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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (7127)	12/12/2005 1:26:19 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 15991

Anothr "Honour Killing" sentence...in the UK this time: There is NO way the people in the US are gong to put up with this too...It's bad enough that we are having the "Christmas Tree issues"....but """"Honour Killing""" because of someone's religious belief....NO WAY! Looks like it isn't going down well in the UK either. 'Honour Killing' Sentence Updated: 04:12, Monday December 12, 2005 A father and his two sons convicted of the "honour killing" of a university student who had made his daughter pregnant will be sentenced later. Bangladeshi waiter Chomir Ali, 44, ordered his sons to kill 19-year-old Arash Ghorbani-Zarin, an Iranian Muslim studying electrical engineering at Oxford Brookes University. Oxford Crown Court heard last month of how Ali had become angry in the summer of 2003 when his 20-year-old daughter Manna Begum began going out with Mr Ghorbani-Zarin, since he already had an arranged marriage planned for her. It "embarrassed" the family that the loving couple were seen in public holding hands and kissing. After months of attempting to stop the relationship, Ali ordered his sons Mujibar Rahman, 19, and Mamnoor Rahman, 16, all of Asquith Road, Oxford, to kill their sister's boyfriend. Advertisement On November 20 last year, Mr Ghorbani-Zarin's body was found with 46 stab wounds, mostly to the chest, in his car in an Oxford suburb. All three, who were found guilty of murder, will be given life sentences by the trial judge, Mr Justice Gross, sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. He will set the minimum terms they must serve before they can be considered for parole. The jury heard that Ali confiscated Miss Begum's mobile telephone and banned her from leaving the house in a bid to stamp out the flourishing relationship with Mr Ghorbani-Zarin. When his distraught daughter slit her wrist in an apparent suicide attempt in November 2003, the family would not open the door to paramedics. Miss Begum ran away from home to stay with a friend's aunt and by August last year was pregnant by Mr Ghorbani-Zarin, who asked her to marry him. After the killing, Ali was spotted stopping his red Toyota car at allotments and throwing a bag over a hedge. The supermarket bag was found to contain a knife covered in Mr Ghorbani-Zarin's blood and bloodstained clothes. Statement Accessibility Information Site Map

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (7127)	12/12/2005 8:11:23 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 15991

Thousands of Australians, Arabs attack each other... By MIKE CORDER Associated Press Writer Dec 11, 2005 SYDNEY, Australia - Thousands of drunken [???] white youths attacked police and people they believed were Arab immigrants at a Sydney beach on Sunday, angered by reports that youths of Lebanese descent had assaulted two lifeguards. Young men of Arab descent [NOT drunken ???] retaliated in several Sydney suburbs, fighting with police and smashing 40 cars with sticks and bats, police said. Thirty-one people were injured and 28 were arrested in hours of violence. Police said they were seeking an Arab man who allegedly stabbed a white man in the back. The city was calm Monday, and police formed a strike force to track down the instigators. Some 5,000 white youths, wrapped in Australian flags and chanting racist slurs, fought with police, attacked people of Arab appearance and assaulted a pair of paramedics at Cronulla beach in southern Sydney, police said. Police fought back with batons and pepper spray. Prime Minister John Howard condemned the violence, but said he did not believe racism was widespread in Australia. "Attacking people on the basis of their race, their appearance, their ethnicity, is totally unacceptable and should be repudiated by all Australians irrespective of their own background and their politics," Howard said. He added, "I'm not going to put a general tag (of) racism on the Australian community." The rioters were reacting to reports that youths of Lebanese descent were responsible for an attack last weekend on two of the beach's lifeguards. Police had increased the number of officers patrolling the beach after mobile phone text messages circulated calling for retaliation for the attack on the guards. One white teenager among the rioters had the words "We grew here, you flew here" painted on his back. On the sand, someone had written "100 percent Aussie pride." Two paramedics in an ambulance were injured as they tried to help youths trying to escape rioters, when members of the mob smashed the vehicle's windows and kicked its doors. TV broadcasts showed a group of young women attacking another woman, whose ethnicity was not immediately clear. The violence shocked this city of 4 million which prides itself on being a cultural melting pot. "Our disgrace," said a front page headline in Sydney's Daily Telegraph. Below was a picture of white youths attacking a man of Arab appearance on a train. "Let's be very clear, the police will be unrelenting in their fight against these thugs and hooligans," said Morris Iemma, the leader of New South Wales state. He said the riots "showed the ugly side of racism in this country." Kevin Schreiber, the mayor of the district where Cronulla is located, said he was devastated by the rampage, but that he believed the rioters came "from far and wide to participate." Cronulla, one of the few beaches in Sydney that is easily accessible by train, is often visited by youngsters from poorer suburbs, many of them of Arab descent. Residents accuse the youths of traveling in gangs and sometimes intimidating other beachgoers. Bruce Baird, a government lawmaker, said anti-Muslim sentiment has risen in Australia since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the 2002 bombings in Bali, Indonesia, that killed 88 Australians. He noted that six women from Cronulla were killed in the Bali bombings. "Where this riot took place is actually the site of where we've got the Bali memorial for these women," Baird told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio. Kuranda Seyit, director of the Forum of Australia's Islamic Relations, described Australia as a "pluralist society, with many faiths and traditions all raveled into one." He added: "This is the unique success of this nation, and we cannot let it fall into chaos and lawlessness."

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (7127)	12/12/2005 8:42:34 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15991

CRONULLA ERUPTS AGAIN (More racial strife in Australia) Sky News ^ \| 12 Dec 05 Violence has again erupted in Cronulla, in Sydney's south, with reports that many car loads of Middle Eastern youths have descend on the suburb wielding baseball bats. Despite an increase in police presence, the youths have managed to get through and are causing what is being described as extensive damage. Police are warning people to avoid the area. It has not been confirmed whether the groups came from the demonstrations staged at Lakemba Mosque, in the city's south west, earlier this evening. A group, which at one stage numbered in the thousands, gathered outside the Mosque chanting religious slogans. The demonstration was mainly peaceful, however police say rocks were thrown at officers by a small number of people and two police cars were damaged. Meanwhile, in the eastern beachside suburb of Maroubra, police have confiscated cricket bats, rocks and iron bars from a group which had gathered in a park.