The War Comes to Australia

EPA_man_haron_monis_jtm_141215_16x9_992The hostage saga in Sydney ended in dramatic fashion yesterday as Australian police and SWAT teams stormed a downtown café after a 16-hour standoff with armed hostage taker, Man Haron Monis. Monis, identified as a Muslim cleric with a criminal record that included sexual assault and accessory to murder, was killed during the operation as were two hostages, identified as a male and female in their 30s.

Monis, an Iranian national, requested refugee status and asylum in Australia in 1996 and sought to repay Australia’s benevolence by engaging in a vituperative letter-writing campaign directed at the families of fallen Australian soldiers who served in Afghanistan. The letters, in which Monis expresses opposition to the war in Afghanistan, refers to the fallen soldiers as “pigs” and compares them to Hitler. Australian authorities charged him with “using a postal or similar service to menace, harass or cause offense [sic]” for which he received a relatively mild sentence of 300 hours of community service.

Australian police ought to be commended for their efficiency and professionalism in quickly subduing the terrorist and preventing more bloodshed, yet the incident raises more questions than it answers. How was a man with such a shady past, with no viable means of supporting himself, who was charged with such serious crimes, allowed to walk on bail and why was his refugee status not revoked? These are questions that the Australian justice system and immigration authorities will have to grapple with in the coming days.

More problematic is how the Australian government will seek to label this incident. Monis’s former lawyer sought to distance his ex-client from any connection to Islamic terrorism, noting that Monis’s actions reflected those of a “random individual” and were not reflective of a “concerted terrorism event or act.” His lawyer’s comments will surely be echoed by Australia’s Muslim community as well as its multiculturalist amen corner.

But the facts of this case dictate other, more malevolent conclusions that point toward radical Islam. Monis was a radical Islamist who espoused the ideologies of the Islamic State. During the hostage standoff, he issued demands that demonstrated unyielding devotion to Islam. He insisted that authorities provide him with an ISIS flag and that the government officially label the incident an ISIS attack. Monis also forced his terrified victims to display an Islamic shahada flag in both the window of the café and in the numerous videos released of hostages relaying messages.

Australia has not been immune from the scourge of radical Islam currently sweeping across multicultural Europe. It is a liberal democracy that unwittingly plays host to radical Islamists who have taken advantage of Australia’s liberal democratic character to advance their pernicious schemes.

On September 18, Australian security forces thwarted a plan by Australian Muslims to kidnap and behead Australian citizens in public and drape their bodies in an Islamic State flag. And on December 15, Australian authorities charged two Muslim terrorists with providing funding for Australian Muslims seeking to fight with ISIS.

Monis was not a lone wolf as some would have us believe. There comes a point when collectively, so-called lone wolf attacks must be viewed as coordinated strikes, actively encouraged by fundamentalist ideologies. Those who claim otherwise, who refuse to acknowledge the obvious and absurdly label these attacks as acts of “work place violence” or “random acts of violence,” are being disingenuous and placing politics above the needs of national security.

Whether it is a shooting spree at Fort Hood, a beheading in Woolwich, a bloodbath at a Jerusalem synagogue or, as in this case, a hostage standoff and murder, these incidents and countless others too numerous to mention, represent nothing short of an attack on Western civilization. The attackers may not have known each other but were nevertheless inspired and guided by the same radical Islamist ideology, an ideology that seeks to dominate, subjugate and restore Islam to the same standing it experienced some 1,000 years ago.

This radical ideology easily spreads like a virus through 21st century mediums like Facebook and Twitter but also finds home in the mosques and madrassas of the Middle East and the West where Muslim clerics routinely call for the murder of Jews and annihilation of Western civilization. Unfortunately, many in the West, in the name of multiculturalism and tolerance, have preferred to ignore this malevolence and have allowed it to metastasize like a malignant cancer.

So long as Western governments continue to bury their collective heads in the sand, fail to draw the necessary conclusions and take decisive action, we can unfortunately expect more future tragedies like that which just occurred in Sydney.

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  • drygoldfeld

    The war is already in Australia when a person accused of so many transgressions is not incarcerated and when the Prime Minister tries
    to explain the motives of this miscreant by alleging that he had mental
    problems .

    • Paul Austin Murphy

      That *he-had-mental-problems* mantra is all too frequent nowadays.
      It was used about the Canadian murder, as well as about the one in
      Woolwich.

      Non-Muslim Islamophiles generally see it in definitional terms: if he kills/bombs someone, he must be mad.

      The Left, on the other hand, blame Islamic terror on poverty, imperialism, colonialism, the Balfour Declaration, global warming….
      *anything*.

      …. Anything other than Islam itself. This too is a definitional assumption and it is essentially Marxist in nature.

