Catsidhe

"Cronulla locals beating up on angry Middle Eastern men?"

Funny, the interviews I have seen with Cronulla locals have said that they have never seen most of those thugs on Sunday before. It isn't 'Cronulla locals', but Neo-Nazis shit-stirring.

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Brave, brave defenders of the Australian Way Of Life, to beat up a couple of teenage girls.

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Brave, brave Lions of Lebanon, to stab innocent bystanders, invade their homes, and trash their cars. Oh, and burn down a church.

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Brave, brave whoever the fsck you are, to try it on in Melbourne.

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The 'Lebs' ... well. They are a bunch of thugs who identify as Lebanese. That's OK, the thugs on Sunday identify themselves as True Australians. They don't represent me, or anyone I know, so I see no reason why the wider Lebanese community would not be similarly outraged and misrepresented.

The problem is not so much Muslims who form gangs (which implies that all Muslims are somehow complicit, just like for terrism), and instead think of it as a problem of gangs, which happen to be formed of (some) Muslims.

feh, semantics. This is all a roundabout way of trying to say that all Muslims, and all Lebanese-Australians (not conjoint sets, by the way) are getting backlash for the actions of a few brutes. So are non-Arabic-looking people in those parts of Sydney, as of Sunday night. Both are wrong.

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Alan Jones. What a mensch.

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Summary:

It's all stupid. I think I need to get drunk.