Note: I'd consider it a personal favour if this thread could avoid the jokes. There's already a thread for that.
I suspect that at the moment the increase in abuse is confined to those idiot far-right-wing websites, but I do wish there had been a less head-line-grabbing, politically-expedient approach to all this. It makes it so easy to do this sort of thing:
A backlash of hate crimes against the Muslim community after the police raids last week has also sparked a rash of social media comments such as "this is how they should deal with them", "behead them all", "give them a taste of their own medicine for a change" and "we just need to blow up parramatta n bankstown".
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...uslims-say-20140920-10jdkw.html#ixzz3DtOVZA2w
I suspect that at the moment the increase in abuse is confined to those idiot far-right-wing websites, but I do wish there had been a less head-line-grabbing, politically-expedient approach to all this. It makes it so easy to do this sort of thing:
Terrorism laws to be strengthened and 'modernised', says justice minister
Bills giving authorities greater powers to deal with terrorism will be introduced into federal parliament next week, the justice minister, Michael Keenan says.
The proposed laws come after police anti-terrorism raids in Sydney and Brisbane on Thursday.
While providing only vague details, Keenan said the mooted laws would “modernise” existing legislation.
He shied away from saying whether they would allow police greater powers to detain suspects on terrorism charges.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-and-modernised-says-justice-minister[/B][/B]
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