Following the trials for a series of gang rape attacks in Sydney in 2000 by a group of Lebanese Muslims , the Lebanese Muslim Australian community came under significant scrutiny by the tabloid media and " Shock jocks " , in addition to a more general anti-Muslim backlash after the September 11 attacks in 2001 . Community concern and divisiveness continued in the wake of the 2005 Cronulla riots in Sydney , in which an altercation between some youths of Middle Eastern appearance and local surf livesavers blew up into a full-blown racially-motivated riot the following weekend , helped along by tabloid journalism and shock jocks
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Lebanese Australians