Mass stabbing event in Sydney - **Read OP before posting**

Fair play to the individual with a table(?) who intervened at the escalator.

Saw that. Think it was a barrier stand?

I agree but how do we police it? Cops able to randomly stop and search people who are walking down the street? That won't and shouldn't happen.

Can you not see that random searches would not stop an incident like this, so why are you bleating on about it?

A man grabs a knife and heads to his local shops for a murder spree, do you think he is worried about getting done for possessing a knife?

What exactly are the odds that he even gets stopped for a random search in the 2 minutes between picking up the knife in his kitchen and getting to the shops?

Whatever about knife laws stopping gang incidents involving knives, they would have no effect on spree killers whatsoever.

Another 2 brave men.

Sadly the mother of the baby has died.

https://x.com/ForsigeNews/status/1779087506144706622

Has it been confirmed that the attacker was Muslim then?

But on your wider question. It's part of the religion. Just as how Catholicism spread throughout the world (for better or worse - generally worse), this is history repeating itself.

Plus we in the West have made it very easy with noisy left-wing liberal types wailing about our obligations, and supposed privilege and guilt. While the West tears itself apart in culture wars, identity politics and virtue, the rest of the world moves on, and there will always be those who will take advantage of and exploit such foolishness.

The problems arise when the cultures and expectations clash, but we're bringing it on ourselves and it's only going to get worse I believe. We're actually regressing as a society in many respects which would seem contradictory to a lot of progress on issues but is true nonetheless.

An attack on people in a Jewish neighbourhood by a member of a religion where hatred of Jews is hardwired into the belief system? Obviously we're racists for even thinking it.

I've no idea whether this stabbing was related to Islam, but on a point of information, the question of whether Islam is more inherently violent than Christianity is probably to be found in the lives and teachings of both their founders. Mohammed was a warlord. Jesus was not.

I know Christianity is far from blameless in how it spread in practice, but it is not inherently warlike. Islam is.

Even in in terms of rules for one's personal life, Islam is far more violent: the closest equivalent Hadith to the New Testament story about the woman caught in the act of adultery tells how Muhammed, in his infinite kindness and wisdom, first allowed her to give birth and then breast feed her baby (born as a result of the adultery) and only after the baby was weaned did he order her to be stoned to death. There's no "Let he who is without sin…" in Islam, never mind "Go and sin no more".

And Muhammed is "the perfect man" in Islam - a model for all. So the difference is that there is very little peaceful "counterbalance" available for more peaceful Muslims to call on in opposition to the more violent ones.

(And to be clear, I'm NOT saying that all Muslims are violent. I know most aren't. I'm making a different point.)

Have they given a reason for why it's not terror related?

Just wondering how they can rule out a terrorist attack so quickly?

Most people would consider Parnell Street a main thoroughfare.

Someone said it was. I'm open to correction.