{"id":12203,"date":"2021-07-20T17:56:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T17:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=12203"},"modified":"2021-07-20T17:56:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T17:56:04","slug":"anti-muslim-racism-revealed-in-ahrc-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/07\/20\/anti-muslim-racism-revealed-in-ahrc-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Muslim racism revealed in AHRC report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Anti-racism spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that a new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/humanrights.gov.au\/our-work\/race-discrimination\/publications\/sharing-stories-australian-muslims-2021\">report by the Australian Human Rights Commission<\/a>\u00a0has found that 4 in 5 Australian Muslims have experienced discrimination, and a similar proportion feel the Christchurch mosque attacks made them afraid for their community.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi is the first Muslim woman elected to the Australian Senate.<br \/>\n<strong>Senator Faruqi said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThis report makes for disturbing reading, but I have to say I am not surprised by its findings, and I expect many Muslims would say the same thing. The discrimination is very real and so are its consequences.<br \/>\n\u201cIn recent decades, Muslims have experienced substantial discrimination in Australia and have been on the receiving end of serious racism and bigotry in the community, the media and in politics.<br \/>\n\u201cMost catastrophically, anti-Muslim hatred led an Australian man to murder 51 innocent Muslims in Christchurch two years ago. But we can see anti-Muslim hatred and intolerance throughout our community and we must fight it with everything we have.<br \/>\n\u201cAustralia urgently needs to recommit itself to anti-racism and fighting Islamophobia, especially in the face of a resurgent far-right. We need to invest in and roll-out a national anti-racism program, stronger laws on extremism and hate speech, and much better representation of people of colour in public life.<br \/>\n\u201cIt has not escaped me that this report has recommended better representation of Muslims in the Australian media in the same week it was revealed Channel Seven cast a woman with a history of toxic Islamophobia and racism in an upcoming TV series. This saga was a strong reminder of the sustained Islamophobia and racism in the Australian media,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Anti-racism spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that a new\u00a0report by the Australian Human Rights Commission\u00a0has found that 4 in 5 Australian Muslims have experienced discrimination, and a similar proportion feel the Christchurch mosque attacks made them afraid for their community. Senator Faruqi is the first Muslim woman elected to the Australian Senate. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/07\/20\/anti-muslim-racism-revealed-in-ahrc-report\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anti-Muslim racism revealed in AHRC report&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}