The hostages seem to have no demands except to talk to the PM live on radio.
My guess would be to explain things about Islam and Australia’s actions in fighting the Islamic State, then justify the massacre they are about to do at the Cafe. This is a very likely scenario based on classic Islamic modus operandi. I hope no high profile person in Oz. goes on radio with the hostage takers.
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1. Al Azaar, the #1 Sunni Islamic authority in the world, has declared that you cannot call Takfir on the Islamic State, meaning no muslim can claim that they are not practicing the true Islam.
(Remember that Obama gave his first major foreign policy speech as president to Al Azaar in Cairo. So he recognizes, and specifically acknowledges during that speech, that Al-Azaar is the authority in Sunni islam. So it would be difficult for him to pretend now that the Islamic State is not authentically Islamic. Below, a short critique of his speech I did in 2012)
2. Islamic State attack on helicopter raises concerns
Baghdad: Daesh [Islamic State] militants shot down an Iraqi military helicopter Saturday, officials said, killing the two pilots onboard and raising fresh concerns about the extremists’ ability to attack aircraft amid ongoing U.S.-led coalition airstrikes.
The attack happened in the Shiite holy city of Samarra, about 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad. A senior Defense Ministry official told The Associated Press the Sunni militants used a shoulder-fired rocket launcher to shoot down the EC635 helicopter on the outskirts of the city.
An army official corroborated the information. Both spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren’t authorized to speak to journalists.
The EC635, built by Airbus Helicopters, is used for transportation, surveillance and combat.
3. Austria Rules Al-Qaeda, ISIS Symbols Illegal
The Parliament in Austria approved of a new bill, according to which symbols representing Al-Qaeda and the “Islamic State” (ISIS) terrorist organizations were made illegal.
The bill also allows the revoking of Austrian citizenship from nationals holding dual citizenship if it can be proven that said nationals took part in battles in the Middle East.
We may had this one in text… There is a vid interview with that freak, too. So; if you want to feel a bit worse than you felt a moment ago, give this one a try. 😉
Runa Khan: ‘All Muslim women should be how I am’ (BBC, video, Dec 12, 2014)
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30442507
“A mother-of-six has been jailed for five years and three months for promoting terrorism on Facebook.
Runa Khan, 35, of Maple Road West, Luton, had admitted inciting terrorism in Syria by posting a picture of a suicide vest and messaging details of a route into the country on Facebook.
Before her sentencing, reporter Rani Singh met Khan on several occasions and on Sunday interviewed her for BBC Newsnight.
Khan talked about what she had done and was challenged about her views.”
Turkey media arrests: Mogherini leads EU criticism (BBC, Dec 14, 2014)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30471996
“Top European Union officials have sharply criticised a mass arrest of media representatives in Turkey.
Foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini and the commissioner heading EU enlargement talks said the arrests went “against European values”.
At least 24 people were arrested in police raids on a leading newspaper and TV station said to have close links with opposition parties.
Those detained are accused of trying to seize control of the state.
The Zaman newspaper and Samanyolu TV channel both have ties to US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, the spiritual leader of the Hizmet movement.
A former ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Mr Gulen – who lives in self-imposed exile – is accused of running a “parallel state” within Turkey….”
Sydney siege: Gunman takes hostages in Lindt cafe
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-30473983
Recommended reading…
France shaken up by Zemmour and ‘new reactionaries’ (BBC, Dec 14, 2014)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30436692
“There is a new intellectual force in France – giving shape and weight to ideas that challenge the disastrous post-1968 left-wing consensus.
That at least is the hope of the so-called neo-reactionnaires (new reactionaries) – a loose group of writers and thinkers who want to shake up debate on issues like immigration, Islam and national identity.
Of course others see the group rather differently.
For their enemies they are rabble-rousers, providing spurious philosophical cover for the extremism of the National Front (FN).
Most famous of the exponents is journalist Eric Zemmour, whose new book French Suicide reads like a desperate cavalry charge, sabre aloft, into the massed ranks of the progressives.
Zemmour is scorned by most of the Paris establishment but his book is a runaway bestseller. To date it has sold 400,000 copies.
“The big divide today is between the elite and the people,” he tells me at Le Figaro newspaper’s headquarters, where he works.
“And that is why my book has done so well. Because I have become a kind of representative of the people. They have adopted me. They say that what I write is what they think.”
Zemmour is a small, slight man, whose timid air quickly vanishes when he warms to his theme….”
French police launched raids across the country early on Monday, dismantling a network sending jihadist fighters to Syria, a police source told AFP.
http://www.thelocal.fr/20141215/france-breaks-up-network-sending-jihadists-to-syria
Austria is starting to move in the correct direction, it will take a while before they discover that they need to do much more to combat the moslem threat in Austria.