There is no crisis, we have had 200 years of increasingly effective multicultural co-existance (once the shame of White Australia was abandoned by true blues) since European settlement and 60,000 years of it before then.
Some people will always fear, and thus hate, and thus fight, ANY difference.. if it isn't skin colour, it's how they pray, or dress, or cook their food.
As the American Civil War shows the BLOODIEST struggle of that nation was with BROTHERS.. same ethnicity, same religion, in many cases the SAME BLOODY FAMILY.
Now, there are always politicians who play the clbuttic Roman political stratagem - divide et empera.
If a war is going badly or corruption is making the populace grumpy and critical, if taxes are chafing, or the cost of fuel.. find a scapegoat and let slip the dogs of clbutt or culture or holy WAR.
Howard is a master of it;
'Dole Bludgers' - a term which 'justifies' atttacks on battlers 'Those People' - Refugees slandered in truth Overboard.
but the perennial, in any society which allows the most venal and corrupt politicians to play their dirty games.. it is the last wave of immigrants who provide the handiest scapegoats.
Now, Muslims and Lebansese and Arabs in Melbourne are simply NOT a problem. It's not that you can't find some instances of Muslims or Lebanese or Arabs getting into trouble.. but its within the same range of 1-2 per ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND HEAD OF POPULATION for every ethnic group.
It is simply NOT the problem that the hysterical nutters who rant endlessly about how they hate multicultural Oz claim it is!
There are two groups driving this poo, the racists and White Supremacists (ferdie Eunometic etc) who are simply pig ignorant bigot tools, and the tory elite who push their buttons (Alan Jones, Andrew Bolt, etc)
Frequently the two groups are represented in one person, a racist who is also a rusted-on liberal Spokes Ork - Mosley.
But the one thing they have in common is irrational fear, they either feel it or cynically peddle it for grubby politicial purposes.. so they all deserve the Molocultural Mania Award for clueless racist twonks:
-- "Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin
"History shows us that there have been many struggles between the honest men of England and those that tyrannized them. All good laws come as innovation and as constraints upon the power of the King and Lords."
-Colonel Thomas Rainsborough Council of the Army, Putney Church, 1647
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