Tim Priest has replied to the allegations, and considering it is the Syd Morning Herald, you may be forgiven, it reads near as The Green Weekly.
I am surprised, it is on Peter Faris QC, his web site, Irfan would have definitely read it, but no commentary?
For everyone else: http://www.farisqc.observationdeck.org/?p=335#comments

Tim’s reply is down the bottom of the Commentary. Interesting and sounds a bit different than this article. But why would anyone be suprised.

You can't really blame someone for trying to make money out of a social phobia/ crisis. Media need bad news to sell and someone need to be the 'other'. Watch the top viewed articles on smh website: the most appaling titles are usually the most viewed.

Themistocles,

Your quotes are a typical example of the phobia in our society:

"Where all the Muslims on this forum like Wakim"
Joseph Wakim is not a Muslim, there are 70,000 Arab Christian Orthodox in Australia. Also Irfan is not an Arab but a Pakistani. Dawood is an Anglo blue eyed Muslim. Let me guess, you were the Director of Prejudice at SBS?

"they desert the field of battle"...

Nope, we are right here Mr Jihadist with a paper sword. I just can't see why would Lebanese gangs need to be addressed by us. Police, law enforcement and bad parenting are the key issues here.

FH

'I just can't see why would Lebanese gangs need to be addressed by us. Police, law enforcement and bad parenting are the key issues here.'

Of course mossie gangs have to be addressed by their fellow mossies. Like it or not they're all your brothers. I used to admonish my fellow aussie idiots doing nazi salutes and heil hitlers at the Oktoberfest why don't you. Why is it up to people in law enforcement to risk their necks dealing with it. When I had a problem with a mossie in the park his entire family would come over to egg him on not point out the error of his ways.

Here's a story of mossies policing mossies effectively. I lived in southern Germany. I had a few Turkish friends. The place was a home for many refugees from the Balkans. Anyway a mob of albanian mossie refugees arrived and began to cause havoc. Shoplifting, thieving, sexually assaulting young women. My friend was sexually assaulted. Usual stuff.

The Turks watched as the local cops ineffectively tried to deal with them, much the same way as we deal with our mossie gangs.

They told me that we have no idea on how to deal with errant mossies. So they formed a gang and beat the living crap out of the albanians. Problem solved. The Turks said that's the only thing they understand.

Maybe that's what we need here.

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FH

"Nope, WE ARE RIGHT HERE Mr Jihadist with A PAPER SWORD".

You needed a bit of prompting, like Irfan below your post, before you came on stage to strut and display your phony courage. And you ought to consider yourself, very, very lucky, that I only hold "a paper sword".

Indeed, my quotes were about Muslims, and not about Arabs, Pakistanis, or blue eyed Muslims. I don't know if Wakim is a Christian Arab or a Muslim, but as a staunch, fellow traveller, multiculturalist, he definitely pleaded his case in favour of the Muslim brotherhood.

Irfan, I think that you have misjudged most of the muslim bashing brigade on that one - I hope that you have. I have the impression that most will be against the bashing of innocents, many spoke against the bashing of innocents at Cronulla.

Quite frankly they generally spoke more strongly against the abuses by the rioters than you appear to have been willing to do on these pages regarding the gang violence by people of "middle eastern appearance" which lead up to and followed the riot.

What we won't see is the use of that incident by that crowd to urge for punative action against all people of the ethnic origin of the thugs, its not real convenient. For some the issue may be race but for most it appears to be a strong dislike of your religion. While you continue to think that skin colour is the issue and keep using the tired old "arm chair nazi" call you really are contributing little more to discussion than the mozzie bashing crowd.

If you want to make a difference talk about why you think some muslims don't appear to want to integrate (or convince me that is not the case). I'm hoping that you understand those issues better than me. Some of us here want to understand, we want to know if there are things we can do to make this work for all of us.

I think that you probably are a moderate who cares and who has passed a limit of tollerance for the continual mozzie bashing which ocurs here, they won't stop so maybe we just start talking around them and see what can be done. Don't forget all those readers who don't post who might also want to understand the issues facing muslims in Australia better (we already know about the christian fundy attacks).

RObert