The nightmare of a terrorist attack on innocent Australians?
No. That has started already. It has been going on for years, and it will go on for years. It may never end. As long as some marginalised nutter can find a knife, a bomb or a gun, innocent people here and overseas will always be at risk.
No: what we face now is the nightmare of random abusive attacks on entirely innocent people just because of their dress, or their religion. Victims of the hysteria whipped up around IS and other groups, not least by our own government – for shame – and certainly by the media, and the Murdoch tabloid media especially.
In Melbourne last week a Muslim woman was bashed and pushed from a moving train in a vicious racist attack.
Police say the 26-year-old victim was standing near the door on an Upfield line train when a woman approached her and started making racist remarks.
The culprit then allegedly grabbed the victim by the neck and hair and repeatedly slammed her head into the wall of the carriage.
She then pushed the victim off the train as it pulled into Batman railway station, police said.
Police are hoping to speak to two men who approached the woman to offer help after the attack last Thursday.
Police do have a description of the attacker.
She has unusual light-coloured eye brows, short dark hair and a heavy build.
She was wearing baggy jeans, a puffy hooded top and runners.
The incident was captured on CCTV and police are now in the process of reviewing the footage.
We sincerely trust a severe example is made of this scum, who behaves as if 200 years of civilised decency had not produced, in Australia, a country which is uniquely racially content, even in today’s fraught climate.
We are a decent people – our country was built on immigration and always will be. Here, we do not judge people by who they are but by what they are – by the efforts they contribute to wrest a living from this challenging country. We welcome people from anywhere and everywhere.
Yes, there is naked racism in Australia. We are not naive. There is in every country on the face of the planet. But it is much less persistent or obvious than in most other places, and certainly in equivalent Western countries.
Let us make an example of this attacker – as a community, we say “no further”. Stop this insanity before it starts. Women all over the country are reporting abuse and worse as they walk the streets.
Not here. Not in our name. Not in Australia.
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