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submitted 4 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 30 points 4 months ago

Apparently a bunch of right wing Internet media keeps trying to name him "Edward Crabtree" and cover up the fact that he's Muslim

[-] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

How do you know he’s Muslim? Lots of Arabs are Christian, some non religious.

[-] zd9@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

who cares what online racist dweebs think or say about anything?

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 months ago

A lot of people, unfortunately

[-] zd9@lemmy.world -2 points 4 months ago
[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago
[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

I do because it affects our politics. Where do you think Trump came from? Born straight out of Fox News propaganda.

[-] zd9@lemmy.world -5 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago

On another platform, someone claimed he was maronite christian. I guess I'll have to wait until someone asks him in an interview. 🤷

[-] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

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.

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