Blowback at Bondi

Photograph Source: DaHuzyBru – CC BY-SA 4.0

Fifteen people were killed, with more critically injured, at the massacre at Sydney’s iconic, decidedly secular, Bondi beach on 14 December. Members of the local Jewish community were gathered to celebrate Hanukkah. The killers were father and son Indian-born Sajid Akram (killed) and Australian-born Naveed Akram. The inferred motivation, until the injured Naveed can be interrogated, is that of Islamic extremism. The Australian Federal Police, to date, believe that the couple acted alone.