In FrontPage today, I chronicle just another day in the suicidal West.
Last week a fifteen-year-old Muslim, Farhad Jabar Khalil Mohammad, went to a police station in New South Wales and shot dead a civilian police employee, Curtis Cheng. After the murder, the young murderer was, according to an eyewitness, “dancing joyously.” Outside the station, he waved his gun at police and screamed “Allahu akbar” at them before he was killed in the ensuing gunfight.
In the wake of this jihad murder, Australian officials have behaved in an utterly predictable manner – one that we have seen many, many times before in Western countries, and that we will doubtless see many more times as well: they rushed to profess ignorance of the killer’s motives and above all, to defend Islam.
None of these officials are Muslims. They have all just been thoroughly indoctrinated with the idea that to look too closely at the motivating ideology behind murders like that of Curtis Cheng would be “hateful” and “bigoted.”
And so Pat Gooley from the New South Wales Police Association said: “We are used to being under threat. What’s really concerning police is there’s no rhyme or reason to these current terror threats.”
No rhyme or reason? Have you ever heard of jihad, Mr. Gooley? Evidently not.
Other police officials, meanwhile, made themselves busy ensuring that Farhad Jabar Khalil Mohammad’s jihad murder doesn’t lead anyone to think there is anything amiss with the Muslim community. The murder “was doubly shocking because it was perpetrated by a 15-year-old boy and it underlines the importance of families, communities, leaders being very aware of whether young people are becoming radicalised,” said Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, complacently assuming that Muslim “families, communities, leaders” in Australia are against this “radicalization” — but where is the evidence of that?
Turnbull also said: “We must not vilify or blame the entire Muslim community with the actions of what is, in truth, a very, very small percentage of violent extremist individuals. The Muslim community are our absolutely necessary partners in combating this type of violent extremism.”
When has the Muslim community in Australia or elsewhere in the West genuinely acted like partners in combating this type of violent extremism? And we must indeed not vilify or blame the entire Muslim community, but can we not call upon them to institute honest, transparent and inspectable programs in mosques and Islamic schools that teach against this understanding of Islam that they ostensibly reject and oppose?
Meanwhile, opposition leader Bill Shorten said: “Our thoughts are also with the family of the alleged young perpetrator. Like all Australians, they will be struggling to comprehend how someone so young could be part of such a terrible crime.” How does he know his family wasn’t involved? Has he carried out an investigation? He assumes that the family taught young Farhad Jabar Khalil Mohammad the true, peaceful Islam, but that he was then “radicalized on the Internet” — but why was his family’s true, peaceful Islam not able to withstand the challenge from the twisted, hijacked Internet Islam?
New South Wales Premier Mike Baird said that he and others were trying to understand “how someone so young could commit such a hideous crime.” He might wish to look into Islam’s teachings about jihad, but he won’t. He also said: “We cannot let actions such as this divide us. We cannot let hate overtake us. We have to come together and I’m sure that’s what we’ll see from this city and state.”
Indeed, we must not let hate overtake us, as it overtook Curtis Cheng. But can we do that by refusing to examine the ideology that led to his murder? By “hate,” Baird means “honest investigation into the texts and teachings of Islam that incite attacks such as this one, and the prevalence of such teachings in the Muslim community.”
And that’s the problem: every time there is another jihad attack or foiled jihad plot in the free world, our leaders just circle the wagons, trot out their Religion-of-Peace cliches again, warn us against “Islamophobia,” and refuse to look into the genuine root causes of the problem.
It’s a sure-fire path to societal suicide.

Don Foss says
I hope it is in my lifetime that Western democracies finally and rightfully make Islam a crime in our countries. Mosques destroyed and none built; Qur’an outlawed; Islamic dress outlawed; preaching Muhammedism outlawed; public displays of Islam outlawed, and any violations mean prosectution, time, and then deportation to any Islamic country of their choosing. Follow a more strict Japanese model of Islam inside the borders of our countries. The day must come.
