It's the same wretched thing down under

Melanie Phillips.com ^

[robowombat]

It's the same wretched thing down under

There is no doubt that Australia’s worsening civil disorder, in which Muslims and indigenous Aussies have been fighting pitched battles now for days, has been caused in part by white racists. However, the widespread spin that has been placed on this disorder, that it has been caused by white racists and that what it reveals is that, under its veneer of multiculturalism, Australia is a fundamentally racist society positively heaving with people with despicable views who have been itching to have a pop at blameless Lebanese Muslims, is very wide of the mark. For it appears that the current unrest was sparked by Lebanese Muslim attacks on two indigenous lifeguards, and that this was only the tip of an iceberg of aggression by this minority which — thanks to the censorship imposed by multiculturalism — has gone all but unreported.

An important article by Tim Priest, a retired Australian Police detective, reveals three deeply alarming developments in Australian society: 1) the extent of the aggression and violence by these gangs, 2) the extent of Australia’s denial of this phenomenon, and 3) the extent to which this denial has prevented the police from addressing and controlling it. These gangs were involved in heroin smuggling, extortion, armed robbery, gun running, organised factory and warehouse break-ins and large-scale car theft and conversion. They were extremely violent. But a loss of professional nerve in the Australian police led to a mindset that was more concerned with avoiding hostility by ethnic minorities than tackling crime (identical to the situation in Britain). Confronting even the most minor of misdemeanours in Muslim areas tended to provoke a terrifyingly violent response — to which the police response was abject surrender:

In the minds of the local population, the police were cowards and the message was, Lebs rule the streets. For a number of days, nothing was done to rectify this total breakdown of law and order. To the senior police in the area, it was more important to give the impression that local ethnic relations were never better…By avoiding confrontations with these thugs, the police gave away the streets in many of these areas in south-western Sydney. By putting in place inexperienced senior police who had never copped the odd punch in the mouth or broken nose in the line of duty, the police force hung the community and the local police out to dry…In hundreds upon hundreds of incidents police have backed down to Middle Eastern thugs and taken no action and allowed incidents to go unpunished. Again I stress the unbelievable influence that local politicians and religious leaders played in covering up the real state of play in the south-west. The result has been an explosive amount of crime and extreme violence by gangs of Middle Eastern origin, with many racially motivated attacks by such gangs who target people simply because they are Australian. Priest comments:

I wonder whether the inventors of the racial hatred laws introduced during the golden years of multiculturalism ever took into account that we, the silent majority, would be the target of racial violence and hatred. I don’t remember any charges being laid in conjunction with the gang rapes of south-western Sydney in 2001, where race was clearly an issue and race was used to humiliate the victims. But then, unbelievably, a publicly-funded document produced by the Anti-Discrimination Board called “The Race for Headlines” was circulated, and it sought not only to cover up race as a motive for the rapes, but to criticise any accurate media reporting on this matter as racially biased. It worries many operational police that organisations like the Anti-Discrimination Board, the Privacy Council and the Civil Liberties Council have become unaccountable and push agendas that don’t represent the values that this great country was built on. Many of you would have heard of the horrific problems in France with the outbreak of unprecedented crimes amongst an estimated five million Muslim immigrants. Middle Eastern males now make up 45,000 of the 90,000 inmates in French prisons. There are no-go areas in Paris for police and citizens alike. The rule of law has broken down so badly that when police went to one of these areas recently to round up three Islamic terrorists, they went in armoured vehicles, with heavy weaponry and over 1000 armed officers, just to arrest a few suspects. Why did it need such numbers? Because the threat of terrorist reprisal was minimal compared to the anticipated revolt by thousands of Middle Eastern and North African residents who have no respect for the rule of law in France and consider intrusions by police and authority a declaration of war.

The problems in Paris in Muslim communities are being replicated here in Sydney at an alarming rate. Paris has seen an explosion of rapes committed by Middle Eastern males on French women in the past fifteen years. The rapes are almost identical to those in Sydney. They are not only committed for sexual gratification but also with deep racial undertones along with threats of violence and retribution. What is more alarming is the identical reaction by some sections of the media and criminologists in France of downplaying the significance of race as an issue and even ganging up on those people who try to draw attention to the widening gulf between Middle Eastern youth and the rest of French society. That is what we are seeing here. The usual suspects come out of their institutions and libraries to downplay and even cover up the growing problem of Middle Eastern crime. Why? My opinion, for what it’s worth, is that these same social engineers have attempted to redefine our society. They have experimented with all manner of institutions, from prisons to mental institutions and recently to policing.

