Hello. Who started the terror? Not non-Muslims, who have been “angry and afraid’ of Islamic terror for a very long time now. It's a given that terror and violence, no matter who the perpetrator is, is wrong; but did Muslims seriously think that there would no retaliation eventually from people on the other side who were fed up with the cowardice and incompetence of Western 'leaders’. Those who live by the sword, die by the sword. 50 people were killed in New Zealand by an Australian terrorist. Thousand and thousands of people throughout the world have been killed by Muslim terrorist over decades.

Your 'anger’ is sickeningly hypocritical. Your mention of ‘OUR doorstep’ when speaking of Syria etc, speaks volumes about your attitude to the country you actually live in.

The problem with white supremacists? Is that there are far too many of them in our midst along with, their right-wing, Hansenite sympathisers?

As the Nazis/Fascists did in the thirties,( some of them seemingly devout Sunday morning Christians) latch on to community dissatisfaction and marginalisation!
To progress political ambitions and the acquisition of power!

While many of us are horrified by this mindless slaughter! We don't resile from a view that Christian culture and sword-wielding Islam are mutually exclusive inculcated belief systems!

And cannot allow that this mindless slaughter be used by activists to push acceptance of an alien medieval culture that craves (like an addicted power junkie) wherever it goes, to be the (must be) dominant culture?

Sorry for your loss! Pax vobiscum.
Alan B.

I can well understand the author's fears following this brural attack. The incident took place in the context of a certain amount of anti-Muslim sentiment associated with reactions to attacks by Islamic terrorists in western countries, including Australia.

I, however, don't agree with the statement that "this was not a random lone wolf attack. It was an organized, terror cell". All the investigations so far indicate that the gunman acted alone and nobody else has been changed. To date there is no evidence of any terror cell beyond the gunman himself.

'Will the PM do the same this time and call upon the White Australian community "to do more" to combat radicalized Australian Christians and to identify them to police?'

actually Kuranda the offender went to a state high school and called himself an eco facist. I hope you know your own religion a little better than Chritianity. You really don't seem to have much of a clue like the left in this country who are extremly naive or just outright dishonest.

Maybe being afraid is a good thing. I don't agree with what the gunman did, and am sorry for you and your community's loss. However, I honestly don't think that the Muslim community is grasping the fear that comes from repeated Islamic terrorists.

Be afraid. So that you understand the fear. In hopes that you will not let this happen again from fellow Muslims, or either agree or remain silent when they act in criminal and terrorist ways.

When my son was randomly attacked by a bunch of 4 gutless Muslims while walking home from the railway station, in the quiet Sydney suburb of Allawah, the police could not get any of the residents who saw it happen, even admit they had seen it, let alone identify the attackers.

When Muslim citizens are as interested in stopping such attacks on ordinary Australians by Muslims, I might become more interested in the wellbeing of Muslims.

In the meanwhile, while I deplore that it is usually the innocent that suffer in this type of attack I will always think of my son, lying on the ground being kicked in the head by 4 gutless wonder Muslims, simply for living in a suburb they wanted as a Muslim enclave, rather than any Muslim victim.

Kuranda Seyit you are reaping what some of your people have sewn. Once you are prepared to help stamp out Muslin violence, you will have more chance of having us all help stamp out any directed towards you.