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Sydney jihadist, one other person dead as police storm cafe to end jihad hostage crisis

Dec 15, 2014 11:34 am By Robert Spencer

Hostage on stretcher“A Muslim community leader in Sydney, Dr. Jamal Rifi, said in a televised interview that ‘everything he stands for is wrong.’ ‘It has nothing to do with Islam as a religion whatsoever, and we have all seen that by his previous action and his current actions.'” His previous actions include involvement in an honor killing, the sexual assault of a young woman, and taunting and threatening the families of slain Australian soldiers. All these we have seen among Muslims many times in the past, and all have justification in Islamic texts and teachings — as does hostage-taking. What exactly makes them un-Islamic?

“Police Storm Cafe to End Sydney Hostage Siege,” by Michelle Innis, New York Times, December 15, 2014:

SYDNEY, Australia — Heavily armed police officers ended a hostage siege in Sydney early Tuesday, storming a downtown cafe where an armed man said to be a self-proclaimed sheikh had held employees and customers for more than 16 hours.

Live television images of the scene showed intense flashes of gunfire and the explosive sound of loud ammunition rounds. Police officers raced into the building with weapons drawn, followed by medics with stretchers.

The number of casualties was not immediately clear, but Sky News Australia reported that two people were dead, including the gunman.

“Sydney siege is over. More details to follow,” the New South Wales Police said in a Twitter message at about 2:45 a.m.

Just before the police entered the building, at least six hostages had been seen running from the cafe.

Earlier, the police said that the hostage-taker was Man Haron Monis, an Iranian-born man in his 50s with a criminal record who called himself Sheikh Haron. Australian media reports quoted the man’s former lawyer as saying he was acting alone. But it was unclear whether the gunman had accomplices.

The siege had transfixed Australia since Monday morning, when the gunman took control of the cafe in central Sydney with an unknown number of employees and customers trapped inside. The man was carrying a black flag with white Arabic script similar to those used by Islamic militants on other continents, and the flag was later displayed in the window of the cafe.

Five people, including two cafe employees, had fled by 7 p.m. Monday, but it was not clear whether the assailant had allowed them to leave or they had escaped.

Helicopters hovered over the city, the train network was temporarily stopped and strategic buildings — including the nearby Sydney Opera House, the New South Wales Parliament, the state library, law courts and the Reserve Bank — were evacuated or shut down. Traffic was stopped on part of the Sydney Harbor Bridge.

According to The Age, a national newspaper, Mr. Monis was free on bail in two separate criminal cases. He was charged in November 2013 with being an accessory before and after the fact in the murder of his ex-wife, Noleen Hayson Pal, who was stabbed and set on fire in an apartment in Werrington.

In April 2014, Mr. Monis was charged with the indecent and sexual assault of a woman in western Sydney in 2002.

The police have said that Mr. Monis held himself out as a spiritual healer and conducted business on Station Street at Wentworthville.

Mr. Monis also pleaded guilty in 2013 to 12 charges related to the sending of poison-pen letters to the families of Australian servicemen who were killed overseas, local press reports said.

A website apparently associated with Mr. Monis includes condemnation of the United States and Australia for their military actions against Islamic militants in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A Muslim community leader in Sydney, Dr. Jamal Rifi, said in a televised interview that “everything he stands for is wrong.” “It has nothing to do with Islam as a religion whatsoever, and we have all seen that by his previous action and his current actions,” Mr. Rifi said of Mr. Monis….

There’s just so very much violence done in the name of Islam that has nothing to do with Islam. It sure is a puzzle.

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 11:42 am

    Yet once an Islam an apologist says
    Islam is peace — & — (you guessed it ) Koran Verse 5:32

    Sheikh Abdul Azim from the Australian National Imams Council has supported Australians, condemning the terrorists actions. (at the 7NEWS live Sydney site)

  2. cs says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 11:44 am

    “His previous actions include involvement in an honor killing, the sexual assault of a young woman, and taunting and threatening the families of slain Australian soldiers.”

    And the guy was still around. How lenient Australians and westerns for that matter can be?

    • St. Croix says

      Dec 15, 2014 at 2:10 pm

      Yes that’s quite a list of offences isn’t it? This nasty piece of business still had free range to do whatever he could get away with. How does this happen? If someone commits tax fraud I don’t think they’d be go free and easy like this! Everything seems upside down.

      • cs says

        Dec 15, 2014 at 5:39 pm

        You can get arrested if you don’t pay the pension to your ex-wife, but this scum goes free after all this offenses.
        It is upside down big time.

