http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/comments/beach_trash_duke_it_out/
I’m sorry but I despise the Lebanese. I’m sure there are nice Lebanese Australians, decent old guys who run newsstands, lawyers, doctors and people who just get along. But I have to assume that because the only Lebanese I’ve ever encountered have been vicious moronic thugs. I’ve born witness to a dozen screaming shoving matches out the front of Oxford street nightclubs, been insulted and threatened on Bondi’s esplanade, the list goes on.
Who was it that fired on that police station?
Okay I’ll give you one story, ONE, and this is the tip of the iceberg, and after this you can Diagnose me as a bigot if you like. This is not one of those “Some of my best friends are Lebanese, BUT..” stories because I don’t have any Lebanese friends because I hate them.
When I was a callow youth just out of uni, I lived visited Sydney briefly and stayed with my then girlfriend. She lived out in Ryde, so I had a long commute into the CBD and back. The bus had an ‘express’ and an ‘all stops’ version, clearly marked. It didn’t matter to me, I was the last stop. One of our colorful ethnic friends from the “Paris of the Middle East’, got on, and got up to get off, but he had dumbly got on the express and the bus didn’t stop at his station. Most people would have sighed in exasperation and sat back down, not this guy.
He went berserk. And I mean berserk, shrieking abuse at the bus driver as he tried to explain that he couldn’t get off here, then, and I swear to god I’m not exaggerating, HE GRABBED THE STEERING WHEEL AND YANKED IT.
Let me just give you a second for that to sink in. There were thirty people on that bus.
The bus swerved dangerously, the driver hit the brakes and let him out, he was screaming, leaping up and down like a chimpanzee, and, as an especially charming finishing touch, as the doors closed he spat full on the glass.
That’s ONE story, I have half a dozen, though I admit that’s probably the craziest. My friend’s a Canadian who’s only been in Oz for three years but already has two Lebo stories that involve violence and threats against him, one of them very serious. HE’S BEEN IN THE GODDAMN COUNTRY THREE YEARS. I do genuinely wish the whole revolting, thuggish, pig-ignorant, foulmouthed rabble would be thrown out, and I wouldn’t say that of any other ethnic group. I’m a big fan of immigration. Just not Arabs. And especially not the Lebanese.
The Australian yobbos in this story have acted like idiots and should be arrested, especially for the cowardly attack on that girl, but there was no trouble in Cronulla beach until GUESS WHO arrived.
Posted by Amos on 12/11 at 12:55 PM • permalink
I've known (American) Lebanese Christians who are great people. Once again it's not the nationality, it's the sense of entitlement that goes with a certain religion.
Bump! need to check Tim Blair on the doings Down Under.
1. Act as well adjusted productive member of society
2. Adopt your new culture and try to work inside it not against it
3. Be patriotic to your new host and uphold it's laws Do not break it's laws
If you violate any of the above you should be removed immediately and your kinfolk with you
Where Muslims go, violence follows.
Thirty people on the bus and they just sat there and watched. No wonder the animal felt like he could do whatever he wanted to.
Any way to know if it was a moose or Christian Leb?
I’m sorry but I despise the Lebanese
"Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy."
Aristotle
Lol ... guess you have never attended a British soccer match.
To judge all Lebanese by the actions of one misguided idiot who tried to take control of a bus is like me judging all Aussies to be like Steve Irwin who held his 1-month-old baby while feeding a snapping crocodile. As freeper Sandyeggo already pointed out, the majority of Lebanese are quite civilized in their manner and well educated. Lebanon did not earn the title "Paris of the East" by a spin of the wheel.
Time to check your prejudices at the door and re-evaluate your judgmental attitude. I just spent my entire day with many Lebanese priests and lay people, attending the ordination of a new Maronite Chorbishop. The big topic of disussion at the dinner which followed, was the assassination this morning of a major Lebanese figure - Gibran Tueni. May he rest in peace!