On the evening of Sunday the 14th of December, 2025, a father and son named Sajid and Naveed Akram killed fifteen people on Bondi Beach in Sydney Australia. The people targeted were people celebrating Hanukkah on the beach and most of the fifteen victims were Jewish and many of these were born overseas. Depending on where you count, this is about the tenth such attack since 2014 and certainly the deadliest so far this century. It is hard to argue that all these attacks were not motivated by Islam or an “extreme form of Islam” for the squeamish. That the targets have also generally been Jewish or connected to the state of Israel in some way is also hardly a coincidence.
A look through ‘Terrorism in Australia‘ on Wikipedia will demonstrate that most examples in Australian history have not been perpetrated by Australians and by Australians, I mean the people that would have been considered “Australian” by those present for Federation on January 1st 1901. This is Wikipedia of course but in this case, the bias helps because the editors have clearly included as many examples as they could that conform to their political biases. Despite this, most terrorism and all in recent memory were perpetrated by people professing Islamic beliefs and who have a paper-thin connection to Australia. The names alone should tell you these aren’t people with an ancestor brought here on a prison ship or even someone that freely immigrated from the United Kingdom in the early part of last century.
Yet for all this, the response thus far of both the NSW state and our Federal government would suggest this attack was carried out by home-grown-neo-Nazis. Continue reading
Jefferson Davis, American by William J. Cooper Jr., Knopf, November 1st, 2001
