Australia Muslim group claim there is no such thing as Islamic terrorism, wants laws rewritter

From ABC News Australia:

An alliance of peak Islamic groups has called for Australia's terrorism laws to be changed, to remove the concept of "religiously motivated terrorism" from the legislation.

In a statement, the Australian National Imams Council, the Alliance of Australian Muslims and the Australian Muslim Advocacy Network said it was necessary to "avoid simplistic attributions that target specific communities".

The group's spokeswoman Ramia Abdo Sultan said terrorism was driven by political ideology and not religion.

"The presumption that terrorism is inherently tied to religion is not only inaccurate but harmful," Ms Abdo Sultan told a press conference.

This comes after a stabbing attack on a bishop in Sydney, which police say was done by a 16 year old. They didn't identify him as Muslim but it was pretty clear after the father spoke about it. 

Police say the teen was part of a group of other teens who planned to attack Jewish targets as well. 

So these teens, all Muslims, are really attacking Christians and Jews because of political reasons? 

Was Osama Bin Laden not invoking religion when he said this? 

In compliance with Allah's order, we issue the following fatwa to all Muslims:

The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies -- civilians and military -- is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy mosque [Mecca] from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim. This is in accordance with the words of Almighty Allah, "and fight the pagans all together as they fight you all together," and "fight them until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in Allah."

Political Islam is indistringuishable from religious Islam.  Pretending that there is no such thing as Islamic terrorism is a sure way to increase Islamic terrorism.  It doesn't mean all Muslims should be suspect, but it also doesn't mean that religion has nothing to do with the motivation of terrorists. Clearly they think so, and clearly the worst Islamic terrorists like Hamas have not been ostracized in the larger world Muslim community. The widespread support for Islamic terror attacks like 10/7 among Muslims measn that they condone, not condemn, terror - and as such their attempt to rewrite the laws to exclude the terrorism so many of them support is not ethical, but self-serving and supporting Hamas-style attacks. 

(h/t Jill)

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