This is the full-size replica
of perhaps the most famous
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Ice Cream cart in the world.
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One that was used in the
first terrorist attack ever
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carried out in Australia.
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On New Year's Day 1915,
Badsha Mahommed Gool prepared
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His Ice Cream Cart for its
customary foray into the nearby
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town of Broken Hill. Gool's
was a familiar fixture around
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town. And locals thought little
of it when he wheeled his way
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among them on that
sweltering summer day.
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The cart carried a small home-
made flag, limp in the stale
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humid air. The flag, a sun-
bleached red with a crescent
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and the star on it represented
the Ottoman Empire, a state that
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Gool had fought for as a
soldier. On that particular
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January day Gool wasn't just
transporting ice cream in his
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cart. Its contents also
included deadly weapons.
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Beside him set another
man, not as familiar as Gool but
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also a Broken Hill
resident none-the-less.
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The man Mullah Abdullah was
a local Imam in Pallah Butcha
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driving the cart a short
distance outside of town,
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they rolled to a stop
along a deserted stretch of road
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not far from the train tracks.
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Leaving the cart behind
Gool and Abdullah walked to an
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embankment about 30 meters
from the tracks where they
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settled in to wait.
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Around the corner having
just passed through Broken Hill
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the local Silverton train
way train chugged into view.
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The train was carrying
passengers to the annual
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New Year's Day
Picnic in nearby Silverton.
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About 1,200 picnickers
were crammed into forty opened
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ore trucks pulled along by
a steam engine. As the train
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neared their position,
Gool and Abdullah pulled out two
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rifles flipped onto their
bellies, and opened fire on the
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train. They got off a total
of about 30 shots, at first the
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picnickers thought the
shots were part of their outing.
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Perhaps a gun salute to
hail their passing train,
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or a staged fight or even
target practice with blanks
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instead of live rounds.
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Their relation was short-
lived however when they saw
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other passengers on board
the train jerking and falling
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to the ground blood beneath
their bodies as the bullets
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found their marks.
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In the ensuing panic, Gool
and Abdullah calmly rose from
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their positions made their
way back to the Ice Cream cart
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and high-tailed it towards home.
They had just engineered and
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spear-headed the first terrorist
attack on Australian soil
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while the country was in
the thick of World War I.
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This week, we'll take a
look at not only the Broken Hill
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terror attack but a
handful of other terror attacks
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throughout history.
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What is the common
thread that binds them all
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and how can we find peace
in the midst of the turmoil
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we live in? Join me as
we embark on yet another
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Incredible Journey.
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On the first of January 1915
1,200 men, women, and children
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boarded the Silverton Tramway
Company train consisting of a
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Y-12 locomotive and 40
open ore trucks to travel to
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Silverton for their
annual New Year's Day picnic.
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The crowded train of excited
people departed Sulphide Street
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Station at 10:00 a.m. Shortly
after the departure about 1 km
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down the track, the train
and its passengers were ambushed
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and attacked by Badsha Gool
and Mullah Abdulla who fired
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shots from near their Ice Cream
Cart on which the Turkish flag
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was attached.
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When Gool and Abdullah
opened fire on the train of
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unsuspecting picnickers
on that New Year's Day 1915
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they were hoping for
casualties. They aimed to kill,
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they didn't just spray the
train with a hail of bullets,
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as a warning but as
a calculated assault.
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One of the bullets smashed
into 17-year-old Alma Cowie's
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head, killing her instantly.
She slumped against her
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boyfriend Carrie O'Brien
who watched in growing horror
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as her blood pooled over him.
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Alma Cowie wasn't the only
one shot, William John Shaw a
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foreman in the Sanitary
Department was also killed.
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While his daughter Lucy Shaw
was injured, six other people
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on the train
were injured as well.
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The conductor on the
train "Tiger" Dick Nyholm
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happened to be a crack
shot whipping out his rifle
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he returned fire on Gool
and Abdulla and proved to be
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instrumental in protecting
the trains passengers from
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further harm.
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The victims of the Broken Hill
train shooting were the first
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to fall in an act of terrorism
perpetrated on home soil.
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They were also the
first Australian casualties
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to fall on home soil
under attack from an enemy
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during World War I. The
unexpected and vicious attack
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captured the attention of
the nation and the soldiers
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who were fighting overseas?
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In an aggressive move then
Attorney Billy Hughes called for
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the internment of
all enemy nationals.
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One young Victorian
Anzac stationed overseas
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wrote to the people of
Broken Hill telling them
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The Gallipoli landing still
lay ahead and thought on that
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New Year's Day the war
was far away from Broken Hill
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it left a calling card in the
sleepy back town all the same.