Raja says
Don,
Well said,…Hope the West wakes up sooner than later. BTW Why doesn’t the victim’s family claim damages for hate filled murder or for the state having reared (Through building mosques etc) this foolish creep TO MURDER ? Don’t the Australians’ have the RIGHT to property?
There seems to be no democracy in the West. 14 years after 9/11 US is still in denial. For all the regular attacks of !:1 to 1:10 every Western nation is in denial. I don’t know how long the foolish Westerners will lie about Islam.
Frank says
Don’t get up your hopes too high. In the 30thies, while Hitler’s star was rising, a lot of people knew exactly what was coming, and they had the same attitude as those Islam apologists have now. “Let’s hope it goes away by itself.” And watch what happened. And Islam is worse.
Shane says
If the Western people keep electing cowardly dhimmi twits like Obama and Merkel, and almost all of the Democrat pols in the USA, that will not happen. We should all be protesting the idea of bringing hundreds of thousands of the Muslims who have invaded Europe into the USA.
Jay Boo says
Rolling Stone Magazine is no doubt requesting a better lighted cover photo for their soft-focused editing..
Singh The Sikh says
Why in every case it is a Muslim? Where are the Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Christian, Jewish radicalized men and youth. Why aren’t they beheading soldiers on the streets of London or taking hostages in Sydney coffee shops or shooting people from behind, beheading people and blowing things and persons to smithering? It is deeply mystifying and perpelexing isn’t it? Why are the assailants always from the religion of peace? Any answers anyone?
DeMolay says
May I dare to suggest it is because they follow a hate filled ideology and the west has given them an unexpected platform to promote and expand their hatred unchecked, so years of pent up hatred is now free to be unleashed.
carpediadem says
Oh don’t worry, there are plenty of crystal-meth-afflicted and drunk types bashing and killing people.
They are not impelled by religious psychopathy but by drug-induced aggression.
Jihad is just another tiresome human behaviour among many.
Dave J says
But only Islam teaches violence and supremacy, only Islam has a founding document full of hate, only Islam funds a network of madrases and mosques, only Islam has a host of lobbyists and “scholars” defending it’s actions.
If any other group advanced this philosophy it would be criminalized under existing gang/cartel /treason laws. The only reason that Islam gets away with this is by hiding under the frosting of “religion”. The Western respect for freedom of religion blinds us to the reality of the problem.
dumbledoresarmy says
Ever read V S Naipaul, “Among the Believers”?? He visited Iran (only a few years after the Khomeini takeover), Pakistan, Malaysia and indonesia.
And here is what a Muslim – a Muslim! – told him in Indonesia.
“The fight that’s coming will be between the people in the universities and the people in the pesantren. [‘pesantren’ = madrassa – dda]. One day the students from the pesantren will come to Jakarta and burn down this nice hotel. Islam can become a cocaine. It makes you high. You go to that mosque and you get high. And when you get high, everything that happens becomes Allah’s will.”
‘Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey’. Part IV: Indonesia: Usurpations. Chapter 7 – “The Interchangeable Revolutions”.
To repeat – “Islam can become a cocaine. It makes you high. You go to that mosque and you get high. And when you get high, everything that happens becomes Allah’s will.”
CogitoErgoSum says
I would say it’s because for Muslims peace really is the end goal …. but only under terms set by their god, Allah. Allah’s religion is Islam, which actually means “submission” and not “peace.” To obtain peace under Islam one must not only submit to Allah but one must work to make everyone else in the world submit to Allah. Once that goal is accomplished there can be peace …. or so Muslims believe This is how they can say with a straight face that Islam is a religion of peace. The problem is that getting everyone to submit to Allah sometimes necessitates the use of violence … as exemplified through the actions of their “perfect” man (and my false prophet), Muhammad.
Angemon says
Singh The Sikh posted:
“Why in every case it is a Muslim? Where are the Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Christian, Jewish radicalized men and youth.”
