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<\/a><\/p>\nThis was not a terrorist attack<\/strong> – Haron Monis was a\u00a0lone wolf and a mentally ill criminal not under the direction of ISIS although inspired by ISIS and other Jihadi groups.<\/p>\n Islamic State\u00a0are not involved<\/strong>\u00a0-The gunman’s flag was not ISIS he used the flag of \u00a0Jabhat Al-Nusra another organisation.<\/p>\n Haron Monis was Iranian\u00a0–<\/strong>Iranians are mostly Shi’a muslim and are at war with the Islamic state who are\u00a0Sunni Muslim.<\/p>\n What are ISIS objectives?<\/strong>\u00a0-To form an Islamic nation in the middle east.<\/p>\n Is Islamic State a threat to New Zealanders?\u00a0<\/strong>The risk is low, Islamic state doesn’t have any focus on\u00a0New Zealand or interest in the south pacific.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Anti terrorism laws –<\/strong>MP Mark Mitchell was declaring New Zealand’s law changes “100 per cent justified.”Anti terrorism laws have never been used to disrupt\u00a0\u00a0Jihadi groups they have been used \u00a0to suppress Maori nationalists.<\/p>\n Justification for war<\/strong>\u00a0-The minister of defence Jerry Brownlee is looking to deploy\u00a0mechanized infantry to Iraq next year where many defence force personnel will lose their lives.<\/p>\n Lock up criminals and throw away the key<\/strong> -Haron Monis was on parole when the\u00a0\u00a0incident occurred this will be used to as a case to build more prisons and\u00a0New Zealand offenders to be locked up longer.<\/p>\n Islamaphobia –<\/strong>\u00a0is a term for prejudice against, hatred towards, or fear of the religion of Islam, Muslims, or of ethnic groups perceived to be Muslim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The gunman Haron Monis arrived in\u00a0Australia as an Iranian foreign national seeking asylum, To clear up a few misconceptions about this attack that is causing hysteria and Islamaphobia, here are some facts. This was not a terrorist attack – Haron Monis was a\u00a0lone wolf and a mentally ill criminal not under the direction of ISIS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1359,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions\/1359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u00a0What\u00a0this means to you<\/h2>\n
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