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Australia’s leaders and media refuse to confront reality, insisting Islamist terror has nothing to do with Islam—an exercise in denial that undermines security, accountability, and public trust.

Our lives are in the hands of moral cowards.

Not cowards in the foxhole sense. No one is asking these people to storm a trench. Just cowards of language, logic, and basic intellectual honesty — the most dangerous kind when they occupy positions of authority.

Last week, Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett informed the nation that the slaughter of 15 Australians by Islamic jihadists had nothing to do with Islam.

During a press conference, Barrett said the jihadists had been “aligning themselves with a terrorist organisation, not a religion”.

Barrett said this standing beside the Prime Minister who, naturally, remained silent.

The statement itself is a marvel. It asks us to believe that a group called Islamic State, whose fighters shout Islamic slogans, swear Islamic oaths, cite Islamic texts, and explicitly say they are acting for Islam, somehow have no connection to Islam.

Unquestioned

When it was later revealed that the jihadists had made a video swearing their allegiance to Islamic State, the AFP boss returned for a second helping of nonsense:

“We know ISIS distorts and corrupts Islam, which leads to radicalisation”.

How does ISIS distort Islam?

Could Krissy Barrett elaborate? Provide examples?

Which doctrines are being distorted? Which verses misread? Which traditions corrupted? What parts of Islam does ISIS get wrong, and what parts does it get right?

These are not trick questions. They are the most basic questions any serious person should ask if they are going to make sweeping claims about religion and violence.

But no, not a single journalist in the Canberra press gallery asked Barrett to explain herself.

No follow-up questions. No requests for clarification. No curiosity.

Just obedient note-taking and a quick pivot to the next approved talking point.

And so her assertion that Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam was allowed to go unchallenged.

This is not policing. This is public relations.

Deep Denial

The job of the AFP Commissioner is not to protect Australians from uncomfortable thoughts. It is to protect Australians from being murdered.

That requires clarity about threats, motivations, and ideologies — not the kind of euphemistic fog normally produced by university diversity offices.

By pretending Islamist terror has nothing to do with Islam, our leaders guarantee they will never understand it, never confront it, and never stop it.

Worse, they insult the intelligence of every Australian watching.

We are asked to accept that these killers are motivated by everything except the thing they themselves say motivates them. That their theology is irrelevant, their slogans meaningless, their declarations mere coincidence.

At some point, denial stops being compassion and starts being negligence.

And the press gallery? Spare me.

Journalism used to involve asking questions that people in power didn’t want to answer. Now it’s mostly about asking questions that help them avoid answering anything at all.

When the nation’s top cop makes an assertion this consequential — that an explicitly Islamist terror group has nothing to do with Islam — and no one challenges it, that’s not journalism. That’s stenography.

Barrett should be sacked immediately. And the Canberra press gallery should be replaced with people who are actually curious.

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