If there’s anything I learned from talking with muslims is that muslims can do no wrong and anything depicting muslims has having done something wrong is because Jews control the media and they’re lying to make muslims and islam look bad. Also, Mossad is omnipresent, and they steal your shoes just to drive their point home.
Logdon says
Yes, very odd.
somehistory says
“There is no rhyme or reason”….*he became radicalized*….*have to work with the moslem community* and get the *parents and clerics* involved….don’t blame this on ilsam…it has no connection.
This is like movie talk from the ’50’s when the horror movies had creepy people telling others that there was no reason to worry…no werewolf…no monster in the woods…no dracula-like creature in the fog…But people were being bitten, clawed and left dead here and there and clues were strewn about among the growly sounds and the screams.
All the while the regular, non-creepy people knew something was afoot and talked among themselves, but being assured the entire time by the cops that they should just all go home and go to bed and to sleep. But make sure to lock their doors, and keep the kids and animals inside…to stay safe from the non-existent monster. They and the creepy *doctor* had everything under control.
It rhymes with *gris…lam* and involves those who go to the barracks building with the *mini rets* and carrying a book with squiggly lines and that book’s title rhymes with *slow man*.
The *tiny minority* are those who can’t wait for the stealth war to overtake their enemies and those who are on hand to put just the hint of fear into the minds of the public so they don’t talk about the monster in the woods…or it will come for them next.
dumbledoresarmy says
Horror movie title: “It Came From the Mosque…”.
Mirren10 says
” The Creature from the Parramatta Mosque”.
Peggy says
Maybe Brad Pitt can make another movie titled “World War M”. Guess not, his wife would kill him. Guess George Clooney is out of the question too. Wonder if he still has his pet pig.
citycat says
To the Muslims, Farhad is one lotus that grows in the mud of Islam.
No mud- no lotus.
No Muslims- no Farhad.
“Radicalized on the internet”- of course this sort of thing didn’t happen before the internet, did it?
pdxnag says
Eventually nearly every non-Muslim will acknowledge that to be Muslim is to be a loyal citizen exclusively of the Islamic Ummah. No Muslim can be a citizen of any free nation and should under no circumstances be allowed to vote in any political election in any free nation. This position is logically sustainable long term.
DeMolay says
@Robert. Did you see the broadcast a couple of weeks ago in the UK called ‘undercover mosque’?
Worth a watch if not – I’ll try and find a link that works outside of the U.K.
Aussie Bruce says
One Australian columnist is bucking the trend. Andrew Bolt is one of the few journalists that confronts this issue head on. This link below is to his blog and readers’ comments on the Sydney shooting.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/pretend_it_has_nothing_to_do_with_islam/
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Muslim Murders Police Official, Authorities Rush to Defend…Islam
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The sad–and dangerous–thing is that this is the norm, and has been for many years now.
dumbledoresarmy says
More and more, the ordinary punters aren’t buying it.
A war of opinion vs fact is being fought out across the internet in Australia, in the wake of this particularly blatant and obvious act of Jihad, with the jihadi picking up his gun in the mosque – a mosque he had regularly frequented, along with a lot of other rather dodgy and dangerous persons Known To The Police – and then marching straight from the doors of the mosque to the doors of the cop-shop to KILL someone.
The deluded Islamophiles, dhimmis, declared Muslims and also – I suspect – persons posting under apparently-Infidel profiles who are in fact muslims – are throwing as much sand as they can, obfuscating and evading like mad, lying and BS-ing, but there are plenty of people prepared to confront them, over and over, with facts: the facts of what Islam plainly teaches in its texts, the facts of Islamic history that perfectly match up with what is taught in the texts, the congruence between this act of Jihad and normative Islam.
And the appeasement engaged in by Turnbull and the other public officials is being mocked up hill and down dale, in social media and in comments threads attached to online news reports and op ends.
