First France, Now Australia. Islam is moving again.
Another Country on another Continent is suffering the wrath of islamic fundamentalists who are revolting in the streets and contributing nothing but chaos to another Country that has given them shelter and a home in a Country free from oppressive rule. At what point will the World unite and stand against Radical Islam with the option to live in peace or be excommunicated from civilized Societies World wide. Let every Western Country evict every moslem back to the Country of their birth if they refuse to live in peace within the Country of their adoption.
Racial violence hits Sydney for second night
SYDNEY AUSTRALIA - Seven people were injured and dozens of cars damaged in a second night of racial violence spread across Sydney, Australian police said on Tuesday, as they were given special powers to stop the unrest.
Gangs of youths, mainly of Middle Eastern background, attacked several people with baseball bats, vandalised cars and were involved in rock-throwing skirmishes with police on Monday night, officials said.
At Maroubra Beach, police said they found 30 Molotov cocktails and crates of rocks stockpiled on rooftops, as hundreds of local surfers gathered.
"These criminals have declared war on our society and we are not going to let them win," Morris Iemma, premier of the state of New South Wales, said on Tuesday.
"You will not take control of our streets," said Iemma, announcing police will be given "lockdown" powers which will allow them to prohibit entry into specified areas.
Police said this kind of violence was new to Australia.
"We're dealing with an unprecedented situation the likes we haven't seen in Australia before, with this type of racial tension and these types of series of smash and bash attacks across multiple fronts," New South Wales assistant police commissioner Mark Goodwin told local radio on Tuesday.
Australian media reported that mobile telephone text messages from Australians of Anglo-Saxon and Middle East backgrounds were both calling for revenge attacks to continue.
Islamic youth leader Fadi Abdul Rahman said further trouble could be brewing as Muslim youths were angry, believing police were not treating them fairly.
"They feel they have been dealt with by the authorities differently to the way Anglos have been dealt with," he said.
"They feel injustice and they feel angry about it."
Prime Minister John Howard again called on Tuesday for calm and tolerance, but again refused to describe the violence as racist, instead labeling it a law and order issue and "domestic discord," stressing Australia was not a racist nation.
Racial violence erupted at Sydney's Cronulla Beach on Sunday when some 5,000 people, some yelling racist chants, attacked youths of Middle Eastern background.
Drunk mobs of youths, some wrapped in Australian flags, said they were defending their beach after lifesavers were attacked. They believe the attackers were of Lebanese background.
Police said white supremacists incited violence at Cronulla.
STRUCK BACK
Sydney's Lebanese youths struck back on Sunday night, smashing cars, assaulting people and fighting police in several different suburbs, police said.
On Monday night, hundreds of Muslims were involved in an angry standoff with police outside a Sydney mosque in the western suburbs. Up to 25 cars with youths then drove to Cronulla and used baseball bats to damage cars and smash windows, police said.
The second night of racial violence prompted criticism of Australia's multi-cultural immigration policy, with commentators saying ethnic differences have been fostered for many years, leaving some groups feeling alienated.
"These are gang riots but they are exacerbated by a (immigration) policy which suggests you treat people differently," said social commentator David Flint.
Many social and ethnic leaders said the violence was primarily "gang warfare" and not purely race riots and that the youths involved felt economically and socially disadvantaged.
"There is an increasing discourse of us versus them in Australian society which has been partly unleashed by the war against terror," said Melbourne University's language professor Michael Clyne, an advocate of multi-culturalism.
"It is very difficult to define a war against terror, so it means anyone can paint their own enemies."
But some politicians laid the blame squarely on racism.
"We are just getting a sample of what happened in France a few months ago," said Labor opposition politician Harry Quick.
"Sadly if you scratch Australians we are a racist society, it is only in the last 40-odd years that we have got rid of the White Australia (immigration) policy," Quick told television.
"We have reached a pressure cooker stage here. People of ethnic minority in Australia are just taking things into their own hands."
Racial violence hits Sydney for second night
SYDNEY AUSTRALIA - Seven people were injured and dozens of cars damaged in a second night of racial violence spread across Sydney, Australian police said on Tuesday, as they were given special powers to stop the unrest.
Gangs of youths, mainly of Middle Eastern background, attacked several people with baseball bats, vandalised cars and were involved in rock-throwing skirmishes with police on Monday night, officials said.
At Maroubra Beach, police said they found 30 Molotov cocktails and crates of rocks stockpiled on rooftops, as hundreds of local surfers gathered.
"These criminals have declared war on our society and we are not going to let them win," Morris Iemma, premier of the state of New South Wales, said on Tuesday.
"You will not take control of our streets," said Iemma, announcing police will be given "lockdown" powers which will allow them to prohibit entry into specified areas.
Police said this kind of violence was new to Australia.
"We're dealing with an unprecedented situation the likes we haven't seen in Australia before, with this type of racial tension and these types of series of smash and bash attacks across multiple fronts," New South Wales assistant police commissioner Mark Goodwin told local radio on Tuesday.
Australian media reported that mobile telephone text messages from Australians of Anglo-Saxon and Middle East backgrounds were both calling for revenge attacks to continue.
Islamic youth leader Fadi Abdul Rahman said further trouble could be brewing as Muslim youths were angry, believing police were not treating them fairly.
"They feel they have been dealt with by the authorities differently to the way Anglos have been dealt with," he said.
"They feel injustice and they feel angry about it."
Prime Minister John Howard again called on Tuesday for calm and tolerance, but again refused to describe the violence as racist, instead labeling it a law and order issue and "domestic discord," stressing Australia was not a racist nation.
Racial violence erupted at Sydney's Cronulla Beach on Sunday when some 5,000 people, some yelling racist chants, attacked youths of Middle Eastern background.
Drunk mobs of youths, some wrapped in Australian flags, said they were defending their beach after lifesavers were attacked. They believe the attackers were of Lebanese background.
Police said white supremacists incited violence at Cronulla.
STRUCK BACK
Sydney's Lebanese youths struck back on Sunday night, smashing cars, assaulting people and fighting police in several different suburbs, police said.
On Monday night, hundreds of Muslims were involved in an angry standoff with police outside a Sydney mosque in the western suburbs. Up to 25 cars with youths then drove to Cronulla and used baseball bats to damage cars and smash windows, police said.
The second night of racial violence prompted criticism of Australia's multi-cultural immigration policy, with commentators saying ethnic differences have been fostered for many years, leaving some groups feeling alienated.
"These are gang riots but they are exacerbated by a (immigration) policy which suggests you treat people differently," said social commentator David Flint.
Many social and ethnic leaders said the violence was primarily "gang warfare" and not purely race riots and that the youths involved felt economically and socially disadvantaged.
"There is an increasing discourse of us versus them in Australian society which has been partly unleashed by the war against terror," said Melbourne University's language professor Michael Clyne, an advocate of multi-culturalism.
"It is very difficult to define a war against terror, so it means anyone can paint their own enemies."
But some politicians laid the blame squarely on racism.
"We are just getting a sample of what happened in France a few months ago," said Labor opposition politician Harry Quick.
"Sadly if you scratch Australians we are a racist society, it is only in the last 40-odd years that we have got rid of the White Australia (immigration) policy," Quick told television.
"We have reached a pressure cooker stage here. People of ethnic minority in Australia are just taking things into their own hands."
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