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“Human rights may be the last Grand Narrative, but it is one with more than sufficient intellectual and moral authority to carry us many years into the future.” platypus1917.org/wp-content/upl…
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Andrew Zammit
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Andrew Zammit
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Victoria University. Interested in terrorism, security and human rights.
Melbourne Katılım Mart 2009
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As people discuss if/when IS may claim the Berlin attack, reminder that they waited until 4 July '24 (An Naba 450) to acknowledge:
- Brussels 16 Oct '23
- Zurich 2 March '24
- Karabulak 3 March '24
- Moscow 23 March '24
- Derbent/Makhachkala 23 June '24
- Belgrade 29 June '24
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The persistent belief held by covidiots that if not for govt mandated lockdowns economies would have thrived, no recession, is refuted by Sweden’s experience.
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My opinion piece in today's @theage @smh examines emerging research into AI-induced cognitive atrophy, and what this means for the rush to embed AI in the classroom. Will this lead to an era of 'luxury brains,' in which the more privileged are able to educate their kids to think critically, while those in public schools offload essential cognitive functioning to the bots?
theage.com.au/national/never…
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Similarly, the Berlin attacker apparently tried to travel to Syria to join Islamic State as recently as May 2025: worldpoliticsreview.com/berlin-pride-a… (wouldn’t have thought Syria a promising destination for IS supporters, but reporting suggests at least a couple of supporters think it is)
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… better policy proposals than “let’s try to find ways to pretend we can just keep them out forever and trick the High Court into not noticing”.
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This is so meaningless: theaustralian.com.au/nation/politic… Given High Court decisions on citizenship-stripping, there’s almost certainly no lawful way to keep suspected Australian jihadists permanently out of Australia short of a referendum.
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A string of thwarted and executed attacks across Europe — many either proven or suspected to be aligned with the Islamic State (IS) — has shined a light on an evolving terrorism landscape. thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-202…
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Teenage Norwegian hitman guilty of plotting to assassinate UK target on behalf of Iran-backed gang trib.al/b2NQ2l1
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@walshysan @mumbletwits Wait was that in reality or in the show itself?
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@mumbletwits @Andrew_Zammit Stuart Littlemore (then media watch host) criticised frontline for it.
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#BREAKING Gold Coast man faces possible death penalty in Syria over alleged murder of fellow Australian
abc.net.au/news/2026-07-2…
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Der Fall Abdul B. eignet sich vermutlich weniger zur Skandalisierung als dafuer, zu illustrieren, warum genau es so verdamm schwierig ist, Terror zu verhindern.
Wir haben für @DIEZEIT das Duell zwischen Abdul B. und dem Rechtsstaat rechherchiert.
zeit.de/2026/33/abdul-…
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She is at the “crypto-Zionist rich American Jews did the Russian revolution” level of antisemitism 🤣
Oh man. Come and ask me one more time why as a leftist I don’t stand with this people 😭
Post-Left Watch (postleftwatch.bsky.social)@PostLeftWatch
This is antisemitism, plain and simple.
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@PeterRNeumann @Minalami I would add that this comment in the 21 Feb 2026 speech by IS spokesman al-Ansari was roughly the same as claiming New Orleans and Bondi, or at least taking credit for them:
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If this is confirmed, we may see an ISIS claim, even if opportunistic:
“Police find video on phone of suspect pledging allegiance to ISIS on day of July 25 ramming attack in Berlin, Germany: Local News Outlet via Bild.”
Mina Al-Lami@Minalami
High-profile ISIS/IS supporters online have celebrated the #BerlinPrideAttack, esp after the suspect, Abdul Ballout, was killed, calling him a “martyr” and a “lion”. They clearly believe he was inspired by IS ideology and messaging, particularly following mainstream reporting about his background. Worth noting that IS itself has not claimed any affiliation with the attack or the attacker. Many IS supporters posted the phrase “one of us”, referencing IS’s Al-Naba editorial from July 2024, where the group claimed responsibility for inspiring a series of attacks in the West, under that title, “One of us”. That editorial stated that even if IS doesn’t claim responsibility for an attack, and even if the perpetrators aren’t operationally linked to the group, “they are [nevertheless] one of us, and we are them”. IS’s argument at the time seemed designed to lower the threshold for affiliation, suggesting that ideological alignment alone connects these individuals to the group. This approach also allows IS to claim credit for even more attacks, even if only by inspiring them. IS made a similar argument in the case of the New Orleans attack (Jan 2025) writing “We were there”, taking credit for inspiring the attack but not directly orchestrating it. Same for Bondi Beach attack. In essence, in their reactions to the latest 25 July Berlin Pride attack, IS supporters seem to be saying that regardless of whether IS claims responsibility or not, the attacker is still considered “one of us [IS]”.
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Australian audiences will probably be pretty unfamiliar with Omar Bakri Muhammad except for the time that John Safran got him to put a fatwa on Rove McManus.
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More is coming to light on Abdul Ballout’s family ties to #ISIS. - One of his father's sisters was married to the well-known jihadist preacher Omar Bakri Muhammad (also known as Omar Bakri Fustuq). - He spent years recruiting and radicalizing men for Islamist groups from the #UK; was released from prison in #Lebanon in 2023. - Two of her sons (Ballout’s cousins) joined ISIS. - One (referred to as Abu Bilal) died fighting in Iraq. - The other (Muhammad) was imprisoned in Iraq. - Ballout is said to have been in contact via messages with suspected ISIS members, referencing the cousins. zeit.de/gesellschaft/2…
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