This is beyond ridiculous.
And yet FIFA is silent while fans, players, staff, officials are denied entry to play in, work in, or watch their own World Cup.
Crazy times.
There are 240 million Muslims in Indonesia, our neighbour with whom we recently signed a defence pact. They are the largest Muslim nation. They wish only to live in peace with us. Hanson, a toxic mix of ignorance, stupidity, bigotry and racism, has insulted every one of them.
@Da_Rukus @TrueNewsWeekly Actually, if you were there, you'd know they weren't on the street. All the streets were closed off. They prayed to the side. But please, go off sis!
ANIC Condemns White-Supremacist Hate Crime Against Victorian Imam and His Wife
The Australian National Imams Council (ANIC) condemns in the strongest possible terms the vicious and religiously motivated assault on an Imam and his wife on the evening of Saturday, 10th January 2026. This cowardly attack is a disturbing reminder of the escalating danger facing visibly Muslim Australians.
At approximately 7:30pm on the South Gippsland Highway toward Dandenong, the Imam and his wife were targeted after the assailants identified them as Muslim, triggering an outpouring of anti-Muslim hatred, racial abuse and violence. The attackers boxed in their vehicle, hurled objects at their car, drove dangerously to intimidate them, then exited their vehicle to assault the Imam and threaten his wife with stabbing. The Imam was punched in the face, and his vehicle was damaged while bystanders intervened to stop further harm.
We believe Victoria Police are treating the incident as a hate crime. The offenders, described as men of Anglo white appearance with distinctive tattoos, exhibited behaviour and language consistent with white-supremacist and extremist hate ideology, a pattern increasingly seen in Islamophobic attacks across Australia.
The psychological trauma suffered by the victims is severe. No family in Australia should fear being attacked simply for their faith, appearance, or identity.
This attack comes despite Victoria formally recognising 15th March as the United Nations International Day to Combat Islamophobia. Yet research by the Scanlon Foundation continues to show that anti-Muslim hatred is the most prevalent form of religious discrimination in Australia, underscoring that symbolic recognition must be matched with real enforcement, accountability and media responsibility.
ANIC also warns that political rhetoric and irresponsible media commentary are actively fuelling this violence, particularly the dangerous false equivalence being drawn between peaceful pro-Palestinian advocacy and the Bondi terror attacks. This framing has contributed directly to a surge in Islamophobic abuse, threats and physical assaults, both online and in our streets.
ANIC’s Action Against Islamophobia (AAI) initiative is supporting the victims and monitoring this case closely, along with Board of Imams Victoria’s Countering Islamophobia Project.
We call for urgent identification, arrest and prosecution of those responsible, and for stronger national action to confront Islamophobia, far-right extremism and hate-fuelled violence in Australia.
All Australians deserve to feel safe going about their daily lives without fear of being abused, threatened or attacked.
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Since October 2023, Israel has been carrying out a genocide in the Gaza Strip: a broad, coordinated attack aimed at systematically destroying living conditions, the social fabric, and Palestinians’ ability to exist as a group. The mass displacement and forced concentration of civilians is not byproducts of the genocide, but central components of it.
Some 1.9 million Palestinians, constituting about 90% of the Strip’s population, have been displaced at least once since October 2023, often after losing family members and most of their property.
Forced displacement under bombardment: Israel has forced millions to leave their homes through intensive bombardment and evacuation orders delivered via leaflets and digital media. These orders were often confusing, erroneous, contradictory, and at times derisive. Many residents could not access them at all due to the collapse of electricity and communications.
The journey itself became a killing field: Gaza residents had to leave behind sick or elderly relatives who could not endure the journey. They traveled long distances on foot or by cart, and crossed checkpoints where they were delayed, humiliated, beaten, or arrested without cause. The military’s “safe corridors” for displaced people turned into killing fields under bombardment and sniper fire, with bodies often left along the roads.
Danger in the “humanitarian” concentration areas: Once displaced, Israel concentrated internally displaced people (IDPs) in areas it defined as “safe” or “humanitarian” zones. In practice, these areas were repeatedly bombed, offered no protection to civilians, and did not ensure safe access to food, water, shelter, or healthcare. This policy turned “humanitarian” zones into tools for concentrating, controlling, and pushing the population into ever-shrinking spaces.
Due to the scale of displacement and the shrinking spaces to which people were directed, extreme overcrowding developed in displacement sites. In al-Mawasi, the “humanitarian zone” steadily shrank even as the number of IDPs exceeded one million. Combined with the destruction of infrastructure, the policy of starvation and restrictions on aid, overcrowding produced especially harsh living conditions.
Deliberate destruction to prevent return: Israel destroyed more than 90% of residential structures and about 70% of all buildings in the Gaza Strip, along with 81% of the road network. Entire neighborhoods and cities were wiped out. Much of this destruction, often without military necessity, was intended to prevent IDPs from returning and to make “temporary” displacement permanent. Israeli officials have openly declared ethnic cleansing and long-term control over large parts of the Strip as key objectives.
Grave breach of international law: As an occupying power, Israel is prohibited from forcibly transferring the local population. Evacuations are allowed only to protect civilians, and on condition that their safety is guaranteed and their return to their homes at the end of the hostilities. In practice, Israel did not provide safe passage, shelter or basic living conditions. It harmed IDPs and prevented their return. Such displacement, when carried out on a systematic and widespread scale, may amount to a war crime and even a crime against humanity.
Mass displacement, forced concentration and starvation, and the widespread destruction of Gaza’s urban environment are key practices Israel is using in its genocidal assault to destroy Palestinian society. Nearly all Gaza residents have been displaced, stripped of their property, and forced to survive for months in overcrowded camps under bombardment, hunger and disease.
Even after the “ceasefire,” Israel continues to harm IDPs, block humanitarian aid, expand the destruction, and control at least 58% of Gaza’s territory. The international community must act immediately to bring in aid and initiate reconstruction, to hold accountable those responsible for the genocide, and to protect Palestinians from the violence of the Israeli regime.
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@PopCulture2000s I don't even care that she's nude. It's her body and her choice. But the way she is tugging at her hem clearly indicates that she's as uncomfortable af. At what point will she start prioritising her comfort?
@xcinepop I don't even care that she's nude. It's her body and her choice. But the way she is tugging at her hem clearly indicates that she's as uncomfortable af. At what point will she start prioritising her comfort?