The man who held our fellow Australians hostage was a weak, sick individual whose agenda no one shared. He didn’t even know which flag would best represent his stuttering homunculus. He is another dead terrorist, he will rot in the ground but the Australian landscape has been and will continue to be shaped more by the mass media’s handling of the attack rather than the attack itself. We cannot let mass media headlines compel subservience to increased surveillance; we cannot let one night of the police doing their job well be the measurement by which they earn a broad increase in trust and respect; we cannot let a lone gunman perpetuate misnomers that surround Islam, group a language with a religion, and/or enable an expectation that someone’s loosely fitting culturally influenced attire is reason enough to presume that you could easily fit a couple of pipe-bombs in a niqab or burqa
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 12:01:53 +0000
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