A rogue senator who called for a ‘final solution’ to Muslim immigration has now declared he is proud to be a racist.
Katter’s Australian Party lawmaker Fraser Anning has tweeted a meme, equating Muslims with failed states in the Middle East and Africa to argue why they should be banned from Australia.
‘If being a racist means I don’t want my country turned into a pile of rocks and goat s*** ruled by a barbaric cult, then I’m a racist,’ he said on Facebook and Twitter.
A rogue senator who called for a ‘final solution’ to Muslim immigration has now declared he is proud to be a racist
Senator Anning told Daily Mail Australia he was specifically referring to Muslims in the social media post.
‘Make no mistake Islam is on a mission to take over the Western world and implement sharia law,’ he said today.
‘Islam is an ideology of hate. Look at the appalling conditions and the treatment of women in countries like Somalia, Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian Authorities, Iran and Afghanistan.’
Senator Anning said that like other Western nations, Australia’s immigration intake was undermining a society with European institutions.
Katter’s Australian Party lawmaker Fraser Anning has tweeted a meme, equating Muslims with failed states in the Middle East, to argue why they should be banned from Australia
‘Look at the fundamental changes that are occurring in countries with indiscriminate immigration policies,’ he said.
‘We cannot avoid the subject for fear of being called racist.
‘The question all Australians need to ask themselves is do they want to see the nation changed and not for the better?’
The 68-year-old Queensland senator, who defected from One Nation in January after being sworn in as a federal member of Parliament, was condemned by both sides of politics in August after using a Nazi Germany phrase to demand an end to Muslim immigration.
‘The final solution to the immigration problem is, of course, a popular vote,’ he said in his maiden speech.
Treasurer and deputy Liberal leader Josh Frydenberg, who is Jewish, and Labor frontbencher Ed Husic, a Muslim, joined together as friends from across the political divide to condemn Senator Anning.
His speech was even condemned by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson, who maintains Australia is in danger of being ‘swamped by Asians’ and is also an Islam critic.
His spokesman told Daily Mail Australia he was specifically referring to Muslims from Lebanon, Syria and Afghanistan and other Islamic nations in the social media post
His latest social media post has divided Twitter, with one woman questioning how it was racist to criticise Islam
A supporter of Senator Anning said white people were being silenced
Senator Anning had also told Parliament Australian society was better before the formal dismantling of the White Australia policy in 1973 ended a bias in favour of European migrants.
His latest social media post has divided Twitter, with one woman questioning how it was racist to criticise Islam, who make up 2.6 per cent of the Australian population.
‘Religion has nothing to do with race,’ she said.
A supporter of Senator Anning said white people were being silenced.
‘Racism is white people thinking or feeling about race the way that people of other races remain free to feel and think about it,’ he said.
Senator Anning released a new video saying that whites are becoming a minority
Senator Anning released a new video saying that whites are becoming a minority, with the 2016 Census showing that 49 per cent of Australians were either born overseas or had at least one parent born overseas.
‘We’re finding that more and more people are apologising for being white but it was the whites who built these nations,’ he said.
He added that Australia didn’t need to take migrants from poor countries who would turn Australia into ‘those same broken down s***holes’.