chimera wrote on Apr 8
th, 2012 at 2:27pm:
Google search for [2012 attack arson] shows 1 attack on : synagogue; mosque; and Hindu temple, on 2 pages of search for each. There may well be more, but evidently the ratio is equal for each religion. The attacks are rare and treated with equal disapproval. Do you disapprove?
So as long as Australian persecute all minorities equally, shouldn't complain? Is that your gist?
Firebugs threaten mosque attacks
Arsonists who firebombed a Melbourne mosque overnight have threatened further attacks on Islamic sites, community leaders said today.
The arsonists vandalised the Umma Islamic Centre in East Doncaster with anti-Islamic slogans and left threatening notes before setting the mosque alight about 4.45am (AEST), centre spokesman Noor Dean said.
The attack, which caused minor damage to the centre, was a backlash against the Islamic community in response to the Bali bombings last Saturday, he said.
The Melbourne firebombing follows a vandal attack on a school and the home of a Muslim cleric in Sydney on Tuesday...
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/10/17/1034561262558.htmlMosque firebombed in Australia
SYDNEY, Australia -- A mosque was firebombed in Australia overnight as race hate against Muslims simmered...
Police in the eastern state of Queensland said two Molotov cocktails were thrown at the mosque in the city of Brisbane...
Police were looking for a male caucasian who was seen in a car outside the mosque at the time...
http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/09/13/attack.australia.muslims/...Australian Muslims attacked
Australian authorities have stepped up security around mosques and Islamic schools after a series of assaults on Muslims.
A mosque in the eastern city of Brisbane was destroyed by suspected arson at the weekend in apparent retaliation for the US terror attacks.
Other mosques have been daubed with anti-Muslim graffitti and there have also been reports of verbal and physical attacks on Muslims.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1560639.stmJudge urges tougher sentences for race crimes
December 11 2002
Legislation should be changed to allow tougher sentences to be imposed for racially motivated crimes, a judge said yesterday.
District Court Judge Manus Boyce was sentencing Terence George Hanlon, 24, for the arson of the Kuraby Mosque on Brisbane's southside on September 22 last year...Hanlon had pleaded not guilty, but was convicted by a jury in October.
Judge Boyce, sentencing Hanlon to six years' jail with no recommendation for parole, said Queensland should follow the example of England and adopt tougher penalties if an attack was motivated by racial hatred.
"Australia prides itself on being fair, just and tolerant. Racial intolerance is a threat to the maintenance of a safe and decent society," Judge Boyce told Hanlon. "I urge that the Queensland Criminal Code be amended to provide for more severe sentences for attacks that are racially motivated. The fact that a crime is racially motivated should be a serious circumstance of aggravation."
Hanlon had told his girlfriend just hours before the fire that he wanted the mosque burnt down, and had yelled out "let the war begin" to a woman passing by the mosque.
One week later Hanlon told a friend "we should nuke them all", and displayed great glee at the burning of the mosque, the judge said. The mosque was uninsured and suffered $113,000 damage.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/12/10/1039379840173.html
Man sentenced for mosque attack
A 24-year-old man with links to a national extremist group has been given a suspended prison sentence for an attack on a Perth mosque earlier this year.
Jacob Marshall Holt and 25-year-old Bradley Neil Trappitt fired three shots into the roof of the Canning Mosque in Queens Park in February.
The men are alleged to be members of Combat 18, which is an international neo-Nazi organisation.
Holt pleaded guilty to the attack and was sentenced to seven months jail, suspended for 12 months.
Trappit has also pleaded guilty and will be sentenced in August.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-07-30/man-sentenced-for-mosque-attack/926048