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When Goola and Abdullah planned
their attack they chose a
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prime location. The area
around the stretch of track
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they ambushed had little
cover. Forty years of mining had
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cleared the saltbush and the
trees to be used as firewood.
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They had also chosen the
perfect target, the Manchester
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Unit Picnic was an annual
event and that year they were
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picnicking in Silverton.
The 1,200 residents who
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clamored into the freshly
swept ore trucks fitted with
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benches were sitting
ducks in the open carriages.
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When the attack ended and
the dust settled, there were
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ten casualties, four of
them died. In the ensuing panic
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some of the adults flung
them- selves protectively across
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children while others jumped
off the slow-moving carriages
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and bolted for safety.
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As the train with its screaming
and traumatized passengers
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drifted out of sight, Gool
and Abdulla grabbed up their
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weapons and ran.
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They were armed with an ancient
martini henry breech loading
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rifle, a Snyder Enfield Carbine,
a revolver and a homemade
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bullet pouch.
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The death and carnage
caused by the two terrorists
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and their weapons is remembered
today by one of the open ore
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railway wagons that
stand at the ambush site.
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From here Gool and Abdulla
set out on their escape beat
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They headed for this small
course outcrop is known today as
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White Rocks Reserve located
about 2 km away. Gool and
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Abdulla's attack was born
out of misplaced nationalism
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and religious zeal.
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At the time of the attack Broken
Hill was a mining town that had
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basically been built on the
backs of camels. Camels were
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cheaper by far than bullets
and cameleers, the handlers
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and drivers were a common sight
in the outback. However despite
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the huge demand for their
services cameleers were an
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ostracized group. Though British
subjects, they were denied union
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membership and confined to
camel camps on the outskirts
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of town with their animals.
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Local newspapers ran
angry articles calling for the
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expulsion of what they labeled
the Afghan menace and there was
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decided undercurrent of
animosity towards cameleers
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and Afghan's in general.
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By 1915 Broken Hill had
become a township built in its
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lucrative lead, zinc, and
silver mines, but it was also
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a town that was isolated and
somewhat wary about outsiders
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both Abdulla and Gool had
been subjected to a handful of
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attacks against them
which were mostly based on their
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ethnicity. However despite
the animosity, neither man was
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know to have retaliated
against such a tax in the past.
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The Sydney Morning
Herald reported a case
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where children had thrown
stones at Abdulla because he was
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a cameleer. But other
than complaining to the police,
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he had done little else.
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Bachad Mohamad Gool was
born around 1874 in what is now
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Afghanistan, he came to
Australia as a cameleer and then
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shortly after federation
traveled to Turkey to fight
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for the Ottoman Empire Army.
After his brief stint in the
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army Gool returned to Australia
and took up working in the mines
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but when mineral prices
bottomed out during the war
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and work in the mines dwindled
he took to hawking? ice cream
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from a cart.
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Mullah Abdulla was born in
1855 near the famous Khyber Pass
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in the province of modern-day
Pakistan, sitting on the border
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with Afghanistan. After
migrating to Australia, he found
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work as the Imam in Halibutcha
for the Broken Hill camel camp.
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The Broken Hill attack was
a combination of Nationalism
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and religious zeal fueled
up by pent-up frustration over
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personal circumstances
and discriminatory treatment
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that both men experience.
For example, just days before
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the picnic train
attack, Abdullah had been fined
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for killing sheep off licensed
premises by a council sentry
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officer. Interestingly, one of
the victims of the train attack
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was the foreman of the sanitary
department William Shore.
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Gool and Abdullah's
attack against innocent unarmed
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civilians out for a day of
fun in the sun was not only
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an appalling violent crime
it was also unconscionable.
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And while violence and hate are
never an appropriate response
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their actions are rooted in
a far deeper overarching issue.
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As human beings we
are inherently weary of
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anything that is not in keeping
with our own cultural ideologies
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and values that wearing
us can turn into an animosity
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and a sense of condescension,
especially when we feel that
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those who are not like
us are also beneath us.
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Racism is not just the matter
the color of someone's skin
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though that often does
play a role. Racism is a hatred
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against anything that is
dissimilar to what we are
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accustomed to and the root of
racism is not so much an issue
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of skin as it is the universal
problem of sin that we're
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all afflicted by. You've
probably heard the saying...
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Once Gool and
Abdullah's attack ended,
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panic broke out. On their
way back to their camp Gool and
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Abdullah killed another man
Alfred E. Miller before making
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their way back home.
