Sat 17 Dec 2005
Ladies and gents,
today, we will be playing a game….
find the common denominator in these two topics -
Have a nice day
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December 17th, 2005 at 2:27 pm
the guy in the blue shirt and red cap.
December 17th, 2005 at 2:37 pm
ha ;P
December 17th, 2005 at 6:42 pm
the ap at the corner of both pics….!!!
December 17th, 2005 at 6:49 pm
Hmm.. Unemplyoment?
December 17th, 2005 at 7:41 pm
Riots….
December 17th, 2005 at 8:30 pm
the common thing is both news has a thirdworld finger in it ! , either arabic or islamic ,,,, we have the harvest of what we planned !
December 17th, 2005 at 9:19 pm
If this minorities riots spreads around the world, we will see the emaratees doing the same in Dubai :p
December 17th, 2005 at 10:23 pm
3adil ya bosale7, u said it!
We’re exporting the takhalluf…
December 17th, 2005 at 11:54 pm
why are we exporting “takhaloof” innocent arabs/muslims were targeted.
December 18th, 2005 at 12:09 am
alla kareem
December 18th, 2005 at 12:10 am
alla kareem
December 18th, 2005 at 12:13 am
dear garz … do u think we are really targeted ????? why ?? and how ???
what do we have to be targeted for ?? !!!we have no science , no logic , no manner , and above all we dont respect other nations ….why would they bother to target us ?
December 18th, 2005 at 12:25 am
sorry garz, how r we targetted? In Australia it started with 6 Arabs who raped some girls then beat up life guards.
In France, it was a reaction to something a minister said! The guys said something without thinking, so the Arabs and Africans react by burning cars and causing riots all over the country!
How are we “innocent” and “targetted”?? its something deeply wrong with our culture my friend!
December 18th, 2005 at 2:48 am
لا زال البعض يعتقد اننا مستهدفين من كل القوى العظمى وان هناك مؤامرات تحاك في الخفاء لتهدم حضارتنا ومجتمعاتنا… و و و و من هالكلام الكبير
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هذا الموضوع بالذات كان اكبر موضوع يصلني عليه ايميلات كراهية حتى قيل انني جزء من هذه المؤامرات، على قولتهم!
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لطالما هناك بشر يرون اننا مستهدفون ومتفرغين لترويج هذا الكلام، لا اعتقد اننا سنتقدم خطوه.!
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اذكر ان هناك مقالة كتبت في جريدة الوطن.. ذكرت كاتبتها ان البلوتوث هو احد ادوات الصهيونية لاشغال شبابنا وتضييعهم!!!!
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December 18th, 2005 at 7:31 am
I cannot talk about the riots in France cause I don’t know all the info but the riots in Australia were caused by Lebenese who think that they are better than the Australian lifeguards!
The story is that a few Lebenese guys decided to go to the beach south of where they live and ended up beating the lifeguard cause the guard was asking them not to swim in a specific place! The whole mentality of, “who do you think you are?” popped into the Arabs’ head and the guard went to the hospital! The town folks regard the lifeguards as something good to they went crazy and started beating the Lebenese for thier stupidity and ignorance!
December 18th, 2005 at 8:43 am
Q:
آسفه ما فيني شدّه حق هاللعبه…وايد لازم أفكر و كلش ما فيني
December 18th, 2005 at 9:39 am
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES
AUSTRALIA’S DANGEROUS FANTASY
BY EVA SALLIS
LAST Sunday on Cronulla Beach, a suburb of Sydney, thousands of drunken white youths attacked anyone they believed was of Arab descent. Inspired by reports that Lebanese-Australians had assaulted two white lifeguards, text messages calling for a Lebanese “bashing day” appeared on thousands of cellphones. Some of Sunday’s assailants wore T-shirts that proclaimed, “We grew here; you flew here,” or, “Ethnic cleansing unit.”
For many, the Cronulla Beach incident did not come as a surprise. Rather, it was the bubbling up of an undercurrent that is increasingly evident in Australian life.
