There has been another instance of a planned Islamic murder atrocity being stopped by what is quite frankly, sheer chance. This has occurred in Australia where an Islamic savage, Khaled Khayat aged 51, attempted to get a bomb packed into a meat grinder, onto an Etihad flight from Sydney to the Gulf state of Abu Dhabi.

This savage could have murdered hundreds of people had his plot succeeded but was foiled when the package containing the bomb was refused boarding permission on account of it being overweight. This makes my blood run cold. If the package had been slightly lighter it may have been allowed on the flight where the bomb would have exploded in mid air killing everyone on board.

According to a BBC report of this savage’s trial in an Australian court, the attack attempt was carried out under the auspices of ISIS. The BBC report said:

Khaled Khayat, 51, conspired to bring down the Etihad flight from Sydney to Abu Dhabi in July 2017, a jury has ruled. He had pleaded not guilty.

The plot was aborted when a bag holding the bomb was too heavy to be checked in at Sydney Airport, local media said.

He can be sentenced to life in prison.

The plan was to blow up the flight carrying 400 passengers with military grade explosives concealed in the grinder.

Police had accused Khayat, and his brother, Mahmoud, of also planning a chemical gas attack in Sydney.

Whilst Khayat has been found guilty, at the time of the original BBC report the jury were still deliberating on the fate of the other Islamic savage Mahmoud. Khayat is also reported to have given one of the most laughable defence accounts I have ever heard. Khayat claimed via his counsel that he wasn’t really a bomber, he was trying to stop the bombing. Hmm! A likely story I don’t think.

It’s horrifying to think that this attack was thwarted by sheer chance and that it was only because of a weighing issue that the bombing was prevented. Whilst we should breath a sigh of relief that many innocent people have been spared the horror of a mid air bombing, we should also realise that if things had gone differently then many people would have died. The Irish Republican terrorist group the Irish Republican Army once said following an attempt on the life of former British Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher: ‘“You have to be lucky all the time. We only have to be lucky once.”

The same issue applies to Islamic terrorists. Every plot needs to be stopped, preferably at the earliest possible opportunity. Leaving the intervention too late risks giving the savages the opportunity to carry out an atrocity. So far many Western countries have been very lucky in either stopping attacks before they occur, or, as in the Australian case, having the bombers make a huge mistake. This cannot happen for every Muslim terror plot, some are bound to get through unless more attention is turned to monitoring the Islamic minorities that dwell in the West. There is a reason why some governments, most notably that of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, engage in the audio-visual monitoring of mosques, and that is because they know that Islamic radicalism both exists and is an existential threat to the government. Maybe it’s time that Western nations did something similar and kept a much closer eye on those Muslims who pretend to be peaceful and pose as moderates whilst quietly plotting our deaths? On this occasion the Australians were lucky, next time that may not be the case. Defending against this sort of Islamic savagery cannot be left to chance, proactive measures need to be taken to stop plots before they become viable and what should worry people is how far along this Australian plot got before it fell apart.