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Two influential Muslim leaders have criticised stabbing victim Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel over comments he made, which they claim insulted their religion.

The bishop, 53, is in a stable condition in hospital after he was allegedly stabbed by a teen about 7pm Monday while he led a service at Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley in what police have called a ‘terrorist incident’.

He was captured on the live stream of the church service shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ as he stabbed the bishop in the head, neck and torso at least eight times.

Video showed the alleged 16-year-old perpetrator detained by police on the ground inside the church before he spoke in Arabic.

The words are understood to translate to: ‘If he didn’t swear at my Prophet, I wouldn’t be here. If he didn’t involve himself in my religion, I wouldn’t be here.’

The Australian Muslim social media page, which has more than 2.6million followers, and Mohamed Shaar, who runs the Sydney Ruqyah Centre, have both condemned the violent act but said some of the bishop’s teachings were hate speech.

Shaar, who has previously courted controversy over his homophobic views, said the bishop had ‘ran his mouth’.

‘What’s funny is all those Muslims saying quick recovery, and I hope he gets better and so on,’ he said, before singling out the local council. 

‘Where were you when he was abusing our prophet and our religion?’

‘We condemn the people who do any harm, even to an animal; we don’t support any kind of violence in our community, but why haven’t you, Mr Politician and Mr Community Leader, said something to him that could have solved the issues?’

‘He ran his mouth and said that our Prophet is rotten in a grave. We love our Prophet.

‘Leave our religion and Prophet alone.

The alleged ‘terrorist attack’ on Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was streamed on the church’s online broadcast

Mohammed Shaar, who has previously courted controversy over his homophobic views , said the bishop had ‘ran his mouth’ about the prophet Muhammad

The Australian Muslim social media page, which is not to be confused with the Australian Muslim Project, said: ‘I’m not justifying the actions of that kid, but the bishop started it’.

‘He’s been slandering our prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. We Muslims will never ever slander Jesus, peace be upon him.’

The comment sparked mixed responses from followers, and more than 1,000 likes.

‘I watched a video of him a couple of days back, he sounded so self consumed and demeaning to other religions. This is very concerning,’ one said.

‘We need calm, not inflammatory language. We live in a multi cultural society and there will always be people who reject our faith but we should set good examples through our actions,’ another said.

‘We will never grow, mature and be properly respected by those outside our faith until we learn to counter ignorance and propaganda with education rather than violence,’ a third said.

A video in the aftermath of Monday night’s attack showed the accused teenager pinned on the ground before he said in Arabic he wouldn’t be there if the bishop ‘didn’t insult my prophet … If he didn’t involve himself in my religion.’

The church where Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was attacked as he led a service broke away from the Assyrian Church of the East in 2014 after the bishop was ex-communicated over theological differences.

He himself had gained a significant following on social media where the Christ the Good Shepherd’s Facebook and YouTube pages have more than 240,000 followers.

He has delivered some sermons criticising non-Christian religions, including Judaism and Islam, and has also recently delivered sermons calling for peace in Gaza.

He appeared in a video made last December for the PBD Podcast, hosted by American broadcaster Patrick Bet-David.

On the podcast, Bishop Emmanuel (pictured) questioned Islamic beliefs around Jesus, who he calls Isa, and said ‘the truth hurts’

On the podcast, https://bangcacloai.com/ Bishop Emmanuel questioned Islamic beliefs around Jesus, who he calls Isa, and said ‘the truth hurts’.

‘Your book (the Koran) says that Isa, son of Mary, went up to Heaven alive and he will come back to judge the dead and the living.

‘If I ask a Muslim ‘Who judges?’, they will say God.

‘Well, you’re telling me this prophet (Muhammad) will judge, so which is which? Has the prophet taken the role of God? Has God gone on vacation and he’s come and taken his position?’

The bishop said ‘Isa is the living messiah, even (the Koran) says’.

