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[–] hojuruku [S] 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
So conspicuous is the gap between statistical evidence and the board's rhetoric that Race for the Headlines is obliged to try to rationalise the discrepancy:
"The ADB's 2001-02 annual report noted that the increase in incidents of vilification and harassment of Arabic and Muslim communities in Sydney was not reflected in the statistics of formal complaints. The ADB received many inquiries from people who had been harassed or vilified, however many did not lodge a formal complaint."
And how many threatened and humiliated rape victims were too afraid to come forward? The board not merely ignores this issue but argues that the number of 70 rapes was "greatly exaggerated" by the media.
The footnote providing the source for this claim is so bizarre it needs to be quoted in full: "This was actually the figure quoted by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics for Bankstown for the month of June 1999, when 70 incidences of sexual assault were recorded by local police. They were mainly committed by one individual ..."
This sourcing is so inept and so deluded - note the patronising use of the word "actually" - that I've had to number the mistakes:
1: This statistic from the bureau was irrelevant to the Sun-Herald report which broke the story, and not even known to the reporter; 2: Nowhere did the media make reference to this statistic, which was only for a single month, in a single statistical area; 3: The author of the report never contacted the Sun- Herald to discuss sources; 4: The author never contacted the police to discuss evidence; 5: The police formed a task force because it was investigating no fewer than 20 gang rapes, and found another 50 similar crimes from hospital records and the COPS database; 6: Several more gang-rape trials and investigations are ongoing; 7: Rape is a grossly under-reported crime.
"Many victims would be too petrified to go to the police, and they should be," a former detective sergeant in the NSW Police, Tim Priest, told me. "These guys go through the women's mobiles, wallets, get their numbers, their addresses, and tell them they know where they live."
A second detective sergeant, who asked not to be named, told me: "In reality, the rape figure is much higher. Many girls don't have the courage to face these young men. They are ruthless; they have no regard for the law. It has absolutely nothing to do with religion, but they operate like mini tribes. When you get a call that 30 men of Middle Eastern appearance are making a disturbance at a club, you make sure you call for the cavalry before you go out there."
A third NSW police officer, Sergeant Frank Reitano, agrees: "The Middle East gangs have very little respect for police. They are aggressive all the time with us."
Priest said: "These gangs are so disenfranchised from any link to Australia they don't give a stuff about this country."
The number of young women in Sydney who have been threatened or insulted by young men of Muslim background must run into the hundreds. After the gang-rape story broke I received hundreds of emails on the subject, including about a dozen from young women such as the following, sent by a 20-year-old student at the University of NSW: "At Rozelle markets last Saturday I was called a 'cheap white slut' and 'a dumb whore' by a Lebanese guy with his tracksuited mates. When I told him he was disgusting one of them said I'd better watch my back."
Not one word about this can be found in the comments of the board's president in the 2001-02 annual report, or in his preface to Race for the Headlines. Instead, Puplick, apparently blind in one eye, shapes the core problem (other than Australia's "systemic racism") in these terms:
"Throughout this year the board has received numerous complaints, especially from members of the Islamic and Arabic communities, about the level of hostility, hatred and verbal and physical abuse which have been directed towards them."
It's OK for Puplick to make this claim but if the media reports the world as it is, rather than as it should be, it is "racialising" the issue. Consider this: what if the gang rapes had been committed by "Anglo" men hunting and abducting Muslim women? You know the answer: the media would have gone berserk, the story would have raced around the globe, and the frenzy of accusation and recrimination would have made the media's hysteria over Pauline Hanson look rational and subdued. And it is unlikely the Anti-Discrimination Board would have said anything about "exaggerated" numbers and "alleged" remarks.
Race for the Headlines is everything it condemns - selective, accusatory and second-hand - and one of its most revealing recommendations is a proposal for compulsory sensitivity programs for every journalist and media student:
"That responsible reporting of race and 'cross-cultural competency', underpinned by a human rights framework, form the basis of: (a) essential curriculum in university journalism and media courses ... (b) compulsory induction programs and ongoing staff training in all media organisations, including regular updating of editorial reporting, editing and style handbooks and materials."
And Big Brother resumes on Channel 10 tomorrow night.