Newcomers, especially those who form linguistic or ethnically distinct groups, always have a hard time in Australia at first. But Australia is a country that has been created by many streams of immigrants and has come out the better for it. Greeks and Italians are among the largest non-Anglo groups and are fully integrated. Melbourne has the world’s third largest Greek community. Vietnamese immigrants experienced racism and hostility when they first arrived in the late 70’s and early 80’s, but time, and the entry of increasing numbers of Vietnamese-Australians into public life, have eroded that prejudice.
While this country is less diverse than the United States, its minority communities are a core part of its national identity. The notion of an all-white Australia is a fantasy and an anachronism. No dark-haired, dark-eyed Australian would have been safe on Cronulla Beach last Sunday, yet Australia is - has always been - substantially dark-haired and dark-eyed. And the expressed hostility toward “Lebs” as recent intruders belies the history of Australia, where people of Lebanese ancestry have lived for more than a century.
Several recent events have made this latest eruption of racism and xenophobia different from those of the past. While denying even that racism exists, our leaders have given tacit approval and support for it through policy, whether this is policy on refugees, security or Indigenous affairs. The policy of mandatory detention of asylum seekers was strongly linked with border protection from 2001, and, as most asylum seekers of recent years have been from the Middle East and Muslim South Asia, “border protection” has become protection from Muslim refugees in the popular imagination.
Like the United States, Australia has new anti-terrorism legislation, first passed in 2002 and significantly strengthened just recently. Such laws have helped to validate broader community mistrust of Arab and Muslim Australians.
Our government has done little to substantively allay fear of Muslim and Middle Eastern Australians generally or to increase public understanding and appreciation of their culture and contribution to Australian life. Arabic is the fourth most commonly used language after English in Australia, and the most commonly used language after English in New South Wales, Sydney’s home state, yet it is taught in only a handful of schools and universities.
In the last five years there has also been evidence of an increase in violence toward people of Arab appearance. An Iraqi writer I know begged his wife and daughter to stop wearing the hijab because of the potential of violence on the street. An Afghan refugee taxi driver in Adelaide said to my partner last night that he thought he would have to quit because his younger passengers were so nasty. In recent years high-profile cases in which Arab-Australian youths were charged with violent crimes generated a storm in the news media, as well as unchecked vilification on talk radio.
Prejudice creates what it fears by curtailing young people’s prospects. Young Arab-Australians are increasingly ghettoized in Sydney’s poor suburbs, where they struggle for education and jobs. Their families are often prejudiced against non-Arab Australians; the racism of the minority and that of the broader society reinforce each other.
I have Muslim friends who used to feel that they were Australians, but now cannot identify themselves in the negative space created for them in our community. I have non-Muslim friends who are furious at being mistaken for Muslims because of their Middle Eastern background; they are doing all they can to differentiate themselves from people they too are starting to openly dismiss. It has become fashionable, perhaps, to be racist, although none of us, not even our prime minister, is willing to call it what it is.
What happened on Cronulla Beach warns us that our self-inflicted wounds are festering. A volatile part of our community is deeply alienated, unable to belong, and another volatile part has retreated to an irretrievable past and a mythical notion of racial purity. If contemporary Australians are to live at ease with ourselves, we need more education, less fear mongering and, not least, greater honesty about the culture of racism that is so damaging us.
Eva Sallis is the author of six books, including “Mahjar,” a collection of short stories.
December 18th, 2005 at 9:42 am
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December 18th, 2005 at 9:44 am
Yes the Lebanese guys may have been wrong, but why did hordes of drunken white Aussies go on a rampage, out for blood?! Why didn’t they let the law take care of the Lebanese guys?
التخلف ليس حكراً على العرب
December 18th, 2005 at 9:48 am
La, Q, we’re exporting the takhalluf..
The primary reason behind the tense situation in both France and Australia is the large number of immigrants, and the lack of jobs..
Whether those immigrants were Arabs or Martians wouldn’t change much.