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Meanwhile, the train had
pulled over deciding and the
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police were contacted, the
police in turn contacted the
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local military base and a
small force of police and local
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the militia were mustered.
They launched a search for
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the attackers and encountered
them in the area near the
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Cable Hotel. The pair opened
fire on the authorities wounding
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one of the police officers.
Gool and Abdullah then took
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shelter behind this outcropping
of wide ports and settled in
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for a protracted siege. A
three-hour gun battle followed
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during which armed civilians
came to the aide of the military
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and law enforcement.
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Towards the end of the battle
only a thin stream of gunfire
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came from Gool and Abdullah's
hiding place. Police surmised
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that one of them was most
likely dead while the other was
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wounded. A local man James Craig
who lived behind the Cable Hotel
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went out to chop wood during
the gun battle and was hit
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by a stray bullet, he
became the fourth person to die
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that day. Around 1:00 in
the afternoon, law enforcement
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and military personnel decided
to storm Gool and Abdullah's
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shelter. An eyewitness later
afforded that Gool had stood up
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but was gunned down. A
note found on Gool's body
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stated that he was a
subject of the Ottoman Sultan
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and that he was compelled
to carry out the attack
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in the name of his
faith. Abdullah's note stated
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much the same with a
side note about his hatred
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for the Chief Sanitary inspector
who had fined him and him
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and his intention
to kill him first.
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Turkish sources later claimed
that the letters were planted
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and the incident was
pinned on the Turks to rally the
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Australian public
for the war effort.
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In retaliation against the
attack, local mobs converged
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on migrant establishments
attributing the actions of
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Gool and Abdullah to be
representative of what they
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believed to be enemy aliens.
On the evening of the attack
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a German club in Broken Hill
was attacked and burnt to the
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ground. The incensed mob
went so far as to cut the hoses
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of the firemen who came to
fight the flames ensuring that
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the club could not be spared.
The mob then marched to a
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nearby camp of Afghan
camel drivers but was prevented
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from attacking the settlement
by the police and military
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performed a protective barrier
between them and the terrified
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inhabitants of the camp.
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The next day the mines in
Broken Hill fired all immigrant
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employees categorized
as enemy aliens under the
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1914 Commonwealth
War Precautions Act.
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Simultaneously seeks Austrians,
four Germans, and one Turk
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were ordered to leave
Broken Hill by the enraged
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local community. Not long after
all migrants who were deemed
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to be a threat to
National Security during wartime
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in Australia were interred
in camps for the duration of
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the war.
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The story of the attack at
Broken Hill raises a multitude
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of questions four
most among them is this.
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Do the actions of a handful
of individuals represent the
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actions and ideology of the
entire community they belong to?
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Did the actions of the two camel
drivers represent the feelings
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of the entire Afghan
community in Australia?
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Did they represent the
feeling of the entire German and
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Austrian community in Australia?
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And did the racially motivated
discrimination that many Afghan
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cameleers faced represent
the sentiments of the entire
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population of Broken Hill?
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Well, the answer to these
questions is an obvious NO!
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The actions of a handful
of individuals don't represent
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the community or
ethnic group they belong to
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but in many cases, as human
beings. it's easy for us to
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lump people together under
a single banner and pigeonhole
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them based on the actions
of people who look or speak
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like them. More often than
not racism and discrimination
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are not so much a
matter of skin as of sin.
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Even though in some
instances skin plays a part.
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On a great many occasions
discrimination and racial
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prejudice has nothing to do
with the color of one's skin.
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In 1994 over a period
of roughly of 100 days
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members of the Tutsi Minority
was slaughtered without remorse
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by members of the
armed Tutu Mission in Rwanda.
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It was one of the
bloodiest instances of genocide
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the world has ever seen.
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Estimates place the death toll
of the genocide between 500,000
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and 800,000 Tutsis.
The Rwandan genocide
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was racially motivated but had
nothing to do with skin color
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it had its basis in tribal
violence and ethnic prejudice.
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Similarly in Sri Lanka in 1983
ethnic tensions led to a brutal
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killing spree of civilians.
Dubbed black July the 1983
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riots were triggered by a
Tamil Militant Group killing
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thirteen Sri
Lankan Army soldiers.
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In response anti-Tamil
riots took place on the night of
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the 24th of July in the capital
city of Columba and continued
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over a period of seven
days where Sinhalese mobs
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attacked, looted,
burned, and killed Tamil targets
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The death toll climbed into
the thousands and over 100,000
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people were displaced
and had to flee their homes.
