A irate Catholic man has given an explanation for why he yelled at protestors outside Cardinal George Pell’s funeral and tore off ribbons attached to the fence by survivors of clerical sexual abuse.
Hundreds of LGBTQI activists chanted “George Pell, go to Hell” and referred to the late cardinal as a paedophile in front of Sydney’s St Mary’s Cathedral. Christian Sukkar responded by firing back at them.
The Sydney construction worker and other protestors previously got into a fight when placards in Hyde Park facing mourners said “Pell burn in Hell” and “infernal resting place.”
Take it down, you’re f**king annoying a lot of people, someone called across the street.
Hundreds of LGBTQI activists chanted “George Pell, go to hell” and referred to the late cardinal as a paedophile in front of Sydney’s St Mary’s Cathedral. Christian Sukkar lashed back at them.
When a protester questioned Mr. Sukkar about severing the wedding’s ribbons the previous evening, he asked her if she had “looked in the mirror” and “are you a dyke?” He then switched his focus to the protester.
The homophobic epithet “dyke” is often used against lesbians.
“Please move, you’re a dyke, that’s not hate speech. I don’t react to dykes.” He shouted, “Get your people to go; they can go f**k themselves. Go film your own people; you are not allowed here.” He also said, “Go take your f**king sign off.”
After the burial was done, Mr. Sukkar justified his behavior to Daily Mail Australia, claiming the demonstrators were the aggressive aggressors who shouldn’t have attended a funeral.
They have the right to their opinions, but they arrived here in a violent manner whereas we did not, he remarked.
I find it incomprehensible that the police permitted them to enter at a funeral and instructed us to be silent while they shouted “paedophile, paedophile.”
They shouldn’t be upsetting people while attempting to say mass, the saying goes.
When he pulled off ribbons wrapped to the fence of the cathedral on Wednesday night by individuals who had been sexually abused by clergy and their sympathizers, he claimed he had been “attacked.”
Late on Wednesday night, as mourners approached child abuse campaigners who were attaching ribbons to the barrier, police were summoned to the church.
Video purportedly captured Mr. Sukkar and other cardinal supporters yelling at the quiet demonstrators.
Following the altercation, police officers were spotted dispersing the gathering and speaking with bystanders.
The demonstrators, according to Mr. Sukkar, are hypocrites because they accuse the church of oppressing them while hurling insults at common people who are attempting to pay their respects to the deceased.
If you’re going to do that, ‘don’t act like victims,’ he said.
“Thank God, everyone arrived home safely.”
Mr. Sukkar, a married father of two small children, reportedly belongs to the local Lebanese community and resides in western Sydney with his family.
He has several tattoos on his body, including tributes to his family, Latin words, and religious symbols.
The Maronite Christian stated his strong opinions against homosexual people throughout the discussion of same-sex marriage and is open about his beliefs on social media.
In a video posted in November 2019, a teacher expressed his displeasure that kids had created posters supporting transgender individuals and gay marriage while inside a primary school classroom.
He argued in a lengthy essay that he had “an indisputable, God-given right to freely live out our principles and ideals without the fear of persecution” to clarify his perspective on the matter.
The sacredness of marriage, between a man and a woman, and the way it brings people together wholesomely to maintain society’s fabric and create a natural environment for our children and their future, he said, cannot be negated.
Together, together by our shared religion, we must reject a society that tolerates prejudice by speaking out against it.
Days later, he claimed that it was his fault that Tony Abbott, a former prime minister, had received a headbutt from an anarchist DJ at a public gathering in Tasmania.
Why is everyone astonished that yes-voting scummy Aussie dogs headbutted Tony Abbott today? Move out of the way of a homosexual man when he doesn’t get his way, he wrote.
Imagine how they would have responded if the situation had been reversed; they likely would have claimed that it was related to Isis.
Following threats made against pink-haired ABC presenter Deanne Carson after she claimed parents should seek their infants’ approval before changing their diapers, Mr. Sukkar entered the discussion.
“Anyone who colors their hair pink should be sent to a mental hospital,” she said. He wrote, “The electric chair is what this lady needs.”
Cardinal Pell, the oldest living Catholic in Australia, passed away at the age of 81 following complications related to hip replacement surgery. He was put to rest on Thursday at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney.
Before walking to the brink of the road while waving rainbow flags and banners, LGBTQI activists gathered over the road in Hyde Park.
For around five minutes, they were permitted to stand in the center of the street among more than a thousand mourners outside the church while screaming, “George Pell, go to hell.”
Some mourners attacked police officers who were standing between the two groups, hurled insults at the demonstrators, and demanded that they be told to disperse.
