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Sydney jihad hostage crisis over, “number of people have been hit”

Dec 15, 2014 10:54 am By Robert Spencer

Police Hostage Situation Developing In SydneyNow that the worst is over, the Australian government and the international media can go into full “This has nothing to do with Islam” mode, with explanations of how Man Haron Monis was mentally ill, or driven to this by the evil deeds of Australian soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. There will also be a heavy barrage of “backlash” stories — indeed, they have already begun.

“Sydney Cafe Hostage Situation Over, ‘Number of People Have Been Hit,’” CNN, December 15, 2014:

SYDNEY, Australia (CNN) –

[Breaking news update at 10:33 a.m.]

“A number of people have been hit,” Australian state broadcaster ABC reported. ABC journalists said the siege appears to be over. “Certainly it’s ended,” an ABC journalist said.

[Previous story, posted at 10:31 a.m.]

(CNN) — Gunfire erupted early Tuesday at the Sydney cafe where a gunman has been holding hostages.

Police could be seen throwing flash-bang grenades into the cafe in video aired by CNN affiliate Seven Network.

At least one person has been shot, Australian state broadcaster ABC reported. Medics were performing CPR on two people, the broadcaster reported.

The fate of the hostages and the gunman, identified by an official with direct knowledge of the situation as Man Haron Monis, was unclear Tuesday.

Hundreds of police officers, including snipers, had surrounded the Lindt Chocolate Cafe in Sydney’s central business district shortly after the gunman took over the building at 10 a.m. Monday (6 p.m. ET on Sunday).

Chilling images from Australian media on Monday showed people, believed to be hostages, with their hands pressed against the cafe’s windows. They were holding up a black flag with Arabic writing on it reading, “There is no God but God and Mohammed is the prophet of God.”…

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  1. wallace says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 11:00 am

    Sky news are saying that it seems to be the work of a damaged individual, spot on with that analysis, he is Muslim

    • richardpk says

      Dec 15, 2014 at 7:40 pm

      The core problem is that Sheikh Haron aka Man Haron Monis and all the others like him should…

      1. Never have been allowed into Australia

      2. Should have been forcibly deported after their first crime, their first act of support for terrorism

      The media’s official narrative is that Sheikh Haron is mentally ill. Just another lone wolf. Just more workplace violence. There’s no point in even wasting time debating that.

      An immigrant charged with over 40 sexual offenses only 6 years after arriving in the country should have been deported.

      A Muslim settler who made no secret of his support for terrorism should have been deported.

      If Sheikh Haron had been deported after his first crime none of this would have happened. Australia must tighten enforcement. It must be readier to deport criminal migrants like Haron.

      • Richard Sherman says

        Dec 15, 2014 at 9:30 pm

        Australians have as much in common with Muslims as Jews have with Nazis.

  2. Jay Boo says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 11:03 am

    Mosque — Hate speech central
    Terrorism

  3. Angemon says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 11:04 am

    Apparently, two people are dead and 3 are seriously injured. My condolences to their family and friends.

  4. Richard Sherman says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 11:09 am

    Obama and Holder would have given the Muslim sociopath food and drink and asked his advice on decapitating Jews. Since Obama reveres the sociopath Muhammad who personally decapitated 600 – 900 unarmed Jews.

    • Holy Prophet APF says

      Dec 15, 2014 at 11:46 am

      How exactly does one become a Sheik, anyway? Is there a prestigious school that grants them, or a distance learning online program? Or does one simply declare himself a sheik and that’s it?

      Muhammad who personally decapitated 600 – 900 unarmed Jews.

      You’re not supposed to mention that, it would just confuse the poor Infidels and turn them into Jew-loving Islamophobes. But, so long as you mention it, don’t forget the part where after the festive bloodbath, the Holy Prophet sold hundreds of little girls into sex slavery. That day was a cash bonanza for Him.

      • Richard Sherman says

        Dec 15, 2014 at 11:55 am

        You are correct. After the sociopath Muhammad personally decapitated 600 – 900 unarmed Jews, he kidnapped and sexually enslaved 1000 Jewish girls and women. Muslims revere this sociopathic conduct because they revere Muhammad…and Obama reveres Muhammad.

  5. lebel says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 11:27 am

    Terrible event, my condolences.

    In response to Mr. Spencer, yes this has to with Islam. A wrong interpretation of it.

    • duh_swami says

      Dec 15, 2014 at 11:38 am

      Which wrong interpretation is that?

