{"id":910851,"date":"2026-09-30T09:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/910851\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T09:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:46:14","slug":"al-nur-cemetery-islamic-graves-allegedly-desecrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/910851\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Nur cemetery: Islamic graves allegedly desecrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney police are investigating the alleged desecration of Islamic graves in the city\u2019s south-west.<\/p>\n<p>Photos released by the Lebanese Muslim Association (LMA) show damage to multiple graves at the Al Nur cemetery in Narellan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ac0aee4b6616fa2bab7e77cc069a01061f8cda09b1e2d4e5f9a44dd9613860f3.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Police are investigating the desecration of Islamic graves at a south-west Sydney cemetery.\u00a0Lebanese Muslim Association\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p>The LMA, which owns and manages the cemetery, claimed the act of vandalism on Monday was \u201can act of hatred directed at Muslims\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is something particularly vile about targeting the dead,\u201d it said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese graves belong to mothers, fathers, grandparents, sons and daughters. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were Australians of Islamic faith who deserve the same dignity and respect as every other Australian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Graves at the site had previously been desecrated following the Bondi Beach terror attack in December 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The LMA said during an incident pigs\u2019 heads were thrown onto graves at Al Nur.<\/p>\n<p>It said it was working with police to find those responsible for the latest incident.<\/p>\n<p>The cemetery is also rolling out the installation of security cameras and extra security measures.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson told nine.com.au an investigation was under way and inquiries are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney police are investigating the alleged desecration of Islamic graves in the city\u2019s south-west. Photos released by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":910852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-910851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}