  3. Prinz Eugen says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 11:47 am

    This immediate whitewashing of islamic terror must be ended. Guess when the leaders of the once\
    civilized western nation s continue to be in “cahoots” with islamic terror, this day will never come. Instead, sharia and its totalitarian “benefits” await those who remain silent and servile.

  4. jihad3tracker says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 11:49 am

    Here is how his lawyer explained the behavior, quoted in an A.P. story on MSNBC a few minutes ago :

    “His ideology is just so strong and so powerful that it clouds his vision for common sense and objectiveness,” Conditsis said.

    :

  5. duh_swami says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 11:50 am

    There must be a way to blame Geo Bush for this…

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Dec 15, 2014 at 12:00 pm

      Actually, Dubya does share blame in this. He’s the one who declared Islam to be a religion of peace after 9/11. With that stupid utterance an historic opportunity was lost. It was an inflection point bypassed.

      • duh_swami says

        Dec 16, 2014 at 6:02 am

        A great disservice…Then he prayed in a mosque…Nice going Geo.

    • jay says

      Dec 15, 2014 at 12:06 pm

      Nah, the zionists are clearly behind this one.

  6. Diane Harvey says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 11:53 am

    Dying for the sake of Islam and Big Mo. Now for your rewards, O heroic Muslim,

    http://www.johns-jokes.com/afiles/images/virgins_in_heaven.jpg

    http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/521969virgins86020006416.jpg

    http://www.hyscience.com/HelenThomas72Virgins2.jpg

    • Doglicka says

      Dec 16, 2014 at 3:22 am

      Lol! Excellent. Odai and old mate don’t look too happy do they!

  7. Holy Prophet APF says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 11:53 am

    It has nothing to do with Islam as a religion whatsoever…

    Yeah, there’s not even a smidgen of corruption in Islam, to paraphrase Mr. President. What he wrote on the black flag in the window was a misquote.

    Multicultural racism is the new standard, a swirling drain sucking first the Moslems into our place and then all of us down. All hail racism! All hail that Islam is not a race but isn’t exactly a religion either! All hail the tough love taught by the Caucasians at the Beslan grade school!

  8. PatnCats says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 12:03 pm

    Well, great, I’m glad the Police shot his ass before he killed anyone else. My heart and prayers go to the hostages that were killed. My prayers to the Australian Christian, Jewish and non-believer people to join together and order their politicos and news pundits to tell the truth about islam. Clearly this mohammadan was so committed to islam and its barbaric customs to wish to spread terror, just as Moham does in the koran – terror gets people in line and following along like quiet sheep to their slaughter. Terror such as beheadings and this mohammadan’s following ISIS orders to rise up and disrupt normal Western life. This is used to CONTROL thru TERROR to get us Infidels to OBEY THE FOLLOWERS OF MOHAMMED. PERIOD. WHy this bastard was out on bail after the murder of his ex-muslim wife is beyond contempt. He should have been left in jail and dressed in stripes. I see on the news he has a ‘criminal background’ but was running around free and happy, spreading terror to innocent people at a coffee shop. I see the news stated he was in Australia on ASLYUM. ASLYUM? HOW RIDICULOUS!

  9. jay says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 12:04 pm

    Wait, he was out on BAIL for attempted murder AND sexual assault, plus he’s been writing threatening letters to soldier’s families? Wait no, I’m not surprised at all. This is the rational basic common sense world we live in. And he’s not even a freaking Australian, he’s a foreigner. Of course.

  10. pdxnag says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 12:14 pm

    Which is easier for a so-called Muslim? 1) Agitating to cull more than a third of Islamic law, the parts that call for conquest and hatred and violence toward all non-Muslims, including calls for death of apostates from Islam, or 2) rejecting Islam and declaring oneself an apostate?

    Neither. Denial during the mostly pre-violent stage of Islamic conquest is most advantageous.

  11. TH says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 12:50 pm

    Takiiya as usual l from muslims. They obviously think the res of us are a bunch of mindless idiots and incapable of reading for ourselves what the Quán says. Of course, they are the idiots who considered themselves superior to the rest of humianity inferior and in need of being sumbitted to them. Their 1400 years of history has produced little more than a long string of massacres and gennocides.

  12. George says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 12:53 pm

    What an outrage this sociopath was free. The Australian government must explain themselves to the bereaved family.

    The guy should have been dropped off in Antarctica a long time ago.

  13. Champ says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 1:02 pm

    “A Muslim community leader in Sydney, Dr. Jamal Rifi, said in a televised interview that ‘everything he stands for is wrong.’ ‘It has nothing to do with Islam as a religion whatsoever, and we have all seen that by his previous action and his current actions.’”

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

    Got taqiyya?

