Do you want bacon with your eggs, sheikh.

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  1. billy the kid

    billy the kid Well-Known Member

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    So, who were these guys...jehovahs witnesses....kind of you to overlook this tiny little episode....

    http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/07/28/1153816358559.html
     
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    What has this got to do with the Cronulla riots? The attack on the 16 year old girl was in 2000, the Cronulla riots were in 2005. Totally unrelated. The girl wasn't even raped in Cronulla. Sheeeeesh..

    Try again.
     
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    Oh I see the riots werent involving lebanese, and had nothing to do with rapes that had been going on for years
    within southern Sydney. I suppose youre going to say that because the rapes were in the past, they were not a factor in the Cronulla riots. Muslims have been raping people for years, its in their "culture"
    All youre doing is finding any excuse to defend your islamic mates.
    The Cronulla riots were brewing for a long time. I was in Cronulla from 2001 to 2005.
     
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    The rapes in south western Sydney had nothing to do with the Cronulla riots,, fact.

    Keep digging, you might reach China.
     
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    I knew that.
     
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    Hahahaaaaaaa,,, of couse you did.
     
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    I may be wrong but didn't the lifesaver go to the aid of a girl or group of young girls being harassed/assaulted by a group of Lebanese men? Then copped a right royal flogging for his trouble? If my memory serves me correct there had been a spate of such incidents leading up to the riot involving the same perpetrators from a gang in the Bankstown area, not a widespread take over by Lebanese by any stretch. Again I think most of them were second generation born here in Australia.

    In my opinion it wasn't a battle of religions, but more so a battle of cultures. A turf war, perhaps. At best describing it as only just a turf war is rather flippant. A little deeper than that in my opinion.
     
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    Surfers are incredibly territorial to a point of being almost tribal. They hate any interlopers, non locals surfing their beach. I grew up in this environment in the 1970s. Any non locals were automatically labelled 'tourists', even if they came from an area a couple of beaches away. There were breaks I'd hesitantly surf knowing I'd be hasselled, one in particular 10 kilometres up the coast.

    Having cars vandalised was common, along with fights at the local pub. The occasional punch up in the water also happened. The worse thing a tourist could do was attempt to talk to a local girl. Heaven forbid if he actually tried to touch her. There were certain suburbs where those locals were actually targetted more than others, a kind of turf war.

    Look up the 'Bra Boys'. The Bra Boys took territory to another extreme.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bra_Boys
     
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    slipperyfish Well-Known Member

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    All that you say is true. I don't need to look to many up as I know quite a few. Not friends but distant memories of a time submerged in the culture you speak of.

    Without alluding to my age. LOL. I had long departed the scene by the time the riots occurred, and I was but an interloper from the North that had a relative among them. Greeted but never admitted. My large frame was never really a deterrent to the territorial banter, but it certainly saved me from any vilification.

    Having said this the Lebenese have always created issues wherever they have gone. Now I am primarily talking second generation. Even back in the eighties you were risking issues walking through Belmore at night and at times during the day. They would often holiday in my neck of the woods and create problems especially with the young girls. They had no respect for anyone, especially women.

    However we are off track somewhat, lost down memory lane it seems. lol.

    The Cronulla riots in my opinion were not religious, but cultural. Two seemingly law deficient thug groups going at each other. Territorial, yes, but perhaps a little deeper than that also. Perhaps it was also a case of baggage carried from previous decades handed down through parents colliding in what some say was a perfect storm.
     
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    Looks to me like she's a publicity seeker hitching her nasty little star to Islamophobia and claiming it was feminism , Margot. She was meeting the grand mufti of Lebanon, she knew she was required to wear a headscarf, she went ahead and booked the meeting then pulled this stunt.

    http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/02/22/was-le-pens-refusal-wear-headscarf-media-stunt

    Meanwhile, in the Vatican:

    " Women visiting St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City are expected to wear long black dresses or skirts that do not expose the knee area. The length of the sleeves of the top clothing are required to be "mid to long sleeves" length. Only "simple jewelry" are permitted. Footwear for women should be "dark closed-toe shoes". Women may or may not wear a "black hat or veil".[4] Women can not wear clothing that does not cover the arms and the knees.[2]"

    But no one seems upset about that. Odd isn’t it? They only shriek "Misogyny!" at Muslims.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Vatican_City
     

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