Alleged Bondi Beach shooter’s radicalisation shocks Australia: ‘he was a nice person’

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Source: scmp.com
Alleged Bondi Beach shooter’s radicalisation shocks Australia: ‘he was a nice person’
Standing in the rain outside a suburban Sydney railway station, seventeen-year-old Naveed Akram stares into the camera and urges those watching to spread the word of Islam. “Spread the message that Allah is one wherever you can … whether it be raining, hailing or clear sky,” he said. Another since-deleted video posted in 2019 by Street Dawah Movement, a Sydney-based Islamic community group, shows him urging two young boys to pray more frequently. Authorities are now trying to piece together what...