Update: Hostage crisis is over. You can find the news everywhere. Interesting to me is the fact that Fox News is actually identifying the terrorist as a “refugee” in print on the screen. Only a few years ago you would never have seen the word “refugee” used in any negative context.
Remember the Syrian refugees are coming!
Hot off the presses at the UK Daily Mail (thanks to the ever-watchful ‘Pungentpeppers’):
Man Haron Monis – also known as Sheik Haron – has been named as the gunman holding up to 15 people hostage in a Sydney café and is believed to be an Islamic State preacher who is on bail for accessory to murder.
The 49-year-old man lives in southwest Sydney, but is originally from Iran and a self-proclaimed sheik, and also sent hate mail to the families of Australian dead soldiers between 2007 and 2009, according to The Daily Telegraph.
The seige in the Lindt cafe in Martin Place on Monday follows an unsuccessful attempt to have these charges overturned in the High Court on Friday, The Age reported.
Monis received 300 community service hours and a two-year good behaviour bond for the correspondence, which he claims were his version of sympathy cards, sent with the help from his girlfriend Amirah Droudis.
Arriving as a refugee in Australia in 1996, the hostage-taker was charged as an accessory to the murder of his ex-wife – who was allegedly stabbed and set on fire on a flight of stairs in her western Sydney apartment block in November 2013.
He has also faced sexual abuse charges.
Read all about him at the Daily Mail. See our post last evening when the horrific drama had just begun.
Hey Western world, need any more proof that it’s time to cut off Muslim immigration from Islamic countries (or from anywhere)? You bring ’em in and get kicked in the teeth!