In a video, the bystander was seen running up to the attacker from behind and then grabbing the shotgun from him before pointing the weapon back at him.
A bystander hailed a hero after he tackled and disarmed one of the gunmen in the Bondi Beach shooting is a shop owner.
The man, named by a relative as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, was seen in a video running up to the attacker from behind and then grabbing the shotgun from his hands before pointing the weapon back at him.
The footage then showed the terrorist heading towards a bridge where another gunman was located, while the bystander placed the gun beside a tree.
Apparently a bunch of right wing Internet media keeps trying to name him “Edward Crabtree” and cover up the fact that he’s Muslim
Yeah, a Muslim being the hero in stopping other Muslims from killing Jews really messes up their preferred narrative.
“What am I supposed to do with THIS?!”. - Israeli Department of Propaganda
Holy shit that’s awful.
https://bestlagos.ng/fact-check-is-edward-crabtree-the-real-bondi-hero/
MAGAs are perfectly willing to lie to advance their agenda, they think lying and cheating are perfectly legitimate tools. If their opponents choose to not use those strategies out of sense of morality, that’s on them. MAGAs feel no obligation to comply.
This will be the first election where AI and deep fakes are fully available. I’ve been waiting for this moment, and here it is. Which party will embrace deep fakes, and try to run campaign ads featuring their opponents saying and doing fraudulent things? I think we all know.
who cares what online racist dweebs think or say about anything?
A lot of people, unfortunately
and who’s that?
Voters
I do because it affects our politics. Where do you think Trump came from? Born straight out of Fox News propaganda.
Most of them at the beginning of any operation are Russian/Iranian bots (both real people and LLMs) whose entire job it is to rile people up and get the MAGA-types to latch on and grow the sentiment organically. But again, who cares what they say? Just ignore or silence them as quickly and cleanly as possible.
Voters care what they say. Them being bots doesn’t diminish the influence they have on politics
Eh sure. A healthy democracy requires informed voters, and America is kinda the king of… not that.
All true! But in the end, they still affect my life, so I do have to care what’s said, even if it is a bot or a filthy Russian.
How do you know he’s Muslim? Lots of Arabs are Christian, some non religious.
Ahmed is the Muslim prophet nickname. But he could be atheist.
Children usually dont decide what their parents name them…
On another platform, someone claimed he was maronite christian. I guess I’ll have to wait until someone asks him in an interview. 🤷
This seems unlikely. Ahmed comes from the same root as Muhammad. His cousin was interviewed and named Mustapha, also an epithet of Muhammad. I don’t know too much about Maronite Christian naming conventions, but these two names have a pretty explicit association with Muhammad in Arabic.
WATI thought you meant that the right wing was covering up the religion of the attacker, not the hero, sorry.