Six Killed, Many Wounded In Knife Attack In Australia Mall

The authorities are doing everything possible to avoid linking this to radical Islam

Six people killed, attacker shot dead in Bondi Junction shopping centre stabbing attack

Police are working to formally identify a man who was shot dead after multiple people were stabbed at Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre in Sydney’s east.

Six people have died, including a 38-year-old mother, who along with her nine-month-old baby was among those injured at the shopping centre.

Eight people are being treated in hospitals around Sydney, including the nine-month-old child.

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb confirmed four other women and one man died at the centre.

Webb said later this evening police became aware of who they believe the offender may be.

“He is a 40-year-old man however we are waiting to formally identify him and we can not speculate on his identification,” she said.

“But let me assure you that we are confident that there is no ongoing risk and we are dealing with one person who is now deceased.”

Webb said, if the man is to be formally identified as suspected, officers do not believe he acted “with an ideation” consistent with a terrorist attack.

Well, as Samantha Maiden at News.com writes, all of Australia is waiting to see if this was a terrorist attack. Interestingly, most news outlets running with the stabbing story omit any picture or video of the wackjob, other than the source for the excerpt. That the authorities are refusing to release the name of the killer often tells you what you need to know. He sure fits the profile of an Islamic extremist. Time will tell. How long will authorities refuse to release the name?

(Jihad Watch) The police are saying the usual things they say about the attacker’s motive being unclear. They do not, of course, point out the obvious: the attack fits the pattern of multiple jihad attacks we have seen in Europe (and some in the U.S.) over the years, and the photos of the attacker suggest that just possibly he could be a member of a demographic containing a large number of jihadis. Also, the Islamic State and al-Qaeda have repeatedly called upon Muslims to mount attacks of this kind. So is this a jihad attack? It certainly seems so, but this could still be the one time when the authorities are correct, and it’s a random attack with no clear motive.

It could be someone, even a Muslim, going nuts, and have nothing to do with terrorism. The guy could have snapped. Perhaps it was personal and he was going after someone he knows, deciding to take out others, and it has nothing to do with terrorism. But, the odds are it was terrorism. The police, per the News.com article, know the guy. How? No one is saying. But, would we be surprised, especially with war that Hamas started going on?

BREAKING – ‘Multiple casualties’ in a stabbing attack at Westfield Bondi shopping centre in Sydney

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