It is all very simple. The ISIS announced a couple of years back that
they were at war with a number of western countries and Australia was
on the list.
Australia ignored that statement. So did all of those named.
A mistake. Each country should have taken them at their word and also
proclaimed a state of war to exist with ISIS & its affiliates.

If that had been done we would now be in a different situation.
We would not be hampered by legal rules that apply to our own citizens
as well as visitors as enemy aliens would not be allowed into the
country and those already here would be interned or repatriated.
Anyone taking action against Australian citizens if not in uniform
and in possession of a pay book could be deemed to be a spy and put before a firing squad.
They are the rules of war so do not forget it.
These were the rules from September 1939 to September 1945.
This is what war is about and Islam declared war on Rome about 650 ad.
"Rome" in that sense meant the same as ISIS's declaration.
Just because Mohommad did not know of the existence of Australia
does not mean we are not included in "Rome".

In the last weeks I have been reading the history of Rome in the final
years.
I had not realised that Rome had been battling the Islamists in its
last years and that an Islam army had occupied Rome for a short period
until turfed out by a Papal army organised with other Italian regions.
I read about the Great Siege of Malta and the occupation of Sicily.
The Islamist armies rampaged around the Mediterranean.
I had known that they occupied Spain for hundreds of years and invaded
France and Switzerland.
I had known about the attack for the third time on Vienna and their
war with Poland.

After all that it is hardly surprising what is happening in Europe
today.

Hi Bazz,

Another myth about the Religion of Peace, used by Islamists and useful idiots, is that it has always been peacefully united, one peaceful family, and that it's been the West, 'Rome', which has viciously and sadistically set one part against another in its vile - but fruitless - attempt to divide it. Yes, ignorance can be bliss.

I wonder if anyone has ever attempted to put together a history of the schisms and splits and feuds and betrayals of Islam since 632 AD. There have been, of course, the deep split between Sunni and Shi'ites since soon after Mohamed' supposed death, rival caliphates in Spain and elsewhere, and long wars between powers claiming to be Muslim, almost wars without end.

Being without a 'pope' or single dictatorial head, Muslims have been relatively free to dream up their own local doctrines and split from the rest. 'Prophets' have sprung up and devised even more schisms. Different ethnic groups within Islam, Arabs and Turks and Berbers and Persians and Afghans, have fought against each other bitterly for control of the whole pie, at times for centuries.

My favourite, rampant across north and west Africa from the 1820s and probably still going strong, in Libya at least, is the sect which believes that Mohamed wasn't the last prophet, the last true prophet has yet to be born, and it would be to a man, none of that filthy women rubbish. So they get around in very baggy trousers, awaiting the day.

Given Mohamed's predilection for winged horses with women's faces (it's what got him to Jerusalem, after all, therefore that city is Muslim forever), there is probably a sect in Yemen which claims to breed them.

Islam, at current rates, will never be united, no more than Christianity will be. For those of us atheists, who consider it the 'perfect religion', a pox on humanity, [wow, that's going to blow a few minds: 'how can it be both ?!'], at least that's some consolation.

Cheers,

Joe