It shows a disturbn comfort with the very racism & Islamophobia that Hanson’s stunt embodies. This wasnt a gaffe; it was a strategy to muddy the waters, and signal solidarity with a far-right worldview that trades in division. @SenatorWong@senbmckenzie@abcnews@7NewsAustralia
For an Australian Senator to weaponise this falsehood during a debate on her own party's failure to condemn bigotry is profoundly revealing. And @senbmckenzie earlier this year in an interview with @PatsKarvelas refused to condemn Hanson's first stunt.
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The primary source of violence, Boko Haram, is an insurgency that explicitly condemns Western education and mainstream Islamic practice. Its victims are indiscriminately targeted. Read:
https://t.co/pT1fPWaHji
To throw this away and parrot an absurd Trumpian implication that a prominent Christian leader like Pastor Osinbajo presided over his own community's persecution is self-evidently rubbish.@SenatorWong@senbmckenzie@abcnews@7NewsAustralia
Since 1999, Nigeria has had five presidents: two Christians and three Muslims, maintaining a rough balance that reflects the country's religious diversity.@SenatorWong@senbmckenzie@abcnews
This diversity is mirrored at the highest levels of governance: a Pastor from the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Yemi Osinbajo, served as Vice President for eight years (2015-2023). @SenatorWong@senbmckenzie@abcnews
To claim a state of persecution is to ignore the nation’s rooted interfaith fabric. My own family, with a Christian mum and a Muslim dad, is not an anomaly but a common reflection of southern Nigeria, with deeply integrated communities.@SenatorWong@senbmckenzie@abcnews
.. a tactic that exposes the moral bankruptcy at the heart of the Coalition’s relationship with the far-right.
The reality of Nigeria, my motherland; @sussanley country of birth, completely eviscerates McKenzie’s fiction.@SenatorWong@senbmckenzie@abcnews
Unable to mount a credible defence, she resorted to importing a debunked, Trumpian narrative of ‘systematic Christian persecution’ in Nigeria. This was not just an error in fact; it was a deliberate and irresponsible tactic... @SenatorWong@senbmckenzie@abcnews
Senator McKenzie’s Debunked Nigerian Fiction!
Yesterday, during the Senate debate on censuring Pauline Hanson for her repeated, inflammatory burqa stunts, Senator Bridget McKenzie offered a masterclass in cynical deflection. @SenatorWong@senbmckenzie@abcnews
@TurnbullMalcolm Where's condemnation of Israel in this statement??
This statement solves nothing but reflects the same western hypocrisy on failure to highlight Israel's forever disregard for world rules