Two days later, 53-year-old Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel and another priest, Father Isaac Royel, 39, were stabbed during an evening service at the Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley, about 34 kilometres from the Sydney CBD. Inter-community tensions sparked by the local playing out of age-old hatreds between Muslims and conservative Orthodox Christians in the Syrian-Iraq region of the Middle East immediately took hold, with the sort of scenes rarely witnessed in Australia. About 2000, mainly young, people swarmed into the area after the church attack was live-streamed and caused mayhem. Rioters pelted police and ambulance officers protecting the...