Interesting articles. Most I've seen on this topic involve "youths" of generic ethnicity retaliating for "white" racist attacks.
"Racial tensions" are impossible since both sides are of the same race.
Cultural, religious or ethnic tensions are correct descritpions of these events.
Why does this verse always come to my mind when I hear about Muslims?
This just can't be true, Oz banned firearms! </sarc>
"Groups of Middle-Eastern men descended on Cronulla seeking revenge for Sunday's attacks, smashing cars with baseball bats."
Someone needs to tell CNN. They attribute everything to "anti-Arab rioters".
It occurs to me that if there were no Middle-Easterners in Australia, then this would not occur in the future.
Everyone should read this:
http://www.quadrant.org.au/php/article_view.php?article_id=581
Australia will be a Muslim state within 25 years.
Looks like the Australian propaganda press is slipping a bit. They forgot to work in the word "Nazis" when referring to the white "racists."
Just kickin muslim asses and drinkin beer...Up against the aussie mother....reminds me of a song.
Good think for them the Aussie government conveniently took away all the Ugly Black Guns, and some not so ugly semi-autos as well a few years ago.
I don't recommend the Palies, or any other middle eastern bunch, try this sort of thing down around South Padre or Galveston, but I sort of wish they would too.
BTW, isn't "diversity" wonderful?
By Nick Squires in Darwin
The Telegraph (UK)
(Filed: 13/12/2005)
Racial violence flared in Sydney yesterday in apparent retaliation for earlier clashes in which a mob of 5,000 white youths chanted abuse and attacked people of Middle Eastern origin.
The second night of violence brought terror to one of the city's best known beaches. It flared when young men of mostly Lebanese background clashed with police, throwing stones and other missiles.
Police question men they suspect of being involved with the violence
Witnesses reported several gun shots and one woman was said to have been stabbed.
Police reinforcements were drafted in as thugs attacked cars and shops with baseball bats and threatened to do battle with rival white gangs with guns and crowbars.
About 200 young Muslim men gathered outside one of the city's largest mosques, some armed with pistols.
A white woman in a car was said to have been approached by some men and told: "We are going to rape you, you Aussie slut." It was claimed that a shot was fired at the vehicle.
The cycle of violence tarnished Australia's reputation - often promoted by the government - as a bastion of tolerance and racial integration.
Anti-Muslim feeling has been exacerbated by the Bali bombings, a series of gang rapes of white women by men of Pakistani and Lebanese background and last month's counter-terrorism raids on alleged Islamic militants in Melbourne and Sydney. White youths also accuse Lebanese-Australian men of looking for trouble in beach areas, intimidating women in bikinis and picking fights.
The violence was concentrated on Cronulla, a southern suburb where rioting on Sunday led to more than 30 injuries and 16 arrests.
Cronulla, a staunchly Anglo-Celtic area, attracts thousands of trippers from the less salubrious western suburbs, a stronghold of the Middle Eastern and Muslim communities, which number 300,000 out of the national population of 20 million.
It has a reputation for resenting non-Anglo visitors. On Sunday thousands of white youths congregated on the beach front to protest against an incident last week in which two lifeguards - the epitome of white Australian culture - were beaten up by men of Lebanese origin. The lifeguards were attacked after asking a group to stop playing football because it was disturbing others.
Although peaceful at first, the demonstration was tinged with racism from the start - one man set up a barbecue offering "Free snags [sausages], no tabouli". Another had scrawled on his chest "Mohammed was a camel-raping faggot".
The crowd chanted "No more Lebs [Lebanese]" and sang Waltzing Matilda.
The atmosphere soon turned ugly, with police using pepper spray and batons to subdue rioters who pelted officers with bottles and smashed up patrol cars.
A Muslim woman had her head scarf torn off in what police described as a "cowardly" and "un-Australian" act.
White supremacist and neo-Nazi groups were among the crowd. "They have no place in mainstream Australian society," the New South Wales police minister, Carl Scully, said. "Those characters are best placed in 1930s Berlin, not in Cronulla in 2005."
John Howard, the prime minister, said: "Attacking people because of their race, their appearance, their ethnicity is totally unacceptable." He added that he did "not accept that there is underlying racism in this country".
Kuranda Seyit, of the Forum on Australian-Islamic Relations, disagreed. "There is racism running deeply in the Australian psyche. It's been simmering for years."
I'm based in the UK and I've never been to Australia, but England is saturated with Australians who are passing through or have actually settled for the duration. I've got to know a lot of these people from 'down under' and in general I love their attitude to life etc. Maybe I've been living in a bubble or something, but I've never found any of my Antipitean friends to be racist (a generalisation, true).
To get to the point, I am saddened to hear the Muslim troubles have sparked-off there too. Isn't it becoming more and more obvious that these people just do not fit in with Western society? And I find it annoying that they demand changes to suit them, rather than assimulating to the new countries. This will all probably end with cash being pumped into their communities by vote-catching politically correct goody-goodies. I have lived in Asian communities, white communities and Afro-Caribean communities, and it is only by living there that you realise it is not just the colour of one's skin. People should be proud of their origins and keep-up their traditions, but should not dictate their values on others in the process - again, assimulation.
The BBC in England only report a fraction of what is actually happening, and one has to go to other sources for the whole truth. The BBC don't seem to have reported on how the Muslims had grown in numbers in the troubled area (once a decent neighbourhood) and were causing all sorts of trouble - street robbery, sexual abuse, other violent acts, and racism. I get the feeling the attack on the lifeguards was the last straw - too right.
Picture this - you go to the beach with your girlfriend to sunbathe and she gets hassled from a load of leering Arabs, who don't just look but feel too. Or you're having a lovelly family day on the beach and a gang of Muslims steam the beach (mass robbery - loads of them all at once mugging people). Ten points to the Australians for loosing their tollerance.
But the latest news reports only seem to be focusing on the 'drunkan white racists'. Why do they push this idea that white people are the only racists in the world? My experiences in the above mentioned communities has shown me this is not the case. And why is it that when 'whites' retaliate, they are of some kind of mental imparement?
In the UK it seems we are far too tolerant for our own good. I think the Australian guys have been an example to us all.
Sweet naïf Police Commissioner Ken Moroney. He's never heard of "being f---ed Leb style"