This gubberment’s hair-raising approach to dealing with Islamic terrorism is of more concern than Islamic terrorism itself.

Anthony Albanese will stare down a push by a national security watchdog to scrap religion as a motive for terrorism in federal law, risking a backlash from Muslim leaders in Labor’s western Sydney heartland.
Independent National Security Legislation Monitor Jake Blight is expected to recommend “violent religious extremism” be covered by a broader category of “ideology” in the Criminal Code’s definition of terrorism in a report to be tabled on November 20, weeks before the first anniversary of the Bondi massacre.
Intelligence and security agencies have lobbied against the change, arguing it could make it harder for investigators to access special counter-terrorism powers and secure prosecutions, while obscuring the threat posed by Islamist extremists.
Attorney-General Michelle Rowland, who received Mr Blight’s report last month, will not respond immediately, but has signalled the government will not back the proposed amendment.
“To be clear: the government does not support any narrowing of the definition of terrorism,” Ms Rowland’s spokesman said.
He said Mr Blight’s review was an “own-motion” inquiry, rather than one commissioned by the government.
That’s BS. All of this is bought & paid for by the much maligned taxpayers.
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