On Saturday, April 13 2024, a white male entered a large shopping complex in the inner Sydney suburb of Bondi Junction and murdered, as of writing, five innocent women and a male security guard using a long-blade knife before being cornered and killed by police. He hospitalised numerous others with stab wounds including the nine-month-old baby of one of the deceased. Given the unique nature of the crime: the use of a knife, within a typically peaceful shopping environment, its obsession with women, amid months of incitement to violence by a professional pro-Hamas crowd on Australia’s streets it was easy to apply logic to the belief that this was an act of Islamist extremism. This perception was only aided by a heinous by-product, when…