{"id":494,"date":"2006-12-03T03:28:20","date_gmt":"2006-12-02T17:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=494"},"modified":"2007-05-11T13:57:08","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T03:57:08","slug":"the-great-australian-bikini-march-cancelled-in-brunswick-and-lakemba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=494","title":{"rendered":"The Great Australian Bikini March: Cancelled in Brunswick… and Lakemba?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The road to hell is paved with good intentions…<\/em><\/p>\n

Mosque to get police guard for bikini rally<\/a>
\nTaghred Chandab and Matthew Benns
\nSydney Morning Herald<\/em>
\nDecember 3, 2006<\/p>\n

POLICE have been asked to protect Australia’s largest mosque next weekend because of concerns that a bikini march<\/a> staged to coincide with the anniversary of the Cronulla riots may get out of control.<\/p>\n

The caretaker of Lakemba Mosque, the Lebanese Muslim Association<\/a><\/strong>, says it is taking no risks, requesting at least 32 police officers to protect the place of worship on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n

Association president Tom Zreik<\/em> said he met police on several occasions to ensure there would be adequate numbers of officers present to defuse problems and arrest troublemakers.<\/p>\n

“We are treating this as something that is funny and hilarious but also taking precautions,” Mr Zreika said of the bikini march. “Some people may see this as provocation and the last thing that we want is to see anyone being attacked.”<\/p>\n

The organiser, Melbourne grandmother [?] Christine Hawkins<\/em>, has asked women nationally to dress in bikinis and colourful beachwear and rally outside large mosques [in Lakemba, but not in Brunswick… apparently<\/a>] to show their disgust at comments by leading Muslim cleric, Sheik Taj el-Din al Hilaly<\/em>, who likened women to “uncovered meat”.<\/p>\n

A white supremacist website has promoted the march. Members of Sydney’s Muslim community began raising their concerns last week, with hundreds joining an internet discussion to find a “peaceful avenue” to protect their mosque.<\/p>\n

[Scumfront<\/a><\/strong> is one of the websites which has been used extensively by Perth-based convicted neo-Nazi criminal — and former member of Jack van Tongeren<\/em>‘s Australian Nationalists Movement<\/strong> — Ben Weerheym<\/a><\/em> to promote the March. Fascists on Shitfront<\/strong> regard Muslims as a sub-species of people they refer to as ‘muds’. (Since their BBQ in September<\/a>, Brisbane-based members of the fascist forum in question have been meeting at a local bikie club.) The March has also been endorsed by members of convicted neo-Nazi criminal Dr. Jim Saleam<\/a><\/em>‘s Australia First Party<\/strong>, which is standing John Moffat<\/a><\/em> in the NSW state election in March, 2007.]<\/p>\n

Many Muslim women suggested joining the march in their hijabs and burqas to voice their outrage at comments made by Senator Bronwyn Bishop and Prime Minister John Howard about the way they dress. “We’re really asking people not to bother coming to the mosque,” Mr Zreika said.<\/p>\n

“All this is doing is degrading women and giving men a great excuse to have a perv. There are better ways women can express their concerns.”<\/p>\n

In Cronulla yesterday members of the Lakembaroos sports club attended a barbecue at North Cronulla Surf Club to mark the progress of more than 20 Muslim lifesavers, who are training for their bronze medallions.<\/p>\n

“If we didn’t have the events of Cronulla last December in the back of our minds, we wouldn’t even be conscious that the people here were of Lebanese background,” Community Relations Commission chairman Stepan Kerkyasharian said.<\/p>\n

“They look Australian, they are taking part in an Australian activity and you have to ask ‘what’s the problem?”‘<\/p>\n

The training is an initiative of Surf Life Saving Australia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See also<\/em> : Francis De Groot Brigade<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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