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Short answer
Nothing says “human rights” like parading portraits of Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei, waving Taliban and ISIS flags, and chanting “Death to the IDF.” On 3 August 2025, Sydney’s so-called “March for Humanity” saw thousands cross the Harbour Bridge in a spectacle of anti-West, antisemitic, and anti-democratic rhetoric.
Australia has a long history of Islamist extremism: the 2014 Sydney Lindt Café siege, the 2015 Parramatta police HQ shooting, and the 2018 Melbourne Bourke Street knife attack were all ISIS-inspired. Around 230 Australians left to fight with ISIS in Syria and Iraq, with dozens prosecuted at home for terror plots and financing jihad. This march wasn’t about humanity, it was about eroding Western values — and it’s alarming that a democracy like Australia tolerates it under its watch.
Long answer
On 3 August 2025, tens of thousands of demonstrators (police estimate around 90,000, while organizers and independent sources suggest up to 300,000) marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the so-called “March for Humanity.” While many carried Palestinian flags and hunger-strike signs, the rally was marred by portraits of Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei, Taliban and ISIS flags, and “Death to the IDF” signs.
What does it mean, in Australia in 2025, to march under such banners? Apparently, it means that “human rights” are best represented by the smiling faces of terrorists and dictators. Australia is a textbook case of how a modern, democratic nation was infiltrated by radical Islamist networks. Between 2014 and 2020, jihadist activity spiked: nine ISIS-inspired attacks on Australian soil, about 230 Australian citizens traveled to Iraq and Syria since 2012 to join ISIS, and multiple terror plots against targets like the Holsworthy Army Barracks were foiled. Long before the ISIS era, authorities were dismantling cells linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jemaah Islamiyah, and al-Shabaab, while homegrown extremists preached antisemitism and anti-democracy from behind the safety of religious pulpits.
The so-called “March for Humanity” openly flaunted symbols linked to ISIS, Hizb ut-Tahrir, and Hamas—different groups, same extremist ideology. None represent humanity; all aim to undermine Western values and promote radical agendas under a veneer of legitimacy.
