Australia Doesn’t Have A Gun Problem, It Has An Islamist Problem
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At least 15 people were murdered at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Australia on Sunday after two alleged Islamic terrorists opened fire.
One of the suspects, Sajid Akram, moved to Australia in 1998 on a student visa before becoming a permanent resident, while his son, Naveed Akram, was born in Australia, according to Sky News. Authorities previously investigated the son “on the basis of being associated with” alleged terrorists, but authorities ultimately determined “there was no indication of any ongoing threat or threat of him engaging in violence,” according to the report.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese carefully stated in an interview that the attackers’ antisemitic “ideology” was an “extreme perversion of Islam,” but authorities haven’t released any official statement describing the motive. Even so, the truth is obvious: The terrorist attack resulted from a failure to confront the radical Islamic extremism that is inundating the West and was enabled by mass migration.
Yet within hours of the attack, Prime Minister Albanese proposed “tougher gun laws” and warned about “right-wing extremist groups.”
University of Michigan economics professor Justin Wolfers, parroting a common left-wing talking point, said on X: “Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.” But no draconian gun law would have stopped what authorities later discovered.
Police said they found “a range of IEDs” and “explosive devices” in a car purportedly belonging to the suspects, adding that the suspects planned to use the explosives to inflict “further damage,” according to Sky News. In other words, even if firearms had been unavailable, mass casualties were still the objective. The method may be interchangeable, but the intent was not.
The circumstances are hardly unique. Earlier this year a suspected radical Islamist allegedly used Molotov cocktails to light Jewish demonstrators on fire in Boulder, Colorado.