The Sydney Violence Continues

Australian cell phone owners in four states received messages calling for racial violence, police representatives were quoted by Reuters as saying.

More than 450 police were deployed last night in Sydney to prevent the incidents like those which took place on Sunday, when 5,000 drunken men attacked young Arabs near the Cronulla beach.

The Sunday attacks have led to retaliation attacks from Lebanese youths who threw rocks at police cars, spreading panic on the streets of the largest Australian cities.

According to The Telegraph, officers found crates of stones and 30 Molotov cocktails during a search of a house in the nearby suburb of Maroubra, and in the city's western region, shots were fired on a Catholic school.

"The Aussies will feel the full force of the Arabs as one, brothers in arms unite," a message circulating among young Lebanese said.

Following the incidents which targeted the catholic school and a few churches, New South Wales State Premier Morris Iemma said: "Special attention will be paid to places of worship, our churches and our schools".

"Obviously we have to be on guard for this, and these hooligans and criminals will not destroy the fabric of our society," Iemma told in a news conference.

The NSW state parliament will hold an emergency sitting on Thursday to pass legislation giving police extra powers to allow them to "lockdown" suburbs and areas of unrest in Sydney and impose alcohol prohibition on areas.

"I won't allow Sydney's reputation as a tolerant, vibrant international city to be tarnished by these ratbags and criminals who want to engage in the sort of behavior we've seen in the last 48 hours," Morris Iemma added.

The Australian riots came shortly after the Paris suburbs incidents, when young men, mostly Muslims, torched dozens of cars and buildings, complaining of high unemployment rate and poverty.