Posted on 11/25/2025 4:02:09 AM PST by Eleutheria5
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – A man who set fire to a Melbourne synagogue while worshippers were inside was motivated by mental illness rather than antisemitism, an Australian magistrate said on Monday.
Angelo Loras, 35, had pleaded guilty to arson and recklessly placing people at risk of death on July 4 when he doused the front door of the East Melbourne Synagogue with flammable liquid and ignited it. Around 20 worshippers were inside sharing a Shabbat meal, but no one was injured.
Reports of antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents have risen sharply across Australia since the war between Israel and Hamas began in 2023. Government leaders suspected the attack on the synagogue, which is also known as the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation, was a hate crime.
The morning after the fire, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese released a statement saying the arson attack was “cowardly, is an act of violence and antisemitism, and has no place in Australian society.”
But Magistrate Malcolm Thomas ruled on Monday that Loras was not motivated by antisemitism but had been in the grip of a terrifying delusion stemming from his failure to take medication...
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Gosh. I hope no crazy person sets a mosque on fire.
Lunacy is contagious.
Modern therapeutic psychological I’m-a-victim disorder deception.
David McCalden was a holocaust denier and also died of AIDS. Homosexuality is often correlated as well.
“Yeah, didn’t it occur to the judge that he is crazy AND an
anti-semite?”
Oh, he knows.
Magistrate Malcom making it up for the meditating mohammedan.
Why are judges all over the Western world petrified to hand down an honest sentencing? This judgement reflects the scared mindset of our leaders. Imagine going back to Nuremberg, 1946 and finding all the Nazi defendants innocent. That is what would happen today.
Just following orders from you know who 😎
Oz is lost. It started when they surrendered their firearms.
Yet the State of Florida is charging men with felony hate crime for merely taunting Muslims with bacon when they were inappropriately praying outside, as they always do to intimidate others.
Now just a cowtton pickin’ minit hehe. let’s be faih, mayte. ‘e only tried to kill a passel of Joooos! because he was not rayt in the head. ‘e didn’t succeed, because ‘e was stoopid. So sentence ‘im to electric shock and a decade in the booby hatch. G’day.
Nutbag in question: I’m sane now! Thanks for the electric shock, it really did wonders. And I still hate Jooos!
Felony? WTF?!
Yup, Crazy people don’t usually set the United Methodist or the Congregationalist churches on fire.
That 8s why Hitler and Stalin should not be seen as bad fellows. It was just mental illness.
...like the migrants that held fown the boy and raped his fiance in front of him...
...like Oswald shooting Kennedy, mangioni killing the UHC veo....it’s all mental ilness...
Serial killers ate just crazy, so let them go.
Oz is lost”
It is. They confirmed it when they kept the leftist/globalists in the recent election. Just like Canada the good people are outnumbered by brainwashed leftist children
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