Why was the Mosque mentioned? I don't understand. Seems pointless really, unless they were using it as a landmark, but still it seems a bit unnecessary. Since they changed the headline it would seem it wasn't necessary to begin with.

I didn't see that particular article, but the first information on this story said man from Lakemba - which immediately made you think it was a Muslim.

The headline "Police shoot armed man near Mosque" really is sensationalism at its worst, particularly as he was stabbing himself only.

Abu's point is valid, we do assume that muslims are less well balanced mentally, and that they are of a more violent nature, than mainstream aussies, so by saying the man was just metres from a mosque, is put there to have people link this man's deranged behaviour, with Islam.

If the man was not a muslim, then to do so would be absolutely prejudiced, sensationalist reporting, and deserves to be condemned as such.

Unfortunately the opportunities to run stories about good muslim behaviour, to balance up the reporting, are a little thin on the ground.

I have been waiting years, hoping to see stories of muslims cleaning up their internal problems, but I wait in vain, because they still continue to deny they have any internal problems, apparently everything bad that muslims do is the fault of the infidels.

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And even more particularly because he was an Anglo Aussie.