LINDA N. writes:

There are some interesting little coincidences emerging in the wake of the recent Australian terrorist incident. A woman named Nadia El-Mouelhy is said to have left the shop just before the incident began unfolding. According to the Sydney Daily Telegraph, she’s the chief executive of the Halal Certification Authority of Australia. (Other sources say she’s the wife of the HCAA.) That organization is often accused of bullying and extortionary behavior.

Coincidentally, there has been an ongoing campaign to back Lindt in its refusal to seek halal certification. The movement even had its own Facebook page, which has since been removed. (Google still turns up a fascinating cached version.) Either way, why would she be patronizing a known non-halal establishment? She was in fact in the immediate area during the siege and was even interviewed on live TV, proclaiming herself a “moderate Muslim.”

Another intriguing coincidence: One witness mentioned something early in the siege about a patron in the shop seeing a handgun in a woman’s purse and trying to alert the staff before fleeing.

Lots of interesting tidbits are turning up. As always, the media are bending over backward to disguise and downplay the more . . . unfashionable aspects of the incident.

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