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...life experiences. It was a reminder of the nation's mood after the riots at Cronulla beach last December, where young locals and Lebanese Muslims went on a criminal rampage. With each new episode, it feels as if the gap between Muslims and their fellow citizens gets wider: hearts harden, fear seeps in, unreal stereotypes become set in concrete. But that's not happening in those communities where Muslims live in large numbers. The Sydney suburb of Lakemba is Australia's Islam Central; immigrants from the Middle East, Asia and Polynesia have transformed a place that was solidly Anglo-Irish...
...immigrants from Lebanon have heard stories of conflict and bloodshed; the younger ones don't seem to harbor grudges on their behalf. Some students had relatives caught up in the recent troubles in Lebanon. Only when questions turn to inter-marriage between Christians and Muslims does the line harden. "That's when the big differences come out," says Charbel. "Personally, I'd find it too difficult to marry a Muslim...
...madrassa attack will likely harden local resistance to any kind of deal with the Pakistani government, says Masood. "Even if they did kill 100 militants instead of madrassa students, all they have achieved is creating another 10,000 militants. This war will not be won by military means...
...ElBaradei also warned that sanctions would be more likely to harden attitudes in Tehran than to change them, urging the West to pursue negotiations that address Iran's security concerns. Not even the Western powers pushing for sanctions believe they will change Iran's attitude. Indeed, U.S. officials stress that their diplomatic plan is to introduce very limited, largely symbolic sanctions at this stage in order to keep Russia and China "on board." Nor is it only commercial self-interest that makes China, Russia and many European countries loath to impose significant sanctions on one of the world's largest...
...cultures about the legitimacy and desirability of violence. When law doesn’t work well, it gives everybody the sense that they are entitled to do what they are doing, that their cause is just and that the other side is just despicable. In that sense it can harden positions and make it harder to communicate across different cultures...