Last Tuesday my son - 22 - was leaving an Inn after a night of revellery associated with a trivia night at a Brunswick Hotel - he together with two mates and two girls were accosted in the adjacent car park by a gang of 25 or so youths claiming to be Lebanese and vigourously requesting my son and friends "get off their turf".
Only too keen to please my son et al advised the gathered throng that they were leaving that minute - never the less the gang saw fit to rain a few blows onto the head and body of the lads - they managed to get into their car and leave the scene.

My son has taken a fairly sanguine approach to this incident - he felt the youths were 15 - 17, kids as he described them all het up after watching the evening news.

Other young men and women might be less philosophical about it all - so unlikely is perhaps the wrong assessment by Mr Aly - I hope he is right.

I would stop short of calling the Brunswick Coburg area an enclave but there is a high concenrtation of Muslims in the area - after all that is where the terrorist raids have taken place.

So the elements are there. The truth is most peopel will worry about property values in light of any trouble rather than the trouble itself should any arise.

Some bloke who was clearly of mediterranean or middle-eastern appearance once stalked me around a carpark in St Kilda near midnight. I didnt have a car to run to. Some friendly local guy who was aussie sorted him out [verbally] and I was able to spend the rest of the night there safely.

An Aussie saved me from probably being getting the s*&% kicked out of me and being almost left for dead in the same carpark nestled between a supermarket and Fitzroy Street. Most of the nights I spent hanging around St Kilda went pretty peacefully but. I will probably go there again not sure when sometimes I like to travel though unlike my folks, I wont have a suite in the Crown Casino Tower. I had been with this 'lebbo' [unrelated to last incident] and we ate pizza and had a shot of some home-made alcoholic spirit he had. The smell of it alone could knock out a horse. We were in an old Commodore, which he was driving.

Sneek
you son joins the Santa's of Lygon street also attacked by around 20 arab males.

WALEED..it IS happening here. and guess what.. Muslims/Lebanese/Arabs are the perpetrators and they are saying the SAME things they did in Sydney, which SPARKED that riot.

All a migrant group has to do to outrage Aussies is the above.

DONT EVER EVER say.. "You white racists started it" if it does happen here.

I strongly urge you to take to the air waves and SHAME these idiots.
Ask community leaders to find them, then ostracize them.

In fact..why not put the word out that those 'brave' Arabs who hide behind a pack of 20, could publically identify themselves and we can invite some 'whitey' to give them their wish of someone to 'bash' but it could be in a ring with some police standing by.

If we can't find any healthy young Aussie to take them, I'll volunteer and I'm 56.
Just for a sparring match of course -gloves and all, nothing personal :) might make them feel better to have a whack at a 'white scum'.

You might also word up the Arab/Muslim community, that IF....they push the right buttons, they might just regret for the rest of their possibly short lives doing it, as u just never know how some silly Aussies will react to an 'invasion' of their country. 'We' are everywhere, 'they' are in known localities, and I shudder to think of what might happen if the 'white supremacists' are successful in their use of the Cronulla footage to enlist new members.

Heaven forbid such a thing occurs.

Do you by any chance now see the folly of your own 'Christian bashing' exercise with the 2 dannys ? Do you not now see that what they said about 'Muslims trying to take over by violence' is ACTUALLY TRUE ...yet you sued them for 'villifying' the community. Well, until I see the COMMUNITY actually outing these morons, and them being treated as scum by their own, I will believe that 'their own' actually SUPPORT THEIR ACTIONS.....

Danny..and Danny.. you were right

OK, let me get this right. We have two incidents reported here. As far as we know, no police reports have been made, nor has the evidence been tested in court. Yet already some pamphlateers are handing out hate-sheets.

Me thinks the real integration problem isn't just with the thugs with Jesus-like appearance. There is also an integration problem involving a minority of Australians who think that anyone looking different to them or worshipping the same God in congregation on a different day is to be feared, hated and bashed.

People, if you child has been subject to an attack, the solution is simple - report the matter to the police. But if you expect Aussies like me to accept your argument that 1, 2 or even 10 incidents suggests that a group of 400,000 people have difficulty integrating, then you should seriously consider enrolling on a basic course in statistics.

The question is posed:
"Could riots occur in Melbourne?'
The answer is obvious.
No!, because there are not enough whites in Melbourne.

Good article Waleed,

The key elements in my view are a mix of youth problems combined with the lack of law enforcement.
The media played a divisive role by pinning a race and a faith to gang crimes rather than calling on law enforcement. Most of these ‘Arabs & Muslims’ gangs neither mix with the Arab community nor do they practice their religion. To put all the blame on Arab or Muslims communities is a poorly thought argument.

The answer lies solely in objective problem solving:
- Enforcing the law.
- On everyone.
- Give a clear ‘yellow card’ to the yellow media.