أستراليا: تزايد تعرض المسلمين للمضايقات الأمنية المتعمدة

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تتصاعد حِدة شكاوى المسلمين في "أستراليا" من تعرُّضهم للمضايقات الأمنية بشكل ظالم غير مسبوق؛ نتيجة الاستهداف العنصري من قِبل عناصر إنفاذ القانون وأعضاء اليمين المتطرف.

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Australian Muslims say security crackdown is code for racial profiling

Prominent Australian Muslims say their community is being unfairly targeted by law enforcement and threatened by right-wing groups, as the government's tough new policies aimed at combating 'radicals' threaten to create a backlash.

Authorities are on high alert since massive counter-terrorism raids last week thwarted what the government said was a plot by the ISIL militant group to publicly behead a random member of the public.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott is seeking broad new security powers and policing has been tightened in public places such as Parliament House, sporting events and airports.

Abbott insists the measures are not meant to target Muslims, but Sydney-based criminal defence attorney Adam Houda says it is already clear that they have resulted in racial profiling.

He gave as one example three bearded Muslim men detained in Sydney on Friday at a rugby game after a spectator told police they were using their mobile phones "suspiciously".

"The objective facts are they were pin-pointed because of their appearance," Houda told Reuters. "If they were spoken to because they were playing with their phones, well then that's just ridiculous."

Local Muslim leaders privately say racial tensions could spiral quickly out of control. In 2005, brawls between locals from the largely white Cronulla neighbourhood and Lebanese Muslim youths from the western Sydney area at the centre of the current security crackdown quickly degenerated into days of bloody riots involving thousands of people.

Earlier this week, Abbott warned Australians the balance between freedom and security "may have to shift", as he outlined broad new powers to crack down on suspected militant activity.

Abbott said that at least 60 Australians were in the Middle East fighting for militant groups, and a further 100 Australian citizens supported the groups.

At least 20 are claimed by authorities to have returned to Australia and pose a security risk, and earlier this month the national security agency for the first time raised its four-tier threat level to "high".