Jihad and the Bondi Beach massacre 14 December 2025

February 27, 2026

Islamic jihad gunman shooting Australians at Bondi Beach, with a high-powered, semi-automatic, long-barrel rifle, following on ISIS training, 14 December 2025.

Jihad: The spread of Islam by arms is a religious duty upon Muslims in general. Jihad must continue to be done until the whole world is under the rule of Islam. The duty of the Jihad exists as long as the universal domination of Islam has not been attained. Peace with non-Muslim nations is therefore a provisional state of affairs only the chance of circumstances alone can justify temporarily Islam, however, must be completely made over before the doctrine of jihad can be eliminate (Emile Tyan, Encyclopedia of Islam, c.1920)

Jihad ("fight or battle"): a religious duty imposed on Muslims to spread Islam by waging war physically against unbelievers and enemies of the Islamic faith (Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 6);

Armed jihad is to be carried out until all lands are liberated from unbelievers and when all unbelievers submit to the rule of Islam (Khadduri and Liebesny, 1955)

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1. Jihad & Weakness

Jihad is an element of Islam prescribed in the Qur'an and biographical Hadith and set in stone within the related Shariah law. The definitions above clearly outlines its physical brutality and ultimate aim. Robert Ibrahim (2026) points out that jihad is only an obligation once a Muslim attains a position of power and can successfully carry out the physical attack. If in a position of subservience or lack of domination, it is permitted to wait until the situation changes to the advantage of the Muslim instigator and perpetrator of the jihad. A good, recent practical example of this is the following example from Australia, a non-Muslim country:

* Muslims have resided in Australia since the earliest colonial times, following the arrival of the British First Fleet in January 1788. By the 2020s the Muslim population in the Sydney region was strong enough to consider the carrying out of jihad. Following the 7 October 2023 HAMAS invasion of Israel and the killing, kidnapping and injuring of thousands of innocents Jews, there were celebrations by local Muslim on the streets of Sydney, with no intervention by authorities and police. This was a sign to local Muslims that they had attained a degree of power in the local non-Muslim community. This meant to some that they could now go the next step and, following a two year period of anti-Semitic attacks around the city, on 14 December 2025 two local Muslim men who were members of Islamic State, carried out an Islamic terrorism attack on Jews and Australians celebrating a festival on Bondi Beach. Some fifteen innocent people - mostly Jews - died, with many more injured.

The subsequent comments from local politicians were mute, with the Prime Minister finding it difficult to even refer to Islam or Muslims in addressing the slaughter. He blames guns, and called for social harmony. This revealed the use of jihad as outlined in the above definitions, with an attack coming at a time when the local infidels were weak as perceived by those in the local Islamic community who were keen follow the demands of their faith. An understanding of the traditional, and still-current, definition of jihad therefore explains the basic reason behind the carrying out of the Bondi Massacre of 2026, namely, a desire by the two men to go to heaven following their carrying out the wishes of God (Allah) as set out in the Qur'an.

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2. Re-defined

Whilst the above traditional definitions of jihad emphasise its brutal, holy war emphasis involving physical violence, recent definitions have turned this around to present jihad as a practice of peace, viz.

* Jihad is an Arabic word that means "exerting", "striving", or "struggling", particularly with a praiseworthy aim (Wikipedia 2026).

* Jihad: the spiritual struggle within oneself against sin (Oxford Languages Dictionary 2026).

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References

Baker, Emily and Sara Tomevska, An ex-jihadi and terror experts agree on one thing about extremism, ABC, 6 February 2026.

Ibrahim, Raymond, Islamophobia outrage vs. Christian genocide, Raymond Ibrahim, YouTube, 27 February 2026, duration: 126.47 minutes.

Khadduri, Majid, and J. Herbert Liebesny, Law in the Middle East, The William Byrd Press, Richmond, 1955.

Mostfa, Ali, Jihad, in Islam: From the War of Words to the Clashes of Definitions, Religions, 12(11) 2021, 966.

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