‘Now let me ask you, my dear Muslim, if you’re claiming Isa is a prophet, then how come all the other prophets which you believe in – you believe in Moses, you believe in Isa, you believe in all the prophets of the Old Testament.

‘How come none of the Old Testament prophets were referred to as ‘The word of God’, except Isa? Why?’

Bishop Emmanuel then spoke about Jesus’ birth to Mary and how he is the son of God.

‘How come all the prophets and every single human being on the face of this planet was born of an Earthly father and an Earthly mother, yet Jesus, son of Mary, was born in a virginal birth,’ he said.

‘He has an Earthly mother, but has no Earthly father. For his father (is) who art in Heaven.’

The outspoken bishop added that ‘The very reason Muhammad failed is because he’s dead. Their book says that …

‘I know truth hurts. I’m not offending people, I’m speaking the truth. And if it offends you, I’m really sorry. Not. I’m not sorry for that.’

He later told his fellow panellists on the podcast that ‘When you go to Heaven, I can assure you … Muhammad will not greet you, Buddha will not greet you, (Hindu deity) Krishna will not greet you, because they will not.

‘It will be only one, who is the way, the truth and the life, it will be Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who died for you and me.’

NSW Premier Chris Minns has met with leaders from different faiths across the city who have all issued statements condemning the attack and calling for peace and unity.

Mr Minns said the city is in a combustible and abnormal situation and there’s no point pretending otherwise after the stabbing sparked violent riots in Wakeley.

‘I can understand people’s concern and anxiety in what has been an incredibly difficult week in Sydney,’ Mr Minns said.

NSW Premier Chris Minns met with faith leaders on Tuesday to call for peace and unity

‘It is a combustible situation, there’s no point in pretending that everything is as normal.’

Mr Minns said police now had enhanced patrols.

‘Particularly in western Sydney, particularly around religious institutions, for the rest of the week and the weekend,’ he said.

The public has been urged to come together and act reasonably.

‘Take the heed from the civic and religious leaders of this state who are calling for calm and an absolute repudiation of all kinds of violence,’ Mr Minns said.

Several police who responded to the stabbing were injured during the subsequent riot while paramedics had to seek refuge in the church as a large crowd gathered after the attack was captured during a social media livestream.

It was declared an act of terror on Tuesday, with an apparent religious motivation behind the attack allegedly committed by a 16-year-old with a history of knife-related crime.

Mr Minns said he had spoken with the five officers hospitalised after the riot.

‘Several of them were back out on shift the next day,’ he said, praising their dedication.

The attack was streamed on social media, where federal Environment Minister and Sydney MP Tanya Plibersek warned lies are being used to divide a reeling city.

‘We know there are people deliberately trying to stoke division on social media … switch if off if you can,’ she said.

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This is the moment a stunned cyclist is thanked by Bill Nighy after he stopped at a red light as the Hollywood star crossed the road.

The rider, who goes by CycleGaz online, came to a stop at the lights outside the Queen Mother Sports Centre in Westminster, central London yesterday.

The video, which has already been praised on social media for its wholesomeness, showed Academy Award winner Nighy striding over the crossing in a long brown coat, carrying a briefcase.

The Love Actually star, who lives in Pimlico and appeared to be in high spirits on the sunny day then raised his hand in thanks for the cyclist not blowing through the red light, saying: ‘Thank you, thank you.’

Gaz then jokes in response: ‘I needed the rest.’ 

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The rider, who goes by CycleGaz online, came to a stop at the lights outside the Queen Mother Sports Centre in Westminster, Central London yesterday 

The video, which has already been praised on social media for its wholesomeness, showed Academy Award winner Nighy striding over the crossing in a long brown coat, carrying a briefcase 

Before Nighy replies: ‘Oh well, I thought that when I saw you stop.’

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More over-55s are tapping their pensions and over half are cashing them out entirely, new official figures reveal.

Nearly 740,000 pension funds were accessed in the 2022-23 financial year, up around 5 per cent from the year before, as people struggled to pay household bills in a period of rising inflation.

