- One Nation leader hits out at Labor over attack
- Accuses them of importing terrorists for votes
- READ MORE: What alleged attacker said to bishop
By David Southwell For Daily Mail Australia
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One Nation leaderPauline Hanson has accused the Albanese government of importing people who do not adopt the laws and values of the countries they settle in.
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was allegedly attacked by a knife-wielding terrorist on Monday evening while the clergyman was delivering a sermon at Christ The Good Shepherd Church in the western Sydney suburb of Wakeley.
The teenager who allegedly stabbed the bishop justified his actions by telling police the Christian leader had 'sworn' at 'my prophet', and reportedly screamed the Islamic phrase 'Allahu Akbar'.
The Australian National Imams Council and other individual Muslims have condemned the attack on Bishop Emmanuel.
'These attacks are horrifying and have no place in Australia, particularly at places of worship and toward religious leaders,' the Imams Council said in a statement.
Senator Hanson claims the viscous stabbing, which police are treating as a terror attack, was the result of importing people with an 'Islamist ideology' who 'do not adopt the laws and values of the countries they settle in'.
'Instead they demand their fundamentalism is simply accepted and adopted in their new countries, and they employ violence or radicalise young people into violence in perverse attempts to achieve this end or attack those who oppose them,' she said.
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has blamed the Monday's church stabbing in Sydney on the importation of people with fundamentalist Islamic beliefs
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'Islamist ideology, which seeks to impose fundamentalist Islam across the world, is completely incompatible with Australian values of freedom, democracy and religious tolerance.'
Senator Hanson argued Australia was seeing a rise in radical Islam with 'extremist Islamic preachers in Australia calling for jihad and death – and getting away with it' and 'the intimidation and violence we’ve seen directed at Jewish Australians'.
She contended the 'most effective solution' to this problem is 'people with such ideology are never permitted to come here' but the opposite was happening under the Albanese government.
'Labor doesn’t care about the threat they represent and continues to import this ideology to Australia to shore up support for its western Sydney MPs,' she said.
'The Albanese government has fallen over itself to hand out visas so people who overwhelmingly support the terror group Hamas can escape the consequences of Hamas’s terror attacks on Israel.
'When will the major parties wake up and stop importing people and ideologies that are completely incompatible with Australia and its way of life?'
Senator Hanson's comments come after the alleged terror attack made on a Sydney bishop
Monday'sshocking attack, which was being live-streamed on YouTube by church cameras, came while Bishop Emmanuel was delivering a sermon.
The bishop was speaking from the altar when a male dressed in a dark hoodie sauntered up and suddenly lunged at him, furiously swinging at the elderly clergyman's head and neck.
The alleged attacker was seen smirking at horrified onlookers as he was pinned down after wounding Bishop Emmanuel, Father Isaac Royel and two others.
One of the men involved in restraining the teenager before police arrived described how he approached the teenager from behind and forcefully pushed him to the ground.
'He kept saying: "Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar",' the man said in a video posted to social media.
Police arrested the attacker at the scene and were forced to hold him at the church for his own safety after a crowd gathered outside and demanded the attacker be brought out.
At a press conference early on Tuesday morning in Sydney, NSW Commissioner Karen Webb declared the attack a 'terrorist incident'.
'We believe there are elements that are satisfied in terms of religious motivated extremism,' she said.
AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw was asked to confirm if the teenager had an Islamic motivation, but despite the witness testimony, he would not say.
'We have a lot of intelligence to go through and confirm,' he said.
'I can't go through that. One of the things I want to say it's a disgraceful act from the community who attacked police at that scene.'
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