Soren wrote on May 19
th, 2013 at 10:48pm:
Several studies - love that. Name one.
Scott Poynting & Victoria Mason:
“Tolerance, Freedom, Justice and Peace”?: Britain, Australia and Anti-Muslim Racism since 11 September 2001Journal of Intercultural Studies, Volume 27, Issue 4, 2006
Quote:As in Britain, Australia also experienced an upsurge of racially based attacks on Muslims and those of “Middle Eastern appearance” following 9/11. Numerous Muslim women wearing their hijab in public places, were assaulted, abused and had strangers of both genders trying to tear their veil away. There was an increase in the occurrence of people in Muslim dress or of “Middle Eastern appearance” being spat upon or more violently assaulted in streets, shops and on public transport, of incidents of arson, vandalism, threats, harassment and other racist attacks undertaken by “white-thinking” people and directed against these newly discovered enemies within.
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Quote:By the end of September 2001, a bilingual (English and Arabic) Anti-Racism Hotline in New South Wales had logged well over 300 calls (Brown 2); by the time it had finished operation on 9 November, there were about 400 responses recorded. It needs to be recognised that this tally of incidents measures only the “tip of the iceberg”: those with knowledge of the Hotline and with the greatest motivation and means to complain. Supporting this claim, a survey of 186 Arab and Muslim Australians in Sydney and Melbourne conducted in 2003 for the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission (Poynting and Noble) recorded that 87 per cent of the Muslim respondents had experienced racism, abuse or racist violence since 9/11, with three-quarters stating that they had experienced a greater amount of racism since that date: 39 per cent experienced “a bit more” and 37 per cent “a lot more”.
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Quote:As recently as May 2005, a school bus belonging to an Islamic College in Perth was completely destroyed in an arson attack (AAP “Perth Islamic school bus set ablaze”; “School bus gutted by fire”). It bears repeating that such outbreaks of racial hatred and vilification have been an intensification of an already existent, pre-September 11, climate of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim attacks in Australia.