Some 56 per cent of pots are being cashed in full – the majority of them worth £10,000 or less, according to new data from the Financial Conduct Authority.

Meanwhile 36 per cent were invested in a drawdown plan and 8 per cent were used to buy an annuity in the year to October 2023.

Tapped: There has been a 5% rise in the number of pensions being cashed out, FCA data shows

Sales of annuities fell nearly 14 per cent to around 59,200, https://bangcacloai.com/ despite better deals coming on the market as interest rates started to rise.

However, recent industry figures covering the whole of 2023 suggest more savers are being tempted by a strong recovery in the guaranteed retirement income an annuity will provide.

Annuities were shunned for years due to poor rates and restrictive conditions, and after gaining a bad reputation on the back of mis-selling scandals.

The pension freedom reforms in 2015 prompted most savers to keep their funds invested and live off withdrawals instead, despite the financial market risk involved.

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Meanwhile, the FCA’s new report showed a sharp drop in the number of people transferring out of final salary pensions – which like annuities provide a guaranteed income for life – into invested drawdown plans where the holder bears the investment risk.

Final salary schemes have slashed the value of the offers made to workers to transfer out, because the rise in interest rates has improved their ability to fund pensions over the long term.

Former Pensions Minister Steve Webb says of the figures showing most defined contribution pots are cashed in full: ‘These figures highlight the fact that hundreds of thousands of people reach retirement each year with very small pension pots.

The temptation to draw cash rather than secure retirement income is great, especially in light of the cost-of-living crisis 

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‘These pots would generate very little regular income if spread out over the decades of retirement,’ adds Webb, who is now a partner at LCP and This is Money’s pensions columnist.

‘Instead, the majority of people still judge that the best thing to do is to cash out their pension and enjoy some additional cash at the start of their retirement.

‘But with dwindling numbers of retirees having defined benefit pensions to fall back on, we urgently need to boost pension pots to a size where it makes sense to keep them rather than cash them in.

‘With every new set of figures we see the consequences of the government’s delay in expanding automatic enrolment, and the need for urgent action to get Britain saving more for retirement.’

Paul Leandro, partner at Barnett Waddingham, says: ‘The FCA should not be surprised by the increasing levels of cash withdrawals from pension pots, but they should be worried.

America’s low-technology Amish sect has doubled in size since 2000 and will hit 1 million members this century as it spreads far beyond its Pennsylvania heartland, new research shows.

Steven Nolt, an expert on the Amish, told DailyMail.com that its 378,000-strong US population was doubling every 20 years, thanks to families with lots of children who most often stick to the faith.

Amish communities have spread beyond their traditional areas of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, with fledgling outposts as far afield as Maine, Florida, New Mexico, Texas, and Idaho, said Nolt.

The expansion underscores the tightness of a group that eschews technology to focus on family time, even as modern America grapples with cell phones and social media that may harm kids’ mental health.

Members of the Amish Brenneman family head home to Iowa after a vacation in Maine 

Members of the Amish community repair a destroyed barn in Fulgham, Kentucky

The Amish are spreading far beyond their established homes in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana

Still, the group remains dogged by revelations from runaways about an ultra-conservative Christian lifestyle, most recently including the adherent-turned stripper Naomi Swartzentruber, 43.

‘We can anticipate 1 million Amish well before the end of the century,’ Nolt, a history and Anabaptist studies professor and director of the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College, told DailyMail.com.

Steven Nolt says the Amish are heading West

He foresaw further Amish expansion across rural parts of the Mountain West and Southeast.

‘There will be more Amish living in more places, with new neighbors,’ he said.

‘That does pose the possibility of potential misunderstanding. But also the possibility of keeping some rural areas alive and populated in the face of otherwise predicted rural depopulation in the next 50 years.’

The Amish, a Christian sect that migrated to the US from Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries, typically refuse to drive cars, use computers or connect to a public electricity supply.

They speak a German dialect and travel through their mostly rural villages in horse-drawn buggies.

