges them as "legitimate" (they helped install them in power after all)
treat conservative muslims like they treat gay people