    And the MSM continues to withhold the Truth about islam and company by interviewing liars, like this guy, but those of us that have chosen to know the Truth–know better; we know that this heinous attack has *everything* to do with islam and that mohammedans are taught to lie, and to carry out these savage crimes in the unholy quran and in other islamic texts.

  14. thomas pellow says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 1:18 pm

    Supplementary.

    “THREE DEAD IN BLOODY END TO SIEGE: Two hostages feared dead and Muslim gunman killed as police storm Sydney cafe with assault rifles and stun grenades moments after hostages fled”

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2873855/Gunman-takes-hostages-cafe-Sydney.html#ixzz3LzYV3X5O

  15. Angemon says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 1:37 pm

    A Muslim community leader in Sydney, Dr. Jamal Rifi, said in a televised interview that ‘everything he stands for is wrong.’

    Damage control. Who should we believe, “Dr.” Rifi or our lying eyes and ears?

  16. Salah says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 1:43 pm

    @Christy

    Did Muhammad enjoy…watching???

    “The characteristics of the menstrual blood according to the Apostle of Allah (pbuh) are: one: it’s black, two: it’s thick, three: it’s intensely heated, four: it comes out gently and not as a flowing stream, five: it has an offensive smell unlike other bloods…”
    The Large Commentary (Keys to the Unknown), al-Razi مفاتيح الغيب للرازي 6/56

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2010/04/muhammad-and-menses-mahomet-et-les.html

  17. Holy Prophet APF says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 1:44 pm

    The frustrating thing is, now that the Sheik is dead, he’s up there in Jannat sitting on his throne reviewing the pile of Houris and licking his lips. Allah needs to take stock of himself and his moral compass. It’s as if this Islam thing is a sex perversion scam.

  18. Champ says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 1:52 pm

    islam is a death cult, and muhammad (perdition be upon him) is islam’s mass-murdering ‘Perfect’ example of death and destruction …so allah/satan must be very pleased with this blood sacrifice from his mohammedan slave.

    The Truth is out there, and it isn’t found within islam …

    “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” — John 8:32

  19. St. Croix says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 2:20 pm

    “Christy” I challenge you to actually READ both the Bible and the Koran. Cover to cover. And then come on here with some comparisons instead of this red-herring tactic of conducting smear campaign. Many of your facts above are incorrect. If you had undertaken a solid study of the material–the books of the respective religions–including the textual analysis and commentaries, you would not be able to write what you have with a straight face.

  20. sidney penny says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 6:24 pm

    “There’s just so very much violence done in the name of Islam that has nothing to do with Islam. It sure is a puzzle.”

    Wonderfully put, Robert

  21. cs says

    Dec 15, 2014 at 6:49 pm

    Only the misinformed can compare both populations.
    Just a simple comparison:

    A – Jews almost never engaged in converting the local populations.
    Muslims do this all the time.

    B – Jews never engaged in terror acts against the States they were living.
    Muslims call for Islamic revolution all the time.

    C – Jews need very little welfare from the States they live in, actually they always had to pay extra taxes.
    Muslims are always a burden to the State, always relying on welfare.

    D – Jews normally do not engage in crime.
    Muslims have a high percentage on the prison population.

    E – Jews are envied because tend to be successful, that is part of the anti-semitic discourse.
    Muslims tend to be unsuccessful, therefore inhabit lower part of the society, and tend to commit petty crimes.

    F – Jews tend to contribute to the Scientific, cultural production of society.
    Muslim contribution is negligible.

    Can you see the difference?
    Muslims are provoking this, Jews not.

  22. don vito says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 3:48 am

    Miss Chrisy, you come all the way over to this thread to slander Mr. Spencer, on your sharia patrol? Beside throwing acid here at JW, you add slander of Mr. Spencer to your list of crimes. Speaking slander is unislamic, infact downright islamophobic. Don’t you feel ashamed doing what you accuse others of doing? Just stop it right now Miss Christy, take it back! That’s it, you will be safe as long as you keep your burka on. No one will perform FGM on you, as long as you are disguised.

  23. duh_swami says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 6:13 am

    There is something wrong with you Chrisy…Talk to your therapist as soon as possible…medication might help. You seem to have a problem coping with adult life…You are an adult, aren’t you?

  24. duh_swami says

    Dec 16, 2014 at 6:23 am

    ‘It’s got nothing to do with Islam’…The movie….XXX rated, adults only.
    Barf bags are free at the popcorn counter.

    I’m really sick of no nothings spouting nonsense…I run in to this every day, especially on sites dedicated to calcified liberals. They crack not one book, but feel free to insult those that have. They are all Chrisy…It must be something in the water…

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