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Australian senator Fraser Anning excoriated for urging ‘final solution’ to Muslim immigration
A freshman Australian lawmaker has came under fire after giving a speech calling for a “final solution” to Muslim immigration.
Queensland senator Fraser Anning was criticized by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and others for both his call to ban non-European immigration to Australia and his use of the term “final solution.”
The words usually refer to the Nazi policy of extermination carried out against the Jews during the Holocaust.
“Australia is the most successful multicultural society in the world built on a foundation of mutual respect. We reject and condemn racism in any form,” Turnbull said on Twitter.
The senator, who recently joined nationalist Bob Katter’s Australia Party, gave his maiden speech to the Upper House of Parliament Tuesday, deriding Muslim immigration as making the country less safe.
“We as a nation are entitled to insist that those who are allowed to come here predominantly reflect the historic European-Christian composition of Australian society,” he said. “While all Muslims are not terrorists, certainly all terrorists these days are Muslims, so why would anyone want to bring more of them here?”
“The final solution to the immigration problem of course is a popular vote,” he added.
The speech was quickly condemned by voices across Australia’s political spectrum.
Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg, who is Jewish and who lost relatives in the Holocaust, called Anning’s speech “hurtful, divisive and unacceptable.”
“Fraser Anning should not only retract his comments last night but he should also immediately go and visit a Holocaust museum … and hear first hand from survivors how raw the pain is and hear about and see the destruction and devastation caused by the Nazi killing machine,” he told Australian media, according to The Guardian.
Responding to Anning’s comments in a speech to the Lower House, Shadow Multicultural Minister Tony Burke called the words “bile.”
“The words that happened in the other place are not the words of a proud Australian. They are the words of people who hate modern Australia, people who hate who we are as Australians,” he said.
MP Graham Perrett called Anning a “myopic red-neck.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/austr...-urging-final-solution-to-muslim-immigration/
A freshman Australian lawmaker has came under fire after giving a speech calling for a “final solution” to Muslim immigration.
Queensland senator Fraser Anning was criticized by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and others for both his call to ban non-European immigration to Australia and his use of the term “final solution.”
The words usually refer to the Nazi policy of extermination carried out against the Jews during the Holocaust.
“Australia is the most successful multicultural society in the world built on a foundation of mutual respect. We reject and condemn racism in any form,” Turnbull said on Twitter.
The senator, who recently joined nationalist Bob Katter’s Australia Party, gave his maiden speech to the Upper House of Parliament Tuesday, deriding Muslim immigration as making the country less safe.
“We as a nation are entitled to insist that those who are allowed to come here predominantly reflect the historic European-Christian composition of Australian society,” he said. “While all Muslims are not terrorists, certainly all terrorists these days are Muslims, so why would anyone want to bring more of them here?”
“The final solution to the immigration problem of course is a popular vote,” he added.
The speech was quickly condemned by voices across Australia’s political spectrum.
Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg, who is Jewish and who lost relatives in the Holocaust, called Anning’s speech “hurtful, divisive and unacceptable.”
“Fraser Anning should not only retract his comments last night but he should also immediately go and visit a Holocaust museum … and hear first hand from survivors how raw the pain is and hear about and see the destruction and devastation caused by the Nazi killing machine,” he told Australian media, according to The Guardian.
Responding to Anning’s comments in a speech to the Lower House, Shadow Multicultural Minister Tony Burke called the words “bile.”
“The words that happened in the other place are not the words of a proud Australian. They are the words of people who hate modern Australia, people who hate who we are as Australians,” he said.
MP Graham Perrett called Anning a “myopic red-neck.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/austr...-urging-final-solution-to-muslim-immigration/
