Quoted: I thought only black people rioted?  At least that's what I learned from arfcom.

don't you know everything works backwards in the southern hemisphere

Battle on beach as mob vows to defend 'Aussie way of life'
By Roger Maynard
After weeks of tension, attack on two lifeguards by Lebanese youths triggers race riot




TENSIONS between young white gangs and youths of mainly Middle Eastern origin erupted on one of Australia’s most popular beaches yesterday in what police condemned as a racially motivated rally driven by a mob mentality.
Thousands of people, many chanting racial slurs, were engaged in running battles on Cronulla Beach in Sydney’s southern suburbs.



At least 13 people were hurt, including five police, and 12 were arrested during the clashes, which followed a week of mounting anger over an attack on two lifeguards who were beaten up by a gang of Lebanese youths.

Furious locals, many wielding empty beer bottles and waving Australian flags, shouted anti-Middle Eastern slogans as they marched across the sand, on which was written “100 per cent Aussie pride”.

One white teenager had the words “We grew up here, you flew here” painted across his back. As the crowd moved along the beach and foreshore, one man on the back of a truck shouted: “No more Lebs [Lebanese]”, a chant picked up by the group around him. Others carried Australian flags and dressed in Australian sports shirts.

Up to 150 police officers were drafted in to cope with the 5,000-strong crowd, many of whom roamed the beach and side streets in vigilante fashion.

Two girls of Middle Eastern appearance were pushed to the ground and pelted with bottles as police tried to rescue them.

By mid-afternoon word spread that a Lebanese gang was arriving at the nearby railway station. Some members of the mob jumped on a train where they looked for anybody of vaguely Middle Eastern appearance. They found two men whom they began to beat before police intervened with batons and formed a human chain around the station.

In a separate incident, two paramedics were injured as they tried to rescue a group of Lebanese youths who had sought sanctuary in the Cronulla Surf Lifesaving club.

The mob smashed windows and kicked at doors, while others stomped on police vehicles and parked cars. Officers fought back with pepper spray and batons, bringing a semblance of calm to the area by late afternoon.

Last night, violence flared in at least six Sydney suburbs in retaliation for the Cronulla clashes. In nearby Brighton-le-Sands, an Australian flag was reported to have been taken off a building and burnt.

The violent clashes followed weeks of rising racial tension in the beachside suburb, which is popular with thousands of Middle Eastern families from Sydney’s mainly ethnic outer areas at the weekend. Locals have accused some of them, particularly visiting Lebanese youths, of being disrespectful to white women and other beachgoers.

Following the attacks on the volunteer lifeguards, a mobile telephone text campaign started, backed up by frenzied discussions on weblogs, calling on Cronulla locals to rally to protect their beach.

In response, a text campaign urged youths from western Sydney to be at Cronulla on Sunday to protect their friends. All week police and politicians had been calling for calm.

Yesterday, Islamic leaders blamed the trouble on influential talk radio hosts who had whipped up racial tensions in the wake of last weekend’s attack on the lifesavers, who epitomise Australia’s white traditions and Anglo-Saxon roots.

Keysar Trad, president of the Islamic Friendship Association, accused the media of incitement.
Ken Moroney, the New South Wales police commissioner, pledged to target people who raised the ethnic tensions that ignited the violence.



Mark Goodwin, the assistant police commissioner, branded the riots as “disgusting and disgraceful”. “It’s certainly not the Australian way,” he said.

Kevin Schreiber, the Cronulla Mayor, said many who flocked to the beach were looking for a fight. “I’m devastated by what has happened on our beachfront. It is the actions of a few, but let’s not kid ourselves that people didn’t come from far and wide to participate.”

VIOLENCE SPLITS THE BLOGGERS

‘I find it offensive when “humans” come to our country and try and f*** up our way of life’

‘What happened to those lifeguards sucks . . . but instead of more violence and hate let’s work out a way to stop it peacefully!!!'

‘They are trying to change our way of life. Do you not understand the concept behind it? They hate the way we live’

‘The best way to respond to this violence is with love. We should as surfers spread our love into their community. One way to do this is to date their sisters’

Extracts from Realsurf.com forum

www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1921567_2,00.html

(Damn dude)

Hell yeah, kick the shit out of a bunch of innocent people because of the way they look, now that's the American way! Better yet clear the beach and let America nuke them from orbit ... it's the only way to be sure.




(ps: you're going to burn in hell)

alot of them got drunk and neo-nazis started stirring things up

Always a good start to a really good riot.

Go Australia!

ANdy

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: What's their beef? Liquored up Aussie rednecks with no station in life who decide to blame some poor schlub and his wife because they are slightly darker and a different religion, for all their failings. Maybe, but it's not all one sided. Lebanese gangs in Sydney have been getting more and more out of hand in recent years. Back in 2000 a group of 8 Lebanese guys committed a series of gang rapes, in one case literally holding a gun to the head of one of their victims, and beating others when they were raped, and they were deliberately raping "white" teenage girls. The leader of that group, Bilal Skaf, was sentenced to 55 years with a parole after 40 years in 2002, but it was reduced on appeal to 28 years with parole after 22 years. The last of that group is currently waiting trial and was taped making death threats against one of his victims who is scheduled to give court testimony against him. There have been other incidents since then and the most recent was last week when another group of about a dozen or so identified as "middle eastern" assaulted three late-teen beach volunteer lifeguards as they were finishing their shift at a public beach. The reason? The lifeguards were on "their" (the gang's) beach (a public beach owned by the city), followed by a minor fight a few days later at the same beach by rival gangs. The brawling of the last few days was made worse by a local tv station finding out about the SMS messages asking people to come to the area and broadcast them in one of their "current affairs" shows. The result, even more people found out about it and turned up to see what was going on, and mob rule was the result.

How times have changed...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_Policy