      Islam is always and every time excused of having anything to do with anything negative or violent. Yet is is deemed as having everything to do with everything positive and non-violent. In the former case, Islam is a mere epiphenomenon of social conditions. It’s not fundamental or even relevant at all. Islam is simply Marx’s “sigh of the oppressed creature”.

      Ether way, the violence is either the result of mental illness or socio-political conditions. Islam, as ever, gets off scot free. And the longer our rulers pretend to believe this, the worse the situation is going to become. They are denying the truth of the matter for political reasons; though also sometimes for reasons of moral and political piety.

      • phoebeintheforest

        Over 100 years ago, Churchill said that Islam is to the human mind what rabies is to the dog.

        • Ray Burke

          No greater truth has ever been uttered !!!

        • DP111

          “How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities – but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.”

          —Sir Winston Churchill, from The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).

        • DP111

          And
          “I studied the Kuran a great deal … I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammed. As far as I can see, it is the principal cause of the decadence so visible today in the Muslim world, and, though less absurd than the polytheism of old, its social and political tendencies are in my opinion infinitely more to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress in relation to paganism itself.”

          -Alexis de Tocqueville

          • http://www.stubbornthings.org NAHALKIDES

            Excellent.

        • toooldsmart

          phoebeintheforest/ UNLEASHED POWER can do the same thing. Look at the WH!

      • Del_Varner

        I’m not sure of the customs in Iran, but from what I can read it seems that in Arab speaking countries there is a great emphasis in marrying in ones own family–first cousin marriages. Over time I have to think that this has severely degraded the gene pool

      • muchiboy

        If a mentally ill/disturbed terrorist with Islamic influences/intentions describes a subset of such individuals who commit random or targeted acts of violence so be it.We do not believe in a conspiracy to kill school children in American schools but rather argue that many of these individuals are disturbed or have some mental illness.While we may even claim they are evil or suffer from a behavioral malfunction,we are wrong to include the relevant factors,motives and agenda.
        Islamism,and for that matter Zionism,are not without a lot of ethical baggage.

        • Paul Austin Murphy

          Sorry, I’m not being funny; but that is extremely badly written. I don’t understand what’s being said. Is English your first language or are you an academic?

          What has this to do with Zionism? (I note that all your Disqus comments refer to “Zionism” or “Zionists”.)

          Rewrite and then re-post it; otherwise I don’t know what to say.

          • muchiboy

            Sorry if I didn’t make myself clear.
            To describe a number of these individuals,e.g.both individuals who murdered Canadian soldiers recently,and the person who held the Australians hostage,as mentally ill terrorists with Islamic leanings or influences,is fitting.It suitably describes their motives and agenda.It distinguishes them from,say,Al Qaeda operatives,or the Taliban,Palestinian Suicide Bombers or even ISIS/ISIL.This doesn’t preclude the presence of such disturbed individuals fighting in the ranks of Al Qaeda,etc.
            As to Islam being inherently vile,many causes,”isms”,etc.,including Zionism,have flaws,or have their own agenda’s corrupted by its followers.
            Many of my posts/rants are Anti Zionist because the occupation of the Palestinian Homeland and the sequalae of displacement and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian People had it’s roots in Zionism.Palestine was effectively colonized by Zionists and the Diaspora,ignoring the Palestinian Jews,who have occupied their Homeland since ancient times.I frequently distinguish between “Zionist Israel” and “Israel”.
            I hope you now understand,if not agree,with my position.

          • HardRocker111

            Right, because Arabs and Islam never occupied “Palestine” and other territories in their history.

          • muchiboy

            Your denial is disturbing and frightful,it being similar in motive and agenda to Holocaust Denial.Perhaps it stems from a sense of Entitlement,or perhaps from not knowing the meanings of Occuption,Displacement or Ethnic Cleansing.More likely,it is simple Arrogence,and all Zionists,their supporters and many in the Diaspora suffer from it,vis-a-vis the Palestinian Nakba.

    • toedeladoki

      correct, moslimes have a mental problem, it shows every hour of the day, but we are to stupid to admit it.

    • swemson

      How many random acts of individual violence committed by young muslim males against not-muslims do we need to see before we can add them all up and call them what they are…? Haw many does it take to make an established pattern of violent terrorism by muslims against non-muslims?

    • BS77

      Advice to governments of the West….Deport potential trouble makers, start revoking citizenship, cancel and deny visas, confiscate passports and put security FIRST …..DENY entrance …if there is any doubt about an individual’s mental fitness or behavior…., DO NOT ALLOW THEM INTO YR COUNTRY. ….If they are already in country, DEPORT them.

    • toooldsmart

      dry We have a so called president with mental problems and WE the PEOPLE are doing what?

  • Paul M.

