Arabs in Australia Retaliate for Violence (AP)

[wookie294]

SYDNEY, Australia - In one of Australia's worst outbursts of racial violence, thousands of drunken white youths attacked police and people they believed were of Arab descent at a Sydney beach, angered by reports that Lebanese youths had assaulted two lifeguards.

Young men of Arab descent retaliated in several Sydney suburbs, fighting with police and smashing 40 cars with sticks and bats, police said. Thirty-one people were injured and 16 were arrested in hours of violence Sunday.

The city was calm Monday, and police formed a strike force to track down the instigators, some of whom were believed to be from white supremacist groups. Police said they were also seeking an Arab man who allegedly stabbed a white man in the back.

Prime Minister John Howard condemned the violence, but said he did not believe racism was widespread in Australia.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051212/ap_on_re_au_an/australia_racial_unrest

[Media_Lies_Daily]

1. "Racism was widespread in Australia"?? Tell that to the Aborigines.

[wookie294]

2. Good point. Australia has a very racist past, just like the USA n/t

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

3. The few that are left, anyway. n/t

[acmavm]

4. John Howard's been such a paragon of intelligence and honesty so

far, why should he stop now? I mean, he can hardly say that this mess is in part due to his government's racist support of an attack on a Middle Eastern country that hasn't done a damn thing to Austrailia, can he? And that the worst elements of his society support the endless war, just like here.

[MrPrax]

5. Hardly new in the white world...

This line:
thousands of drunken white youths attacked police and people they believed were of Arab descent at a Sydney beach


reminded me of the opening line of the Clash song Working for the Clampdown:

What are we gonna do now?
Taking off his turban, they said, is this man a Jew?
’Cos working for the clampdown
They put up a poster saying we earn more than you!
When we're working for the clampdown
We will teach our twisted speech
To the young believers
We will train our blue-eyed men
To be young believers


Racists like this need to be stepped on like cockroaches and like a cockroach you really have to grind them because they have a tendency of running away when you lift your shoe.