I think that is gonna backfire as this will become Christian v's Muslim rather than Skips v's Lebs.
Reverend Glenys Biddle, of the Uniting church in Auburn, said the destroyed hall had been a important part of the local Tongan community. "For them, they have lost not only a physical building but a sense of fellowship," she said. "A lot of memories have also been lost for Anglos, Tongans and people of all sorts of cultures."
Tongans!! The last people you want to make enemies of are Tongans. Dumb mistake on the part of the Muslims.
This weekend is going to be bad. Bad squared. I'm staying at home on the weekend (I live in an area that could see some fighting).
Take care of yourself and your family and friends.
Lying liars who lie.
Thank you for the inside information. Stand your ground. We are with you 100%.
This is not a race war, but a religous war. The whole world is involved, like it or not.
It's not a racial conflict, or an ethnic conflict. The Lebanese Christians are not participants. It's a small group of Muslims vs. everybody else.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/police-guard-churches-as-tension-rises/2005/12/14/1134500916773.html
Police guard churches as tension rises
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December 15, 2005
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AdvertisementPOLICE will pay "special attention" to religious venues after a spate of attacks on places of worship linked to race-fuelled violence.
Religious leaders called for unity and calm as text messages and emails, similar to those which promoted Sydney's violence earlier this week, spread to other states.
The NSW parliament will convene today for an emergency session to pass new police laws allowing authorities to lock down trouble spots, seize cars and turn off alcohol.
Police in Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia said copycat text messages and emails calling for unrest had been circulating. Queensland Premier Peter Beattie said he believed there would not be any support for racial unrest on the Gold Coast, where text messages have called for people to start "cracking skulls".
In Sydney, hundreds of police continued to patrol flashpoint suburbs in the city's south and west last night following violence sparked by an attack on surf lifesavers and Sunday's subsequent race riot at Cronulla.
The riots were followed by two nights of retaliatory "smash-and-bash" attacks in Maroubra, Cronulla and Brighton-le-Sands.
A leaked document has indicated that police were not equipped to respond to Monday evening's violence in Cronulla, in which people were assaulted and cars, shopfronts and windows were smashed.
The Seven Network said it had obtained a police incident report instructing officers to stay away from one of the areas - believed to be Punchbowl Park in Sydney's west - on Monday night.
The park is believed to have been the meeting place for scores of men who formed a vehicle convoy which drove to Cronulla unimpeded by police.
The network claimed the report showed some of those in the crowd were suspected of being Middle Eastern criminals who had been involved in malicious damage and civil disobedience offences throughout the Sutherland Shire.
The report is believed to have said "a direction was given to police about midnight not to enter the area and antagonise these persons".
In separate incidents, a Uniting Church hall in Auburn was burned to the ground on Tuesday night, while the nearby St Thomas' Anglican Church had windows smashed at about the same time.
A spokesman for the NSW Uniting Church, Jim Mein, said yesterday members of the mainly Tongan congregation at the Harold Wood Auburn Uniting Church were bewildered by the attack. Police are treating the blaze as suspicious and Mr Iemma has said "it may be" linked to the recent race-fuelled violence in Sydney.
Mr Iemma said today he was not aware of any past tensions related to the church or its activities in the Auburn area. But he said the incident showed the need to monitor places of worship during the current unrest.
"Special attention will be paid to places of worship, our churches and our schools," Mr Iemma said.
"Obviously we have to be on guard for this, and these hooligans and criminals will not destroy the fabric of our society," he said.
Amjad Ali Mehboob of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils said worshippers at Omar Mosque in Auburn would hold a solidarity meeting at the Uniting Church after Friday prayers.
The Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Peter Jensen, condemned the violence, saying "faith leaders will have much to do in their communities to assist".
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17570541-2,00.html
Church attacks spark fears
From: By Nick Leys and Dan Box
December 15, 2005
Suspicious ... fire engulfs a suburban Sydney church yesterday. FOUR churches in Sydney's southwest have been attacked in 24-hours as the city's volatile riots spread from race to religion.
A community hall linked to a Uniting Church was burned to the ground early yesterday, carol singers were spat on and church buildings peppered with gunfire.
In response, members of the Arab Christian and Arab Muslim communities have called for a curfew for all Lebanese youths over the weekend.
Police believe the attack on the hall, in the suburb of Auburn, was intended to destroy the Uniting Church adjacent, while nearby St Thomas's Anglican Church, which has a primarily Chinese congregation, had all its front windows smashed. Three of the attacks were on churches within minutes of each other.
The night before, Molotov cocktails were used in an attack on an Anglican Church in Macquarie Fields in the city's far southwest.
Arab Christians have suggested the attacks on churches may have been meant as a violent attempt to "shame" the city's Lebanese Christian community into supporting Lebanese Muslims in the race-hate war, which began as a battle against young white males over use of suburban beaches.
marking 4 future read.
Satan vs Christ
Score tied, 45 seconds left of the 4th Quarter.
2nd and 10, on the 50 yard line; Satan has the ball...
But the outcome is not in doubt, despite all the dirty tricks and outright cheating on the part of the Opposing Team.
Look for a game winning intercept and end zone run by Our Side. After the goal, it won't be the final point that gets kicked...
...and it ain't to the locker rooms that the losing team will head.
Dundee,kill em all and let allah sort them out.
"OH FRAPTUOUS DAY! Callou...Callay!"
Rots of ruck there mohamhead with that jihadi thang you are trying to run past the Aussies..you just bit off more than you can chew
"Turn the other cheek" doesn't apply to animals. They spit on you, you beat them up. They shoot at your church, you burn down their mosque.
Once again, the pathetic Aussie police fail miserably. They ought to be saying "Lebanese youths must stay inside after 9pm OR BE SHOT ON SIGHT"
Is that not exactly what it is? Crikey.
Dundee, you are there? Amazing. Will this be handled like the Frenchies did it? Looks like the Aussies are seeing this more clearly??
SR