    Amazingly it has encouraged an ‘I’ll sit with you campaign’ which means that Islamic women who want to distant themselves from any anti-Muslim thinking by removing any head-covering, are being encouraged by non-Muslim women to keep wearing it as we in Australia are so tolerant in our multicultural thinking. Rather than, this is the last straw, the Koran encourages violence.

  • EileenRight

    The terrorist is a Muslim who stated his cause was for Islam. Muslims cheered him. In Australia, Muslims protest against the flying of Australia’s flag, protest against celebrating Christmas and threaten people with beheadings.. Thank goodness this hostage taking had nothing to do with Islam. (sarcasm)

    • Michael Garfinkel

      The “I’ll sit with you” campaign is a gesture of womanly cowardice.

      Given the attitude of the government and the chattering classes, this is not unexpected.

      It is not generally understood, but it is true all the same; reactions of this nature ignite Muslim contempt – and invite greater atrocities.

      • Well Done

        The British showed us well over a century ago, how to deal with Islam. Destroy it utterly. Yes, use pig’s blood and other such Islamist phobias against them… but, primarily, destroy them.

        • Ray Burke

          You are absolutely correct, Well Done !!! Total destruction is our only viable option !!!

      • nightspore

        In fact it’s not just “Muslim contempt” – it’s natural human contempt (in this case on the part of Muslims) for this combination of cowardice and falseness.

        • Michael Garfinkel

          Yes, of course, but it is the contempt of the Islamists that is of immediate concern.

  • muchiboy

    Like a number of your articles,this one cleverly combines elements of truth with more hysterical-like rantings.I think we can all agree here that when this individual began his harassment campaign against the families of serving members of the Australian Forces,steps should have been taken to return him to where he came from,refugee status or not.Of course,this would depend on legislation/regulations.
    It is worth noting that in America a certain Christian Right Church similarly harassed Families of Serving and Fallen members.They were not successfully prosecuted,to my knowledge.I believe it was said that it was “their right” to demonstrate.Maybe you should look in your own back yard.

    You certainly can’t miss/ignore that most or all of these horrific acts were carried out by Muslims,European converts or not.But neither can you dismiss any history of criminality or mental illness.This only adds to the complexity of motive and/or agenda.
    I do not know if we can have a reasoned debate with the likes of ISIS/ISIL.There is no question of a reasoned debate with the likes of criminals and /or the mentally or socially disturbed in the context of such violence.Where we ought to have a reasoned debate is around Zionist crimes and sins against the Palestinian People,and the failure of Zionists and the Diaspora and their Western supporters to acknowledge such ongoing injustices,and resolve the conflict in a fair and just manner.Both People,Jews and Palestinians,deserve to live in Peace and Security,preferably under one roof.
    One of the benefits of both Israel and the West moving toward a just reconciliation with the Palestinians would be that the Islamic world and communities might see Israel and her Western supporters in a new light,indeed,as them reaching out to the Muslim/Arab world through their Palestinian Brothers and Sisters.Much of the resentment and actions against the West can be traced back to Western support for Zionist Israel,and not without good reason.Israeli intransigence here has only increased that resentment.
    Israel should be ashamed of its part here,but like its denial of any part played in the Palestinian Nakba,its arrogance and guilt is shameless.

    • Well Done

      Interesting. Compare an obviously, admitted, tiny minority of Christians harassing returning soldiers with Yet Another Moslem mass killing. You’re an idiot. That much is obvious. Your sniveling about “Zionist crimes and sins against palestinians” shows just how much of an idiot you are. Islam is THE problem in today’s world. You’re part of that problem, Hadji.

      • nobullhere

        Not only today’s world, but the world for the last 1,400 years. Europe and the West has been on Islam’s radar since 676 AD when they first besieged Constantinople, and if we don’t watch it, they may well get their wish to destroy Western civilization and culture within the next 100 years, and all because we let them in and coddled them, regardless of the evil they did to us.

    • StanleyT

      Muchiboy, you haven’t changed. You still believe in fairy tales. As if Israel’s willingness to commit suicide would endear her to any of her enemies. As if Israel is the cause of all the world’s woes. Why not blame Israel for the deaths today of all those Pakistani children.
      You’re as ridiculous as you’ve ever been.

      • muchiboy

        I don’t expect Israel to committ suicide.I do expect Zionist Israel to acknowledge occupation and de facto ethnic cleansing.That would be a necessary,if not welcomed,(from a Zionist perspective),beginning.From there,who knows? Yes,there are risks for Jews ,like there was Nakba for Palestinians.Those who experienced either Holocaust or Nakba should know the pain of the other.That sensitivity and shared history/suffering can be an advantage when negotiiating any settlement.They say what doesn’t kill you,……….
        The road toward a One State Solution begins with those first few steps,and perhaps a kind of path can be laid if such a laudable goal is to be contemplated,and later realized,sooner or later.
        Israel has certainly contribued to the suffering of millions of Arabs,caused instability in the region,and had advere effects on the West,from Saudi oil embargos to atttacks on the West,including 911.
        As to blaming Israel for the deaths of those children,well,I would,if I could,but I can’t.

