"Lock up your sons, Sydney's parents told" Thursday Dec 15 07:00 AEDT ---------------------------------------------------------- Community leaders are calling for a youth curfew in a bid to stop expected racial violence in Sydney this weekend. Text messages inciting racial hatred and calling people to a pitched battle in the southern beachside suburb of Cronulla are circulating widely. Meanwhile, an email has called on the "sons of the ANZACs" to march on the south-western Sydney Muslim enclave of Lakemba. Community leaders have responded by saying Lebanese youths should not venture out after 9pm on Friday and Saturday, and should stay home all Sunday, according to reports. "Those who violate the curfew will be doing so in defiance of their faith, of the law and their community leaders. We are all united in opposing violence," Lebanese Muslim Association leader Ahmad Kamaledine was quoted as saying in The Australian newspaper. Anglican archbishop Peter Jensen backed the move and called on parents to exert discipline on their boys and young men. "It is first of all in the home that we learn to respect and care for others," he said to The Australian. Other religious and political leaders are calling for unity and calm after a spate of attacks on places of worship linked to days of race-fuelled violence. Police would pay "special attention" to religious venues as text messages and emails, similar to those which fuelled Sydney's violence, spread to other states, New South Wales Premier Morris Iemma said. The NSW parliament will convene for an emergency session today to pass tough new police laws allowing authorities to lock down trouble spots, seize cars and close pubs and bottle shops. More than 450 officers will continue to patrol flashpoint suburbs in the city's south and west following violence sparked by an attack on surf lifesavers and Sunday's subsequent race riot at Cronulla Beach. The riots were followed by two nights of retaliatory "smash-and-bash" attacks in Maroubra, Cronulla and Brighton-le-Sands. Senior police also pledged to keep up their presence on Sydney's streets as members of a Muslim youth group and the surf movement held peace talks on the boardwalk at Cronulla. Meanwhile, a leaked document has indicated police were not equipped to respond to Monday's violence in Cronulla. The Seven Network said it had obtained a police incident report instructing officers to stay away from one of the trouble spots — believed to be Punchbowl Park in Sydney's west — on Monday night. The park is believed to have been the meeting place for scores of men who formed a vehicle convoy which drove to Cronulla unimpeded by police. The report showed those in the crowd were suspected of being Middle Eastern criminals who had been involved in malicious damage and civil disobedience offences throughout the Sutherland Shire. The report said "a direction was given to police about midnight not to enter the area and antagonise these persons". Church attacks In the latest development amid the tensions gripping Sydney, a Uniting Church hall in Auburn was burned to the ground on Tuesday night, while the nearby St Thomas' Anglican Church had a dozen windows smashed about the same time. It follows vandalism of the St Albans Anglican church at Macquarie Fields on Tuesday morning and an incident on Monday night in which shots were fired outside a Christmas carol service at the Catholic St Joseph the Worker Primary School in Auburn. Police are treating the blaze as suspicious and Mr Iemma has said "it may be" linked to the racial violence. Australian Federation of Islamic Councils chief execu