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The Sydney Opera House on October 9, 2023, should have been a wake-up call to all Australians, especially the politicians and police. News of the most horrific massacre of Jews since WWII breaks and how does Muslim Western Sydney react? With spontaneous celebration: fireworks, carloads of young men doing triumphant blockies and imams from Australia’s biggest mosque telling cheering crowds ‘I’m elated!’
They were celebrating the mass slaughter, torture, rape and abduction of Jews. That should have been warning enough that something was profoundly rotten in the heart of Muslim Australia.
It got worse. Two days later, a howling Muslim mob stormed the most famous building in Australia, waving Hamas flags and chanting, “Gas the Jews! Gas the Jews!”
Instead of waking up, the entire political class and the security agencies hit the snooze button.
Just over two years later, two Western Sydney Muslims stormed the most famous beach in Australia. Fifteen dead and dozens injured in a cold-blooded massacre of Jewish families at a Chanukah celebration. If only police had had some kind of warning…
“Please be aware of Salafi organisation ‘Bankstown Dawah’ which maintains concerning membership and activity in Sydney,” an email from CSG to the NSW Police’s Terrorism Intelligence Unit and the senior officers reads.
“Other closely associated individuals include Naveed AKRAM.”
Akram is, of course, one of the father-and-son Muslim mass-murderers at Bondi. This was also a year after Akram first came to ASIO’s attention, as part of an ISIS-linked cell that included Isaac El Matari, who was jailed for plotting attacks in Australia.
So, when yet another warning came, from the Community Security Group in July 2019 – not some tinfoil-hatter, but the people actually tasked with protecting Jewish Australians – you’d think police would take some notice. Instead they filed it somewhere near ‘too hard’ and went back to scarfing up free Maccas and monitoring Facebook memes.
As the Bell royal commission has already established, the last thing police could be bothered with was protecting Jewish Australians, despite two years of escalating antisemitic violence. CSG begged for proper police presence at Chanukah by the Sea. They got three petite girls in uniform and a supervisor. Barely enough for crowd control at a sausage sizzle, let alone stopping jihadists.
If the Akrams’ ISIS social circle, mounting stockpile of guns and jihadi package tours to the Philippines’ terror training camps weren’t warning enough, all security agencies had to do was actually pay attention to what the Islamic State was urging its sympathisers to do. The Bondi attack is almost to the letter from an ISIS terror-exhortation speech from January 2024.
“Chase your preys whether Jewish, Christian or their allies, on the streets and roads of America, Europe, and the world… Kill them by the worst of means, turn their gatherings and celebrations into bloody massacres” […]
The Bondi gunmen allegedly used IEDs, as per the instructions of the speech, but they failed to detonate.
The statement also urged the 72 virgin-chasers to “Kill them wherever you find them”. That phrase ought to be horrifyingly familiar to anyone with even a passing acquaintance with Islamic scripture.
Because it’s a direct quote from the Quran. This isn’t some Not Real Islam™ ‘misinterpretation’: it’s direct from the camel’s mouth. By Islam’s own tenets, it’s the direct and unalterable command of Allah himself.
As Graeme Wood wrote years ago, when the beheaders were on the march: this stuff is “very Islamic”.
Islamic State didn’t die in 2019. It’s been biding its time, exploiting Gaza, pumping out fresh propaganda, and finding eager young men in Sydney’s western suburbs who never really left the caliphate behind. The media lost interest the moment the black flags stopped flying over Raqqa, and took no notice when they started flying over the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the heads of the well-fed smirking faces of the ‘pro-Palestine’ scum. And that’s not a metaphor or literary licence: it literally happened.
The same crowd that spent years shrieking about ‘far-right extremism’, while African gangs turned Melbourne suburbs into no-go zones, now acts shocked that Salafi street preachers might actually mean what they preach. The Joint Counter Terrorism Team knew the names. ASIO knew the network. NSW Police had the file. Yet here we are.
Chris Minns, who sat on his hands for two years after the Opera House Muslimnacht, now floats letting Jewish security carry guns. Of course it’s ‘unlikely to eventuate’. As if a Labor politician would frighten his vital Western Sydney constituency with a Muslim’s worst nightmare: a Jew with a gun and the guts to use it. No, we can’t have the Jews defending themselves when the real priority is not offending the community whose young men keep trying to murder them.
This isn’t isolated incompetence. It’s institutional denial. The same denial that let the Opera House mob chant genocidal slogans in the open. The same denial that pretends Islamic State is yesterday’s news while its ideology radicalises the next generation of ‘youths of Middle Eastern appearance’.
If the royal commission is worth anything, it had better ask the obvious question: why are our security agencies more terrified of being called ‘Islamophobic’ than of another massacre?
Because the next one is certainly already in the pipeline.
