I awake this morning to news of yet another Islam-inspired terror attack, this time on shoppers at a supermarket in the city of Auckland. According to press reports, this particular Islamic savage went on a knife rampage in the supermarket injuring six people before he was shot dead by police.
This particular violent Muslim had allegedly been in New Zealand since 2016 and had arrived I the country from Sri Lanka. He was known to the authorities as being an Islamic extremist and his presence and Islamic extremist loyalties was known about by the Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern. It is being stated by the media that this savage Muslim was being monitored by the security forces but allowed to walk the streets as it was legally impossible for this dangerous individual to be kept in prison.
The Islamic attacker was said to be following an ‘ISIS ideology’ and this is what motivated the attack. A report on Sky News UK also said that the New Zealand government believe that this savage was working alone and not part of any organised terror group and had been constantly monitored prior to the attack by NZ security services.
According to Sky News, Ms Ardern is anxious that there is not a backlash against New Zealand’s Muslims due to this terror attack. She said that any backlash against the Muslim community would be wrong and added that it was the attacker “who is responsible, no one else”. She also said of this attack “What happened today was despicable, it was hateful, it was wrong. It was carried out by an individual, not a faith.” In my view Ms Ardern is absolutely correct in saying that innocent Muslims with nothing to do with terrorism should not face any backlash by an angry populace and that blame should be laid on the individual who carried out the attack. However she’s wrong in saying that the faith or ideology of Islam is blameless. Whilst many indeed the majority of Muslims want nothing to do with violent Islamic extremism, attacks like this and attackers like this one, do find their inspiration in Islamic theology. To deny that Islamic extremist attacks have their roots anywhere other than Islam is both foolish and indeed dangerous.
Thankfully, so far, nobody appears to have died in this attack apart from the terrorist himself. But it is going to cause a number of questions to be asked. Chief among those questions should be why this evil extremist bastard was allowed into New Zealand in the first place and secondly why are there not legal provisions available that would have allowed this dangerous individual to be either removed from New Zealand or kept from harming innocent New Zealanders?
