The first modern Mulim terroritst attack on the West - Broken Hill, Australia, 1915
Islam | Battle of Broken Hill 1915 | Muslim Brotherhood in Australia | Sam Byrne, First World War: Turks fire on picnic train, Broken Hill, Jan. 1st. 1915 , oil on canvas, c.1965, National Gallery of Victoria. ---------------------- 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, 16 December 2025) On 29 October 1914 the Ottoman Empire entered the First World War as an ally of Germany. On 11 November, the Sultan of the Ottoman Caliphate declared Jihad, calling for Muslims in British-controlled countries to fight against all enemies of the Ottoman Empire. A halal butcher and an ice-cream seller in Broken Hill decided to take up arms in response to the Sultan’s d...
