Runner,

I think you might be being too hard on the politicians. I think they are intimidated by the unelected infrastructure of special rights commissions and special broadcasting services and pretend academics who equate any straight talking about Islam with racism and hate crimes.

Picking on these poor misguided lefties, tch tch, none of you'll be invited to become a 'Green', will they Ms Hansen Young !

Of course shot's couldn't have been fired at the alleged offender ? It's against the law to discharge a firearm in or near a public place ? And you never know what politician that might be watching ?

Happy Hanukkah (December 16, 2014) and Merry Christmas David Singer

Yes Monis the Fake Cleric, Rapist and Murderer

Was consciously serving the interests of "Islamic" State.

driving cars into groups of people seem to be the latest Islamic thing with 2 in 2 days in France. Just 2 loners. Nothing to do with their belief system even know both drivers yelled AllahuAkbar before putting the pedal down.

Officer Barbrady says move along nothing to see here. Poor Tony. Got a bit of that midas touch in reverse thing happening. Or perhaps Peta ate his notes.
Can't be too hard on him. Must be hard trying to occupy the middle ground between blatently obvious and stubborn blindness.

Must be frustrating for the islamists too. Can imagine them throwing dried dates at the tv saying it is about us. Geez he had that flag held up to the window.
Maybe we can find common ground after all..

And crikey Rhosty. If we allowed people to posess arms if they wanted to we'd all have to be polite to oneanother. That'd be really bad. What sorta place do you want this to be?

Tony Abbott has joined the ABC and the unlikely association of western leaders from the right and the left, in trying to disassociate Islam from terrorism. David Cameron, George Bush, and Barack Obama have all made public statements claiming that terrorism and Islam are not related. Prime Minster David Cameron claimed that "Islamic extremism and Islam are not the same thing." (?) Bush claimed that "Islam is a peaceful religion, a religion which respects others". (?) President Obama stated that "Islam has always been a part of America's story." (?)

There has to be an explanation for the phenomenon of intelligent western leaders making public statements which are self evidently contrary to observable reality. We could be looking at the Stockholm Syndrome, but perhaps the real reason is more prosaic.

For almost fifty years, western leaders have been collectively enamoured with the concept of multiculturalism, and the concept that all human beings, cultures and religions were equal. Once this concept was universally accepted and internalised, the mass immigration of generally dysfunctional third world people into functioning first world communities was accepted by all western leaders as being no threat to the safety or stability of the societies which they were responsible for protecting.

The fact that Islam must seek to dominate all others in every society where Muslims live was something that western leaders never thought about. It is only now that they are realising the gravity of their mistake. This has left them all in a real quandary. To admit that Muslims are a danger to their society would be to admit publically that they got it wrong in a big way. It would mean renouncing their humanitarian ideals as well as telling the Muslims now resident in their societies that they are now to be considered a hostile presence.

Better to pretend that no problem exists and to make silly statements contradicting reality in order to calm the increasingly alarmed public. Better to grovel to our imported enemies in the forlorn hope that they will not follow Allah's directive to "fight the unbelievers who are near to you."