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Again, like the Rwandan
Genocide, the Sri Lankan riots
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were based solely on ethnicity.
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Another stark and universally
known instance of genocide
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is Hitler's treatment of
the Jews during World-War II.
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An estimated six million
Jews were murdered by the Nazis
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during the Holocaust and other
un-numbered were brutalized.
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The common thread that weaves
through all these narratives
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is this. When on racial,
ethnic, or religious group feels
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superior to another the result
is always discrimination and
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violence. It's not just a
story of racism, but a story of
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human pride gone rogue.
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The sad reality is that as
human beings, we are all steeped
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in a disease that the Bible
calls sin. Sin is best described
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in Isaiah 14:13, 14 where
the Bible explains the fall of
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Lucifer and the attitude
he cherished in his heart
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that led to his
fall. Here's what it says.
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You see, the root cause of sin
is pride. Did you notice that
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Lucifer had an I problem.
I, I, I. The kind of pride that
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leaves us to believe we
are better than someone else
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simply because of the way
we look, think, act, or talk
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or even because of what we
believe. It's this kind of pride
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that leads to racism,
discrimination, and the kind
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of nationalism that can
lead to acts of violence and
00:22:39.72\00:22:43.29
terrorism. And this kind
of pride is not something that
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is not isolated to a
single demographic of people.
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This kind of pride is
engrained in every human heart.
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because the Bible
says in Romans 3:23.
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others but the Bible tells
us plainly that there is no room
00:23:12.59\00:23:17.86
for this kind of pride. In
fact, racism in all its forms
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be it discrimination against
someone because of the color
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of their skin or their ethnicity
or their beliefs is something
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the Bible always denounces.
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In Galatians
3:28, the Bible says.
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You see, the Bible teaches us
that we are not to discriminate
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between ethnic groups, cultural
ideologies or social status.
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The ground is level at the
foot of the cross and we are
00:24:03.87\00:24:08.98
to treat each other accordingly
without discrimination, hate,
00:24:09.01\00:24:13.31
or bigotry. Each of us has
been created in the image of God
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and saved by the
sacrifice of Jesus on the cross,
00:24:18.42\00:24:22.26
it is this alone
that gives us value.
00:24:22.29\00:24:25.83
Though we form different nations
speak different languages,
00:24:25.86\00:24:30.23
and have different cultural
values, the Bible tells us
00:24:30.27\00:24:34.27
that God has made us of
one blood. There is no room for
00:24:34.30\00:24:38.97
discrimination in God's
sight, we are all His children,
00:24:39.01\00:24:43.78
all equally valued in His sight.
00:24:43.81\00:24:48.08
The good news of Jesus' life,
death and resurrection is a
00:24:48.12\00:24:52.45
message that is applicable
to the entire human race
00:24:52.49\00:24:56.19
and must be shared with all.
God wants us to understand that
00:24:56.22\00:25:01.13
in His eyes, we are all
equal, none of us is better than
00:25:01.16\00:25:06.23
the other. The desire to exalt
ourselves above someone else
00:25:06.27\00:25:11.34
is a result of sin and it is
a malady that plagues all of us.
00:25:11.37\00:25:16.91
The truth is no demographic
is more racist or discriminatory
00:25:16.95\00:25:22.82
than any other. All of us given
the right conditions have within
00:25:22.85\00:25:28.69
us the capacity to be racist.
This is exactly why we need
00:25:28.72\00:25:33.73
the good news of salvation.
It is through Jesus alone
00:25:33.76\00:25:38.17
that we can choose to treat
each other with the kindness
00:25:38.20\00:25:42.40
dignity and
respect we all deserve.
00:25:42.44\00:25:45.21
It is through Jesus alone
that we can value each other
00:25:45.24\00:25:49.94
without consideration of
race, social standing, religion,
00:25:49.98\00:25:55.08
or ethnic background. The
Biblical account of creation
00:25:55.12\00:26:00.09
and salvation places us all
on an equal footing and makes us
00:26:00.12\00:26:05.86
all sons and daughters of
God, heir's to the promise of
00:26:05.89\00:26:10.03
eternal life through Jesus
Christ and the hope that He
00:26:10.07\00:26:13.64
gives us for true
transformation of character.
00:26:13.67\00:26:18.07
Jesus offers us all the
opportunity for transformation
00:26:18.11\00:26:23.11
He gives us the opportunity
to look at each other
00:26:23.14\00:26:27.35
through His eyes to see human
beings made in the image of God
00:26:27.38\00:26:32.72
inherently valuable
because they are God's children.
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