Re: Multi-Kulti Down Under
- From: "martin" <martintg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 12 Dec 2005 14:08:07 -0800
lorad474@xxxxxx wrote:
> It don't work there, none too good, neither...
>
> For edumacational purposes:
>
> "Sydney erupts in second night of riots By Simon Freeman and agencies
>
> The Sydney suburbs have erupted in a second night of racially-charged
> violence which has exposed ugly tensions beneath Australia's
> good-humoured exterior.
>
> Local media reported a "terrifying escalation" in the conflict, as 70
> car loads of Lebanese youths arrived in the predominantly white suburb
> of Cronulla - the flashpoint for yesterday's running battles - intent
> on revenge.
>
> The Sydney Morning Herald described how the youths began smashing up
> shops and cars with baseball bats and threatening passers-by. There
> were more disturbances in the neighbouring suburb of Brighton-Le-Sands
> where bricks were thrown at passing cars.
>
> Around 600 people, some armed with pistols and crowbars and summoned by
>
> mobile phone text message, gathered to confront one another on Maroubra
>
> Beach, in a mainly white suburb to the south of the city.
>
> Around 30 people were injured, including a man of Arab appearance who
> was stabbed in the back during the fighting. At least 16 arrests were
> made as police fought back with batons and pepper spray.
>
> Elsewhere, about 300 people of Arab descent demonstrated against
> Sunday's attack outside one of Sydney's largest mosques, Lakemba, amid
> tight police security. Surrounding roads were blocked and iron bars
> seized as police tried to prevent the protestors from making their way
> to the fighting on Maroubra beach.
>
> Politicians and community leaders were appealing for calm and
> struggling to explain how the worst instance of race violence in
> Australia's modern history has broken out in a city which considers
> itself a cultural melting pot.
>
> Triggered by attacks on two volunteer lifeguards on Cronulla by a
> Lebanese gang, the tension has now escalated and police fear further
> clashes in coming days.
>
> Australia has long prided itself on accepting immigrants - from
> Italians and Greeks after the Second World War to families fleeing the
> Middle East and Southeast Asia. In the last census in 2001, nearly a
> quarter of Australia's 20 million people said they were born overseas.
>
> Tensions between youths of Arabic and Middle Eastern descent and white
> Australians have, however, been rising in recent years with anti-Muslim
>
> sentiment fuelled by the Bali bombings that killed 202 people,
> including 88 Australians, in October 2002.
>
> John Howard, the Prime Minister, called the violence "sickening" but
> denied it was symptomatic of a vein of racism running through
> Australian society. He also dismissed suggestions that his own warnings
>
> over the threat of homegrown Islamist terrorism had contributed to the
> tensions.
>
> "I do not accept that there is underlying racism in this country," he
> said.
Maybe the Prime Minister of Australia should read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_Policy
Regards,
Martin
.
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