While this incident may strike some as startling, for those in the know, it’s quite common. Off the top of my head, I can think of two separate accounts — both from Egypt — where “radical” Muslims stabbed to death two Orthodox priests in public. (This is to say nothing of the dozens, if not hundreds, of Christians killed by “Allahu akbar”-screaming Muslims on any given month around the world — most in sub-Saharan Africa.)

Nor is the Sydney stabbing surprising in light of a communique issued by the Islamic State (“ISIS”) earlier this year, the title of which paraphrases Koran 9:5: “Kill Them [Non-Muslims] Wherever You Find Them.” In it, the Muslim terror group called on the “Lions of Islam” (Muslims around the world) to terrorize and kill “infidels” — including by “cut[ting] their throats with sharp knives.” It specifically named Christians and Jews, and churches and synagogues, as ideal targets.

In short, the stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari is wholly unsurprising and falls in line with the Muslim stabbings of “infidels” that occur with great regularity around the world — and increasingly so in the Western world. For instance, a Muslim migrant randomly stabbed three toddlers and their babysitter in a Catholic school in Ireland last November. A few days earlier in France, a gang of machete- and knife-wielding Muslims descended on a village festival, where they murdered one 16-year-old boy and seriously wounded nearly 20 others.

Why the Sydney incident continues to shock people in the West, however, is being brought out in the open by an ongoing quarrel between the Australian regime and X (Twitter).

On April 19, Australian officials ordered X to remove the video evidence of the stabbing in Sydney. X complied, blocking the video within Australia. But such acquiescence was only met with a greater demand — to “globally withhold these posts or face a daily fine of $785,000 AUD (about $500,000 USD).”

In response, X’s Global Government Affairs team said:

While X respects the right of a country to enforce its laws within its jurisdiction, the eSafety Commissioner [of Australia] does not have the authority to dictate what content X’s users can see globally. … Global takedown orders go against the very principles of a free and open internet and threaten free speech everywhere.

Most recently, on April 23, an Australian judge — who thinks his jurisdiction extends to the entire world — ruled that X must block the video from all users around the globe (which includes sovereign American citizens).

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