Bondi was horrific, but it was not this.
Naveed Akram has appeared in court for the first time since allegedly committing Australia’s worst terror attack.
“Australia’s worst terror attack” was the Bali bombings, which took 88 Australian lives and 202 lives altogether. It clearly targeted Australians.
This is deliberate misinformation. It’s wrong, politicised, and disrespectful to the Bali victims, who were blown up in a terrorist attack led by Abu Bakar Bashir, described as the ideological godfather of Jemaah Islamiyah, which sought an Indonesian caliphate.
Bondi might be seen as the worst ever terrorist attack in Australia.
But even that is questionable. If this father and son were lone wolves, are they really part of terrorism?
Terrorism is the aim of political gains by violent means. What goal did they have? Where’s their message? What is the political intent?
This attack looks more like a couple of psychopathic anti-Semites gone on a rampage.
If that is the case, then the Bondi attack is better characterised as an anti-Semitic mass shooting.
That brings it closer to similar incidents like Martin Bryant, who killed 35 and injured 23 others, though obviously Bondi had an ethnic dimension.
Language around these things matters.
The media is about to try a new Howard bait and switch on mass immigration.
It is going to demonise anybody coming from “terror zones” while keeping the overall flow booming.
This is not going to fix any of the problems created by mass immigration and declining living standards.
And it is nasty, cutting off the flow of refugees in favour of warm bodies from China and India.
In short, calling Bondi Australia’s worst terror attack is about getting Sea Bass Taylor elected as an anti-immigration fake.
