"The first Islamic terrorist attack in the West" - Holy War at Broken Hill, Australia, 1915
Islam | Battle of Broken Hill 1915 | Muslim Brotherhood in Australia | Politics | Rational fear of Islam | Sam Byrne, First World War: Turks fire on picnic train, Broken Hill, Jan. 1st. 1915 , oil on canvas, c.1965, National Gallery of Victoria. ---------------------- Daily Herald , Adelaide, 2 January 1915. The first Islamic terrorist attack in the West was the so-called Battle of Broken Hill [Australia] where two [Afghan] Muslims answered the call of Jihad in 1915 to obey the Calif of the Ottoman Empire and randomly began shooting Australians while they were having a picnic on the 1st of January 1915. So this is not new..... ( The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters , London, 16 December 2025) ---------------- Abstract : On the public holiday of Friday, 1 January 1915, two Muslim men from Afghanistan - Mullah Abdullah (c.1855-1915) and Badsha Mahomed Gül (c.1875-1915) - attacked with rifles approximately 1200 innocent Australians travelling on an open wagon picnic...
