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Truth, about this issue of prejudiced views, I can't help comparing this thread, with one about 3 months ago. It was an article from a Sydney paper, about "anti-Muslim" violence in Sydney, and it described some incidents where Arab schoolgirls were attacked on the streets by Australian men.

I wrote in a response, (for Sydney is my home-town), saying how the story was vastly exagerrated - a minor incident, and the men who beat the schoolgirl were just a few thugs from the margins of society - there are these types in any large city. It did not, in my view, represent any Australian reality. To my astonishment, people wrote in to correct me, saying that these men were "patriotic Australians"! Other Freeps suggested various insults which could have been profitably been aimed at the girls while they were been assaulted.

Obviously, the Sydney case is very different to this, as the assailiants were adults, and the victims were Arab, rather than Jewish, girls. But the responses were pretty off-putting.