        • Space Cowboy

          Muchiboy, why are you ignoring the reality that Muslims are waging jihad, not only against the Jewish infidels in Israel, but also against all infidels in the world? As the violent jihad attack in Australia yesterday clearly demonstrates? Hence, all infidels in the world, including the Jewish infidels in Israel you have been so inculcated to hate, are all in the same boat. It’s us against them.

          Yet like a myopic moonbat with thick blinders on you only want to destroy the Jewish infidels in Israel. Can we say you are more than just a little mentally deranged? Yes we can! Of course, like all other mentally deranged moonbats, it’s not you who is mentally deranged but all those who support the Jewish infidels in Israel that are mentally deranged. You, on the other hand, are perfectly sane. Seek mental help for your severe mental problems you severely unhinged moonbat!

    • St. Ferd III

      Either you are a fascist cult member of Submission, or another witless worm of a Dhimmi. Either way you are a disgrace. Moslems have murdered 150 million Christians over 1400 years; and have eradicated Christianity in its birthplace. Grow up little boy.

      • Well Done

        The only “legit” moslem holy cities are Mecca and Medina. Every other “moslem holy place” was a holy place of the indigenous religion. Moslem hordes moved in, and when there were enough of them, they demanded that site as a moslem holy place. If needed, moslem clerics would declare Jihad for it. In this way, over the centuries, indigenous religions have been vanquished by Islam. Look up the history of it. The only legit moslem country is Saudi Arabia. The rest are the result of military conquest. Only when Islam ran up against the British Empire, was Islam stopped. Funny coincidence, now, the UK is reduced to a fraction of its former strength. Another successful oppoent of Islamist Imperialism is now being weakened from within. We call her America. One wonders what people will live like in the year 2100 if America is as weakened as Britain is now.

        • Jack Diamond

          Mecca and Medina were conquered as well, Medina was largely Jewish and Muhammad began the extinction of Jewish life in Arabia, which had existed a thousand years. The migration to Medina and its colonization by Muslims is the model for all Islamic migration to the lands of the kaffir. Nothing about Islam is legit, certainly not “Saudi” Arabia.

          Some hadiths promise this however: “Faith will crawl back to the Madina like a snake crawls back to its
          hole. By Him who holds my soul in His hand, people will leave their religion in throngs just as they entered it in throngs. Islam will crawl back to the land of Hejaz like a snake crawls back to its hole, or like a herd of wild goats huddling on top of a mountain … Islam began a stranger and will return a stranger.”

    • UCSPanther

      Palestine isn’t going to survive the 21st century, and people like you will be remembered as fools…

      • muchiboy

        What “Palestine” are we talking about? Occupied Palestine? The West Bank? Gaza?

        • UCSPanther

          All of it will be gone…

          • muchiboy

            And the Palestinians? Where will they be? And the Israelis? Mind you,one can hope that the entire region will be very different,in a good way,from today.The region is irrevocably Muslim,but a resolution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict will benefit the neighborhood and region immensely.Imagine,being able to drive unhindered and without anxiety on holiday throughout the neighborhood. Prayers for it being so.

  • cerberus

    Libertarians would wish that tolerance and freedom of speech be extended to all without qualification.Yet can the “civilised” world do that and ever hope to survive when that tolerance can be so readily turned to powerful advantage by those imbued with intolerance in every fibre of their being? That intolerance is born of the nurture of hatred from their very youngest years with the express aim of turning them forever into foot soldiers of a fascist political ideology bent on world domination and subjugation, and little else.

  • Tradecraft46

    These acts spring from the views of the Muslim community. Being communal religion lone wolfery is tolerated.

    I am sure many whinging Muslims, are actually proud and would help anyone doing the same.

  • Hard Little Machine

    When you start acting like the people you claim to be fleeing FROM as a ‘refugee’ then the law should send you back. Period.

    • Well Done

      Our refugee laws are incredibly stupid. Don’t put it past Islamists to “frame” one of their own so as to get them into our countries.

  • St. Ferd III

    Islam is war. Islam is Jihad. Islam is murder. Islam is rape. Nazism = Islam. This shrieking idiot Sheik is just the latest acolyte of mad Muhammad to have read and completely understand the purpose of Mein Koran.

    • muchiboy

      Islam is like most religions.The problem is not the religion,it is the leaders,adherents and practioners.Schisms must be healed,and should have been resolved by now within Islam.These aspects of Islam must be dragged,kicking and screaming,if need be,into Modernity,preferably by their own communities.

