That's the way Joe, keep the herd nervous...

Nutjobs appear anywhere and everywhere. Some of them happen to be Muslim, some happen to be Aboriginal, some happen to be white anglo-Australians, etc, etc, etc.

Similarly with psychopaths: some of them become serial killers, some become politicians, some become priests, some become business people, some try to start an Islamic Caliphate and so on.

You might try looking up the meaning of the word "minority", it's an excellent one to describe extremists of all stripes, including those who express their extremism as fear-mongering insinuation.

yep their are terrorist and paedophiles among all groups Craig. Congratulations that you are at least able to see that. Its a pity you are deliberatly blinkered to an ideology/political system as well as a history that if taught with any honesty would be repugnant to the average person in Australia.

Hi Craig,

No, not nervous but vigilant. People should rehearse what they might do in a hypothetical situation if someone nearby is attacked by, as you say, an Aboriginal, Jehovah's Witness, Anglo or Muslim terrorist, how to disarm or disable him.

I'm not sure what an Aboriginal terrorist would shout as he lunged at an old lady or small child or bloke walking his dog. Or if an Anglo was doing the same. They don't seem to have ideologies, populations or religious groups at their back.

The purpose of random terrorism is to generally terrorise, especially on the part of individuals or very small groups trying to terrorise a large majority. Yes, some are psychopaths but some are completely sane people, carefully calculating the impact of terror tactics and, as you say ".... some try to start an Islamic Caliphate ...."

I'm confident that Australians will stomp on terrorism as it arises, and that they will never capitulate to pressures, brutal and subtle, to ever introduce Shari'a law - which, I think, is the fundamental aim of Islamist terrorism. But I also suspect that it will be a very long, drawn-out, struggle.

Cheers,

Joe