Hostages being held in CBD Sydney, Australia

[Korbidon]

Updates: http://www.abc.net.au/news/abcnews24/

This is happening about 10 minutes from where I work. Holy shit. I never thought this would come to Australia.

Hostages being held against the window, suspected 13 of them, with two gunmen inside.

Suspicious package found at the Opera House, it was air evacuated.

[owattjacob]

Well fuck.

[Bious]

Terrible stuff. May be ISIS related…

[Rhio2k]

Not isis, but this IS a muslim terrorist. He’s got the al raya flag.

[regulate]

nowhere is safe now.

[Javid]

Really, you’re going to bring attention to your cause by holding up a store that sells delicious chocolate?!?

[Missing_Person]

Really, you’re going to bring attention to your cause by holding up a store that sells delicious chocolate?!?

There is no god but Chocolate, his prophet is Lindt.

[Korbidon]

Early indicators suggest they were on the way to somewhere else, got caught out, panicked, and went into the Lindt store.

[Wasted]

Queenslander here. Something was bound to happen eventually.

Since our print and web news (and our PM) are owned by Murdoch, expect fearmongering and ignorance abound.

[owattjacob]

Early indicators suggest they were on the way to somewhere else, got caught out, panicked, and went into the Lindt store.

They probably saw this as soon as they went inside.

Spoiler

http://thesilvalining.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/20121004-204858.jpg

They were instantly converted to the swiss chocolate master race. They’re last seen laying on the floor, drenched in chocolates and wrappers. A hostage reported that one of them said “I have found the promised land, truly filled with milk and honey” before diving headfirst into the baskets. *

[RECESSIONTIME]

Australian living in WA here.

I thought Australia had a ban against guns. How did these criminals get their guns? Rhetorical question.

[Raz0r]

Shut up.

[Wasted]

Rhetorical question is not rhetorical.

Guns are not banned in Australia, most are just extremely restricted to the point they are effectively banned. You can still pick up a wide variety of handguns, small capacity shotguns and bolt-action rifles without much of a hassle (aside from waiting times).

You just can’t have them for self-defense and must have a “legitimate” reason for owning.

We still have shootings on almost a daily basis, but unless it’s four or more dead, they’re not “mass” shootings.

[Xr0s-up]

We have a gunsmith in NSW
I pass by it everyday when i walked to school

Also, I like how the media makes a huge fuss over this
And then there’s our budget with a huge defecit

[Ash_Crimson]

I’m hoping Australians don’t use this as an excuse to attack and harass muslims.

[crucades]

Austrailia have tons of upset muslims thanks to the far right government, hell they send more fighters to ISIS than anybody else. Still think this dude is just some kinda nut, he was prancing about using a mannequin as a human shield earlier.

[Rick_Ross]

Chocolate sucks.

[Rhio2k]

nowhere is safe now.

Thanks to lax immigration laws in western countries, no country, save Japan, has been safe from the ticking time bombs for a while.

[AlphaCommando]

I’m hoping Australians don’t use this as an excuse to attack and harass muslims.

In a climate of fear and uncertainty, Australians have banded together to show their support for the Muslim population.

The #illridewithyou hashtag amassed almost 120,000 tweets on Monday evening, as Australians took a stand against anti-Muslim sentiment in the wake of the Martin Place siege.

A young Sydney woman, Rachael Jacobs, appears to have inspired the campaign after posting a moving Facebook status about her encounter with a Muslim woman earlier in the day.

“…and the (presumably) Muslim woman sitting next to me on the train silently removes her hijab,” Ms Jacobs wrote.

“I ran after her at the train station. I said ‘put it back on. I’ll walk with u’. She started to cry and hugged me for about a minute - then walked off alone.”

The inspiring status quickly circulated on social media before inspiring the #illridewithyou hashtag.

Source: smh.com.au/nsw/martin-place-siege-illridewithyou-hashtag-goes-viral-20141215-127rm1.html

I wasn’t one of the 120,000 tweets though, because tweeting is for terrorists.

[Missing_Person]

I’m hoping Australians don’t use this as an excuse to attack and harass muslims.

In a climate of fear and uncertainty, Australians have banded together to show their support for the Muslim population.

The #illridewithyou hashtag amassed almost 120,000 tweets on Monday evening, as Australians took a stand against anti-Muslim sentiment in the wake of the Martin Place siege.

A young Sydney woman, Rachael Jacobs, appears to have inspired the campaign after posting a moving Facebook status about her encounter with a Muslim woman earlier in the day.

“…and the (presumably) Muslim woman sitting next to me on the train silently removes her hijab,” Ms Jacobs wrote.

“I ran after her at the train station. I said ‘put it back on. I’ll walk with u’. She started to cry and hugged me for about a minute - then walked off alone.”

The inspiring status quickly circulated on social media before inspiring the #illridewithyou hashtag.

Source: smh.com.au/nsw/martin-place-siege-illridewithyou-hashtag-goes-viral-20141215-127rm1.html

I wasn’t one of the 120,000 tweets though, because tweeting is for terrorists.

If you don’t tweet about the next JTM live event, Al Qaeda RadicalFuzz wins.