      • Atikva

        islam is not and never was a religion, it’s another totalitarian ideology.

        • nightspore

          1. They believe in god, so it’s a religion.
          2. it’s a peculiarly extreme and intolerant form of religion, as reflected in the major texts. Unlike Christianity – where the excesses, say during the 14-17th centuries, can be said to have violated the basic precepts (Inquisition torturing doesn’t sound like “love thine enemies” to me), Muslim extremists like Monis seem to be acting in perfect concert with the basic precepts. So ‘reforming’ Islam may not be in the cards – and in the past “reformation” has always meant reverting to extreme forms like Al Qaeda and ISIS, in keeping with the basic precepts.

          • Atikva

            A religion doesn’t consist solely in the belief in the existence of some entity perceived as divine, it caters to man’s spiritual needs in his attempt to unite with his Creator. It certainly cannot be used as an excuse for those who indulge their perverse impulse to dominate the rest of humanity.

            The coran offers a set of very profane rules (including that which determines the way one must relieve oneself!), aiming at establishing the very secular domination of a few rulers over the muslim masses, to be used as cannon fodder for the conquest of the rest of the world. It’s a users’ manual for predators like the so-called prophet who inspired it. That doesn’t qualify islam as a religion. If it were, then communism and national-socialism would also be called “religions” (which actually they sometimes are), with Marx, Hitler, Lenin or Mao Tse Tung as their prophets.

            How could any religion worthy of the name take its inspiration from an ignorant, cruel, liar, murderous, treacherous, depraved camel thief and try to emulate his appalling deeds?

          • nightspore

            1. It appears that people on the Left aren’t the only ones that have difficulties with diversity. You’re essentially expressing what I would call a suburban view of religion and morality. In this respect there is a deep similarity between your views and this “I’ll sit with you” campaign; in both cases there is an inability to come to terms with a certain portion of reality (although, of course, your ‘coping strategy’ is a much healthier one),

            I would even go so far as to say that there is a genuine vision of God in Islam (“emerging from the barren sands of Arabia” as one writer put it [I'm quoting from memory]) – but it is so great and terrible that it drives its adherents mad.

            2. Many people basically use words not to clarify the events and objects of the world but to enshrine their attitudes, especially in situations like this. That’s what you seem to be doing.

          • Atikva

            I don’t know whether many people’s words “basically” fail to “clarify the objects and events of
            the world“, but yours are definitely wading
            through molasses. Yet it is still early in the morning!

        • kiwi41

          It seems to be morphing into a mental disease, the human version of rabies.

          The results of 13 or so centuries of inbreeding ?

          Whatever, it needs totally exterminating , by ANY means.

  • Pepe Turcon

    Mossad should teach the CIA a few tricks like how to waterboard “one last time”

    • muchiboy

      Demonstrates the distinction between a true lliberal democracy like America and a Zionist (flawed) democracy.

      • Atikva

        There we go again, another beautiful example of an islamo-socialist ignoramus…

        For starters, democracy is not a leftist attribute. It is not true or false, it reflects the will of the majority, whatever direction it takes, whether “liberal”, “conservative” or “center”.

        And there is practically no “democracy” in America anymore. The country has been taken over by an islamo-socialist group of thugs who have gutted the old democrat party several decades ago so that they may perform safely under its name without raising suspicion. Over 70 of them openly belong to that group in our Congress, not to mention their totem dictator-in-chief. Following the pattern of other totalitarian ideologies, they came to power by fraudulent means and have asserted their grip over the useless idiots (of which you are a perfect example) by means of a mountain of fallacies, myths, slogans and ridiculous and shameless lies – among which the “palestinian” myth. They show the most complete disregard for “We the people”, our Constitution and our History.

        As to Israel, where obviously you have never set foot, suffice
        to say that the Israeli people would never have allowed their government to trample their rights and ignore their will, as we do, they would have dismissed it at the first attempt to do so. They are the ones who enjoy a real democratic government.

        Which is one of the reasons why about 75% of us in America support Israel, to the great chagrin of our government that would like nothing better than to destroy this great little country. Tough luck, they will not succeed.

  • tagalog

    Why is it somehow significant that this was a “lone wolf’ attack? The mainstream view seems to say, as the commentary points out, that if it’s a “lone wolf” attack it’s a “random act of violence” and not “a concerted terrorism event or act.”

    But how many “concerted terrorism event or act(s)” have occurred? 9/11? Any others? Aren’t nearly all terrorist attacks one-time one-place events, often with one actor? Why is an attack by an individual any less of a terrorist act, except that it’s more localized?

