I guess 2 distinctions here is that this is likely closer to lone wolf (even though it was a pair) style terrorism than the mass shooting problem that is afflicting the States.
Almost a meaningless distinction, but I have to think a lot of the causes and motives underlaying this shooting are more related to radical racist ideologies, where the US there is a something of a self harm, dragging others down with you, blaze of glory issue, just somehow distinct from what we'd think of as terrorism.
Additionally when faced with something like this in the past, Australians have shown a willingness to take quick and meaningful action. So hopefully something other than thoughts and payers comes out of this one.
He’s a Lebanese Christian, regardless it does not matter tho. He’s a hero
Australian Jews had been sounding the alarm for a while now and the broad consensus within the community is not enough has been done to protect their community. A synagogue was burnt down not even a year ago and all the Jewish community got was some condolences. If an entire community is in agreement not enough was being done and something like this happens i’d wager that community probably had a point.
Anti-semitism has been on the rise for years - in Australia, the U.S., and in Europe. That’s the context for the shootings.
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‘The inevitable has happened’: Bondi beach attack follows rise in antisemitic incidents
… Experts point out that antisemitism was already widely prevalent before the bloody conflict in Gaza, provoked by the Hamas attack into Israel of October 2023, polarised opinions across the world.
The most lethal attack against the Jewish community in the US, for example, came in 2018, while in 2023, Michael O’Flaherty, the director of the EU’s agency for fundamental rights, described such hate as a “deeply ingrained racism in European society” that posed an existential threat to the continent’s Jewish community.
… In Australia, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) logged 1,654 anti-Jewish incidents in the 12 months to 30 September, about three times higher than any annual total before the war in Gaza. In a report earlier this month, the ECAJ said anti-Jewish racism had left the fringes of society and become part of the mainstream, with “an increasing ideological alignment … between neo-Nazis, the anti-Israel left or Islamists”.
Terrorism experts know that radicalisation does not occur in a vacuum. Such violence remains a social activity, reflecting broader trends. This means even incidents of race hate seen as relatively minor – hateful graffiti, racist insults in the street, and similar – suggest something deeper and more dangerous.
I think what he means is just that no one is paying attention. I've talked to a guy that had to leave a mosque in Calgary because the rhetoric was not something he could support. I know of a church 10 minutes from my house that could be better described as a cult.
Religious extremism is getting bad, and the fact that the Muslim community is insular, just makes it easier to happen there.
I'm just gonna go ahead and leave this right here.
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And that is why you fail. Real knowledge and insight will never be gathered in the time it takes to go to the bathroom.
And to be real, a 12 minute video doesn't come close to really understanding any issue.
If I could wish for one thing for the entire world, it would be to take 30 minutes a day to investigate any issue on a moderately deep level. That's it. 30 minutes. Your entire day is LOOOOONNNNGGG... and 30 minutes is really nothing. Yet, it might change your perspective in deep and meaningful ways. You may actually become a better person, a better citizen, a better husband/wife, a better father/mother. Just better.
Yet, we are so accustomed to the cheap and quick fix that we don't invest any of our day in our intellect or psyche. More is the pity. This is why the human race is stuck in a cycle of hatred and violence. There's no other explanation other than laziness in gaining wisdom.
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I used to think the world would be better off without religion.
But I think humanity is wired to participate in some type of belief system though. If it’s not spiritual, then where does that faith and energy get directed? Something fills the void - is this “something” a net benefit to society?
I’m beginning to come back around to religion. Not because I believe, but because I prefer that society as opposed to the one of “atheists”.
