Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yesterday, the Senate blocked a burqa ban and then enforced a burqa ban. The rules here don't apply to the people that make them. Senator Hanson chose to make this very point, and the Senate has now censured her, terrified of calling out the insidious growth of radical Islamic influence in Australia, an influence which makes Australia less, not more. It's an influence which attacks Christianity and Judaism and attacks nonbelievers everyday it's allowed to continue. It's an influence which has seen multiple Islamic religious leaders calling for Sharia law in Australia and for support of the Islamic State, a terrorist organisation. Some Islamic religious leaders in Australia call Christmas 'haram', with one even claiming that saying, 'Merry Christmas,' is worse than congratulating murder. It's an influence which actively encourages their followers to not integrate into Australian society, to not cooperate with Australian law and culture.

To my own constituents who see themselves as Australians and whose religion is Muslim, I say this to you: regrettably, the war against radical Islam has found its way to your door. This was, though, inevitable. It was the Labor prime minister Bob Hawke that radicalised some Australian Muslims when importing Sheikh El-Din Hilaly to head Lakemba Mosque, a man famous for calling Australian women uncovered meat and against the protests of Australian Muslims who correctly predicted his appointment would radicalise Islam in Australia. It's now a Labor-Greens government that has attacked Senator Hanson with venom so as to silence her, temporarily, in the Senate despite her being elected duly to represent the people of Queensland and Australia.

Muslims can, of course, peacefully co-exist with Christians. Radical Islamists cannot. Senators, it's a damning criticism of this chamber that you do not understand the difference or you choose to deliberately ignore it—

Helen Polley (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator.