Aussie Senator attacks Muslims - too much anti-Islam?
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An Aussie Senator (Independent) Fraser Anning has frequently used Twitter to campaign against migrants and asylum seekers. He says they come to Australia “for a life of permanent handouts. And 56% of Australia’s working-age Muslims are not in the labour force. But is Senator Anning correct?
This is an old story, but we believe it is worth reading. Reason: Is it not too many times Muslims are getting into such situations around the world?
Anning said the “so-called refugees who just want to jump on the welfare gravy train“. The Senator tweeted on May 11: “It’s no coincidence 56 per cent of Australia’s working-age Muslims are not in the labour force.”
But on June 8, ABC reported the Senator was wrong in his assertion.
Anning is a former One Nation member. In June, Fraser Anning announced he is joining Bob Katter’s political party.
Anning cut himself loose from Pauline Hanson’s party to sit as an independent on the Senate crossbench in November last year.
He replaced Malcolm Roberts in the Senate after he was caught up in the dual citizenship saga.
Katter and Anning have been friends for 40 years and have much in common, including owning cattle stations and an admiration for the controversial, late former Queensland premier, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, said The Guardian.
The One Nation party is a nationalist, right-wing populist party in Australia.
One Nation was founded in 1997, by member of parliament Pauline Hanson and her advisors David Ettridge and David Oldfield after Hanson was disendorsed as a federal candidate for the Liberal Party of Australia.
The party has a strongly nationalist and conservative platform though Hanson and other party members have denied claims that the party is racist.
Hanson says that “criticism is not racism” about her statements on immigration and race. Hanson also said she enjoys the company of other ethnicities and welcomes people to Australia wherever their origin. But she does not want other cultures to overly influence Australia.
The One Nation led a campaign to ban the Burka in Australia.
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