Construction of Synagogue in Australia Banned Over Security Concerns That It Might Be Targeted by Terrorists.

Saturday, 5 August 2017

The town of Bondi is situated in the suburban area of Sydney, New South Wales.It is a multicultural town, with a population of about 9700,15% of which is of Jewish faith mostly Jews of European origin who fled from the countries under German occupation or survived the Holocaust  and  settled in Australia  after the World War II.

 

When the Jewish community decided to build a new synagogue, the town council conducted a risk assessment and concluded that the new house of worship would be a tempting target to the Islamic State.

 

The council also decided that that any efforts to modify the proposed design of the synagogue  to make it more secure and mollify concerns would also be unacceptable because “physical  measured proposed to deal with the identified threats will have an  unacceptable impact on the streetscape and adjoining properties.”

 

The matter eventually ended up in Court.

 

The Court upheld the town council’s ban on the grounds that it posed an unacceptable security risk.

 

Obviously, neither the members of the town council, nor those who sided with them or  the Court, know the true meaning of the phrase “living in society” and the civic and moral obligations of members of society.

 

At this point, it is unclear whether the community will appeal against the decision.

 

As, Andrew Bolt, Australian popular columnist and political commentator put it: “What a shameful day for this country.” Indeed.