Fark. Just got a call from my Dad.
That is their local.
One of the injured is a friend of my step-mother, who was doing shopping for them.
Fingers crossed for them.
She is not critical thankfully, but all are v shaken up
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Sorry to hear that. Hope sheās not too badly hurt.
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Hand injury from fending him off.
She would be in her '80s.
Thank goodness.
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According to NZ media, This guy was arrested for planning an attack, spent time in prison and has been monitored by authorities since his release.
Lots of details are hidden under court orders.
On 24/7 surveillance.
They were watching him at the supermarket & shot him within 60 seconds.
Suicide by police. And ruin as many lives as you can in the process.
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Something about migration according to currents in the Indian Ocean, there are also practising Muslims in southern parts of Thailand as well as in Malaysia, Phillipines and Indonesia.
** And then thereās the spice trade
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The reality is that there are significant populations of Muslims in most countries.
Thatās not the problem. Itās the fundamentalist outlook subsets of any ideology that create the problems.
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So itās reads like the NZ High Court ruled that making preparations for a terrorist attack didnāt fall under NZās Anti Terrorism Laws.
Reckon thereāll be some acrimony over thatā¦
Thankfully this lunatic only had access to a knife.
Agree 100%.
However, some are much much worse than others.
Just to clarify, my comments had nothing to do with extremism, it was merely that I wasnāt aware of Islam in Sri Lanka.
Extremism in all of society seems to be getting more violent.
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Pity the police killed him. A more fitting ending for the attacker would have been to be boiled alive in pig fat.
Not quite. The law did not permit him to be kept in prison, but allowed for very close surveillance since he was released in 2016.
The questioning was whether the law should be further legislated to provide for more or less indefinite detentionā¦( we have some here in regard to threats to the community - Julian Knight of Hoddle Street is an example, there may be some at Federal level re terrorism convictions):
In response to Qs whether he should have been deported at the end of his sentence, Ardern professed to be unaware whether he had citizenship,
Australiaās general rule is that a custodial sentence of 12 months or more for a non citizen could mean deportation (Dutton taking out the trash). There have been issues between Australia and NZ with Australia deporting Kiwis who have lived here since infancy .
There is another issue of radicalisation when a religious minority group is discriminated against - as in Phillipines and Thailand .
IDK about Sri Lanka
Malaysia and Indonesia are predominantly Muslim
Did I say it wasnāt?
I misread. I thought it read as though there are some muslims in Malaysia
Just to note that Muslim is the State religion of Malaysia according to its Consitution, with other religions allowed to practise.
Indonesia is 58% Muslim, most religions, including Muslim, permitted by the Constitution to practise without discrimination . Aceh province is the outlier where it is permitted to apply Sharia law.