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Muslim people in Australia have had to put up with an enormous amount of abuse from right wing media, right wing politicians and ring wing jewish activists. Here are just a few examples from recent weeks:
1) Notorious right wing bigot and anti immigration politician Pauline Hanson was thrown out of the Federal Parliament recently for turning up dressed in a burqa . This stunt was designed to insult and enrage as many Muslim people as possible. After help inflame racial tensions, today she is on her soap box complaining about ho the Albanese Government failed to control racial tensions
2) Another right wing politician, the Mayor of Fairfield City (inner west Sydney), inflamed racial tensions in his community by claiming that a vacant block of land was about to be used to build a mosque. It was a blatant lie, but the story was dutifully picked up by the right wing media here and received wide coverage.
3) A young woman, 16 years old, was cancelled by her local council following a vicious campaign by a group of right wing jewish paper to have her photo removed from a free council newsletter. Amro had done volunteer work for years at the local library and i May one an award from the council for her work. Then in October, the council decided to run a story about her in the local newsletter. She was thrilled to appear on the front page. Unfortunately , the right wing jewish zealots spotted she was wearing a tiny pendant with a picture of palestine. They successfully pressured the council to have the photo removed. This council was also a right wing council and decided to go even further: they also removed her interview from the newsletter and then went to the webpage announcing her award in May and made sure nobody would be able to see her name there. One minute celebrated by the council, the next minute kicked to the ground after caving in to pressure from right wing jewish activists.
I am sure you will here a lot about the "rise in antisemitism" in Australia. Many of these so called "anti Semitic" attacks are actually just things like anti Israel graffiti (in the mind of these zealots, any criticism of Israel is "anti Semitic". What you wont here is the continuous racist attacks against muslim people here in Australia
Christian Nationalism: Nazi Republican Eugenics Program
The point of cruelty of Cheeto’s regime is to show dominance by the "superior race" The question they put to the electorate: don't you want to be part of the superior group? It's in the DNA of the Chrsitian Nationalist movement to be evil and cruel
RFK Jr’s anti vaccine policy fit very nicely with the far right’s eugenics stand because at the heart of his policy is that the strong don’t need vaccines and by prohibiting vaccines to the general population you inherently weed out the weak
The Christian Nationalist racist movement is a reinvention of eugenics in the guise of supporting white Christian values At the center of the movement is that white Christians are superior to all the rest of the world on a genetics level and therefore should rule the world Cheeto’s abusive language toward not only the “inferior immigrants” but recently he’s been going after Europeans as well depicts his sordid idea that supports the eugenics of the Christian Nationalists
But this worn out trope of superiority that rang true in Hitler’s Nazi Germany is as old as humans have occupied the planet Men aren’t created equal because men always seek to assert their dominance over others, seeking to make them better than the others In the end though, we all come from the same Maker and are deemed with certain inalienable rights The attack on these rights by the Nazi Republicans, Cheeto, and his obsequious billionaires all but doom the Christian Nationalist movement
The most recent South Park episode now airing on Paramount Plus is a hilarious parody of the lunacy of Christian Nationalism and the underpinnings that Cheeto and Just Dance Vance have with the movement