Yet another convert to Islam somehow gets the crazy idea that his new religion calls for violence against unbelievers. Authorities remain resolutely incurious about this recurring phenomenon.
“‘Radicalised teen’ shot dead by police in Willetton after stabbing,” by Heather McNeill, Hamish Hastie and Rebecca Peppiatt, WAToday, May 5, 2024:
A “radicalised” teenage boy was shot dead by police following an “extremely confronting” incident in Perth’s southern suburbs on Saturday night.
WA Premier Roger Cook said a 16-year-old boy was shot by a police officer after rushing him with a knife in a Bunnings car park on High Street in Willetton about 10pm.
“A 16-year-old male armed with a knife who had already wounded a member of the public, rushed the attending officers, in response a police officer discharged his firearm fatally wounding the male,” he said.
“There are indications [the teenager] had been radicalised online.
“Members of the WA Muslim community who were concerned by his behaviour contacted police prior to the incident and I thank them for their help.
“Our police responded within minutes, they encountered a very confronting situation but their rapid and professional response kept our community safe.”
WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch said several people called triple zero concerned about the actions of the teenager, after he indicated he was going to hurt people.
The teen, who was a Caucasian male who had converted to Islam, also called police and told them he was going to commit acts of violence, but did not tell the phone operator who or where he was.
Three minutes after the first triple zero call from a person at the scene, three police officers arrived at the Bunnings car park and found the boy running around with a large kitchen knife. Two officers drew their Tasers, a third drew his firearm and ordered him to drop the weapon.
The teen lunged at two officers, who both deployed their Tasers, however the boy was wearing baggy clothes and was not brought down.
When he lunged at the third police officer, he was shot.
Blanch said the teen had a complex mental health history and was taking part in a rehabilitation program for people who had been radicalised online.
He had been in the program since he was 14.
“We believe he was very much acting alone. We do not believe there was a network involved,” he said.
Blanch declined to declare the event a terror incident….
A man aged in his 30s, not known to the teenager, was stabbed in the back before police arrived. It’s understood the man was exiting a nearby 24-hour gym when he was attacked….
WA Police Minister Paul Papalia said the community violence extremism program the teenager was taking part in was based on a neo-Nazi program in the Netherlands and focused on de-radicalising people….
Official sources briefed on the investigation said the alleged assailant in the church stabbing was part of a loose network of teenagers who communicated on encrypted apps. The federal sources, who were authorised to publicly disclose details of the briefing, said counter-terrorism police believed some members of the group were engaging with radical Islamic material….
somehistory says
They say he was a convert, ‘radicalized online’…as if that is possible without contacting others through websites…but don’t want to say for certain that it was terrorism.
From reading the comments by the police officer,, Blanch, it seems that since it appeared that the boy was ‘acting alone’ in the stabbing, that means. to the officer, it wasn’t ‘terror.’
“We do not believe there was a network involved.” That is a very ignorant thing to think and say.
Certainly there is a “network.” The boy contacted that “network” “online.”
He was encouraged to go ahead with the attack.
Perhaps he was already mentally ill and that’s why he “converted to islam,” but he was still contacting mozlums ‘online’ and they helped him decide to murder for their fake prophet and false god.
Roelof Elzinga says
He is a Muslim, so it is not a stand alone person. When are we going to wake up and understand that the Muslims are the Antichrist. Live by their rules or your head comes off.
CalvinsLutheran says
Western populations do NOT read. BTW cutting off the head of the average Western person today is useless. Most Westerners only have empty space between their ears. Watch our daily behavior. Do you actually see anything that looks like anything a terrorist would fear or respect? Biden is considered to be the ARCHETYPE OF AMERICAN CITIZENS. He kowtows to Hamas so what do you expect his constituents to do? Instantaneously grow spines? I say we take classes with SIMULATED DHIMMITUDE SCENARIOS TO PREPARE FOR THE FUTURE.
Keith O says
Well, there’s part of the problem straight up. Paul Papalia, the police minister.
This individual has a well established track record of “massaging” the facts to create a s story line he can use to fulfill his political agenda and he doesn’t seem to care which section of the WA public he has to use to achieve his goal.
He has been driveling for some time now that WA hasn’t had a “terrorist” incident because of his tough line on law enforcement.
This loan wolf attack would certainly shine a different light on that claim.
somehistory says
He’s implying that it is a “lone wolf,” attack. But mozlums don’t engage in “lone wolf” attacks.
Compare Ted Kaczinski’s terrorists actions to any of the attacks by mozlums. The difference: TK was not mozlum, no one encouraged him, he didn’t get his ideas of ‘why’ he should murder from others, and no one funded his activities except him.
But even the ‘lone’ terrorist TK still engaged in terror. Just as any individual mozlum is engaging in terror. Including this dead teen.
Condor says
“Our police responded within minutes…” When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
Relying on government gets people stabbed in the back. The American 2nd Amendment compensates for that time gap effectively unless you’re living in a Democrat run state. In which case you might as well be living in Australia.
“WA Police Minister Paul Papalia said the community violence extremism program the teenager was taking part in was based on a neo-Nazi program in the Netherlands and focused on de-radicalising people….”
Neo-Nazis de-radicalising people? No wonder Australia is screwed up and acts like a police state.
MD Anthony says
Politicians playing pretend about Islams genocidal intentions are convinced that their playing pretend is eliminating the Jihadi attack on the world. The fools believe that political persecution of Islams victims will avoid a world wide religious war.
FYI says
Of course.
“IsLAm has nothing to do with islAM”
“islamic terrorist atrocities committed by MuSlimS have nothing to do with ISLam”
Gregory Samuel Conway says
It is terrorism and that is that the weak police always say he had mental issues. Yes he hated us non-moslems and wanted to kill one of us.
James Lincoln says
According to the feature article:
“The teen, who was a Caucasian male who had converted to Islam…”
So, exactly what RACE is a muslim?