    • nightspore

      Exactly. I’m perfectly happy with the “lone wolf” description – but not with the implications that the MSM and others of that ilk are drawing from this.

      But then everyone is really out of their depth on this – note how the article speaks at one point of “coordinated strikes”, while in the next paragraph the author says, “The attackers may not have known each other but were nevertheless inspired and guided by the same radical Islamist ideology”. But the latter (which I agree with) means that the strikes don’t have to be coordinated. All you need, apparently, is a ‘common pool’ of attitudes plus communication, copycating, and other not-well-understood features.

      Now that I’ve said all this, I’m not happy with the description of the attacker as a “lone wolf”. Monis acted alone but he wasn’t “lone”; he was part of a vast social movement – that he was connected to in many ways.

      • JayWye

        “single actor” is more accurate. he’s still “part of the play”.

  • verneoz

    This is a another case of state sponsored political correctness: The progressives’ method to destroy free and democratic states via death by a thousand cuts.

  • Cappy1437

    How could he possibly be a lone wolf when there is a whole cyberspace networking of jihad terrorism going on?

  • http://www.clarespark.com/ Clare Spark

    We are defeated by the human rights movement and its corollary “cultural relativism.” See http://clarespark.com/2014/03/13/what-is-cultural-relativism/. “What is cultural relativism.” It is the same as identity politics and multiculturalism, while opposed to the Samuel Huntington thesis “the clash of civilizations.”

  • Lanna

    Its in Europe and coming to America too, so get ready for the real change of Jihad on American streets.

  • Ray Burke

    The liberal mindset at work !!!

  • Red Baker

    If the perp says it’s an Islamist attack, it is. Same if he says Muslim war cries. Despite what the lamestream says, the vast majority knows exactly what these are. The deniers are just letting the rest of us know they are useful idiots.

  • JVR

    At what point does an “Iranian national” stop being an Iranian national.

    He left Iran in 1996, was invited into Australia as a refugee, and has been living in Australia for 18 years. I think he is Australian, and that Iran should not be blamed for this.

    • Julius O’Mallet

      He wasn’t invited.

      • JVR

        Oh yes, he was invited. He arrived claiming refugee status, and that was duly granted. That granting of his legal status in Australia is no different from you inviting a stranger who arrived at your door into your home.

        He was invited. And he is not Iranian, anymore.

        • Julius O’Mallet

          The key words are “he arrived”, ie uninvited, smuggled here by “snakeheads” who charge $10,000 a head to get economic migrants from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc to Indonesia. And thence to Australia.

          “That granting of his legal status in Australia is no different from you inviting a stranger who arrived at your door into your home.”

          Not a single sane person would agree with the above statement of yours. Look up “invitation” or “invited” in a dictionary, if English isn’t your first language. And if it is, God help you.

          • JVR

            Australia approved him as a legal resident. He was NOT deported. He was integrated into Australian society as a New Australian.

            What part of this don’t you get?

    • JayWye

      you can take the man out of Iran,but you can’t take the Iran out of the man.

      OR…. replace “Iran” with “Islam”.

  • nimbii

    Our leaders feel If the west declares war on Islam, then they take on the entire Muslim world, good and bad.

    Not sure if that’s the same thing as the old cliche “boiling the ocean.” But it’s a pretty big bite.

    Could be by surgical descriptions of incidents, they’re hoping to surgically remove the more militant elements one-by-one and let the weaker elements die off without a WWIII initiative.

  • kiwi41

    Here’s a question for the cowardly, raghead sympathizing scum controlling the police snipers who didn’t have it shot when it was in the f*****g window.

    Why the delay, and then a blundering storming operation that cost the lives of two Australian citizens? It looked like amateur hour.

    Some of the hostages were talking to their families during the standoff, and could have ( and maybe even did ? ) advise that the POS didn’t have a ” dead man switch/trigger ) in his hand.

    Immediately you have a POS like that in your sights , kill it, no negotiations.

    • JayWye

      the muzzie stood HOSTAGES in front of the windows,and rotated them out for others when they got tired. he used the hostages as Human shields. At night,he turned off the lights in the shop. NV scopes can’t tell who is who accurately enough.

      • kiwi41

        h yeah, have a look at the ” J_i_h -a-d W-a-c_h ” D_a_ily D_ig-e-st for 12/17 2014, Sydney hostage taker was not on terrorist watch list.”

        Can’t post links here.

        Look at the photo of the POS. The PC controlled cowards delayed killing it, hoping they could take the POS alive , screw the risk to the hostages

        Police are 100% to blame.

        • NSNZ

          “It” claimed to be primed & ready to go BOOM! Did you not smell the fear in the hostages.

  • kiwi41

    An excellent summation.

  • GSR

    The war has come to Australia because Australia, like 99% of all “Western” (read: Judeo-Christian, Caucasian countries) has opened immigration to Muslims.
    It’s the immigration, stupid.