    • Jack Diamond says

      Dec 15, 2014 at 11:40 am

      Don’t stop there. Tell us more about this wrong interpretation, in great detail. Warning, people here are well-versed in the Qur’an and Sunnah, the deeds of Muhammad, and the specifics of Jihad doctrine, Shari’a law, and the fourteen centuries of Islam’s war against the non-Muslim mankind. Continue….

      • lebel says

        Dec 15, 2014 at 12:36 pm

        The interpretation that taking random people hostage and killing them is acceptable from an islamic standpoint is the wrong interpretation.

        • rev g says

          Dec 15, 2014 at 12:53 pm

          So give us the correct interpretation, with supporting documentation. We like to check your sources. Otherwise it is just a thin attempt at misdirection.

        • Jack Diamond says

          Dec 15, 2014 at 6:39 pm

          They are not random people being killed. The interpretation is that they are kaffirs in a state of war with the Islamic State and not entitled to any protected status, further the Caliph has issued orders through his mouthpieces– “Islamic State spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani told Muslims: If you can kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be. Do not ask for anyone’s advice and do not seek anyone’s verdict. Kill the disbeliever whether he is civilian or military, for they have the same ruling. Both of them are disbelievers. Both of them are considered to be waging war [the civilian by belonging to a state waging war against the Muslims]. Both of their blood and wealth is legal for you to destroy, for blood does not become illegal or legal to spill by the clothes being worn.”

          How captives of war are to be treated is made clear in shari’a manuals, it is what is in the “best interest of Muslims” as to whether to ransom them, let them go, or kill them. As for what is acceptable in Islam, Muhammad said :I have been made victorious with terror (cast in the hearts of the enemy)” and instilling terror has been at the heart of jihad and Islam for 14 centuries. Andrew Bostom in an article relating 9/11 to the history of jihad terror referred to Ibn Hudayl, a 14th cent. Grenadan author who spelled out allowable tactics in the jihad conquest of the Iberian peninsula and other parts of Europe: “it is permissible to set fire to the lands of the enemy, his stores of grain, his beasts of burden–if it is not possible for Muslims to take possession of them–as well as to cut down his trees, to raze his cities, in a word, to do everything that might ruin and discourage him..hastening to the Islamization of that enemy or to weaken him.” The 17th cent. historian al-Maqqari on how the panic and terror caused by Arab horsemen and sailors facilitated conquest: “Allah thus instilled such fear among the infidels that they did not dare to go and fight the conquerors.” Qur’an 8:67 says “It is not for a prophet to have captives (prisonors of war) until he has made a great slaughter in the land.”

          S.K. Maliki’s text on jihad warfare states “terror struck into the hearts of the enemies is not only a means, it is an end in itself. Once a condition of terror into the opponent’s heart is obtained, hardly anything is lift to be achieved. It is the point where the means and the end meet and merge.”
          http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2014/09/11/911-and-jihad-terror-a-legacy-of-over-13-centuries-not-13-years/

          You may want to take issue with the credibility of the Islamic State and those flocking to join it but everything they do is by reason of Islam and justified by Islam. The Islam which is and always will be a violent and supremacist creed in a state of permanent hostility and war with non-Muslim mankind and under obligation to wage jihad and impose shari’a over the entire earth. As declared by Muhammad and therefore the only acceptable Islamic standpoint.

        • Champ says

          Dec 15, 2014 at 6:56 pm

          The interpretation that taking random people hostage and killing them is acceptable from an islamic standpoint is the wrong interpretation.

          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

          Oh please, that lame ole smoke ‘n mirrors routine won’t pass muster with us, any more…try again.

        • rev g says

          Dec 15, 2014 at 7:12 pm

          They aren’t random people, they are unbelievers. Big difference.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Dec 15, 2014 at 12:16 pm

      GUIDE TO INTERPRETING ISLAM
      Kill means kill.
      Stone means stone.
      Cut off means cut off.

    • Lucy says

      Dec 15, 2014 at 8:02 pm

      Here’s what he means by not practicing Islam correctly, the Islamic nutbag was supposed to issue an “invitation” to convert to Islam before taking hostages. He forgot to issue his invitation. I wipe my shoes on the black flag of Islam.

  6. Undaunted says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 11:37 am

    Well, alrightythen. Looks like the cops got it right and went in in bad-ass mode. Goodonya, mates.

