A siege situation on Monday night in the Melbourne suburb of Melbourne amounted to "terrorism", leaving 2 people dead (inc the gunman) and injuring 3 policemen. The reason why it is labelled as a terrorist situation and not just any other violent siege is that this perpetrator uttered "For ISIS and Al-Qaeda" before being later killed by police. He was also a suspect acquitted in a plot to blow up a Sydney army barracks in 2009. He was not deemed as someone watch-worthy, and was therefore not on the police's radar. IS claimed him as their "soldier", apparently.
But he had also been convicted of a number of violent knife attacks, and had just been released from jail and was on parole when this happened last night. He was already an angry violent man, and it didn't take him long to find a crusade to link up to and perpetuate his hate and violence.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-06/islamic-state-claims-responsibility-for-brighton-siege/8591540
This really shows how extremely deranged these individuals are - full of violent and malevolent thoughts towards humans seemingly living a better life than them. Or blaming the Western culture as the reason for their own personal issues. Or just not able to live in the western way of life, disenfranchised and without their own identity in society. Except they do have an identity with the most feared religio-politico entity around - and they love the notoriety it garners with every new terrorist attack on Western values. They feel unified against society and feel the freedom to rage against it.
To me, Satan's great anger is evident in his tearing his own "house" apart, as he gets his kicks seeing more and more suffering however it happens on the earth. He knows he has not much time left, and he is dragging all the world down with him. These terrorists display truly demonic traits. Human governments cannot begin to understand what they are seemingly fighting against.
“Every kingdom divided against itself comes to ruin, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. In the same way, if Satan expels Satan, he has become divided against himself; how, then, will his kingdom stand?" Mat 12:25, 26