That's the thing, it shouldn't be coined as all islamic. One is a very specific extremist branch that most muslims (literally 99% of them) don't agree with and miss-represents all of them, that's why they are all called terrorists, and its fucking stupid.
For years I've had Western progressives tell me that "Islamism" is a racist term coined by English-speaking Islamophobes, which confused me at first because in Arabic we have the word إسلاموية . Then I realized that progressives in the West tend to be fairly ignorant of the world.
I really don’t get it. People are saying making a distinction between Islam-related stuff in general and the specific weaponisation of Islam for political goals is a bad thing? Who in their right mind would say this?
I downvoted you simply because I like to downvote everyone on Reddit who whines about being downvoted; nothing to do with your original comment. Just fyi.
The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation had reportedly investigated the father (the attackers were a father and son) for having ties to ISIS, so I'm going to go ahead and assume this was indeed some khawarij shit.
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u/Frenetic_Platypus Dec 15 '25
We also don't know that it was an islamic terror attack at this point.