Bondi Beach hero Ahmed el Ahmed, the Muslim dad who tackled a terrorist to stop him slaughtering Jewish worshippers, has broken his silence from his hospital bed to urge well-wishers to pray for him as he recovers from being riddled with bullets.
The 43-year-old Muslim father of two is recovering in the hospital as Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called him “a true Australian hero” for attacking the terrorist despite assuming he’d be killed.
The tobacco shop owner hid behind parked cars before courageously charging at one of the gunmen from behind — seizing the rifle and knocking the killer to the ground, while taking shots from the other attacker.
“Thank you to everyone,” the bed-ridden hero said in Arabic in a video obtained by TRT World.
“May Allah reward you and grant well-being. Through Allah, I went through a very difficult phase, only Allah knows it.”
“I ask my mother, the apple of my eye, to pray for me. Pray for me, my mother. God willing, it will be a minor injury. Pray for me that Allah eases our situation, and deliver us from this hardship.”
Despite being in immense pain, Ahmed — who has so inspired people around the world he’s had more than $1.25 million raised for him — said he had no regrets about trying to thwart the attack, according to his lawyer.
“He doesn’t regret what he did. He said he’d do it again. But the pain has started to take a toll on him,” Sam Issa, Ahmed’s former immigration lawyer, said after visiting him.
“He’s not well at all. He’s riddled with bullets. Our hero is struggling at the moment.”
“He’s a lot worse than expected. When you think of a bullet in the arm, you don’t think of serious injuries, but he has lost a lot of blood,” Issa added.
After paying him a visit on Tuesday, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described Ahmed as “a true Australian hero.”
“We are a brave country. Ahmed al Ahmed represents the best of our country. We will not allow this country to be divided. That is what the terrorists seek,” Albanese said.
“We will unite. We will embrace each other, and we’ll get through this.”
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