The Australian police would have been all over over the guy if he had sent mean messages on social media or didn’t get vaccinated, but, didn’t seem to have much interest in vetting an Islamist imported
Australian police say deadly Bondi Beach mass shooting was ISIS-inspired
A mass shooting in which 15 people were killed during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach was “a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State,” Australia’s federal police commissioner Krissy Barrett said Tuesday.
The suspects were a father and son, aged 50 and 24, authorities have said. The older man, whom state officials named as Sajid Akram, was shot dead. His son was being treated at a hospital.
A news conference by political and law enforcement leaders on Tuesday was the first time officials confirmed their beliefs about the suspects’ ideologies.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the remarks were based on evidence obtained, including “the presence of Islamic State flags in the vehicle that has been seized.”
So, instead of doing a deep dive on Muslims imported to Australia
Albanese announced plans to further restrict access to guns, in part because it emerged the older suspect had amassed his cache of six weapons legally.
“The suspected murderers, callous in how they allegedly co-ordinated their attack, appeared to have no regard for the age or ableness of their victims,” said Barrett. “It appears the alleged killers were interested only in a quest for a death tally.”
So, it’s the fault of the guns, not the extremist religion
The suspects travelled to the Philippines last month, said Mal Lanyon, the police commissioner for New South Wales state. Their reasons for the trip and where in the Philippines they went would be probed by investigators, Lanyon said.
He also confirmed that a vehicle removed from the scene, registered to the younger suspect, contained improvised explosive devices.
The Philippines Bureau of Immigration confirmed Tuesday that Sajid Akram travelled to the country from Nov. 1 to Nov. 28 along with Naveed Akram, 24, giving the city of Davao as their final destination. Australian authorities have not named the younger suspect.
Groups of Muslim separatist militants, including Abu Sayyaf in the southern Philippines, once expressed support for the Islamic State group and have hosted small numbers of foreign militant combatants from Asia, the Middle East and Europe in the past.
Davao is a hotbed of Islamic extremism. So, let’s ban more guns from the law abiding citizens, because the Aussie authorities did a horrendous job in vetting the men, including for the gun permit.
Israel’s Ambassador to Australia Amir Maimon visited the scene of the carnage on Tuesday and was welcomed by Jewish leaders.
“I’m not sure that my vocabulary is rich enough to express how I feel. My heart is torn apart because the Jewish community, the Australians of Jewish faith, the Jewish community is also my community,” Maimon said.
Maybe the government should do something about the Jew hatred in Australia, which is driven by the imported Islamists, rather than banning guns which are already heavily regulated and banned?
Why have things become so bad since Jan 20 2025? We won the War on Terrah, right?
There is a global war between Israel and Islam. As Dana has pointed out time and again, wars can and should continue until one side cries “uncle”. Just as the U.S. killed thousands of Japanese and German civilians during WW2; just as Russia has killed thousands of innocent Ukrainians; just as Lil Peter has killed dozens of Venezuelan boaters; and just as Israel recently killed tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians, the Islamists are killing Jewish civilians. It’s tragic and wholly unfair, but there you have it.
We always label unconventional warfare as “terrorism”. War has rules, dammit!!!
Our terrorist sympathizer from St Louis wrote:
Perhaps you meant October 7, 2023?
We’ve had the pro-Hamas and pro-Palestinian idiots out in force, demonstrating, shutting down parts of campuses, and just plain being insufferable [insert plural slang term for the anus here] ever since the failed Al-Aqsa Flood. Russia’s war on Ukraine started in 2014, when Barack Hussein Obama was President, paused for the entirety of Donald Trump’s first term, and then resumed again once the dummkopf from Delaware was in the White House.
It seems that the distinguished Mr Dowd wants to blame things which started under our 44th and 46th Presidents on our 45th and 47th President.
Are you really calling the mass shootings in Bondi “unconventional warfare”?
There’s only one rule in warfare, and that’s to win. But, if the Islamists are going to conduct their “unconventional warfare” without rules, then shouldn’t civilized men respond in kind?
What Australia needs is common sense Muslim control. Ban Muslims not guns.
Can you tell a Muslim by looking? A Jew? A Christian? A Hindu?
What you mean is to ban all absolutely, clearly non-whites.
The distinguished Mr Dowd asked what he thought was a rhetorical question:
In a lot of cases, yes, you can.
The Nazis put out posters of exaggerated ‘Jewish’ features, to get German civilians to spot Jews and turn them into the Gestapo. Ignoring that, we’ve seen Jews targeted when the men wear a kippah, and many of the ‘Palestinian’ sympathizers have taken the black-and-white keffiyeh as a matter of dress and distinction. Sikhs wear turbans, many Arabs wear Middle Eastern robes, and liberal women wear nose rings. Christians sometimes wear crucifixes.
So no. A Muslim could fool you by wearing a cross necklace.
Sajid Akram (50), now dead, was from Hyderabad India and had married a Christian woman. He lived in Australia for 27 years. His son, Naveed (24) is an Australian citizen, now in critical conditional.
Both father and son spent most of Nov in the Philippines. Naveed was previously investigated over ties to a Sydney-based ISIS terrorism cell.
ISIS would never have been birthed if the USA had not invaded and occupied Iraq. Now we have a former ISIS leader being a guest at Trump’s white House we invaded one of the few secular nations and that caused radical islam to grow. ISIS would have been squashed by Saddam
A.S.S.
“if the USA had not invaded and occupied Iraq…”
Iraq was invaded on the belief that it had weapons of mass destruction.
“if the USA had not invaded and occupied Iraq…”
“It is not a political ‘gotcha’ issue. It is a serious issue of ‘How you can come to a conclusion that is not matched in the future?'”
Other countries’ intelligence agencies shared the U.S. conclusion that Iraq had stockpiled such weapons, though most disagreed with the United States about how best to respond.
Asked if Iraq posed an imminent threat to the United States at the time of the invasion, Kay said, “Based on the intelligence that existed, I think it was reasonable to reach the conclusion that Iraq posed an imminent threat.”
The problem began AFTER the invasion when Bush et al decided to play country maker instead of just walking away.
https://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/01/25/sprj.nirq.kay/