  7. kathleen brown says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 11:54 am

    Suck a terrible terrible ending and my sending my condolances 2 the family that has lost a love one over this and 2 the others that are seriously injuried prayers are with u all aswell and its been such a devostating seige and watching it unfold on tv live and the ending was so so bad and devostating and not good at all

    • Undaunted says

      Dec 15, 2014 at 12:17 pm

      Actually, given the totality of circumstances, this was an excellent outcome. More people could have been killed by Monis… all the hostages in point of fact. That SPD went in and punched his ticket and only one hostage died, that’s great.

      • Undaunted says

        Dec 15, 2014 at 4:34 pm

        Still a great outcome with three hostages down. Could have been all of them. And, bonus: the bad-guy got croaked.

        • Undaunted says

          Dec 15, 2014 at 5:51 pm

          Oh, the press was counting Monis as though his death matters,

          Two hostages down. Nicely done, SPD. Seriously. Excellent work.

  8. rev g says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 12:16 pm

    The truth is much more Flip (Wilson), The devil made him do it.

  9. Undaunted says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 12:37 pm

    When this happens in your sleepy little town, PRAY your police officers act as did the Sydney cops… only sooner. It should go like this: On-scene cops tell the bad-guy(s) the standard hostage-negotiation delay lines. While doing this, ASR-trained street cops and SWAT operators mount up, come up with a quick plan and then execute it with speed, surprise and audacity. People are going to die. This is war, not a freakin’ reality TV show so get used to the idea and put a lid on the whinin’, will ya?

    • Mark Edford Eletion says

      Dec 15, 2014 at 4:35 pm

      “When this happens in your sleepy little town, PRAY your police officers act as did the Sydney cops… only sooner.”

      That would be good. What would be better I think, is if some jihadi drops by and begins to wave a weapon, three or four coffee shop patrons calmly turn toward him, pull out concealed semi automatic handguns, and show him their jihad. Problem over in a few seconds.

      • Undaunted says

        Dec 16, 2014 at 7:08 am

        Heh, yeah; what you said.

  10. rev g says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 1:34 pm

    So a nazi who misrepresents biblical statements has something in common with Robert, who works to keep such misrepresentations from becoming commonplace with the quran?
    Nope.
    Your post merely illustrates the depths to which apologists will go to try and whitewash the truth. Here, it fails miserably.

  11. Salah says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 1:51 pm

    @Christy

    Muhammad used to suck on the tongue of his own daughter Fatima and…

    “He (Muhammad) would not sleep until he kissed Fatima’s forehead and nuzzled his face between her breasts.”
    Behaar al Anwaar, Al Maglisi, v. 43, p. 42 – بحار الأنوار للمجلسي ج.43، ص. 42

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/02/muhammad-and-incest.html

    • Champ says

      Dec 15, 2014 at 7:35 pm

      muhammad engaged in incest, too?! ..why I am surprised? I shouldn’t be! …as this fits his gross and evil lifestyle. Next you’ll be telling me that he had sex with *animals* …

      ..of course he did.

  12. Liam says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 7:42 pm

    This is absolutely horrendous and disappointing.

    The hostage taker was a man who had “helped kill his ex wife, 22 counts of sexual assault and 14 counts of aggravated indecent assault. He first came to the attention of the Courts for writing offensive letters to the families of seven Australian soldiers. He was out on bail.”

    Our Government is too forgiving and trusting and this is what happens.

    You have a man that is obviously violent and dangerous, who is a lone wolf in his operation.

    Why did police want to negotiate with him?

    Get a sniper and shoot him for God sake.

    The police endangered the lives of all the hostages in the efforts that he may come out peacefully – an unrealistic presumption considering he is an extremist martyr.

    Absolutely appaling and saddening that two people lost their lives to this man.
    Police should have gathered intel from the 5 escapees and made their decision their and then. Does the fear in their eyes foreshadow a man who will negotiate and come out peacefully?

    No.

  13. Jack Diamond says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 2:31 am

    The Jew-hating propaganda is demonstrably false. Robert Spencer’s statements about Islam are demonstrably true. Historically, doctrinally, and as seen in daily headlines. Muslims are not the new Jews, if anything they are the new Nazis and every bit as hateful towards the (real) Jews. So what is your point other than that you are a complete imbecile?

  14. don vito says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 3:25 am

    Miss Christy, are you on sharia patrol on this thread too? Good thing you aren’t behind a streering wheel, beside throwing acid at us here on JW, you’d try to drive over us too! Protect yourself Miss Christy, wear a garbage bag. Garbage out, bag on you with a little slit, one for each eye. That way you won’t have to under go FGM. Stay in touch, let everyone on JW know if your bag saves you.

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