Australian Greens Anti-racism spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the latest Islamophobia in Australia report, released today, reveals the horrifying face of Islamophobia and the urgent need for government to tackle anti-Muslim racism and hatred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator Faruqi, who is the only Muslim in the Australian Senate, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIslamophobia in this country is widespread, it is virulent, and it is on the rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn the three years since Christchurch, the federal government has not lifted a finger to tackle Islamophobia and racism in this country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Liberals have stood by while Muslims in Australia are abused, attacked and hated on. They just don\u2019t give a damn about us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe killing of 51 Muslims in Christchurch should have woken them up to the reality of Islamophobia, but despite calls to change course and take strong action they decided to ignore this everyday reality of racism for hundreds of thousands of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis report shows, yet again, that Muslims are bearing the brunt of vicious discrimination and hatred which has been fomented by politicians, the media and online communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIslamophobia is highly gendered with Muslim women the common targets of hateful and bigoted attacks. How many times do we have to be abused before this government will take action?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe toxicity and dangers of racism and Islamophobia have completely escaped the consciousness of this government made up mostly of white men who have never faced its consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The \u2018othering\u2019 of Muslims and Islamophobia need to be tackled by the political leadership. There must be a national conversation and reckoning with the fact that the Christchurch mosque killer was an Australian man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere must be concrete responses to Islamophobia. Enough is enough. Politicians must take responsibility and act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe urgently need dedicated funding for anti-racism initiatives and a coordinated plan to tackle the far-right. We need proper data collection on hate crimes and racial discrimination and we need to strengthen and enforce hate speech laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEveryone who cares about human rights and social justice in this country should read this report and demand that the government take immediate action.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Australian Greens Anti-racism spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the latest Islamophobia in Australia report, released today, reveals the horrifying face of Islamophobia and the urgent need for government to tackle anti-Muslim racism and hatred. Senator Faruqi, who is the only Muslim in the Australian Senate, said: \u201cIslamophobia in this country is widespread, it … Continue reading “Islamophobia report reveals horrific extent of anti-Muslim racism”<\/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-15492","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\/15492","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=15492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15493,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15492\/revisions\/15493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}