Since 2006 Australian studies showed anti-Muslim sentiment increased from 9% to 30% a new Study indicates it has increased even more to 50%. Why the change? Far -right conservatives have created this widened gap with the rise of Tony Abbott as PM along with the help of the Murdoch media. All however refuse to accept responsibility for being that primary cause of this change. They claim they simply reflect what is.

Over 3000 anti- Islam articles were written in the Herald Sun alone in 2017. We saw the media involvement in the 2005 Cronulla Riots. Andrew Bolt like Alan Jones Pauline Hanson has been a leading Islamophobic voice. Their religious, racist, ethnic, and cultural vilification can’t be denied any longer as a spurr and enablement of right-wing terrorist and racist behaviour by Australians towards those of the Islmic faith.

Theirs is an action not of free speech but an action of hate a concerted action in the form of speech to alter peoples political behaviors. They are recruiters of far right extremism and ought to be named and treated as such. They are just as responsible a ISIS media is in enabling terror. They have had a greater impact here in Australia than seen elsewhere, Shame on us!! (ODT)

Islam and other religions

51% of Australians had unfavourable sentiments towards Islam, and only 10% looked upon the religion positively, making Australia more negative than 17 of the other 22 countries surveyed.

In fact, 37% of people said they were “very unfavourable”– the most negative response available. This was far higher than the milder option of “fairly unfavourable” (14%), and made it the single most common response to the religion. 23% of people were neutral.

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