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Canberra Times, September 14, 2001, 2.
Peter Breen, “Arab and Muslim Australians Vilification,” NSW Legisla-
tive Council, September 13, 2005, http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/
parment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LA20050913100, accessed on May 17, 2006.
Mohammad Abdallah, “A Fair Go: A Muslim’s Perspective,” in A Fair Go
in an Age of Terror, ed. Fawkner, 65.
Poynting, “Bin Laden in the Suburbs,” 52.
Paul White, “Media Savages Lebanese-Australian Youth,” in On Line
Opinion—Australia’s e-Journal of Social and Political Debate, September 15, 2004, http://www.onlineopinion.com.au.
Peter Manning, US and Them (Milsons Point, N.S.W. : Random House
Australia, 2006), 37.
For Manning’s highly critical stance on Israel, see ibid., 237; email cor-
respondence with Jeremy Jones, January 24, 2008.
Simon Kearney, “Racists to Blame for Cronulla: ASIO Boss,” Australian,
March 10, 2006. See also Manning, US and Them, 257–64.
Markus, “Multiculturalism and the Jews,” 102.
Jeremy Jones worked for the Australia/Israel Publications (AIP), which
in 1998 became the Australian Israel Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC), and he has
prepared the reports for the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ). For
a summary of the Toben and Scully cases, see Jeremy Jones, Annual Report on
Anti-Semitism, 2002–2003, 57–63.
Parliamentary Debates, Official Hansard, No. 2, 2004, House of Representa-
tives, 40th Parliament, 1st sess., 7th period, February 16, 2004, 24743.
Kevin M. Dunn et al., “Constructing Racism in Australia,” Australian
Journal of Social Issues 39, no. 4 (November 2004): 409–30.
Hilaly is a very controversial personality. Entering Australia in 1982 on a
three-month tourist visa, he was granted permanent residency in 1990, due to
political factors. The electorate of the Labor MP, Paul Keating, later prime min-
ister from 1992 to 1995, included a large Muslim population and the Lakemba
mosque led by Hilaly.
The largest Muslim school in Australia is the Malek Fahd Islamic School,
established by the Australian Federation of Islamic Council (AFIC) in October
1989 with 87 children ages 3 to 8. In 2008 there were over 1,800 children ages 3
to 17. See http://www.mfis.com.au/. Named after King Fahd of Saudi Arabia,
one website claimed it received a grant of $12 million from the Saudi royal fam-
ily in 1989:http://sydneynearlydailyphot.blogspot.com/2007/06/malek-fahd-
islamic-college-greenacre.html.
Bernard Lewis, The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror (London:
Phoenix, 2003), 110.
