Mass shooting on Bondi Beach

The invasion of Kuwait and looting of Kuwait by Iraq was noting to do with the Iran-Iraq war.

Albanese spoke a total of 5022 words in press conferences, interviews and statements the day after the Bondi Beach attack. Of course, he managed twice to raise the threat of “right wing extremist groups”.

Never mentioned the words Muslim, Islam or Islamic extremism. Or that more was needed to be done to combat those elements.

Typical Leftist.

These are a direct quotes I made...

You are still putting words in my mouth. Saying “religious extremism is almost always political under the surface" does not mean extremists lack religious motivation - it means religious motivation alone does not explain where, when, or why it turns into organised mass violence. Politics does.

Stop claiming I said religion is irrelevant - I said it is used, not that it doesn’t matter.

Of course ideology matters. The point is that ideology doesn’t explain terrorism. Terrorism has political causes throughout history and this is still the same.

....and you say this

Denying and ignoring this and pretending geopolitical events alone are what is driving islamic terrorism is naive.

It is impossible to have a discussion with you when you make up things that I not only did not say, but actually said the opposite of.

If you want to continue pushing the narrative that terrorism is "because they are Muslim" and ignore that almost all Islamic terrorism is inextricably linked to places of war and oppression (Al Qaeda, ISIS, Hamas, Taliban), whilst also ignoring that millions and millions of Muslims will never pick up a gun in terror no more than we will, because there will never be the circumstances to, have at it.

But the issue will never be fixed.

Well just leave it there.

This is hilarious. They took them hostage, murdering many of their friends and family while doing so - and you think giving them a birthday cake, which of course they filmed for the world to see, was a kind gesture rather than a nasty power trip?
FFS

Islamic terrorists believe they are killing in the name of Islam, obviously. I haven't said any different. But what people believe they are doing is not the same as explaining why terrorism exists and spreads.

You are all conflating Islam with terrorism, as though Islam causes it. That isn't true, there are 2 billion Muslims in the world, a huge majority are peaceful, and terrorism isn't equally distributed.

Terrorism is a phenomenon that could be conflated with anything. It is a method, not an ideology. It can and has been attached to almost every belief system when conditions allow - religious (Christian, Jewish), political (communist, anarchist), ethnic (nationalist), or racial (far-right). It doesn't mean Christianity, Judaism, Nationalism, or right wing attitudes are necessarily bad or dangerous, and neither is Islam.

Many Middle Eastern countries have lived through decades of awful war, huge civilian deaths tolls, state collapse, terrible repression, proxy conflicts, and mass displacement.

Trying to argue that as irrelevant to terrorism, just because it is Islamic, makes absolutely no sense. It usually explains all the other types of terrorism mentioned above right, and has done throughout history?

Would you seriously argue that if Islam didn’t exist in the places who have been through all this horror in the last 30 or so years, that there would be no terrorism? It would attach itself to some other ideology, and everyone would be blaming that instead.

@tayto lover reference the rabbi images, and linked to them. You responded with I just referred to this.
The images I linked to are directly for that link. AI is getting harder to spot, but falling for those image is almost wellful ignorance.

Can you show where you saw that claim made or a claim that this picture you've posted is AI.

Do I really need to find someone online claiming the images are AI. They are obviously AI, and painfully so.

How is any of that relevant to what I said. You pondered how they were radicalised. I provided context.
It's a fact, that was associated with individuals who where jailed for a terror plot. I've no idea why you are getting in a twist over pointing that out.

We didn't say anything about firearms. There's a whole discussion there.
It's great that you found basic guide of firearm regulations. But I don't need you to explain Australian law to me.

The 'background' checks apparently didn't prove any barrier to the father (effectively the son also) getting access to the guns that were used in the Bondi Beach attack that killed 15 and injured many more.

Evidently not. And it raises a raises a lot of questions about how far the restrictions place on a person on interest should spread.

So that's a no then…

How is that a no? You asked me to point to a claim online.
I am quite literally claiming in this thread they are AI. Is anyone claiming my own claim. Or the other posters in this thread who proved to you they are AI. Or the articles about the other deep fakery images the victims.
I'm very surprised that it wasn't immediately obvious. The garbled text, messed up hands and faces, the clothes changing shot to shot.
I expected you to say, "my bad, I was talking about something else". But asking for proof the images are AI, after it's been pointed out. Hmmm, there's no many plausible explanations for that.

I didn't post or don't care about the image, I posted the video which shows the same guy interacting with IDF soldiers and speaking about eradicating Palestine.

That's not accurate.
A poster referenced the images of the Rabbi "Holding a rifle and a bomb" on facebook. You replied in post #500 with;

See post 497, I just referred to this.

Now, maybe you were talking about something else, but what you said was I just referred to this. I replied to what you siad, not what you meant to say.
Of course, that's undermined slightly by the fact you referred directly to the image after I posted it;

Can you show where you saw that claim made or a claim that this picture you've posted is AI.

So, it's really not up for debate. You did in fact post about the image, that I posted.

Can you answer the questions I asked with respect to the video?

I'm not sure what question you mean. This one below? I'm happy to answer…

Are you saying that video is a different man, or is false?

I didn't say anything about that video. 100% accurate answer.
I haven't seen the video, can't comment on its content.

It’s crazy that people use the war in Palestine to make excuses for terror attacks in the West. By the logic Islamic terror attacks in the West is an excuse to attack all Muslims in the West. In fact more so, as these attacks are happening here and these people are new arrivals causing trouble.