John why are you so desperate to defend Islam that you would try to play down the threat posed by members of Islamic State?
John Smith wrote on Oct 5
th, 2022 at 7:23pm:
freediver wrote on Oct 5
th, 2022 at 5:51am:
Brian do you think it is a good idea for the Labor government to bring people into the country in full knowledge that they pose a serious risk of conducting a mass casualty terrorist attack?
serious threat

to much cool aid for you
Are you suggesting there is no serious threat?
Quote:"These are people that would, in our judgement — not all of them but some of them — have the potential and capacity to come back here and cause a mass casualty event," Mr Dutton told 2GB in October 2019.
Quote:The federal government has not gone into detail about its plans but a spokesman for Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil said any decision is informed by national security advice.
Quote:"The women have all offered their full cooperation with law enforcement authorities should they be repatriated here in Australia," he told the ABC.
"They have also offered themselves to be subject to terrorism control orders by consent, which is unprecedented in Australia's history that these women would say we are ok for our every move to be monitored.
Quote:The federal government has said Australian women and children expected to be repatriated from Syria will be closely monitored by national security agencies, as the Coalition argued the rescue mission is too dangerous.
Labor frontbencher Tanya Plibersek said the government was following the advice of security agencies.
"But I think for everybody involved, there will be an ongoing expectation that our security and intelligence agencies will stay in contact with them and monitor them."