Muslim man hailed as hero after wrestling Bondi attacker with his bare hands

[Michie]

When two men opened fire on crowds gathered Sunday to celebrate Hanukkah on Bondi Beach in Australia, one man stepped in to stop it. Ahmed al-Ahmed, 43, took on one of the shooters and wrestled him to the ground, preventing the death of potentially many more people.

The world watched in horror as the massacre unfolded, all caught on film. Yet along with the indiscriminate murder of Jewish men, women and children, the remarkable courage of a Muslim man to save lives has also been documented for all to see. Now the footage has been verified, and the man has been identified as a local father of two young girls who runs a fruit shop.

His parents told ABC News that their son was having coffee with a friend in Bondi when he heard gunshots, and went to intervene.

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Muslim man hailed as hero after wrestling Bondi attacker with his bare hands

When two men opened fire on crowds gathered to celebrate Hanukkah on Bondi Beach in Australia, one man stepped in to stop it Ahmed al-Ahmed, 43, took on one of the shooters and wrestled him to the

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[prodromos]

Unfortunately, reporters are getting their facts wrong. The gunman who was killed was the person who ran the fruit shop. The hero who tackled one of the gunmen runs a tobacco shop and it is by no means clear what his religious affiliation is.

 

[JosephZ]

Unfortunately, reporters are getting their facts wrong. The gunman who was killed was the person who ran the fruit shop. The hero who tackled one of the gunmen runs a tobacco shop and it is by no means clear what his religious affiliation is.

Hero who wrestled gun from terrorist says he’d do it again despite being ‘riddled with bullets’

Ahmed, a Muslim, arrived in Australia in 2006 from Syria. The 44-year-old tobacco shop owner is the father of two daughters aged five and six.

 

[prodromos]

Hero who wrestled gun from terrorist says he’d do it again despite being ‘riddled with bullets’

Ahmed, a Muslim, arrived in Australia in 2006 from Syria. The 44-year-old tobacco shop owner is the father of two daughters aged five and six.

When I hear it from his own lips. There has simply been too much error reported in the media.
I can also understand him being presented as a Moslem in order to prevent backlash against other Moslems since the terrorists were clearly Moslems.

 

[Yarddog]

When I hear it from his own lips.

Do you say the same about the shooters?

 

[prodromos]

Do you say the same about the shooters?

They are Pakistani, which is 96% Moslem. The younger man, Naveed Akram, had close ties to Isaac El Matari, a member of an Islamic State cell who was arrested in 2019.
The media has been strangely reluctant to state the religious affiliations of the terrorists.

 

[JosephZ]

They are Pakistani, which is 96% Moslem.

One of the Islamist extremists was an Indian national, the elder of the two, and his son was an Australian national.

 

[stevevw]

This highlights two sides to this story. One is we have a cultural and immigration problem where people coming from other parts of the world with a different belief and ideology and the problems that come with this are bringing this to their newly adopted nation and making it like the culture they were escaping. .

The other is an example of how an immigrant can come to a new nation with a different culture and adapt to that culture even becoming a hero of that culture.

It goes to show the importance of vetting and helping people to integrate into the host culture. Thats why immigrants come. To have a better life from the ones that were causing them to want to flee their nation. Not bring those issues with them and then turn the host nation into another culture war that people want to escape. Thats insane.

I grew up in Bankstown a suburb of Sydney where many middle eastern families lived after migrating here during the 60s and 70s. I had several friends from Lebanon and they were more or less becoming Aussies. We shared each others culture. But primarily we all acted as Aussies within the Aussie culture. Not like todays identity politics.

I also lived in Bondi when older and it was very multicultural and alive with all sorts of people mixing and enjoying one of the best beaches in the world. The free lifestyle, surfing, fishing and socialising. Now its all changed like in other western nations. You can't feel safe to even go to the beach.

To have such an evil event happen in among such a place that already represented the best of people mixing and getting along is a complete contradiction and something we don't want in free western nations.

I have a feeling that we are going back to how things were pre Covid. If you remember the radicals were focusing on the west and not Isreal as much. But now that Hamas is being stopped I think the attention is turning back to the west.

As many illegal immigrants have managed to get into many western nations I think we are going to see more of these types of attacks. Maybe even a very major one.

They say the US has around 18,000 identified terrorist who got in over the border. It stands to reason that with that many unknowns and radicals lost in the system more homegrown terror will happen.