[Magdalen] Siege in Sydney

[L R]

The RideWith You 'movement' was on NPR yesterday and I was so moved by
hearing about it.
Lynn

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> 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.
>>>>
>>> .
>>
>>
>

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