Take a look at the comments threads attached to the following:
a very foolish article by Greg Sheridan of The Australian.
http://m.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/sydney-shooting-malcolm-turnbull-passes-first-test-on-terrorism/story-e6frg76f-1227556906915
And the comments following an *excellent* piece by Tim Blair who blogs at the Sydney ‘Telegraph’.
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/a_co_operative_and_inclusive_killing
And even the comments over at the Sydney Morning Herald, where a total Dhimmi – Joseph Wakim, who is from Lebanon and is not, despite what one would assume, a Muslim (he is Maronite Christian, but definitely not made of the same indomitable stuff as Brigitte Gabriel) – was trying to peddle the victimhood narrative, took on a distinctly sceptical tone.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/if-we-treat-people-as-outsiders-they-become-outsiders-20151004-gk0sel.html
“If we treat people as outsiders, they become outsiders”.
(PFFFT).
The very first comment, from an Aussie expat in Vietnam – and bear in mind, this was *The Sydney Morning Herald*, and Comments there are *usually* very much Islamophile – read thus:
“Two problems.
“Firstly, where is the evidence that Muslims want to be included in Western society?
“As far as I can see they want to live together on their own terms and shun association with white Australians, who, by the way, are considered infidels.
“Islam dictates that men are superior to women, and Muslims are superior to non Muslims.
“That’s a great start for ‘inclusion’.
“Secondly, if we do turn a blind eye to ‘religious terrorism’, we end up with a Rochdale scenario where children (and society in general) are left unprotected by authorities due to fear of being labeled ‘Racist’ or ‘Islamophobic’.
“An example of this is to state categorically that Mosques are not breeding grounds for radicalisation.
“peter
Location
vietnam
Date and time
October 04, 2015, 7:35PM”.
And another – “so many of its followers misunderstand Islam (the “Religion of Peace”), and give us cause to believe otherwise.
Strange that.”
And another -” Huh? of course he is an islamist terrorist, he was shouting ‘Allah’ when he killed an innocent person. Pretending he was something else helps nobody.” (This comment is clearly addressed directly to Mr Dhimmi Joseph Wakim).
And I think the prize in that thread should go to the commenter signing himself off poetically – and pointedly – as “Charles Martel, Aquitaine”, who sarcastically boils down the whole of Mr Wakim’s piece, to the following proposition: ” “Be even more accomodating of a certain group of people otherwise they might start attacking us”
Yeah…sounds fair…”,
I have read through many, many comments threads at the SMH and I have *never* before encountered a comments thread like that one, within which so many of the commenters had very clearly ‘woken up’.
DeMolay says
Thanks for taking the time to post those links and articles. A very interesting and encouraging read.
I suspect they are running out of fingers to plug the dam with in the media and the tidal wave is about to burst through. I think the governments in western society are terrified of civil conflicts breaking out, and violence. They’ve adopted the ‘head in the sand’ and be nice to them approach hoping it would all go away. Clearly we know that mindset won’t work and many countries are going to turn into Yugoslavia type situations at some point in the future, if the line in the sand isn’t drawn now.
More and more people are educating themselves about Islam. This is a good thing.
Cameron is starting to vocalise issues, each statement getting stronger. I think the realisation has hit that they’ve created an unholy mess. I think the public consciousness is slowly changing and apart form the extreme left and the Muslims themselves, people don’t want this culture forced upon them.
Infidave says
When accused at a media conference of letting him slip through the net the Police noted he was not on the radar. The five who were arrested today certainly were. Sadly there will be plenty of kids brainwashed with islam that will do the same.
The Poliice have stated they cannot monitor every person every day. This is key for the future. As more and more home grown jihadis emerge the Police will be unable to foil all attacks.
Besides, they will be urged to investigate petty hate crimes instead that muslims themselves have more than likely committed.
All the answers lie within islam.
Follow Japan and Angola’s lead.
No islam No Terrorism
DeMolay says
An inescapable truth. If you don’t have Islam you don’t have terrorism in today’s world.
People can squirm all they like about that uncomfortable truth, but you’ve nailed it with that statement.