If it was a false flag it wasn't well thought through and backfired badly. I thought it was initially.

Wasn't a false flag incident.

Normally after a case of this size, there is a tendency to introduce new laws which take away our liberties “under the guise of improving your safety”.

Funny that the budget blowout, a GST increase, the Fed Govt down in the dumps, with Senate knocking everything back, is also occurring.

Also funny that G20 was just here too…..

As a side issue, no one has worked out Angeline Jolie was here the same weekend as G20, yet has connections to a de-populate the earth body known as the Council of Foreign Relations, and how she has been defamed in the “Sony Leaks” stuff of late. But most people can’t see past the “visual beauty of her”.

Normally after a case of this size, there is a tendency to introduce new laws which take away our liberties “under the guise of improving your safety”.

Funny that the budget blowout, a GST increase, the Fed Govt down in the dumps, with Senate knocking everything back, is also occurring.

Also funny that G20 was just here too…..

As a side issue, no one has worked out Angeline Jolie was here the same weekend as G20, yet has connections to a de-populate the earth body known as the Council of Foreign Relations, and how she has been defamed in the “Sony Leaks” stuff of late. But most people can’t see past the “visual beauty of her”.

So turns out the guy had a gun licence.

Opinion: Why does Islam beget violence?
ANDREW BOLT THE COURIER-MAIL DECEMBER 17, 2014 12:00AM

MAN Haron Monis couldn’t have done more to make the deaf hear that the terror he unleashed in Sydney was in the name of Islam.

As he walked into the Lindt Chocolate Cafe with his shotgun on Monday he wore a headband bearing the war cry: “We are ready to sacrifice for you, O Muhammad.”

The Iranian-born cleric had already fought for Islam by sending jeering letters to the families of Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

On his Facebook page he’d posted jihadist porn and pledged his allegiance to the bloody caliphate of ISIS.

And in that coffee shop on Monday he conscripted his terrified hostages at gunpoint into his personal jihad.

He ordered some to hold up against the window a black Shahada flag announcing: “There is no God but Allah; Mohammed is the Messenger of Allah.”

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He made videos of three of them reciting his demands, which included ordering police to fetch him an ISIS flag, and broadcast this explanation: “This is an attack on Australia by Islamic State.”

Then he killed two captives.

I don’t know how much more explicit Monis could have been. And I don’t know how more wilfully deaf some people can be.

“Cops still baffled by gunman’s motivations,” AAP reported yesterday.

The Age, in one long online news report on the terror attack, avoided any use of the words “Islam” or “Muslim”.

ABC reporters and commentators, especially on Radio National, babbled how this unfortunate episode had nothing to do with Islam, given Monis was clearly crazy.

Islamic groups claimed nothing in their faith licensed this ghastly attack and Monis’s former lawyer, Manny Conditsis, summed up this deep evasion in an interview with the ABC: “Yes, he said he was of the Islam faith but he could have been any other damaged individual that did what he did.”

Except, of course, we rarely get damaged individuals killing people in chocolate shops in the name of Buddha. We don’t get damaged individuals beheading a British soldier in the name of Christ.

We didn’t get damaged individuals shooting a Canadian soldier guarding Canada’s cenotaph, or plotting bombings of our MCG, or trying to blow up jets with the explosives in their shoes or their underwear in the name of any faith other than Islam.

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True, Monis seemed crazy. True, crazy people of all kinds kill and do not need a faith to make them pull a trigger – as we saw at Port Arthur.

Yet are the apologists really trying to dismiss the faith of Monis as just a coincidence?

Must we always feign this surprise when a terrorist is found to be – gasp – Muslim? Surely we can drop this absurd game given 21 of the 21 people jailed for terrorism offences here in the past couple of decades were all Muslim, as are 19 of the 20 proscribed terrorist groups in Australia.

Surely we’re entitled to conclude something specific to Islam seems to license violence, given we have just as many Buddhists here as Muslims, yet not one Buddhist has killed here for his faith.

Yes, Monis was not a rational man, which I suspect is true of so many other notorious Islamist killers.

The question is: What would Christianity have inspired Monis to do? Preach Armageddon at some street corner? Now ask what Islam, as interpreted by a minority of extremists, whispered in Monis’s ear.

Whisper? It shouted. As Monis’s lawyer conceded yesterday: “His ideology is just so strong and so powerful that it clouds his vision for common sense and objectiveness.”

The ideology Monis followed was inspired in large part by Islamic scriptures that urge believers to “kill the polytheists wherever you find them” and exhorts “so when you meet those who disbelieve (in battle), strike (their) necks”.

We’re told, as always, that those who take seriously such passages in the Koran and Hadith are a tiny, unrepresentative minority.

But wait. The Sydney Morning Herald reports Monis had more than 14,000 “likes” on Facebook and a Muslim community leader asked by counterterrorism authorities to find the ISIS flag Monis demanded said: “I found plenty of people who had one, but they didn’t want to give them up.”

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So why this denial about Islam – and specifically about its role in this attack?

For the authorities it is about public order. They fear reprisals against Muslims and also do not wish to alienate the overwhelming majority of peaceful Muslims here whose help they need against radicals.

For the Left more generally, to admit the latent threat in Islam would be to question disastrous Leftist programs that have left this country more exposed to political violence – particularly our too-lax immigration programs, multiculturalism and the much-rorted “refugee” programs that let in Monis in 1996. It is also to seem unkind.

But the denial, the racism of the anti-racists, it all must end.

The elements are shocking, true. But Islam contains a strong streak of violence and intolerance of other creeds. Mass immigration from the Middle East has left us in greater danger than before. Muslim leaders were recklessly slow to help fight extremism in their doctrine and their followers, including the mad.

And by screaming “racist” rather than allow debate, our academics, commentators and politicians deafened us to the warnings until it was too late.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/opinion/opinion-why-does-islam-beget-violence/story-fnihsr9v-1227158640432


Probably saying what lots are thinking

I hate Bolt, but on this occasion a lot of what he says is hard to argue with. I'm sure he enjoyed typing it. It's nice that he at least tried to acknowledge that there are Muslims who are not a problem (even if he did say it in such a way as to imply that we only need to be nice to them because they can help us with those who are a problem).

I would take him to task on one major issue though... His suggestion that these sorts of things don't happen in the name of Christianity... Perhaps if he put his thinking hat on he could remember all the shit Christians pulled on each other in Ireland in the 70s-90s (a civil war of sorts, but clearly drawn along religious lines and justified by their faith that they were doing God's work); ditto the ethnic cleansing on Muslims in Bosnia by, wait, surely not Christians - in the name of the Lord; or the relatively recent Christian genocide of Muslims in Rwanda... Hey ho, no worry though... It's only Islamic fundamentalists we need to concern ourselves with.

Prepare for tighter gun laws.

But you know bolta , if it doesnt fit in his argument he glosses over it . Ive read his blog and I must say their are some really fucked up people out there

Prepare for tighter gun laws.

They're not bleeding hearts.

Bleeding heart white guilt rhetoric would be to say that the gunman was a "victim as well". Nobody is saying that.

People were obviously fearful that a group of bogans could easily harass and/or abuse an innocent muslim woman on public transport as a result of this. Its happened before and it was a genuine concern.

This is not an example of lefty white guilt. Its actually a sign of a more mature society.

Harassing innocent muslims is probably the worst thing someone could do to tackle the problem of radicalised islam.