[Magdalen] Siege in Sydney

[Marion Thompson]

I think the store's manager trying to wrest the shotgun from the sleepy 
man and being shot dead in his effort was the gun-shot trigger that 
caused the police to act.

Marion, a pilgrim
On 12/16/2014 1:13 AM, Sally Davies wrote:
> Keith showed me a lovely social-media trend that started before the siege
> had even ended: "Ride with you", which arose as a warm hearted Australian
> response to a plea from a Muslim who expressed fears of going on public
> transport in the aftermath of something like this.
>
> I'm sure the police had their reasons for decided to storm in but it can't
> be called a good outcome. This week grieving South Africans are preparing
> to receive the body of Pierre Korkie, killed in a failed rescue attempt in
> Yemen, literally the day before he was due to be released after lengthy
> negotiations by a local Muslim charity, Gift of the Givers. The American
> hostage who was the main object of the military rescue effort was also
> killed.
>
> It cannot help in these situations if we don't have a sense of who the
> hostage takers are, or what they want - but surely it is more of an issue
> that a guy like this can be free to do what he likes, get weapons and so on
> given his violent and abusive history. Much more of an issue than whatever
> violent ideology he happens to be espousing.
>
>
> Sally D
>
> On Tuesday, 16 December 2014, Claudine Chionh <anglican at claudinec.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Cue the increase in alarmism from our politicians and general
>> Islamophobia. It now seems more accurate to describe the perpetrator as
>> an unhinged individual who had murdered his wife and has a history of
>> violence against other women, and who was also attracted to the message
>> of ISIS - but many commentators are only picking up on the Islam angle.
>> I made that mistake in my first post here.
>>
>> Claudine
>>
>> On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, at 01:14 PM <x-apple-data-detectors://20>, Marion
>> Thompson wrote:
>>> And thank God for the end of it.  A terrible experience for the hostages
>>> and everyone.
> .
>