In an agreement with the police, the protesters were given a small window of time to demonstrate between the park and the cathedral before marching along College Street.
The demonstrations were sparked by Cardinal Pell’s treatment of homosexuality, abortion, and child sexual abuse by Catholic priests and brothers throughout the course of his life.
Despite being accused of sexually abusing children, he consistently maintained his innocence while serving 406 days of a six-year sentence. The High Court reversed his conviction in 2020 after the Federal Court affirmed the judgment.
After blowing a whistle for many minutes loudly on the opposite side of the fence, another protester was violently frogmarched away from the burial.
When many police officers approached him, he questioned, “What am I doing wrong?
He continued to blast his whistle along the fence line while walking away from the police anytime they approached him while carrying a rainbow umbrella, wearing a face mask, and sporting a t-shirt that said “facts not tales.”
Police outside the restricted area encircled the protester as he repeatedly cried, “no, I didn’t do anything,” as an irate mourner surged towards him and threatened to escalate the situation.
Why am I doing this? I’m allowed to be here, he said.
The guy was then encircled by four cops, who violently grabbed his umbrella and dragged him away from the church as they led him to a paddy truck that was waiting.
The guy was “moved on” from the demonstration, the NSW Police confirmed to Daily Mail Australia, however he was not detained.
More than a thousand mourners stood in a line that wrapped around the outside of the cathedral plaza and up College Street for hours in the sweltering heat in order to attend Cardinal Pell’s burial inside the church.
In addition to a large number of nuns in white and purple habits and monks in their cowls, the well-wishers comprised people of many different ages, races, and cultures.
Numerous members of the Catholic men’s organization Knights of the Precious Blood participated in uniform, as did whole businesses.
Many were praying for Cardinal Pell while carrying crucifixes or holding rosaries.
Only a few people entered; the most remained outside to watch the funeral on big TVs.
A few hundred people knelt on the stone pavement at 10.15 am and said the rosary for 15 minutes.
Volunteers distributed orders of service, which included songs and prayers that mourners outside sung and recited together, as the burial got underway.
A few came prepared with umbrellas, while others only used them in a desperate effort to block the sun.
There was applause and shouting after each address, which was filled with effusive accolades for Cardinal Pell.
Polish immigrant and retired opera singer Halinda Gad and a companion brandished banners calling Cardinal Pell a “white martyr” and equating him with a cardinal who was imprisoned for opposing communism.
He was victimized by militant liberalism and the mass media, not only in Australia but across the world, she said.
We wanted to honor him and beg God to have him appear in heaven right away because of all the suffering he endured.
Like our Polish cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, he was imprisoned twice. because the whole nation supported him and he refused to work with the Soviets.
Cardinal Wyszynski was put in jail by Poland’s communist government after World War II for aiding the nation’s anti-communist uprising.
Cardinal George Pell experienced the same thing, she said, “and he was also attacked for truth, justice, Christian principles, and decency, and he was profoundly loved by I believe all Australians.”
Prior to the funeral’s commencement, former prime ministers John Howard and Tony Abbott as well as opposition leader Peter Dutton were seen entering.
Cardinal Pell’s close friend Mr. Abbott delivered a moving eulogy during the event, arguing that he should be recognized as Australia’s second saint.
He is one of our nation’s finest sons and the best Catholic Australia has ever produced, he said.
As the High Court so emphatically said, “He should not have been prosecuted in the lack of supporting evidence and should never have been should never have been convicted in the absence of a viable case.”
The adamant Catholic ridiculed the outside demonstrators’ chants of “George Pell, go to hell” as additional evidence that the cardinal ought to be immediately canonized.
“At least they now accept the existence of an afterlife. During the liturgy, he made light of Saint George Pell’s first miracle.
Cardinal Pell should be covered in Catholic religious studies, according to Mr. Abbott, and courses and awards should be dedicated in his honor.
He said, “Just as there are for the other saints.”
“Why not the late cardinal too, who’s been just as pleasant to God, I’m sure, and has the extra virtue of being the very best of us,” someone once said. “If we may direct our prayers to Mother Teresa, Thomas A Becket, and Saint Augustine, why not the late cardinal too.”
As he approached the hearse carrying Cardinal Pell’s coffin, Mr. Abbott was greeted with a thunderous applause. He waved to the throng and proceeded to the fence to shake hands with a few mourners.
In the funeral procession, which was being led by hundreds of clergy from throughout the globe, he temporarily halted the crowd’s fervent chanting of “ave Maria.”
They were being followed by non-clergy members of the funeral party as well as Cardinal Pell’s hearse. For the funeral, they all made their way below the church.
Funeral attendees outside were able to witness the coffin being lowered into the crypt of the church through TVs.
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