Australian police: Dec. 2022 terrorist attack, a Christian extremist ideology motivation

RELIGIONS NEWS AGENCY (REDNA) – Police sources in Australia said the terrorist attack occurred in December 2022 was motivated by the Christian extremist ideology.

Australian police, as Muslim News reported, announced on Thursday that the attack on police in the northeastern state of Queensland in December 2022 was a terrorist attack motivated by Christian extremist ideology.

Police Deputy Commissioner Tracy Linford stated in a statement that Queensland’s Counter-Terrorism Investigative and Intelligence Unit had completed a thorough assessment of the perpetrators involved in the attack.

On Dec. 12, two police officers, Rachel McCrow, 29, and Matthew Arnold, 26 and a civilian were killed in a shootout at a property in Wieambilla, about 322 kilometers (200 miles) west of Brisbane.

Three suspected attackers were later killed in an operation by special forces.

Later it was found out that the crime was motivated and that the perpetrators carried out a “religiously-motivated terrorist attack.”

“They were motivated by a Christian extremist ideology and subscribed to the broad Christian fundamentalist belief system known as Pre-Millennialism,” the police official said.