This intelligent, reasoned and articulate article should be required reading for anyone attempting to understand and comment on the recent events in a Sydney coffee shop.

Junaid, perhaps you're right. Perhaps it was just a strange coincidence that the guy was a Muslim, nothing to do with the Muslim belief system?

Perhaps IS are just misinterpreting Islam too? The Koran doesn't say anything about killing unbelievers, right?

Perhaps it's all just a terrible misunderstanding.

Right?

Saw a quote in the paper the other day, by the Muslim who was sentenced for killing a British soldier. The judge who told him he's betraying Islam. "I'm not betraying Islam." he replied "You don't understand Islam."

It just happens they all somehow interprate islam in their own way.
AU is forever going to be sus of the islamic nation.

You are so right Junaid, this symbolic violence will continue till people with 'vision' can see 'the true color'

Isn’t this the Junaid Cheema that considers a child holding a sign calling for critics of Islam to be beheaded a mere mistake? Isn’t this the writer that says that anti-Muslim attitudes are ‘intolerable’ and ‘insane’ – the product of hate and fear. Isn’t he the one that uses statistics to ‘prove’ that Muslims are responsible for just a miniscule part of world terror? These references are from an OLO article in 2012, before ISIS, before Boko Haram, before the recent attacks in the UK, Canada, the US – not to mention the ever present atrocities in Muslim societies (including Muslims killing children this week)

Perhaps Mr Chemma would care to explain why a non-Muslim should not be offended by the slander, hate and violence in the Quran directed at infidels? Perhaps he would also explain to us why we should trust a people that consider a man like Mohammed to be a great moral example when all of the hadith and early Islamic histories (written by Muslims) tell us he attacked his neighbors for 10 years, killing, looting, raping captives, torturing and enslaving men women and children?

No, he blames Australia and the West. He calls us intolerant and bigots but like all Muslims he ignores the actions of Muslims. To him, morality is for others, Muslims have faith, expressed in the black and white banner proclaiming their love for a barbaric god that delights in brutal torture and a man that is quoted in the hadith saying “I am made victorious with terror”. Mohammed, Cheema and the vile sheik share that belief, morals not required.

As with all Muslims, Mr Chemma never calls for Muslims to change, to be tolerant and change their societies, to condemn the hate and violence in the Quran, to condemn Mohammad’s attacks on his peaceful neighbors. No, it is always the non-Muslims that are wrong, that must change and accept the goodness of Islam and Muslims without criticism or questions.

Rather than a case of suspending rationality, mistrust and dislike of Islam is a matter of common sense and basic moral principles

We may, I suspect, get a similar article (with name changes) after the next terror episode staged by a Muslim in Australia.

Perhaps there won't be one?

Wanna bet?