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2014-12-15 Down Under
Shiite may be Sydney siege hostage taker
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Posted by phil_b 2014-12-15 09:25|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-15/sydney-siege-hostages-cafe-martin-place-police-operation/5967232
Posted by 3dc 2014-12-15 09:54||   2014-12-15 09:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Would a Shiite use the [Sunni] ISIS flag, or is that sentiment simple a Muslim one?
Posted by trailing wife 2014-12-15 10:36||   2014-12-15 10:36|| Front Page Top

#3 more importantly... why would someone be "on bail for a string of violent offences, including being an accessory to the murder of his ex-wife"??
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-12-15 10:40||   2014-12-15 10:40|| Front Page Top

#4 I demand to see Al Sharpton, Geraldo Rivera, or Valerie Jarrett. This Jewish coffee shop must CLOSE IMMEDIATELY !
Posted by Besoeker 2014-12-15 10:48||   2014-12-15 10:48|| Front Page Top

#5 It's over.

10:46 AM
ABC News Sydney
@abcnewsSydney
RT @nswpolice : #Sydneysiege is over. More details to follow.
Retweeted By Nnguerrero

10:44 AM
NSW Police
@nswpolice
Sydney siege is over. More details to follow.
Posted by trailing wife 2014-12-15 10:54||   2014-12-15 10:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Same link:
Sydney siege live: Loud explosions heard as police storm Lindt cafe

Updated 8 minutes ago Mon 15 Dec 2014, 10:38am

Police have stormed the Lindt cafe in Sydney after an intense period of loud explosions or gunshots and flashes of lights.

Several ambulances are on the scene.

Earlier, police identified the man behind the siege as Iranian cleric Man Haron Monis.

Monis has been holding an unknown number of people hostage at the Lindt Chocolat Cafe in Sydney's Martin Place since Monday morning.

Three people emerged from the building about 4:00pm (AEDT) and they were followed by another two an hour later.

Hostages were earlier seen pressing a black flag with Arabic text against the cafe's windows.

Monis is on bail for a string of violent offences and has a conviction for sending offensive letters to the families of deceased soldiers.
Posted by trailing wife 2014-12-15 10:56||   2014-12-15 10:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Monis, who was granted political asylum in Australia

So why would they grant him asylum? After all his offenses, the Aussies should have put him on a very small boat somewhere in the South Pacific.
Posted by JohnQC 2014-12-15 11:12||   2014-12-15 11:12|| Front Page Top

#8 The multi-culti industry's pets are so charming and cuddly...
Posted by M. Murcek 2014-12-15 12:09||   2014-12-15 12:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Coming up next: "This is not Islam" and "Muslims Fear Backlash"...
Posted by tu3031 2014-12-15 12:28||   2014-12-15 12:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Drudge already had Sydney Muslims Fear Backlash
Posted by Shipman 2014-12-15 12:51||   2014-12-15 12:51|| Front Page Top

#11 As I indicated in another post earlier, based on the flag he was displaying at the Australian cafe, the terrorist is a member of the Hizb ut-Tahrir international Islamic Group.

Their "About Us" statement from their web site: (Link)

"Hizb ut-Tahrir is a political party whose ideology is Islam. Its objective is to resume the Islamic way of life by establishing an Islamic State that executes the systems of Islam and carries its call to the world. Hizb ut-Tahrir has prepared a party culture that includes a host of Islamic rules about life’s matters. The party calls for Islam in its quality as an intellectual leadership from which emanates the systems that deals with all man’s problems, political, economic, cultural and social among others. Hizb ut-Tahrir is a political party that admits to its membership men and women, and calls all people to Islam and to adopt its concepts and systems. It views people according to the viewpoint of Islam no matter how diverse their nationalities and their schools of thought were. Hizb ut-Tahrir adopts the interaction with the Ummah in order to reach its objective and it struggles against colonialism in all its forms and attributes in order to liberate the Ummah from its intellectual leadership and to deracinate its cultural, political, military and economic roots from the soil of the Islamic lands. Hizb ut-Tahrir endeavours to change the erroneous thoughts which colonialism has propagated, such as confining Islam to rituals and morals."
Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-12-15 12:54||   2014-12-15 12:54|| Front Page Top

#12 1 down, 1,599,999 more to go. It will take a while to fully eradicate the Muslim pestilence - but the time will pass anyway. 'Might as well accomplish something along the way.
Posted by Lone Ranger 2014-12-15 13:02||   2014-12-15 13:02|| Front Page Top

#13 "40 sexual and indecent assault charges"

40? And this creep was free on bail?
Posted by European Conservative 2014-12-15 13:10||   2014-12-15 13:10|| Front Page Top

#14 Luckily he wasn't an American frat boy otherwise they'd broad brush summarily convict and punish the entire Muslim Greek community. Oh, wait, does being a Muslim rank you higher on the academic victimology hierarchy than feminist?
Posted by Procopius2k 2014-12-15 13:49||   2014-12-15 13:49|| Front Page Top

#15 Aussie expert on Fox said:
1) US Consulate was right down the street.
2) Aussie version of the Fed was at the corner
3) NSW Premier's office was around the corner.

Next a lady spotted him and called the cops. He appeared to have panicked and quickly moved to the soft target of the chocolate house.
Posted by 3dc 2014-12-15 14:14||   2014-12-15 14:14|| Front Page Top

#16 JohnQC, Australia has claim to a section of Antarctica. certainly they can set up some space for an ex-Jihadi colony. Just hope Ramadan doesn't come during the all dark season.
Posted by rjschwarz 2014-12-15 14:42||   2014-12-15 14:42|| Front Page Top

#17 Johb QC. You have it wrong. They mat eat at night for Ramadan. They must fast during daylight.
Posted by JFM 2014-12-15 15:19||   2014-12-15 15:19|| Front Page Top

#18 You may be granted asylum if you convert out of islam.
Posted by irishrageboy 2014-12-15 15:52||   2014-12-15 15:52|| Front Page Top

#19 Turns out this guy was a nutjob even before he "converted". This isnt Islamist as much as it is simply a nutbag with an excuse.
Posted by OldSpook 2014-12-15 16:08||   2014-12-15 16:08|| Front Page Top

#20 I'll go with 'Islamist nutbag.' It's far more inclusive.
Posted by Besoeker 2014-12-15 16:11||   2014-12-15 16:11|| Front Page Top

#21  'Islamist nutbag.' is a tautology.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-12-15 17:07||   2014-12-15 17:07|| Front Page Top

#22 I think he was a Sunni refugee from Iran. I imagine it isn't good to be an Iranian Sunni. I would think There is probably land in New Guiani available for a jihadist settlement. Someone could start a rumor that they taste like chicken.
Posted by Super Hose 2014-12-15 19:27||   2014-12-15 19:27|| Front Page Top

#23 Various Net Artics claim flag is similar to one oft used by Jubhat al-Nusra in the ME as well as Chechen Militants.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-12-15 21:51||   2014-12-15 21:51|| Front Page Top

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