December 18th, 2005 at 9:51 am
Ok, after reading Zaydoun’s comment I’d say it’s unemployment and liquor
December 18th, 2005 at 11:41 am
I’m not aware about the riot in Australia, however the riot in France was due to the racist acts carried out by the French. Unemployment and the poor environment those from Arab & Muslim backgrounds are living in just makes their lives miserable.
The story originally stated when the French police were chasing two men who’re Arab/French. These two climbed into some kinda electricity building & were electrified & were killed.
After that incident the riots started.
When you are from Arab origins but you were born and raised as a French, & you’re living a f#$%ed up life because your name is Mohammed or Abdullah, then you would most probably have a negative attitude toward the system.
I’m not saying the riots and the acts carried out by Arabs are right, I’m just saying that there are two people responsible about all this, & that would be the Arabs… and the French as well!
That mentioned, I remember one time I went (mistakenly) to AlSulaibiyah area. The life over there was a disaster. People were living in poor houses (if you wanna call them houses). Children running in the streets bare feet & you can tell that they’re living a similar (if not worst) life than those Arabs in France. So the question is, is it possible that one day we’ll have a riot by those people, here in Kuwait?
The way I see it, AlSulaibiyah & other similar areas are bombs which are ticking & waiting to be blown. Its only a matter of time.
December 18th, 2005 at 11:42 am
wow long comment
December 18th, 2005 at 12:16 pm
The events in Australia should not be translated as an abrupt reaction to a certain incident… What happened was a result of years of repressed and pilled up resentment.
A better understanding of the perception Aussies have of Lebo, Greeks, Iranian and Vietnamese immigrants in the land down-under might give us a better idea.
One Lebanese/Auzi friend of mine tells me that no one dares to F$%^ around with Lebanese immigrants - especially the low-lifes… They are backed by lebo gangs and mobs who would do ANYTHING to get what they want. And i mean anything in gang culture terms…same with Iranians, vits and Chinese.
Decent immigrants tend to lay low and and go on with their lives ..
And that beach area in particular has always been known as a quiet little town for “Auzi whites”.
Our beloved Arab “abadayat” go there over the weekend, spend the night on the beach, trash it up, and bully everyone around - non of the locals dares to speak with them in fear of getting jumped one night on the way back home…
Then one day, one of the shabibeh with our great Arab-centric mentality of “Wasta” and “Rules, what rules?”, got into a quarrel with the life guards.
Of course el shahameh bten2a7 and the rest of the Arab beach dudes gather to beat the living hell out of the life guards … the locals go like = “thats it mate, we’ve had it with theez ERAB wankaaas!” and decided to bash anything the looks remotely middleastern.
December 18th, 2005 at 7:18 pm
i am talking about the australian riots. ya3ni 7aram some arabs/muslims have nothing to do with the rapes and stil yet they have been targeted and attacked. Il Takhalouf ohwa fi il Australians who are so racists. We are targeted because we are muslims, and why thanks to osama-bin ladin!!
December 18th, 2005 at 7:47 pm
the french riots were 1st started due to the fact that 2 teenagers were killed (north african ones) as they were getting chased by the police, they went to hide in a power station and got electructed and died…. so north africans started rioting and it got out of control.
It 1st started in Paris, moved on to Toulouse and Nice and surronding areas all over Paris and the south.
Cars were set on fire, shops broken into, people stabbed
It was crazy!
I should know… I was there!
I don’t know about the Aussie ones though!
January 23rd, 2006 at 3:21 pm
its not just about the life guards its about.. the way they stand higher then us… im 110% aussie and because i was by my self in my home town of QLD caboolture i get bashed im not a small lad either… but this racial thing of who has more relitives is stupid… and if they cant live buy our rules they should be treated as such…. and as for the comment from new york they have all of it wrong.. it was inticesed… not only by the aussie’s but also the aussie lebos… so before every other tom dick and harry jumps to conclusens the should try to live in peace with a group of lebo…
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