Mike Savage take a trip to Syndey?
Posted on 12/11/2005 3:28:57 PM PST by LurkedLongEnough
After weeks of tension, attack on two lifeguards by Lebanese youths triggers race riot
TENSIONS between young white gangs and youths of mainly Middle Eastern origin erupted on one of Australia’s most popular beaches yesterday in what police condemned as a racially motivated rally driven by a mob mentality.
Thousands of people, many chanting racial slurs, were engaged in running battles on Cronulla Beach in Sydney’s southern suburbs.
At least 13 people were hurt, including five police, and 12 were arrested during the clashes, which followed a week of mounting anger over an attack on two lifeguards who were beaten up by a gang of Lebanese youths.
Furious locals, many wielding empty beer bottles and waving Australian flags, shouted anti-Middle Eastern slogans as they marched across the sand, on which was written “100 per cent Aussie pride”.
One white teenager had the words “We grew up here, you flew here” painted across his back. As the crowd moved along the beach and foreshore, one man on the back of a truck shouted: “No more Lebs [Lebanese]”, a chant picked up by the group around him. Others carried Australian flags and dressed in Australian sports shirts.
Up to 150 police officers were drafted in to cope with the 5,000-strong crowd, many of whom roamed the beach and side streets in vigilante fashion.
Two girls of Middle Eastern appearance were pushed to the ground and pelted with bottles as police tried to rescue them.
By mid-afternoon word spread that a Lebanese gang was arriving at the nearby railway station. Some members of the mob jumped on a train where they looked for anybody of vaguely Middle Eastern appearance. They found two men whom they began to beat before police intervened with batons and formed a human chain around the station.
In a separate incident, two paramedics were injured as they tried to rescue a group of Lebanese youths who had sought sanctuary in the Cronulla Surf Lifesaving club.
The mob smashed windows and kicked at doors, while others stomped on police vehicles and parked cars. Officers fought back with pepper spray and batons, bringing a semblance of calm to the area by late afternoon.
Last night, violence flared in at least six Sydney suburbs in retaliation for the Cronulla clashes. In nearby Brighton-le-Sands, an Australian flag was reported to have been taken off a building and burnt.
The violent clashes followed weeks of rising racial tension in the beachside suburb, which is popular with thousands of Middle Eastern families from Sydney’s mainly ethnic outer areas at the weekend. Locals have accused some of them, particularly visiting Lebanese youths, of being disrespectful to white women and other beachgoers.
Following the attacks on the volunteer lifeguards, a mobile telephone text campaign started, backed up by frenzied discussions on weblogs, calling on Cronulla locals to rally to protect their beach.
In response, a text campaign urged youths from western Sydney to be at Cronulla on Sunday to protect their friends. All week police and politicians had been calling for calm.
Yesterday, Islamic leaders blamed the trouble on influential talk radio hosts who had whipped up racial tensions in the wake of last weekend’s attack on the lifesavers, who epitomise Australia’s white traditions and Anglo-Saxon roots.
Keysar Trad, president of the Islamic Friendship Association, accused the media of incitement.
Ken Moroney, the New South Wales police commissioner, pledged to target people who raised the ethnic tensions that ignited the violence.
Mark Goodwin, the assistant police commissioner, branded the riots as “disgusting and disgraceful”. “It’s certainly not the Australian way,” he said.
Kevin Schreiber, the Cronulla Mayor, said many who flocked to the beach were looking for a fight. “I’m devastated by what has happened on our beachfront. It is the actions of a few, but let’s not kid ourselves that people didn’t come from far and wide to participate.”
Glad to see there is at least one country that is willing to stand up for itself and not let the world take it over.
Multiculturalism....it works every time!
"Islamic leaders blamed the trouble on influential talk radio hosts who had whipped up racial tensions"
... in response to influential Islamic leaders, who had whipped up religious tensions tinged with racial overtones in the weeks and months leading up to the clashes at Cronulla Beach and elsewhere in and around Sidney.
"accused some of them, particularly visiting Lebanese youths, of being disrespectful to white women and other beachgoers."
It might be nice if the article had explained that they harrassed women in bathing suits, calling them "whores", and attacking the men they were with if these tried to defend them.
And that gangs of ME youth have been engaged in a great deal of thuggery, which has gone unpunished.
And, even, that these are muslim youth whose value systems
permit this kind of activity against kaffirs (unbelievers); even some imams in Australia have said that Aussie women who were raped by Lebanese gangs deserved what they got, because they dressed immodestly.
But the press always likes to give the muslims a pass. . .
First article I've read on the topic that's halfway understandable.
Mike Savage take a trip to Syndey?
5,000 is really huge (hugh) for an Aussie 'mob.'
This would be like 90-100K here in the US. This is a big deal.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
How completely UNFrench of our friends down under.
More from the GREAT Religion of PEACE.
You got that right. But the tide is turning on this kind of crap, no matter what the press wants everyone to believe.
bttt
Unleash the dogs of war!
Feed em to the crocodiles.
You know, I am glad to see them stand up to the Muzzies, too. Makes me want to move there. Good ol' Australia, they get it. And they don't seem to be bending over backward in liberal guilt, either. How refreshing.
A rhetorical question, right?
Especially ironic since Lebanese Arabs and all Arabs regard themselves as whiter than the wind driven snow.
If you don't believe it, ask the Sudanese Christians.
who epitomise Australia’s white traditions and Anglo-Saxon roots.
Yeah, those of us with that background are expected to forget all about OUR heritage because it offends others....
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