the list grows

Submitted by Mohammed Waza Khiddif Id'ullah (Australia), Dec 20, 2014 at 01:17

"...It happened very close to Sydney Hospital...."

Yes - Sydney Hospital is right at the top of Martin Place and with a good pair of binoculars you could look into the Lindt Cafe from there. Several decades ago Martin Place was turned into a heavily trafficked pedestrian plaza.

'...Because the attacker had lived in Australia for some 20 years,....'

The trouble with having monocultural ghettos of any sort is that once it reaches a certain size - people can live completely insulated from the mainstream culture. It would e possible for someone to come from any muslim country , have the poorest command of English , avail him or herself to all that the local social security system can offer, move to a muslim ghetto, watch satellite TV and listen to radio channels in his/her own language, never having to improve their English skills. And then spend all day sipping coffee in the company of similar folk and go to a mosque to hear how Australia - and the whole Western world really belongs to allah - and therefore muslims - and European Australians , as infidels with their infidel legal system, deserve absolutely no respect.

"....I would chalk it up as a local incident....."

Well, obviously to those in Sydney it was a local incident. Passages from the koran and hadith could give him justification for just about any course of action his fevered little islamic mind could concoct.

So, yes, it was a local event, as was 9/11 to New Yorkers, the London bombings and Rigby beheading to Londoners, Beslan school massacre to Beslan residents, the Nord Ost carnage and the suicide bombing at the Domodedovo International Airport to Muscovites, the Volgograd train station suicide bombings to Volggrad residents, Madrid to the Madridans(?), Bali bombings to the Balinese, Nairobi Westfield to the local Kenyans, Bombay bombings to Bombay residents, Boston Marathon bombings to Bostonians etc etc .

It just occurred to me that there's a possibility that there's a common thread behind all these. I wonder what it might be.

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