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Australian church fire fuels more fears of race riots
Channel News Asia ^ | 14-DEC-2005 | AFP

Posted on 12/14/2005 12:14:12 AM PST by djsunzi

SYDNEY - A suspicious fire at a Sydney church hall early Wednesday and shots fired during a Christmas carol service heightened tensions as Australians braced for more racial violence between whites and ethnic Arabs.

Four men were seen near the Uniting Church hall, which is next to an Islamic centre in the multicultural suburb of Auburn, before the fire broke out in the early hours of the morning.

"I've been in contact with the police this morning and the police are treating it as suspicious," New South Wales state Premier Morris Iemma said.

Asked in a television interview if the blaze -- finally contained after two hours -- was related to the recent race riots in the Sydney suburbs, Iemma responded: "It may be".

Dozens of people have been arrested and injured since Sunday in the nastiest racially-motivated unrest in Australia for decades, prompting authorities to deploy hundreds of extra police officers to avert further violence.

Also in Auburn, a Christmas carol service at a Catholic primary school was disrupted on Monday evening when men of Middle Eastern descent fired shots into parked cars and verbally abused parents and children.

No one was hurt in the incident, which was condemned by Sydney's Catholic Archbishop Cardinal George Pell as "apparently motivated by religious intolerance".

(Excerpt) Read more at channelnewsasia.com ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: australia; church; churchburning; radicalmuslims; riots; sydneyriots
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Seems like an ominous escalation of violence.
1 posted on 12/14/2005 12:14:13 AM PST by djsunzi
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I'm waiting for them to start burning cars like in France...


2 posted on 12/14/2005 12:16:05 AM PST by Fred Nerks (Read THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD free pdf download - link on My Page)
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To: djsunzi

the police are expecting more riots this weekend,. In the meantime - if it had been a mosque set alight by Christians - well you can fill in the blanks....



3 posted on 12/14/2005 12:20:13 AM PST by vimto (Life isn't a dry run)
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To: djsunzi

MMEA's....This is not about race...


4 posted on 12/14/2005 12:26:34 AM PST by Dallas59 (“You love life, while we love death"( Al-Qaeda & Democratic Party)
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To: djsunzi
Islam is a peaceful and tolerant religion.
Islam is a peaceful and tolerant religion.
Islam...
5 posted on 12/14/2005 12:27:17 AM PST by Bon mots
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"...as Australians braced for more racial violence between whites and ethnic Arabs muslims"
6 posted on 12/14/2005 12:28:55 AM PST by indcons
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To: indcons

MMEA's


7 posted on 12/14/2005 12:34:47 AM PST by Dallas59 (“You love life, while we love death"( Al-Qaeda & Democratic Party)
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To: Dallas59

What does MMEA stand for?


8 posted on 12/14/2005 12:39:12 AM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: djsunzi

Funny how this sort of violence so often pops up with Middle Eastern types around. Funny....


9 posted on 12/14/2005 12:45:07 AM PST by KellyAdmirer
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To: djsunzi

10 posted on 12/14/2005 12:56:14 AM PST by freepatriot32 (Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
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Gee, wonder if the Australian non-Muslims will respond by burning Mosques that have been more radical lately.

I would think that is what they would do next.
11 posted on 12/14/2005 1:02:16 AM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: KellyAdmirer

what is not really funny at all is the mindset of these people, muslims i mean. look at it this way, australia has how many muslims? id guess 1 or 2% perhaps, yet they are courageous enough to take on the 98% other. factor in your aboriginal types and your pagans and wiccans, a few jews here and there and you still have just a few muslims taking on over 70% of the rest of the population. these numbers really do tell the entire story of their attempted conquest of christianity. imagine we had 20% muslims here, i tell you, every church would be gone, and we would all be waking at 5 am to go to prayer.


12 posted on 12/14/2005 1:04:20 AM PST by son of caesar (son of caesar)
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Australia has been targeted by al-Qaida for her support in the war on jihadic terrorism. Pre-planted Islamic sleeper cells are most assuredly 'awaiting further orders' and not just Down Under.

 A group of Indonesian Muslim leaders
(foreground) watch a video in Jakarta, November 17th, 2005, released by
police showing the three Bali suicide bombers. A masked
man believed to be one of Asia's most wanted militants, Noordin Mohamad
Top, has warned Western countries, especially Australia, of more
attacks in a video found last week by Indonesian anti-terrorist police.
The video also showed three young suicide bombers who killed 20 people
in attacks on restaurants on the resort island of Bali on October 1st,
2005. On the tape, one of the three said they would be in heaven once
the tape was aired. REUTERS/Bejo Winangun 

In relation to waiting for further outbreaks of incited violence, Aussie police should begin rounding up 'the usual suspects'.

If France had previously taken precautionary national security measures maybe the rioting would not have happened or been so widespread and seemingly well organized.

13 posted on 12/14/2005 1:04:28 AM PST by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free)
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To: Dane

"Men of Middle Eastern Appearance"


14 posted on 12/14/2005 1:26:46 AM PST by Dallas59 (“You love life, while we love death"( Al-Qaeda & Democratic Party)
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To: Dallas59
VMEA

Vermin of Middle Eastern Appearance

15 posted on 12/14/2005 2:06:41 AM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: djsunzi

Sure is a good thing the Aussies surrendered a lot of their gun to the government. I'll bet they feel so much safer now.


16 posted on 12/14/2005 4:07:20 AM PST by labette ("Ohh, Tidings of comfort and joy")
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{Just in from the red-face with embarrassment department} gunS
17 posted on 12/14/2005 4:17:40 AM PST by labette ("Ohh, Tidings of comfort and joy")
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To: djsunzi

Auburn, Michigan? Multicultural???


18 posted on 12/14/2005 4:30:11 AM PST by wolfcreek
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>>Gee, wonder if the Australian non-Muslims will respond by burning Mosques that have been more radical lately.

Won't happen... The Aussie police will be out in full force to protect every mosque in the country. More christian churches may be burned, but they'll make sure that there is no retaliation against the muslims. The Aussie government is acting like dhimmis.

19 posted on 12/14/2005 6:46:58 AM PST by vikingd00d
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To: Fred Nerks

I'm waiting for the Aussies to start torching mosques. It's only fair, after all...


20 posted on 12/14/2005 7:01:48 AM PST by Kenton (To my friends who celebrate Jesus' birth, Merry Christmas. To the rest of you, have a nice day off.)
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