    • NSNZ

      Absolutely!

  • nicolaisennels

    “Danish state tv on German anti-Islam demonstration with 15,000 participants: “Thousands of ordinary Germans. It was the German middle class, who demonstrated today””
    http://10news.dk/danish-state-tv-on-german-anti-islam-demonstration-with-15000-participants-thousands-of-ordinary-germans-it-was-the-german-middle-class-who-demonstrated-today/

  • nicolaisennels

    “Psychology: Why Islam creates monsters”
    http://10news.dk/psychology-why-islam-creates-monsters/

  • Space Cowboy

    I hate to rain on Ari Lieberman’s parade here, but the jihad just didn’t arrive in Australia yesterday. It’s been ongoing for decades! As all Muslims in the world, including all Muslim migrants living in Australia and, indeed, throughout the infidel world today, are all jihadists in one form or another waging stealth jihad intentionally non-violently by design and on purpose in this specific case for the strategic purposes of mass Muslim infiltration of our governments, Islamization of our societies, and for eventual demographic conquest.

    For the most part, Muslims living here in the infidel world do not wage jihad violently because waging jihad violently over here isn’t feasible. Since it would quickly be eradicated and the Muslim infiltrators would also get quickly sent back from whence they came. Hence, they wage jihad intentionally non-violently and by stealth and deception. Apparently, so stealthy and deceptively that even ole Ari here obviously isn’t even aware of it.

    Now on occasion, a mentally deranged Muslim or a recent Muslim convert with a chip already on his shoulder will wage jihad violently in the West, but nonetheless overall violent jihad for the most part in the infidel world is avoided for the above cited reason.

    I’m sorry but the notion that the Muslim in Australia was a radicalized Muslim that resorted to terrorism, is a PC multicultural farce. First of all, Muslims don’t kill innocent civilian infidels in cold-blood like terrorists do because they are terrorists too. Instead, they kill innocent civilian infidels in cold-blood because they are waging a jihad against all infidels in the world to ultimately make Islam and its adherent’s supreme, and because innocent civilian infidels happen to make the easiest targets, then that’s who they primarily target and kill.

    Indeed, the problem doesn’t consist of a tiny minority of radical Muslim extremists perpetrating terrorism here and there. Instead, the problem is far more profound than that because it involves ALL MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD. Since waging jihad, which is a sort of so-called holy war waged by ALL MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD against ALL INFIDELS IN THE WORLD in the cause of Allah to ultimately make Islam and its followers supreme, is a fundamental holy obligation COMPULSORY for ALL MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD in one form or another. Either of the violent variety (a tiny minority) or of the non-violent variety (the vast overwhelming majority).

    Thus, ALL MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD are jihadists in one form or another. As all non-conformers in Islamic totalitarian society are summarily executed for the capital offenses of apostasy and blasphemy according to the dictates of Islam.

    Hence, the solution to both violent jihad and stealth non-violent jihad is quite simple: ban and reverse mass Muslim immigration with all of its excess baggage ASAP. I’m sure Ari Lieberman will become one of the biggest advocates for banning and reversing mass Muslim immigration with all of its excess baggage ASAP from here on out since he has now been made aware of the situation.

  • Julius O’Mallet

    As the Secretary of the 37th Sydney branch of the “Islamic Lone Wolves Association of Australia”, I can assure you that Mr Monis acted entirely on his own in his recent actions. Our branch set him the task of seizing and killing hostages in a Max Brenner chocolate cafe to demonstrate our support for ISIS and to protest Australia’s support for Israel. Max Brenner is a Zionist with numerous outlets in Sydney which we regularly picket. Regrettably Mr Monis disobeyed instructions and picked instead a Lindt chocolate cafe. In the view of our branch membership Mr Monis selected a Lindt cafe under the influence of the Mossad. So I ask all of you and the parents of Katrina Dawson and Tori Johnson to blame the Jews. Sorry, I mean blame Israel and the Zionists.

  • Julius O’Mallet

    Update: All 59 branches of the Sydney “Islamic Lone Wolves Association of Australia” have now unanimously voted that Mr Monis was in fact a paid Mossad agent. We expect that all the chapters of our organization in all other Australian cities will shortly endorse our resolution. We ask all Australians to direct their anger over this incident towards Max Brenner shops, synagogues, Jewish schools and anybody they see on the street who looks Jewish.

  • UCSPanther

    A lot of “Antizionists” often use propaganda from the early 20th century and even N azi Germany in their “crusade” to demonize Israel.

