'Gestapo club' strikes again

[Kiwi]

'Gestapo club' strikes again

By Greg Roberts

October 31, 2007 12:00am
Article from: The Australian

SERBIAN and Jewish community leaders are outraged that the social arm of the Melbourne Knights Soccer Club is hosting a concert by a Croatian rock star with a strong following among neo-Nazi sympathisers.

The revelation follows the club's apology for staging a concert for neo-Nazi skinheads at its North Sunshine complex this month.

A concert by Marko Perkovic will be hosted by the Knights-affiliated Melbourne Croatia Social Club at the complex on December 28.

Perkovic, Croatia's top rock star, uses the stage name Thompson, in honour of the American-issued sub-machinegun of the same name that he carried as a soldier in Croatia's war of independence against Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.

George Markovic, the publisher of Melbourne's Serbian Voice newspaper, said the Knights should steer clear of extremist elements.

"People in our community are thinking of the Knights as the Gestapo Club," Mr Markovic said.

Mr Markovic said Perkovic had been granted visas for previous visits to Australia, while Serb singer Ceca Raznatovic has been denied a visa in 2005.

"It's double standards," he said.

B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission director Manny Waks said Perkovic's visit reflected badly on the Knights and the Croatian community.

"It is unacceptable," Mr Waks said.

The Weekend Australian reported on Saturday that Melbourne Knights chairman Matt Tomas had censured his club's social arm for providing a venue for the October13 concert by skinhead rock bands.

Mr Tomas yesterday again expressed exasperation at the Croatia Social Club.

"I can understand why people are upset and just wish the social club would focus on its football identity," he said.

Croatia Social Club committee member Ivan Skunca said the club was not concerned about outside criticism.

"The Serbs can say what they like. It doesn't bother us," Mr Skunca said.

Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews said Perkovic had yet to submit a visa application, but it would be carefully considered.

[Kiwi]

Earlier.........

Nazi sympathisers host US band Final War



By Greg Roberts

October 27, 2007 01:00am
Article from: The Australian

MELBOURNE'S Croatian community is under fire for hosting a rock concert for neo-Nazi skinheads, publishing anti-Semitic material on the internet and naming a building after fascist Croatian dictator Ante Pavelic.

The Melbourne Knights Soccer Club yesterday launched an extraordinary attack on its social arm, the Croatia Social Club, for hosting the October 13 concert by groups that incite violence and attacks against Jews and other minorities.

"I am deeply disturbed that the good reputation of our football club has been tarnished by the social club's incompetence," Knights chairman Matt Tomas said.

'We fight Jews'

The concert at the Knights' North Sunshine complex was headlined by US neo-Nazi band Final War.

The band describes itself as "defenders of the Reich", and its songs boast: "We fight Jews".

Australian skinhead band Fortress also played.

Its song, Parasites, urges repatriation of immigrants: "If they don't [censored] like it, it'll be in body bags".

The concert was organised by the Australian chapters of neo-Nazi skinhead groups Blood and Honour and Southern Cross Hammer Skins.

Group members in the US and Europe have been convicted of assaults, bombings and murders.

Anti-Semitic messages from the Knights' Croatian fans are posted on the Knights Army Forum website.

One posting says Jews would "sell their mothers for a dollar".

'Are you a dirty Jew?'

Melbourne campaigner Cam Smith said anti-racism activists alerted the Knights to the nature of the concert several hours before it started.

"As soon as we found out, we contacted whoever we could at the Knights through phone numbers on their website," Mr Smith said.

"They weren't interested. One of their people asked one of our people if he was a dirty Jew."

Mr Tomas said he did not know who was attending the concert, but he would investigate Mr Smith's claim that Knights members were contacted, adding: "I don't associate with that sort of scum. I'm utterly disgusted about this."

Mr Tomas said the concert was approved by the Croatia Social Club, a separate legal entity to the football club.

Contacted by The Weekend Australian, social club manager Catarina Malacic denied the event was held. "There was nothing on at the venue that night," she said.

Social club 'didn't check booking'

Later, club committee member Ivan Skunca confirmed the premises were booked for a concert, but said the club did not know who made the booking.

"It was a mistake. Perhaps we had an obligation to check these people out and we didn't.

"We apologise for that."

B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission director Manny Waks said he was disturbed the concert was held in view of links between the Croatian community and neo-Nazi elements.

Mr Waks said the Croatia Club - a separate entity to the Knights' social club - had ignored Jewish protests against the naming of its Footscray hall after Ustashi Nazi collaborator Ante Pavelic, who was responsible for the slaughter of 700,000 Serbs, Jews and Gypsies.

[AussieJTFer]

Did someone delete my earlier comment in this thread?

[Wayne Jude]

Why bro?

[Kiwi]

Did someone delete my earlier comment in this thread?

I didn't not, it was moved away by another person. I will PM ok, I had thought you were informed.

I am sorry you weren't I will do it now.

[AussieJTFer]

Yacov did it, it's cool.

[mord]

 Croations are mental cases they think they are nordic

[AussieJTFer]

Some think they're Turk aswell! Anything to try and deflect teh fact that they and the Serbs are really the same race.

[Husar]

NAZICROATS claimed to be Illyrians, Slavs, Goths, Iranians and,
finally, were called, by KARATAY, Turks, which NAZICROATS
welcomed enthusiasticaly...to make it short.

They converted one third of
the Serbian Population of Bosnia and Krajina.
This happened in WWII.
Not to speak about the amount
of Serbs being converted to catholicism,
then forced to call themselves "croats",
since they were catholics...

Deep in themselves,
the vast majority of them knows they are serbs.
We Serbs, also, of course, know they are Serbs.
They 'd like us to shut up about it, for ever...

That's the "reason" of their sick cannibalistic hatred
towards us, the Serbs. We are the reflexion of them,
in a mirror called SERBDOM, which is for them,
archtraitors of their own kind, unsustainable.

[Kiwi]

Trust me, we hear all about all the time, its not hushed up.

Day in day out.

Apart of being a multicultural country we have groups informing us of everything.

That might be the only good thing that comes of it apart from the food.