Racial significance??

news.com.au article on mayor who wants to doze house.
So, we have a mayor who owns a heritage listed house, he wants to doze it and build a new one. Residents say they don't want the house dozed and after the first council rejection the house suffered some major fire damage.  Residence are also claiming that the mayor has told them that if he does not get council approval to doze,  he will sell it to a local Islamic group to be converted to prayer rooms.

I have to ask:

1. Why is that a bad thing? is he insinuating that Muslims are degrading and will have a similar impact to the residence as, say, a new bikie gang club house?

2. Why do the residence care if that is the case, do think the same also?

Maybe they should call his bluff and let him sell to either the council or the local group who want prayer rooms. If they don't like the game this mayor is playing then why let him get his way. I'd rather have a quite mosque living next door rather than a greedy mayor. 

  It will be interesting to find out if the mayor is using Muslims to blackmail his neighbours into not complaining or if the neighbours have invented the Islamic story to discredit the mayor. Either way it seems the world is full of arseholes with small closed up minds.

Like this:

cops shoot and aggressively arrest reckless teens.

Now why on earth does it matter what the race the teenagers are?  When I read the first article there was no mention of the teenagers race, creed or colour. My opinion on how they were treated has not changed since I have found out. If someone steals a car and drives on the foot path running over Innocent people then I think the police should be allowed to use whatever force they see fit to prevent further injuries.

Over the course of time the truth will come out, So why would there be "tensions" that need to be eased in the community. If tensions are rising and people feel the teens were miss treated because of there race, then that is not only jumping the gun (any teen in this situation should have been treated the same) but that the community getting up in arms would be guilty of the same racial discrimination they assume the police force of. 

If after an investigation it is discovered excessive force was knowingly used, then you could apply some pressure from the community to show your displeasure, until then the community is making assumptions and escalating the situation with no good cause other than their inability to accept the posability that these teens have through their actions brought these consequences on themselves.

I look forward to seeing some resolve on this issue from both sides, I seriously hope no one dies.