Posted on 12/13/2005 10:47:51 AM PST by o_zarkman44
SYDNEY erupted in a second night of racial violence last night as Middle Eastern mobs fired shots into the air, attacked women and smashed shops around Cronulla, while up to 600 young men - armed with guns and crowbars - prepared for a battle.
In a terrifying escalation of the conflict, up to 70 cars from Hurstville and possibly Lakemba invaded Cronulla and Brighton-le-Sands to launch revenge attacks, following the vicious attacks by Cronulla locals on people of Middle Eastern appearance on Sunday.
Twenty carloads of men arrived at Cronulla by about 10.30pm, smashing shops, and cars in Elouera Road, and threatening people who got in their way. They reportedly stabbed a woman at Carringbah, but her condition was unknown.
Gunshots were heard near Northies Hotel at Cronulla and there was an unconfirmed report of a man being shot.
About 11.30pm a group of about 100 Cronulla locals surrounded a car carrying men of Middle Eastern appearance, but police cleared the crowd and let the car escape.
Hours earlier, about 200 men had assembled outside Lakemba Mosque - some armed with Glock pistols - and dozens more gathered at Campsie. They were preparing to travel to Maroubra Beach, where up to 300 locals, many armed with crowbars, waited for an arranged fight, according to "Bra Boys" at the beach.
But some young Muslims said they had gathered to protect the mosque because of a threatened attack on it by a gang from the southern beaches.
Following Sunday's riot at Cronulla beach - when local mobs had bashed people of Middle Eastern appearance - police confiscated iron bars and other weapons at Maroubra last night and blocked roads around the mosque. About 20 police cars surrounded the mosque, where four men showed their pistols and ammunition to a news crew, and boasted that others were carrying arms.
At 10.45pm, on the Kingsway at Caringbah, about 12 cars sped by, followed by another vehicle that stopped. Four men got out and began attacking patrons of Antonio's Pizzeria. They knocked a woman unconscious on the footpath and smashed the window of a denture clinic.
Thai-born Suchada Goodier, 44, owner of a Thai restaurant on the Kingsway, said she was walking on the street when she was attacked. The group then started bashing her car. "What have I done?" she said. "I have done nothing."
In Bay Street, Brighton-le-Sands, a young woman was sitting in a car when men approached and opened the door to her vehicle and put a hand up her dress, saying: "We are going to rape you, you Aussie sluts." A witness, Linda El-Hassan, 19, said a shot was fired at the woman's car but she was unhurt. Miss El-Hassan said she was Lebanese and opposed the violence. "We all came to this country and we are all one in this country." The mobs vandalised cars and Bay Street was strewn with rubbish and a government bus was attacked and its back window smashed. Many police gathered in Bay Street, where a senior officer was heard to say: "Let's get our [riot] gear on and smash 'em."
At Lakemba Mosque earlier, a media crew had been involved in an altercation with some in the crowd about 7pm. A man is believed to have suffered a broken leg during a scuffle.
Islamic leaders tried to calm the crowd, imploring the men over a loudspeaker to go inside and pray. Outside the Maroubra Bay Hotel, police dressed in riot gear prepared for violence.
A Channel Seven reporter, Robert Ovadia, was surrounded by a group who menaced him, spat in his face, threatened to head-butt him and told him that the media had stirred up all the trouble. Ovadia called police, who sent a patrol car. The Herald's reporter at Maroubra retreated under a hail of water bombs.
The Bra Boys had told the media they were not welcome.
Police said there was evidence of text and email messages promoting another confrontation at Cronulla next Sunday. One email congratulates those involved in Sunday's riots but warns of armed retaliation. "This is only the beginning, this is a start of the war! Leb's n wog's won't stand for this and will start singling out the aussies and gang bashing them with drawn weapons. We must continue to come together to help the innocent and family's so everyone can enjoy our beach's!"
The Premier, Morris Iemma, said Sunday had exposed the "ugly face of racism in Australia". But John Howard said: "I believe yesterday's behaviour was completely unacceptable but I'm not going to put a general tag [of] racism on the Australian community ... I think it's a term that is flung around sometimes carelessly and I'm simply not going to do so. I do not accept there is underlying racism in this country. I have always taken a more optimistic view of the character of the Australian people."
Fight back Aussies! Don't let the Islamic anarchists get the upper hand!
Once again, in another country, Islam has demonstrated that Muslims and non-Muslims cannot coexist as the Muslims have a goal which is aimed at total destruction of conversion of any non-Muslims.
We should learn NOW the lessons that England, France, and Australia are teaching US.
To assume that these people will behave any differently here is arrogantly absurd.
Valuing the Difference of the Multicultural Diversity Ping!
Moose marching orders.
How could this be?
Sorta puts the 2nd Amendment into a proper perspective, eh?
I'm really hoping they try that in Texas.
All the governor has to do is declare a state of emergency, and the citizenry is allowed any and all means to suppress the insurrection.
I love our rules of engagement here.
You are an infidel - that is all you need to do to deserve this treatment.
In Bay Street, Brighton-le-Sands, a young woman was sitting in a car when men approached and opened the door to her vehicle and put a hand up her dress, saying: "We are going to rape you, you Aussie sluts."
Ah, multiculturalism...
Armed gangs? I thought guns were illegal in Austrailia? How in the world did a gang arm itself when having a gun is against the law?
Lock and load.
Once again, in another country, Islam has demonstrated that Muslims and non-Muslims cannot coexist as the Muslims have a goal which is aimed at total destruction of conversion of any non-Muslims.
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Yep we stamped out Nazism almost completely and Islam the new Nazism may have to go too.
How is this possible? I thought guns were against the law in Australia.
"One riot. One Ranger".
Only for White people.
Where is Crocodile Dundee, and Mad Max when you need them. Send Quigley down under.
Yes: if you want to practise your religion hang on to your guns and let the mob know you have them.
Heck, if you wnat any rights: hang on to your guns.
Bah there is an old rule that applies here don't bring a Religion of Peacnik to and Aussie fight! It will not be pretty!
Notice that they somehow fail to even once mention the ethnicity of the attackers unless they were white.
She was asking for it. /sarcasm
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