During the month of October, alienated youths, from the French suburb La Courneuve, burned cars, broke shop windows and attacked police in anti-riot gear. This was triggered by the death of two youths who were accidentally electrocuted while hiding from chasing police. Just today in Sydney, Australia young people smashed cars and destroyed shops in response to drunken white youths attacking people they believed were of Arab descent. It's hate, hate and more hate.
Those articles (which might require a login) have pictures that show how much resentment has built up all these years from people who will inherit this earth. It is frightening to see how far these young people would go to beat people to a pulp, just because they are different from them. In the article about La Courneuve, you could feel Looping's hopelessness in a system that was supposed to be color, race and sex -blind. His mother Djamila sends him to school but they are not expected to succeed. With an Arab name, he cannot find a job that will accept him. In Sydney hate begot hate as drunk white youths started beating Arab-looking people. It said in the article that the instigators where members of white supremacist groups but why were there so many? Why did others join in?
What is it with skin or hair color, the size or shape of one's eyes, height or accent?
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hi TNGuy. my hubbie is an Australian citizen and asked him of the recent riot. :)
it seems like these lebanese are quite notorious in Oz. they have this idea of converting Australia into an Islamic nation. the Aussies aren't so happy with this. neither would i be.
and because of that i suppose they couldn't help but generalize that all arab-looking people are Lebs. still, it is unjustified.
in the first place, these Lebs should not have stated their desires of wanting world domination thru Islam. to put it simply, they started it. otherwise, none of this would have happened.
Ah Islamic extremists. I do hope the Australian government gets this under control. It took weeks before France got the stopped the riots and their citizens are still afraid to go out alone. I already heard from my friends in Oz that they are staying indoors after dark.
I don't think its the matter of who started what. If two people (Lebanese or otherwise) beat up another person, they should be put in jail. Hate starting hate is just a vicious cycle that should be stopped before it gets out of hand.
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