{"id":9123,"date":"2026-05-11T08:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/9123\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T08:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:34:06","slug":"man-charged-with-disturbing-place-of-worship-after-allegedly-making-threats-at-north-brisbane-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/9123\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with disturbing place of worship after allegedly making threats at north Brisbane mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A man has been charged after allegedly making verbal threats at a Brisbane mosque, with the Muslim community describing the incident as deeply concerning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police were called to the Masjid Taqwa mosque in Bald Hills on Sunday morning following reports that a man attended the place of worship and made verbal threats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">No one was physically injured, and the man fled the scene before police arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 33-year-old Mitchelton man has since been charged with one count of creating a public nuisance and one count of disturbing a place of worship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-12-19\/queensland-police-investigating-mosque-graffiti\/106161260\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Queensland police investigating Nazi symbol graffitied on mosque<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Offensive words were also written on the Brisbane mosque, along with the swastika. WARNING: The following story contains an image of a Nazi symbol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">In a statement on social media, Masjid Taqwa&#8217;s board said the alleged incident caused fear and distress among members of the congregation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The board said several people reported that the man stated he had a gun in his car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;While we understand the current charges before the court, our community remains deeply concerned by the circumstances surrounding this incident and the broader pattern that appears to be emerging,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The board said it was the fourth incident involving the mosque and congregation within the past six months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No person should feel unsafe while attending a place of worship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">In an unrelated incident in December, offensive graffiti, including a Nazi symbol, had been spray-painted on the mosque&#8217;s wall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Australian National Imams Council strongly condemned the alleged incident and acknowledged the police&#8217;s prompt response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;We trust that the justice system will deal with the matter appropriately and expect that this alleged offending be treated with the level of seriousness consistent with hate crime,&#8221; the council said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Labor MP for Sandgate Bisma Asif, the first Muslim politician elected to state parliament, said: &#8220;a place of worship should be a place of peace&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 33-year-old is due to appear in court on May 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged after allegedly making verbal threats at a Brisbane mosque, with the Muslim community&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99,9819,1957,10456,8343,10457,230],"class_list":["post-9123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brisbane","tag-brisbane","tag-hate-crime","tag-hate-speech","tag-mosque","tag-muslims","tag-place-of-worship","tag-queensland-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}