This is like the metaphor of the rotten tree at the beginning of Atlas Shrugged - The interior of the tree has rotted out yet the tree still stands.

My Country has had a wake-up call, yet will most people bulldoze the mosques and eliminate the sites of this metastasize cancer?

Sorry... please elaborate... WTF do you mean by that comment?
thanks.

hear, hear. sad day in your country. the apologist media was as appalling as all the selfie snappers at scene

ALLROUND FAILURE OF JUSTICE—THE TEN ISSUES
1. Iranian “terrorist” granted political asylum in 1996. Whither security assessment?
2. Convicted criminal, a massive charge sheet—some 40 counts of sexual assault and harassment plus being an accomplice in a horrific crime that set his ex-wife on fire and killed her. He gets let off lightly for harassing the families of deceased soldiers. But the ex-convict also makes bail in the case of a very violent crime. Why?
3. Mentally disturbed terrorist secures shotgun. Obviously, the gun laws are working! Investigation into why this cannot be or wasn't prevented.
4. Lone gunman provides a clean target for snipers. But authorities want a peaceful solution. They do not seem to understand that killing the gunman with no innocent casualties is the most peaceful solution there is.
5. His identity is not revealed till approximately 1am. He looks different so Islamic clerics fail to identify him. Had the name been released, they were ready to go to the shop and talk him down. That may well have worked but through the sycophantic media, the authorities keep saying “we have the best negotiators in the world”.
6. These world’s best negotiators fail to secure a single release. Everyone who escapes unhurt, actually escapes. By themselves. Let’s repeat that—there is not a single, negotiated release.
7. After the first 5 escapees (after 5pm Sydney) confirm the gunman’s motives on Facebook and YouTube, American and European media freely distributes that information. Till midnight however, Australian media are prevented by Government from “releasing” the information that the whole world knows. The demand for an ISIS flag makes it Islamic. The media has been given a narrative---"politically motivated," nothing to do with Islam.
8. PM Abbott idiotically calls the practice of going to cafes very “Australian.” Mr. Abbott, there is nothing uniquely Australian about going into a café. It started in Italy, spread throughout Europe, and then to the rest of the world. Stop using Australian any and every time you can.
9. PM Abbott idiotically tells the nation that “we” should go about our “business as usual.” No, Mr. Abbott, what we need the Government to do is secure our safety and property rights, not incessantly lecture us on how we should lead our lives. Shut up and do your job, don’t just grab the mike every opportunity you get to talk about Team Australia.
10. Four vigilantes with revolvers would have achieved a better result. Hang your head in shame, NSW Police, Federal Government, NSW Government, Sycophantic Media. All of you have failed the people. I criticize the chiefs of course, not individual policemen who followed orders.

Islam is not a legitimate religion. Islam should be declared a state political war machine and banned from the world. Muslims continue committing crimes against humanity. Why do world leaders let them get by with it? They are destroying civilization.
The west has planes, rockets and drones. No need to put our troops on the ground in foreign countries. Why not arm the non-Muslim people who are willing to fight in their countries against the Islamic plague?

Um, I don't think that would work... not the wrapping truffles in bacon OR keeping muslim from entering a building that has pork inside. From what I understand, they will even eat pork if it's to deceive an infidel. I wish I could remember where I read that.

The H is there because that's how I pronounced my reaction in my head. And if I thought you cared I'd take a point from you for that last remark.

Radical Islam is a worldwide epidemic that destroys the mind and the soul of those infected. It is carried by persons calling themselves Imams and spread by acolytes as well. While the percentage of the infected seem small, because the religion has over a billion followers, even 10% is a very large number. Once infected, there is no cure except death.

Indeed!!

Disagree - the west had begun to, but not Africa or a good chunk of the middle east.

Even today - Africa is still nearly as bad as it was then, and in some ways even worse. Middle east - any improvements are from the oil money, and based on who makes headlines, improvements are becoming more and more marginal.

So Africa and middle east are not all that much different 1400 years later from a social perspective.

Right, so in the modern day it wouldn't work. But it worked perfectly then because coincidentally they were in the process of expelling the Jews as well. I love history.

The trouble with that theory is that Islam began in the 7th century. We had already evolved beyond savagery and they want to lead us back. I guess they're a backward link.

Nope. Those who voted for the ban deserve it, but everyone else gets it too. This is why decisions like that need to be left up to each individual.

The report that Aussies are displaying solidarity with the Muslims is distressing. There is nothing I would like to see more than truly riled up Aussies.

Jan
(The might even have to cancel the barbie.)

John Cleese: "Australia , meanwhile, has raised its security level from "No worries" to "She'll be alright, Mate." Two more escalation levels remain: "Crikey! I think we'll need to cancel the barbie this weekend!" and "The barbie is cancelled." So far no situation has ever warranted use of the final escalation level."

Very sad for the innocent hostages. But Monis got what he deserved!

Warning: personal conspiracy theories follow.

So, is it time to ask the Globalists who pushed for the collapsing European Union and are pushing hard for the unworkable North American Union... how's that Pan-Arabia Union working out for you?

Comrade citizens, the Emperor-In-Chief's proclaimed "religion of peace" releases hostages yet again. Allah is great.

unfortunately, this would also affect the jewish population.

it is over now. but sad about some of the hostages

there is someone on this site that took offence when i said that muslims are the missing link.
others else where say i am a racist.when it comes to muslims they are savages and i am a racist when it comes to savages. what is happening in Sydney is my proof.

According to Australian 7News, here is the a’shole’s resume highlights:
Sending hate mail to the families of Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan.
Charged with using the postal service to harass and offend, he claimed to be a peace activist, chaining himself to the courthouse steps at one point.
Sentenced to community service, and placed on a two-year good behaviour bond.
He was charged last year with being an accessory to the murder of his ex-wife, who was stabbed and set alight in a stairwell.
This year he was charged with the sexual assault of a young woman who had gone to him for so-called 'spiritual healing'.
He's currently on bail.
Meanwhile, the good people of Australia are reportedly displaying “I’ll ride with you” signs, showing solidarity with Muslims amid the Sydney siege, according to the WSJ. Too bad he’s not an employee at Lindt, for they could have called it “workplace violence…”

Several more hostages made a break for it and got away clean. After that, the Sydney police rushed in with guns blazing. That was at about 15:15 hours UTC. Everything quiet since. No one is saying a peep.

Oh! That's right...he didn't give his up, though. Funny how that works...