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Racial riots between the Lebanese-Australian and Anglo-Saxon Australians have broken out yesterday in the coastal town of Cronulla. I just saw some amazing scenes of mobs of people bashing other people on TV today.

According to the news, the riots were started when a Lebanese gang beat up three lifeguards on the beach there. Apparently this gang had also been causing a lot of trouble in that area lately, such as preventing other swimmers from swimming in a particular area where Lebanese women were swimming, and sexually harassing white Australian women on the beaches there. Some of the women there have received rape threats from them. This has finally sparked public outrage among the predominently white community there, and cumulated in an SMS being circulated which told white Aussies to gather on the beach at noon yesterday to ‘reclaim’ their beach. Chants such as “F**k off Lebs!” and the national anthem were song by the crowd.

Huge mobs of locals in the thousands then gathered there at the set time, and proceeded to find and attack any person of Middle-Eastern appearance that they could get their hands on (I pity the Singhs and Indians there man….). Disturbingly, for those of you who think that these people were all just Neo-Nazi skinheads, it should be noted that there were many young women, old men and even mothers participating in the riots. What does this show? On one hand, it could mean that some segments of Anglo-Australians do still hold racist views today. On the other, it should also be noted that the troublesome Lebanese gangs there were really an undesirable element there, and that they did cause the riots with their actions.

The Lebanese community today retaliated, gathering en mass in the Lebanese town of Lakemba. SMS messages were being circulated among the Lebanese urging them to gather on the same beach next week for revenge. Some of them have already started early, with groups of them smashing parked cars in the neighbourhood.

All in all, a frightening tragedy and embarassment to all Australians. Does this signal that the Lebanese community’s integration with the wider Australian community has failed miserably?

Tsk tsk tsk. So this is what that goes on in Malaysian police stations. Here’s a report from The Star on the issue.

And to rub salt into the wound, here’s what our Deputy Internal Security Minister, Noh Omar, had to say to all the foreigners in Malaysia:

“Foreigners can go back to their own country if they think the Malaysian police are “cruel”

Yeah! Go the Malaysian way of dealing with criticism! Don’t like how the schools are run? Get out then! Don’t like how the (insert issue here) is done? Get out then!

And how is the Malaysian police gonna deal with this? Why, by catching the whistleblower of course! Who did you think they were gonna go after? Maybe the inept police force should watch Russell Crowe’s The Insider for some tips on how to discredit their whistleblower and destroy him/her.

And how’s BN gonna handle this? Since, after all, they suffered a humiliating blow after the whistleblower decided to hand in his/her video clip to the opposition party DAP instead of the Ministry involved. Why, by accusing DAP of tarnishing the shining name of our police force, of course!

After some time, almost every Malaysian can make a pretty good guess that that’s what’s gonna happen there. The BN government is soooo predictable in their modus operandi. And personally, it sickens me to the core. All of their favourite tactics are there: denials, spins, accusation of innocent parties, threats and making it into a race issue, all designed to divert and bury the issue .

And what do you know, Noh Omar’s arrogant and inflamatory statement is completely censored out of The Star and The NST. What a suprise.