    They are hypocrites and very lousy liars…

  • steve b

    WHAT DID THEY EXPECT WHEN THEY ALLOWED THESE ANIMALS TO ENTER THE COUNTRY IN THE FIRST PLACE? THEY SHOULD EXPEL EVERY FOLLOWER OF ISLAM WHO ENTERED THE COUNTRY IN THE PAST 15 OR 20 YEARS. CONSIDER IT A VACCINE.

  • Dotsson

    Australia is a fool. Your new socialist governments have constantly betrayed you. They disarmed you. You are helpless and bow down to you masters. This is not the country i visited in 1965. It was then a place of stout hearted men and women. Honest and forthcoming they made us welcome on leave. Now another third world place for whom the bell tolls. I am heartbroken but I see it here in the USA now. Remove the shackles of the socialist master or die on you knees as a slave.

  • Sheik Yerbouti

    But is it really the laws at fault here? Or is it simply that the existing laws are being ignored? In the US that’s exactly what is happening. The enforcement arm has been gutted and turned into a political hit machine.

  • Ray Burke

    What fools we mortals be !!!

  • laura r

    coming to a starbucks near you. so what else is new? lets discuss what we have coming down the pike.

    • NSNZ

      Is Starbucks refusing to pay the “halal tax” like the Lindt chain?

      • laura r

        no idea. but you never know. these muslims take this very seriously.

  • toooldsmart

    They VOLUNTARILLY GAVE UP THIER ARMS! NO PITY!

  • Space Cowboy

    I just happen to believe that most Muslims are good,decent people,like most Jews,Christians,etc.

    Really? Point to just one place in the infidel world where the millions of Muslim migrants have actually assimilated and integrated into infidel society and then matriculated into contributing and productive members of our infidel host societies? The truth is Muslim migrants never ever assimilate and integrate into infidel society, since to do so is blasphemous, and blasphemy in Islamic totalitarian society is a capital offense.

    Instead, they first form Muslim enclaves that eventually morph into Muslim no-go zones ruled by Sharia that are in effect tiny independent Islamic statelets residing within the larger host infidel states. As a matter of fact, the government of France, a few years ago, counted in excess of 700 Muslim no-go zones in France alone.

    Indeed, mass Muslim immigration to the infidel world in essence is really stealth jihad waged deliberately non-violently by design and on purpose for the strategic purposes of mass Muslim infiltration of our governments, Islamization of our societies, and for eventual demographic conquest. As Muslim jihadists don’t wage jihad violently in the West since it would quickly be defeated and would inevitably result in their expulsion.

    In other words, you are either delusional, naïve and don’t have the first fricking clue, or most probably both.

    Meanwhile, everywhere in the world where the Islamic totalitarian world borders the infidel world, the Muslims are mercilessly waging jihad against the innocent civilian infidels. Why? Because innocent civilian infidels make the easiest targets. Not only in Israel but everywhere the Islamic totalitarian world borders the infidel world and in places like the Philippines, Thailand, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Chechnya, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Nigeria, and indeed in too many other places to list.

    At the same time, in Iraq and Syria they are murdering the few remaining Christians and Yazidis and selling their females into sexual slavery, while all remaining infidels unfortunate enough to be stuck living in the Islamic totalitarian world are either being extremely harshly oppressed or just outright tortured, raped, and murdered.

    Yet, according to you “most Muslims are good and decent people and like most Jews and Christians. Indeed, if anyone wanted proof that you are extremely delusional, here it is right here in black and white.

    For me,this is all about the occupation of the Palestinian Homeland by Zionists and the Diaspora

    What are you smoking? So why are the Muslims massacring innocent civilian infidels not only in Israel but also throughout the Islamic totalitarian world and everywhere their borders collide with the infidel world. Admit it dude. You are obsessed with hatred for Jews. In fact, you are so filled with hatred for Jews that you are utterly unhinged and wouldn’t recognize the truth even if it stared you in the face and spit in your eye! Indeed, you’re hopeless.

    the sequale of displacement and ethnic cleansing,de facto and/or otherwise.

    The Jews never ethnically cleansed anyone much less Muslims. The Muslim left at the behest of their Imams to make way for the Islamic armies that were supposed to annihilate the Jews and stain the Mediterranean Sea red with their blood. Then they would be able to return subsequently to claim the property of the massacred Jews.

    The only problem is it didn’t quite work out the way they had assumed. Let’s just say, they bit off far more than they could chew. Now they have to suffer the consequences. Indeed, it’s called the Nakba! The catastrophe, because that’s what it was! A catastrophe!

    Nonetheless, the Jews weren’t responsible for their plight, as all they did was defend themselves and, indeed, win the war. In war there are winners and losers, and to the winner goes the spoils. Read it and weep you loon!

    And the gall of you to call me Moon Bat,Space Cowboy!

    You’re right. I shouldn’t call you a moonbat. I should call you what you really are: a dumb a$$!