At a time when some other ethnic and religious groups fear dilution through mixed marriages, the Amish have boosted their numbers by marrying within the group and teaching their kids at Amish-only schools.

Their population growth rate has accelerated in the past 20 years because they have an average of five or six children per family, and have done a better job of retaining their young people, and are having longer, healthier lives. 

Amish Trump supporters are seen raising flags in a clip believed to be shot in New York 

The Amish, a Christian sect that migrated to the US from Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries, typically refuse to drive cars, use computers or connect to a public electricity supply

America’s Amish population doubles every 20 years and is headed toward 1 million this century 

Amish children are seen on an Amish horse in the community’s heartland of central Pennsylvania

A tenth of Amish families in the Pennsylvania heartland have 10 or more children — far above the 1.9 children of the average US family.

Birth control and abortion are frowned upon.

Unlike other religious groups, the Amish don’t convert, so population growth comes from children.

According to Nolt, nearly 90 percent of Amish children stay within the church.

‘The 10-15 percent who don’t join rarely run away; they just never join — maybe drift away, or simply choose a different life path within the same geographic community as their family,’ he said.

The group’s estimated North American population was 384,290 last year, a 116 percent jump from 2000.

That includes 6,100 in Canada.

Amish numbers more than doubled in 10 states, and there was an 82 percent increase in the number of Amish communities throughout the US.

There are now Amish communities in 32 US states.

There are now Amish communities in 28 US states and a thriving community in Canada

A row of Amish buggies head home after church near Ronks, Pennsylvania

New outposts often spring up because members spot a deal for farmland — the economic mainstay of the group — and are willing to relocate.

They can grow fast thanks to strong community ties.

Settlements have sprung up since 2000 in six new states: Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming.

At the same time, Minnesota’s Amish population has surged by 230 percent.

In New York it has more than quadrupled, growing from 4,505 to some 21,230 people.

Though farming is a mainstay, many members work in construction, woodworking, blacksmithing, or start small businesses.

A community that started in Brownington, Vermont — 30 minutes from the Canadian border — in 2013, is said to be thriving now.

But the group’s traditional ways are not beloved by all.

Their dress is characterized by straw hats and suspenders for men and bonnets and long dresses for women.

A Mennonite group enjoy the boardwalk in Ocean City, New Jersey

Amish people participate as US President Donald J. Trump host a campaign rally at the Lancaster Airport in Lititz, https://bangcacloai.com/ Pennsylvania, in 2020

They largely avoid marrying outside their community because they know doing so would mean being kicked out of the church.

Politically, the Amish lean heavily Republican.

Members have been seen at Donald Trump rallies in Pennsylvania, some even decorating their buggies with campaign banners.

Swartzentruber recently lifted the lid on life inside a community that she fled when she was 17.

The 43-year-old was raised in one of the largest and most conservative subgroups of the Amish, known as the Swartzentrubers.

From the young age of five, Naomi Swartzentruber, 43, was thrust into the center of Amish life and was expected to wake up at 5am to help on the farm 

She had to follow strict rules on how she dressed and who she could talk to.

At the age of five, she was expected to wake up at 5am to help on the farm in Michigan.

By the time she was 14, school was no longer considered a priority and instead she left her education behind to cook, clean, and do household chores full-time.

‘We’d get up at dawn and work all day until the sun went down,’ she said.

‘Women would be expected to do the cooking, cleaning and washing the clothes — while men would do all the farming.’

However, her homemaker life became too mundane for her, and she found herself wishing she could have a taste of the world outside the settlement.

‘There wasn’t much time for play — and we had to dress modestly,’ she said.

‘When I asked my parents why we had to dress and work, they said it was ‘just our way.’

Soon enough, she began rebelling in small ways by donning lingerie under her gowns, listening to the radio through her neighbor’s window and even secretly dating non-Amish boys, who were known as ‘English’ men.

Naomi explained: ‘I started feeling really rebellious — I decided I wanted to get a job, find an English boy, and wear whatever I want.’

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