The bitter racism row sparked by a Pakistan-born Australian Greens MP who refused to mourn the Queen’s death has deepened, with Mark Latham now lashing out at an independent who defended her.
Within hours of the Queen’s death, deputy Greens leader Mehreen Faruqi tweeted saying she ‘cannot mourn the leader of a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised peoples’.
She was soon blasted by Pauline Hanson for taking ‘advantage’ of Australia after emigrating here in 1992, and told to ‘pack your bags and p*** off back to Pakistan’.
The racism row sparked by a Pakistan-born Australian Greens’ MP Mehreen Faruiqi (pictured left, with Adam Bandt, centre) refusing to mourn the Queen’s death has deepened with Mark Latham lashing out at an independent who defended her
Pauline Hanson (pictured) told a Greens senator to ‘p*** off back to Pakistan’ after she called the Queen ‘a leader of a racist empire’ on the day of her death
But Hanson’s savage burn was called out by Independent MP Sophie Scamp, a former Sydney GP-turned politician.
‘So wrong,’ the Mackellar MP posted in response to Hanson.
‘Where does this hatred of others come from? Except for our First Nations peoples, we all came from somewhere else,’ Dr Scamp posted on twitter.
Latham took issue with Dr Scamp’s claim that ‘we all came from somewhere else’.
‘That’s just factually incorrect,’ he told Daily Mail Australia.
Northern Beaches GP Dr Sophie Scamp defended Mehreen Faruqi saying Pauline Hanson’s brutal burn of the Pakistan-born deputy Greens leader was ‘so wrong’
‘I’m a native Australian, I was born here and I’ve lived here for 61 years, not for a nanosecond have I wanted to live anywhere else.
‘I’ve always regarded myself Australian. My parents and grandparents were born here too.’
On Twitter, Latham replied to Dr Scamp saying: ‘I come from Crown Street Hospital, Sydney, not overseas.’
In response to Dr Scamp’s comments, one social media follower pointed out that all serving Australian senators swore allegiance to the Queen when they joined parliament.
Latham (pictured) told Daily Mail Australia said Ms Faruqi had unnecessarily disrespected the Queen and that the claim that ‘we all come from somewhere else’ is ‘factually incorrect’
Ms Faruqi emigrated to Australia in 1992 from Pakistan with her husband Omar (pictured, the couple on their wedding day)
Since King Charles was sworn in, that allegiance has been updated.
It now reads: ‘I, do swear that I will well and truly serve the people of Australia in the office of (position) and that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles the Third, King of Australia. So help me God.’
Latham told Daily Mail Australia Ms Faruqi had unnecessarily disrespected the Queen.
‘I’m a Republican, I’m not a supporter of the Monarchy, but a mother, a grandmother and a great grandmother has just died, so if you cant say something respectful, just say nothing,’ he said.
‘It’s not that hard to say nothing.’
Even though he’s a Republican, Latham said the Queen’s service was ‘flawless’.
Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral is expected take place at Westminster Abbey in central London on Monday, September 19
‘You have to acknowledge she’s a woman who dedicated her life to to public service for 70 years, not seven months or seven years.
‘She performed remarkable and honourable service to her nation and the Commonwealth.’
Latham said Ms Faruqi was welcome to rethink her ‘residential choices.’
‘I don’t think there’s anything wrong trying to help her with residential choices. She’s already had a couple, maybe she could go back to the original one?
‘Ms Faruqi is so unhappy about our country, saying it’s genocidal and full of racists and homophobes and all the other things the Greens claim, maybe it’s good to remind people that she came from Pakistan and maybe she’s be happier living there, having found so many things to be unhappy about here?’
Last year senator Ms Faruqi slammed the British empire for ‘enslaving millions of black and brown people around the world’.
But commentators have pointed out that Ms Faruqi’s faith, Islam, also has a long history of colonisation, across Asia, North Africa and Europe.
On Saturday, Hanson unloaded on Ms Faruqi on social media.
‘Your attitude appalls and disgusts me. When you immigrated to Australia you took every advantage of this country,’ Ms Hanson said on Twitter.
‘You took citizenship, bought multiple homes, and a job in a parliament. It’s clear you’re not happy, so pack your bags and p*** off back to Pakistan.’
Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie endorsed Hanson’s broadside, responding ‘Pauline right on the mark!!!’
Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie endorsed Hanson’s broadside, responding ‘Pauline right on the mark!’
‘Condolences to those who knew the Queen. I cannot mourn the leader of a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised peoples,’ Green senator Mehreen Faruqi posted to Twitter
Some pointed out that as an Aboriginal woman, Senator Lambie shouldn’t be supporting such language and should be be more sympathetic to Senator Faruqi’s point about Indigenous Australians.
‘No, she isn’t Jackie (sic). How can a white Australian tell a coloured Australian to go back where they came from? I’m a white Australian ashamed at what the crown has done in this nation,’ one wrote.
Another added: ‘No Jacqui! Just no… she is a racist, and to attack someone because they weren’t born here… it’s low, and it’s lazy.’
Ms Faruqi’s post was one of a number by Greens MPs using the Queen’s death to make political points, including Greens leader Adam Bandt.
He said it is time to move forward and become a republic only hours after news of the monarch’s death broke.
In a post to Twitter, Mr Bandt said now it is time to form a treaty with First Nations people.
Mr Bandt is a staunch republican, who refuses to put the Australian flag with its Union Jack corner behind him at press conferences.
Daily Mail Australia has approached Mehreen Faruqi for comment.
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