Will we actually learn any lessons from the New Lynn terror attack?
New Lynn terror attack: CCTV shows attacker on way to supermarket
For the first time CCTV footage that shows LynnMall terror attacker Ahamad Samsudeen before he unleashed a vicious knife attack inside the supermarket is able to be published.
The scenes are shocking but are we actually interest in preventing this again, OR are we more concerned with glossing over the State’s role in radicalising Ahamad Samsudeen?
Firstly, there wasn’t and isn’t a security threat posed by refugees…
No evidence to show refugees pose a security risk to NZ but new bill targets them anyway
- Proposed law change could cancel residence visas of refugees considered a national security risk.
- But Stuff can reveal that no refugees in New Zealand have been classified a national security risk in the past decade.
- A refugee advocate is concerned about lack of evidence and the impact of the proposed legislation on the community.
…that’s because what the State (we) did to Ahamad Samsudeen that is the problem, not refugees!
It is VERY hard to read the report on the New Lynn Terrorist Ahamed Samsudeen and not see how our intervention as the State in his life turned an angry young man into a knife stabbing terrorist.
Everything about our interaction with Ahamed Samsudeen radicalised him, and there really has to be some exceptionally hard questions asked of almost every State Service who dealt with him because all it looks like is we manufactured a terrorist by the way we treated him.
Legitimate domestic terror threats to the State must be nullified and prevented at all costs, but fantasists who believe in a magical world of make believe need to be responded to proportionally no matter how their behaviour frightens the rest of us.
As we struggle at the height of all the economic and social pressures that are tearing us apart, I fear our fear will cause us to blunder it into something worse.
3 years on from the Lynn Mall terror attack – what have we learned?
Not much, but we are repeating the fuelling of extremism and we are glossing over the State’s role in radicalising Ahamad Samsudeen.
Honestly, if YOU had been treated as badly as the State teated Ahamad Samsudeen, wouldn’t you have radicalised as well?
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Lesson should be that we shouldn’t or don’t need to allow Muslims into NZ – sure most will be totally fine but as European countries such as France / Germany etc clearly show some aren’t and then you have terrorists driving trucks down paths packed with pedestrians or stabbing babies in prams or even pressure from Muslim immigrants to ‘amend’ the culture of where they have chosen to live to adhere more closely to where they have chosen to leave from.
Cue cliché cross-burning redneck vitriol . .
Life tells me that secular and other religious people can be dangerous also so why don’t you push to exclude them as well? While I don’t recommend the Islamic faith it is not an indicator of any faults in the followers of it so you fit the description of a “cross-burning red neck” perfectly. If your idea of a perfect society is lots of people just like you it would end up being the most miserable place ever. The aftermath of the Christchurch terrorist event demonstrate that Muslims make a valuable contribution across many parts of society, I do believe that we should have control over any immigration however I can think of more important things to be concerned about than if they are Muslim.
How many times did you jack off to the Christchurch mosque attack videos? Or is that number still rising?
Sorry to burst your bubble but haven’t seen them / never would / don’t support in any way the terrorist attack in Chch.
At least you have some redeeming features. I have no objections to dangerous people being restricted but blanket bans will inevitably lead to more blanket bans and then we might be next.