Australian Politics

but in context we must acknowledge that people like Pauline Hanson use anti-Islamic arguments as a proxy for racism against Middle Easterners

Is this what greens voters think? I can't really attest to that, I get along with heaps of people from the middle east just fine, particularly the ex-muslims, in fact I get along with ex-muslims better than green haired melbournite left wing progressives lol

Islam and other religions

51% of Australians had unfavourable sentiments towards Islam, and only 10% looked upon the religion positively, making Australia more negative than 17 of the other 22 countries surveyed.

In fact, 37% of people said they were “very unfavourable”– the most negative response available. This was far higher than the milder option of “fairly unfavourable” (14%), and made it the single most common response to the religion. 23% of people were neutral.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/04/australians-accepting-of-migrants-but-negative-towards-islam-poll-finds

Remade the chart using my fancy paint skills as it was red and dark red for favourable and unfavourable (whoever made that chart at the guardian was clearly having a bad day)

New poll suggests 49 per cent of Australians back Muslim migrant ban

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/new-poll-suggests-49-per-cent-of-australians-back-muslim-migrant-ban/ilnh8288n

Australians hate Islam but only in left wing progressive circles is it a touchy racist!!!!11 subject along the lines of what is a woman.