SAEED Noori was already 18 in 2004, when the war in Afghanistan between NATO troops and the Taliban was escalating.
But instead of fighting in his country, he fled to Australia along with his brothers, sister and parents.
The Noori family had hit the jackpot as refugees in the world’s most generous per-capita resettlement program, with free healthcare, education, income support and housing in suburban Melbourne.
As Noori made his home in our peaceful country, young Australians were dying in his country, trying to liberate it from the Taliban he had escaped.
In 2007, when Noori was 21 and had gained full citizenship, three Australian soldiers were killed in Oruzgan province: Private Luke Worsley, 26, SASR Sergeant Matthew Locke, 33, and Trooper David Pearce, 41.
Police allege that last week Saeed Noori repaid Australia’s kindness by driving an SUV into pedestrians at a busy intersection on Melbourne’s Flinders St, hospitalising 19 people, aged from four to 83.
Yesterday he was charged with 18 counts of attempted murder and one count of conduct endangering life.
Thanks to the rancid political correctness of the Victorian Premier and his police chiefs, we have been engaged ever since in an unsavoury semantic argument about whether or not this amounted to an act of terrorism.
Acting Chief Commissioner Shane Patton initially ruled out terrorism and raised the mental illness and alleged drug use of the suspect in custody last week.
In doing so he appeared to ignore the religious ideology which is the primary motivation of similar vehicle attacks around the world. Here we had a suspect who fit the profile of similar vehicle terrorist attacks in Nice, Jerusalem, Berlin, London, Stockholm, Barcelona, New York.
He’s Muslim, and a refugee. And he allegedly told police the attack was in retaliation for the “mistreatment of Muslims”, and cited “Allah” and ASIO.
Obviously the majority of Muslims in Australia are not terrorists, but the majority of terrorists are Muslims.
Equally, the majority of refugees are not terrorists but the majority of terrorist attacks carried out in Australia have been by refugees, despite what ASIO boss Duncan Lewis told a Senate committee in May.
For instance Iranian Man Haron Monis at the Lindt cafe was a refugee, as was Afghan Numan Haider, 18, who stabbed two police officers in Melbourne in the name of Islamic State, as was Iranian Farhad Jabar, 15, who murdered police accountant Curtis Cheng in Parramatta in 2015.
Also refugees were two of the men convicted over the Holsworthy Barracks terror plot in 2009 — Saney Aweys and Nayef El Sayed — and Islamic State boss Mohammad Ali Baryalei, accused of conspiring to kidnap and behead a random Australian.
To be fair to the Victorian police, perhaps at the time that Patton gave his press conference on Thursday there was not enough evidence to meet a legal definition of terrorism. But authorities need to find a form of words which passes the pub test, because what happened last week in Flinders St is what in normal language is understood to be a terrorist attack.
More at https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rende ... 8fce5542e3It is time for honesty about the source of the terrorist threat in this country, and the make-up of our refugee intake. There are plenty of Christian and Yazidi refugees in the world to help, without offering to share our home with people who want to kill us.
Gotta love Miranda. She shoots from the hip and I agree 100%. What happened WAS a terrorist attack and should not be glossed over.
PC proponents need to be expelled once and for all.
