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...Muslims felt that they, too, were under attack; the scrutiny was not welcomed. The media is hostile toward them, some Muslims claim, and ignorant about their faith and life experiences. It was a reminder of the nation's mood after the riots at Cronulla beach last December, where young locals and Lebanese Muslims went on a criminal rampage. With each new episode, it feels as if the gap between Muslims and their fellow citizens gets wider: hearts harden, fear seeps in, unreal stereotypes become set in concrete. But that's not happening in those communities where Muslims live in large...
...days following the violence at Cronulla-trouble also spilled into other parts of the city-those in Lakemba sensed a strain as the image of the suburb was again being spoiled from outside. The people of Holy Spirit College, a co-educational Catholic high school, felt they needed to show solidarity with local Muslims and promote the area. "It was a tumultuous week," recalls Holy Spirit principal Frank Malloy, speaking a year after the school canceled end-of-year beach picnics to Cronulla and its evening of Christmas carols at the school. "We wanted to say to the people...
...better understanding of identity, "multiculturalism" - because it is based only on "culture" - won't endure as a unifying concept. What could emerge, as Nobel economics laureate Amartya Sen has suggested, is a plurality of monocultures. The moronic expression of this disease was glimpsed last December in Sydney's Cronulla riots and their criminal aftermath...
...appeared to sympathize with this view: until it exploded into vigilantism, he said, the protest was legitimate. Recent high-profile rape cases involving Lebanese-Australian perpetrators and memories of the Bali bombings - many of whose victims hailed from the city's southern suburbs - may also have inflamed passions in Cronulla, though locals maintain that at least 80% of the rioters were from elsewhere...
...evidence in the form of aggressive talkback-radio transcripts. A fear is that the rioters of Dec. 11 may have started something that no one will be able to finish. "Look at this text message," says 19-year-old Muslim Noah Issa, who works as a security guard in Cronulla. "Wake up, wake up, oh lions of Lebanon," it begins, before calling for more retaliation and the extermination of the "enemy." Having hitherto sounded reasonable, Issa hears the message as a war cry: "This makes me wild." Teenaged Lebanese Australians have an identity crisis as they try to reconcile...