Australia said Wednesday it was striving to shut down money flows to terrorist groups after its anti-money laundering agency tracked Aus$53 million (US$38 million) in suspect transactions in a year. Government body AUSTRAC said that between July 2014 and June 2015, it monitored more than 100 people “of interest” and investigated 536 suspicious transactions valued at Aus$53 million, most of which were […]
“Some media outlets are receiving direct physical violent death threats, specific threats not to go near Parramatta Mosque, where the 15-year-old went to pray” — that is, Farhad Jabar, who murdered a police official while screaming “Allahu akbar” a few weeks ago. Yet these threats have largely gone unreported: “The Age had no coverage of […]
The Syrian people are not targeted for death. The only such targets in the Middle East are Christians and Yazidis, every one of whom should most definitely be allowed into Europe the United States and Australia. Calls by Australian Parliament members for Christians to be given priority among Syrian refugees as they are the persecuted […]
by Daniel Greenfield They have a point. It’s just usually one that they aren’t willing to admit in public. The Jihad comes from the Koran. Every act of Muslim violence that is religiously sanctioned, from terrorism to rape, is derived from the Koran. If you ban incitement to violence against non-Muslims, you criminalize the Koran. […]
(CNSNews.com) – An Arab-backed bid to have the U.N. Security Council set a deadline for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state failed Tuesday, as a resolution failed to achieve the minimum of nine votes needed in the 15-member body. The resolution attracted eight votes, with two countries – the U.S. and Australia – […]
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 coffee shop with his shotgun on Monday he wore a headband bearing the war cry: “We are ready to sacrifice for you, O Muhammad.” […]
ANTHONY FUREY | QMI AGENCY The natural reaction to the hostage taking in Sydney, Australia should be to brush up on the basics of why we’re seeing jihad-style incidents taking place in the West.But there’s an alarming appetite out there for ignoring the elephant in the room. Sydney deputy police commissioner Catherine Burn told reporters […]
By Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch The death toll grows. We heard earlier that a “number of people had been hit,” so the death toll may go higher still. AP has this: “Police say 34-year-old man and 38-year-old woman are among 3 dead in Sydney hostage crisis.” Time for another mainstream media story about “backlash” against […]
Downtown Sydney was shut down as police and a radical Islamic gunman spent the day in a tense standoff. An estimated 15-30 hostages were held in cafe at the Martin Place pedestrian mall. The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney Daily Telegraph, The Australian and ABC News live-blogged the drama. So did Channel 7, whose news studio is across the street […]
A Muslim terrorist is holding up a café in Australia and has hostages. Consider. More than 150 Australians, many of Lebanese descent, have joined jihadists fighting in Iraq and Syria, of course many of these Muslim posed a danger to Australia on their return. We are seeing the fruits of that today. Witnesses had early described how […]
