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Sydney’s burning: but why did it happen? : Comments
By Peter West, published 14/12/2005Peter West examines the causes of the Sydney riots.
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Bruce Baird's reply to another Islamic bigot on the program--Fadi Rahman--was a beauty: that THE CRONULLA SHIRE WAS ONE OF THE MOST CHARITABLE IN THE NATION TOWARDS VOLUNTEERING FOR THE SYDNEY OLYMPICS, AND ALSO THE MOST CHARITABLE DURING THE TSUNAMI CRISIS, SPECIFICALLY FOR MUSLIM INDONESIANS, so that they are "racist," as Fadi and friend were demanding, seems to be a misunderstanding.
Whenever we speak of “racism” we think “Anglo” only; THIS MUST CHANGE IF WE ARE EVER TO MOVE FORWARD.
But the West has had highly laudable education programs set up post WWII, and their market system has spread the message of tolerance via 60's pop/rock music, etc. (compare the more recent bigotry of hip hop!). Moreover, having been conditioned by some powerful nazis in the Ministry of Education for the past couple of generations to believe WE are intolerant and racist of Others, Aussies have a deep first-hand conception of what it feels like to be self-critical of their ethnicity, and to even question such things is a huge leap.
It is a more productive strategy, I think, to attack Muslim intolerance not by attacking Islam--for it is silenced as "racism" or similar--but rather by attacking certain "cultural" groups in terms of "racism," "bigotry", or simply "intolerance" alone, and spread this throughout the media, the curriculum, and indeed the Academy, just as was done in regards to Anglo rednecks and nazis.
Multiculturalism bans all criticism of such ethnic minorities precisely because many recent arrivals CAN ONLY CONCEPTUALISE IN TERMS OF THEIR ETHNICITY.
The more Islamic intolerance (i.e. xenophobia) gets articulated not in terms of “Islam”--for everybody cries "racism" or similar--but rather "racism," "bigotry," or "intolerance," which is more acceptable by community standards, the discourse thereby spawned will apply pressure upon Islamic spokespersons to put the violence of their associates in these terms too. In turn, multiculturalism will be seen as being forced BECAUSE the more recent arrivals to this land are way more inclined to intolerance and racism than are the Anglos.
We have in our midst HAIRY-HEAD NEO-NAZIS