When was the last time there was a beheading in Australia? I know of two that happened in my town. One was 9 years ago, by a group of Jihadists who didn't like one of their own befriending an infidel. The other was practically a beheading, because the assailants (who, incidentally, converted to Islam in gaol) killed the guy by digging in to his neck with a bowie and leaving his head near severed. Posting up a cartoon about the slaying of aborigines is not going to change my mind about beheadings of people in the Middle East as being a cultural modus operandi.

I'm talking about with the intentional removal of people's heads in the 21st century Australia. Include the 20th century, if you want. I don't believe you about the 19th and 18th century. Do you have an example within the last 3 centuries of an actual person (named) who has committed a beheading on anyone. Bonus points if the person you are talking about is caucasian. I can only name one, and he got off lightly on a mental incapacitation plea.

And whilst you are right to say that because some Middle Easterners do behead people with no apparent remorse, that it doesn't make them all a bunch of crazed psychopaths... that completely misses the point. You might not be aware that those regions deem the infanticide of their children to not being barbaric. They will slit the throats of deformed or handicapped children. They would probably take the life of some black or white child simply on the basis that they aren't Middle Eastern. I wouldn't trust a non-secular region of the world simply starting with the basis that they have no problem prosecuting someone for having alcohol or prosecuting someone for reporting a rape against herself.

As for Mr Munga, the situation is that he has kicked down the door and is ready to see what your insides look like. But as an alternative interpretation, let's say he has knocked politely on your door, with machete in hand, and wants to discuss Midnight Oil with you. Are you really going to have so little intuition that you wouldn't call the polisi?

Btw, "Ackbar" is the stereotypical generalisation for a Middle Eastern male who tries to condemn "The West" and the United States for all his stupid self-inflicted problems.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Aug 22^nd, 2014 at 8:45pm:


Oswald was a card carrying communist, his shooting of Kennedy supposedly related to the Americans mistreatment of Cuba, the Bay of Pigs invasion. But despite 'all of the politics', actually politics did 'not' come into it at all. Oswald was an attention seeker, his motivations were psychological. The JFK assassination was in 'no' way an act that was politically motivated. 

Likewise, as I'd had it pointed out to me at the time it was happening, the fighting in Northern Ireland had nothing at all to do with religion, and everything to do with it being a class war. The working class Irish, who happened to be Catholics vs the British loyalists who happened to be protestants.

Got it now, Stupid.

Bobby. wrote on Aug 24^th, 2014 at 9:08am:


Off the record, kind of thing.

Did you know that back in WWI when the Arabs were helping France in the war... they didn't really believe they killed a man even when shot and dead until they cut his head off?

Weird hey?

Brian Ross wrote on Aug 24^th, 2014 at 12:52am:



Don't they?  They do. Yet some Muslim organisation took exception to that expectation and boycotted a meeting with Abbott  because he wanted them all to be together with the rest of Australia against Islamists.

WHat's wrong with that?

Brian Ross wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2014 at 7:40pm:

some may be. Many aren't. The black flag jihadis rampaging  in Sydney and their supporters aren't. The ones hot for jihad and their supporters and funders aren't. They are out of the team because they are in the enemy team.
There are enemies of this country and of the west, you know, not just friends whose grievances we haven't accommodated yet.

What I and everyone acknowledge is that the ones who are NOT in the team are motivated by Islam.

Soren wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2014 at 8:49pm:

As are those who are.  Interesting contradiction there.  Both groups claim that they are motivated by Islam.   Rather like how Christians in the 30 years war, both Catholics and Protestants claimed they were motivated by their Christianity when fighting and slaughtering each other.  Could it be a matter of interpretation, Soren?   You seem very rigid in your views on Islam, you assume all Muslims are monolithic in their beliefs.  It suits you to portray Islam and Muslims in this way, it makes your bigotry easier.