Racial Attack on Sikh: In a distressing incident, a Sikh restaurant owner in Australia, General Jimmy Singh, has become the target of a racial attack, with derogatory letters urging him to go home and dog excrement smeared on his car over several days. The victim, residing in Australia for 15 years, operates Dawat-The Invitation restaurant in Hobart, Tasmania, and has reported a persistent campaign of harassment over the past two to three months.
in the murder of his wife. monis was best known for sending offensive letters to families of troops killed in afghanistan. he was condemned by mainstream muslims as a fake cleric. he s really a jihoodlum. a thug who wants to do it in the name of jihad. this was a person with a mental problem who tried to gain attention and succeeded. officials still don t know what motivated monis, but he was infatuated with extremism. interesting comments there. a lone wolf that i ve never heard that term before, a jihoodlum, is a way to describe him. not officially affiliated by anyone. he s inspired. and he got worldwide attention and caused governments really to start talking to each other and coordinating and being on alert because of what he pulled. six people were taken to the hospital. those two victims that passed away, one was shielding her pregnant friend. both of them parents. it s heartbreaking. you think about the other people who become inspired by watching the media attention
allies including australia. the result of their air strikes. monis pleaded guilty to writing offensive letters to the families of australian service members calling them hitler s soldiers accord fog australian media. this pen is my gun and these words are my bullets. reporter: dressed in chains, he later demonstrated on a street corner claiming he was tortured in prison for his political letters. claims new south wales police have not commented on. monis has been out on bail charged with accessory to the murder of his ex-wife. last april he was arrested for sex crimes against seven women reaching as far back as 2002. police said he had claimed to be a sexual healer. his website describes monis as the victim of a political vendetta and likens him to julian assange who has claimed sex crimes he s been accused of were politically driven. the iranian national says he s
50-year-old man monis was out on bail awaiting trial for alleged sexual assaults and as an accessory with his mistress in the murder of his wife. the iranian refugee was best known for writing offensive letters to the families of australian soldiers killed in afghanistan. this pen is my gun. and these words are my bullets. reporter: long before he took to violence, mainstream muslims had condemned him as a phony, a fake cleric. basically thugs that do it in the name of jihad. reporter: once monis ordered the hostages to hold up a black flag, he went from hoodlum to a terrorist. this is a person with a mental problem who tried to gain attention and succeeded.
he ll life loo i ll leave that to the investigators. i believe we ve been relatively free from mass killings in australia, last nearly 20 years, in part because of the strict laws that are in place. it s important not to draw the wrong conclusions from this incident. we should look at the span of the last 20 years, where through good police, intelligence work, from our security agencies and in partnership with our friends around the world, including here in the united states, we ve been able to manage a relatively peaceful environment. the gunman was well known to authorities. he had a violent past. he was an accessory to a murder in the death of his wife. he was charged with sexually assaulting a young woman who had visited him for quote spiritual consultation. he had written offensive letters to the families of deceased australian soldiers. so was yesterday to your mind, a crisis of islamic extremism? because he had pledged allegiance to the leader of isis? or was this just a viole