Perspective: Islamophobia in Australia | Amanda Shipley

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Many Muslims around the world have started offering dialogue and coffee to those around them. This is a great way to learn what they believe, practice, and adhere to. What is the worst that can happen over a cup of coffee?

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By Amanda Shipley | December 13, 2017

Australia was once known for having spoken languages in roughly 250 groups, yet you wouldn’t know its diversity among some of the people today. The Taliban Tarts and the Burka Babes have taken to the streets of Australia with their normal anti-Islam propaganda, denouncing any diversity within “their Australia”.

The antagonists dress in Islamic clothing and spread falsehoods about Islam, trying to strike fear and division among the people. One can feel the hate in their Mickey Mouse tuned chants as non-Muslim women dressing in Burqas with signs to further confuse, scare, and mislead people about Islam. Adding to that, you have far-right politician Pauline Henson, who wore a face veil in parliament as part of her advertisement to ban the Islamic face veil. Her actions were met with backlash by those who found her actions unbecoming of a politician elected to speak for all Australians. Politicians lashed back at their displeasure with her “antics” and Islamophobia, which only further continuing to promote hate and fear. So, do Australians have a reason to be Anti-Islam? Being an individual who use to fear Islam and had distrust for those that followed it, I think no.
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