John McLean
Citizen typist. Enthusiastic amateur.
I rarely comment on events outside of New Zealand, because I almost never have anything to say. Oodles of others, closer to the action and with deeper insights and inside sources, do to death big overseas happenings, including mass killings.
But in the wake of the Bondi Beach Barbarity*, I’ll offer a few thoughts from my New Zealand perspective.
*(The words “barbarity”/“barbarian”/“barbarous” are etymologically derived from the ancient Greek word “barbaros”, meaning “foreign”. The Barbary corsairs were Muslim pirates operating off the North coast of Africa – the “Barbary” Coast – between the 16th and 19th centuries. “Barbary” is derived from the name of the Berber people of that region and not from the Greek “barbaros”).
The Bondi Beach massacre was executed by a Muslim father-and-son duo, Sajid Akram (shot dead by police) and his son Naveed (shot, but still alive). In response to the carnage, the Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand (FIANZ) has issued the following press release:
FIANZ’s issuance of a condemnatory statement in this case is laudable. Because FIANZ often tries to ignore Islamic extremist violence. For instance, with easy PR Brownie points available, FIANZ maintained a stony silence over the 2022 Islamist knife attack on Fatwa-ed writer Salman Rushdie.
Unfortunately, FIANZ’s statement doesn’t reflect that the Bondi massacre was perpetrated by Islamic extremists. FIANZ’s response is therefore characterized by obfuscation. And it’s certainly not FIANZ’s first batch of fudge.
On 3 September 2021, Ahamed Samsudeen stabbed eight people in an Auckland supermarket before the police – who were tasked with keeping him under constant surveillance, but failed – shot him dead. Samsudeen was a Sri Lankan Muslim who had fraudulently claimed refugee status in order to live in New Zealand.
It was nigh on inevitable that Samsudeen would violently attack New Zealanders. He’d already done extensive prison time for posting approving videos of ISIS atrocities, accumulating all sorts of lethal weapons, obstructed police search warrants, and much else besides. How the Auckland District Court could have released him on bail just before his stabbing spree, and why he hadn’t been deported years earlier, remain mysteries that the ongoing coronial inquiry into this death won’t even try to address.
FIANZ’s response to the Samsudeen stabbings illustrates, yet again, Muslims’ constant denials that violence in the name of Allah (or his so-called “final prophet”, Muhammad) is what it so clearly is – Islam-motivated:
“Terrorists who do such inhumane and vile acts do not belong to any religion... They act out of sheer hate.”
At a 2024 hearing to define the scope of the Samsudeen coronial inquiry, FIANZ’s chairperson Abdur Razzaq cast Samsudeen as an innocent victim of New Zealand’s Security Intelligence Service (which he alleged had victimized Samsudeen by formally classifying him as a security threat) and of inadequate care from New Zealand’s mental health services:
That [security threat] label would go on to impact every aspect of his life from that moment forward. From the failure to recognise and treat his obvious mental health issues, from the spectre of constant surveillance, to the decision to use lethal force rather than alternatives which would finally take his life.
Even the most ardent Islamists and Islamic sympathizers and apologists will, however, struggle to characterize the Bondi Beach murderers as innocent by reason of insanity. Nonetheless, the Fudge Factory has upped its production lines…
Despite the gunmen having sworn allegiance to ISIS (with ISIS flags on and in Naveed’s car), Australian Prime Minister initially announced there is “no evidence” that the pair were linked to ISIS.
And despite Australia’s federal Security Intelligence Organisation having known of Naveed’s ISIS affiliations since 2019, New South Wales Police have refused to take even a stab in the dark at the dastardly duo’s ideologies and motivations.
The primary Islamophiliac Fudge being applied to the Bondi Beach jihadi terrorists is that they were not motivated by Islamic ideologies but were just your bog-standard Jew-haters. No different to the burgeoning ranks of anti-Semites on the left and right of the political spectrum. It’s a cunning and convenient narrative, especially given the global rise in that most ancient of hates, antisemitism.
The matriarch of the Akram household has gone into bat for her son Naveed. Varena has expressed disbelief that her son was even involved, announcing publicly:
He doesn’t have a firearm. He doesn’t even go out. He doesn’t mix around with friends. He doesn’t drink, he doesn’t smoke, he doesn’t go to bad places… Anyone would wish to have a son like my son … he’s a good boy.
Contrary to Varena’s announcement, Naveed certainly did have firearms. He got them from his father Sajid, who had the gun licence and supplied his son Naveed’s deadly shooting sticks and ammunition. In Western societies, a son is not a “good boy” simply by virtue of not going out and not mixing with friends. Quite the opposite. They’re warning signs that the lonely lad could be a dangerous weirdo.
In fact, Naveed had a firm friend in Sydney-based Wisam Haddad, becoming a street preacher for the radical, pro-ISIS Muslim cleric.
And while Varena claims her son “doesn’t go to bad places”, he and his father travelled to the Philippines for most of November 2025, almost certainly to receive military-style training from Islamic-State-affiliated militants. Methinks Varena knows more than she’s letting on and is lying to the Infidels.
Father Sajid emigrated from Pakistan to Australia in 1998 on a student visa and became a permanent resident. In all likelihood, he’s been an Islamist terrorist ‘sleeper’ all along, quietly planning his Bloody Father-and-Son Bondi Bonding Session. Given his son’s known radical Islamism, it’s preposterous that Sajid could legally have retained his six guns under a lawful gun licence.
It’s tempting to conclude that anyone who kills perfect strangers in cold blood must be mentally ill. But neither Sajid nor Naveed were mad (mentally ill) when they conducted their massacre. They were bad people deliberately doing dreadful deeds.
Bad ideas, such as Islamic ideology and zealous adherence to the edicts of the Muslim holy books, produce abominable behaviour like the Bondi atrocity. It’s as simple as that. To a lesser degree, the Western Woke Cult infects otherwise normal people with crazy, deleterious ideologies – including a deranged love of all things Islamic.
ISLAMOPHRENIA IN AOTEAROAJohn McLean 25 June 2023
This piece explores New Zealand’s cryptic – nigh on schizophrenic – attitude towards Islam and Muslim people.
Just as Christchurch mosques murderer Brenton Tarrant was possessed and motivated by dangerous ideology (in his case, white supremacism), Sajid and Naveed were clearly driven by dire Islamic jihadist justifications.
How many more murderous Muslim maniacs are lurking in Australia, and across the Tasman Sea in New Zealand? When will Western governments truly wake up to the internal Muslim phantom menace? Because it’s no illusion. Barbarians are inside the gate.
This article was originally published on the author’s Substack.
