DAR AL HARB-AUSTRALIA: AUSTRALIA PAYING FOR A 1976 POLITICAL DECISION?!? TOO MANY UNASSIMILATING MOSLEMS IN THEIR MIDSTS

Muslims dismiss 1976 refugee decision link to unrest
Steve Lewis, Chief political correspondent
January 02, 2007

SENIOR Muslim figures yesterday dismissed suggestions that a 1976 decision to allow Lebanese Muslim refugees to flee the Middle East for Australia had contributed to contemporary social unrest in Sydney.

Former prime minister Malcolm Fraser also disputed any link, claiming the wave of migrants seeking to flee the Lebanese civil war had social and criminal records on par with the average Australian.

Cabinet documents from 1976, released this week, reveal immigration authorities warned the Fraser government that it was accepting too many Lebanese Muslim refugees without the "required qualities" for successful integration.

Ameer Ali, the head of the Government's Muslim Community Reference Group, played down any links between the 30-year-old decision and recent unrest in Sydney.

"That doesn't have any link with that matter. To suggest it does is rather preposterous," Dr Ali said. Instead, he said the community unrest involving only sections of the Muslim community was a 21stcentury phenomenon following the September 11 terrorist attacks.

"We have to be cautious interpreting the events of 30 years ago," he said.

Mr Fraser also rejected suggestions that his 1976 decision had contributed to recent community problems.

"I don't regret taking action which resulted in people in grave or serious distress finding a new home and a much better country," Mr Fraser told Southern Cross Broadcasting. "We should look not just at the people who came from Lebanon. We also need to look to ourselves to see what went wrong with these particular communities."

Meanwhile, the former Palestine ambassador to Australia, Ali Kazak, yesterday blamed Israeli spy agency Mossad for claims that former Labor prime minister Bob Hawke was the target of a Palestinian assassination plot in the 1970s.
[Moslems & other leftist freaks always find a way to blame the Jews...Incredible...ed. A.I.]

The 1976 cabinet documents revealed that spy agency ASIO had briefed the Fraser government that Mr Hawke, who was then Labor and ACTU president, faced the possibility of being killed over his strong pro-Israel views.

But Mr Kazak said Mossad had designed the plot as part of its efforts to discredit the Palestine authority.


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