And yet even this daring article doesn’t mention the obvious. Which is the stunning lack of crime in other ethnic groups that have equal or greater claims to discrimination or assimilation yet don’t go shooting everyone all over the place.

H/T Rita

Herald Sun:

An astonishing spate of shootings in Sydney seems largely the work of one ethnic group, identified only deep in this Sydney Morning Herald report. Yet the only culture blamed is the Australian one:

There has been more than one public shooting every three days in Sydney in [2012] and the target is increasingly becoming human life. Among the 135 recorded incidents in the past 12 months, eight men have been shot dead and dozens more injured.

It was the late 1990s when the city began to be exposed to ‘’young men doing things with guns’’ that they had not done before, the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research director, Don Weatherburn, says…

Tensions between rival crime groups in the late 1990s fuelled problems around Cabramatta, while drive-bys and shootings hit another peak as gangs around Telopea Street in Punchbowl erupted and the infamous Darwiche and Razzak families fought out bloody gun battles believed to have been sparked by two marriage breakdowns, drug turf and a spat in a Bankstown cafe…

The young men turning to guns across south-western and western Sydney are a product of a downtrodden society, their communities say. They are often unemployed, bored, frustrated, discriminated against and highly disaffected, with little else to do.

Albert Darwiche, whose family was involved in an eight-year conflict with the Razzak family that ended with five people dead and numerous houses shot at, says many of those involved in this wave of shootings are second-generation Middle Eastern men.

Their parents’ generation lived with strict family hierarchies yet many of these men have been ‘’Australianised,’’ Darwiche says, ‘’and have lost the custom of listening to and respecting their parents…”

So the more “Australian” they become, the more likely they are to shoot -= as few Australian men actually do? This is actually an Australian thing?

Can’t we instead discuss (which this long Herald article doesn’t) how Middle Eastern culture – and specifically Lebanese Muslim culture – might hinder integration and license violence?

Answer? No:

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