Islamophobia Watch

Racist online forums have been inundated with postings by Australian white supremacists since the Cronulla race riots. The explosion of racist webchat includes more than 40,000 hits and hundreds of messages about the riots and subsequent revenge attacks posted on the usually quiet Australian forum of a US white pride website.

The Australian forum on Stormfront – a white nationalist site offering advice to activists and dating advice for white singles – is a marginal website that frequently records fewer than 10 Australian members or guests at any one time. But a discussion board titled "Do you think Cronulla is the start of the true fight for White Australia?" had attracted many responses, with some members calling for action.

There were more than 220 people on the Australian forum of the website at the height of inflammatory discussions about the riots, including encouragement from a US member to "keep up the pressure". Maidofthearyanmist in New Jersey wrote: "Hopefully the white cops will get tired of beating and arresting their kinfolk in defence of the Muslim horde. This is the type of action that is desperately needed in all white nations now."

The Australian, 14 December 2005

Cf. "Cronulla is only the start!", Usenet, 12 December 2005