From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:43a07403$1{at}w3.nls.net...
 >
> No churches being torched by either side down under.  I'd say down under
> isn't religious based on either side.  Just territorial and ethnic based.
>
> Gary
>
>

Wrongo again

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17572776%255E601,
00.html

FOUR churches in Sydney's southwest have been attacked in 24 hours as the
city's riots spread from race to religion.

A community hall linked to a Uniting church was burned to the ground early
yesterday, carol-singers were spat on and church buildings peppered with
gunfire.

In response, members of the Arab Christian and Arab Muslim communities have
called for a curfew for all Lebanese youths over the weekend.

Police believe the attack on the hall, in the suburb of Auburn, was
intended to destroy the Uniting church next door, while nearby StThomas's
Anglican Church, which has a primarily Chinese congregation, had all its
front windows smashed. Three of the attacks were on churches within minutes
of each other. The night before, Molotov cocktails were used in an attack
on an Anglican church in Macquarie Fields in the city's far southwest.

Arab Christians have suggested the attacks on churches may have been meant
as a violent attempt to "shame" the city's Lebanese Christian
community into supporting Lebanese Muslims in the race-hate war, which
began as a battle against young white males over use of suburban beaches.

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