An insightful — and, in the current Stalinist climate, brave — article by Janet Albrechtsen in The Australian also gets it:

Recognising human nature means that multiculturalism, though a fine sentiment, can only work if we unite behind a core set of values. Unfortunately though, that policy has become a licence for rampant cultural relativism. We are loath to criticise any aspects of cultures (except our own) for fear of sounding terribly judgmental and unfashionably un-multicultural. Instead, culture is talked about only as an excuse for abhorrent behaviour so that the offender becomes the victim. Last week, a convicted gang rapist claimed he assaulted a 14-year-old girl because she was not wearing traditional Muslim dress and he thought she was promiscuous. Pointing to cultural differences, the 27-year-old Pakistani-born man said: 'I believed at the time I committed this offence that she had no right to say no. I believed I'm not doing anything wrong.' A month ago his lawyer told the court his client was a 'cultural time bomb'. If this view, that culture can be used as an excuse, represents the views of even a subset of Muslim youth, then we have a problem. If we are not talking openly about egregious aspects of some cultures (except as an excuse), we have only ended up with a bigger problem. And, to date, we have not been talking. Multiculturalism has been synonymous with a rights agenda - addressing minority grievances - rather than a framework for talking about responsibilities. The violence that has been brewing in Cronulla, culminating in the disgraceful rampages in recent days, is a pointer that if we're serious about social cohesion, it's time we all demonstrated social responsibility. As in Britain, the white racists in Australia appear to be exploiting a situation which has been allowed to get completely out of hand. Racists are parasites who attach themselves to a decaying organism and feed off it. But the organism wouldn't attract them if it wasn't already decaying. Britain, France, Australia, Sweden — variations of the same phenomenon are happening all over the western world. Aggression and denial, creating a spiral of ever-worsening aggression, all because of a paralysis in acknowledging, let alone dealing with, the true nature of what we are all facing.

[AgThorn]

excellent article!!

[BeAllYouCanBe]

Multiculturalism has been synonymous with a rights agenda - addressing minority grievances - rather than a framework for talking about responsibilities.

And the root cause is white liberal guilt. This has been played very well -- rights without responibilities --in most of the western world.

[jackbenimble]

This same article could have been written about Los Angelos and several other American cities by substituting Central American for Lebanese. The leadership of our police departments are equally cowardly and our politicians are far more concerned about maintaining the increasingly thin veneer of the appearance of multicultural harmony then addressing the reality of total criminal chaos.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

There was a good thread running on AUSSIESEEK, until common sense started to prevail, and the censorship and spin started. No matter what the facts are, it will be blamed on racism.

[jordan8]

Recognising human nature means that multiculturalism, though a fine sentiment, can only work if we unite behind a core set of values. Unfortunately though, that policy has become a licence for rampant cultural relativism.

Here is a reply I made on another thread:

No society, no matter how tolerant, can expect to thrive if its citizens don’t prize what their citizenship means — if, when asked what they stand for as Frenchmen, as Indians, as Britons, they cannot give clear replies.

A nation is not defined by what its citizens "stand for" any more than a family is defined by what its members "stand for." That is to attempt to replace genuine human and emotional bonds with a government program (which makes it particularly odd when you hear this "credal" defense from conservatives). Multiculturalism and multiracialism are clearly disastrous and articles like this are just last ditch efforts to defend the indefensible, like redesignating the Titanic a submarine at the last moment and then pretending to believe it will function in its new role if we can just get the tweaks right. Multiculturalism used to be promoted as an unalloyed good (still the position of the elite throughout the West) but that (thanks largely to Mohamed [PBUH]), is becoming increasingly hard to do in the face of its obvious failure, so proponents are starting to go to fall back positions like "core values", but these attempts to avoid reality by redefinition will also fail. You can't replace the population of a nation with a new population and expect to remain the same nation. That is the bottom line.

There is no such thing as cultural relativism (much less mere cultural relativism), the accurate phrase is white-hating genocidal racism. Leftists don't turn a blind eye to the more obnoxious practices of other cultures because they are unable to come to a judgment about those practices, they do so because the presence of those cultures in the West is a weapon in their war against the West, and the benefits of that weapon outweigh the value of their other alleged principles. Hate is the motive, destruction is the goal, and political power is the hoped-for benefit.

[El Gato]

indigenous lifeguards

??? The lifeguards were both Aborigines? :)

All kidding aside, I did see photos of the "white racists" which included several folks who appeared to be of Australian Aboriginal origins.

[El Gato]

What is more alarming is the identical reaction by some sections of the media and criminologists in France of downplaying the significance of race as an issue

Race isn't an issue. Lebanese, or more like Palestinians, as well as North Africans are of the same race as Frenchwomen and Euro-Australians. It's a matter of Religion, and ethnicity, the later not being the same as race.