Pauline Hanson has thrown her support behind Sonia Kruger’s assertion yesterday morning that a moratorium be placed on Muslim migration to Australia, announcing ‘Go Sonia!’ to viewers across Australia on ABC’s Q&A program last night.
The leader of One Nation was seated next to Labor senator Sam Dastyari, who spoke about his own journey from Iran as a 5-year-old boy, in light of the debate sparked by Kruger’s response to an Andrew Bolt column in the wake of last weeks attacks in Nice.
He described the comments — which are echoed in Hanson’s policies — as “painful” and asked:
“Would you have allowed five-year-old Sam Dastyari into this country? He came to this country on 16 January, 1988, two weeks before the Bicentenary celebrations and my family has done nothing but contribute to this country since they’ve been here.”
Who could say no to that face?
Despite his jovial election night offer of a halal snack pack, Hanson apparently had no idea about Dastyari’s background.
The exchange that followed went a little something like this, (but you can watch the whole thing in the video above):
Hanson: “Are you a Muslim? Really?”
Dastyari: “Yeah and I have never hidden it away.”
Hanson: “Were you sworn in under the Quran?”
Dastyari: “I was born in an Islamic nation and by being born…
Hanson: “So you’re a Muslim.”
Hanson: “You’re a practising Muslim? This is quite interesting.”
Dastyari was equally floored, so much so, he had to ask if she was joking.
Greens senator Larissa Water interjected: “Is it because he doesn’t have three heads?”
Eventually, after some coaxing from host Tony Jones, Hanson responded to the question declaring that the political climate has changed since Dastyari’s family made the trip 28 years ago.
‘”I’m saying: ‘Go Sonia’,” she said, backing the Today Extra commentator.
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Pauline Hanson is excruciatingly inarticulate. When the bearded man asked her to explain her Islamaphobia, her first response should have been to explain that there is no such thing as Islamaphobia. It is a word that has been made up to imply that fear of Muslims is irrational. Fear of Islam is absolutely rational, and the evidence for that is the situation of women in the Middle East, and the flow of people out of it.
She could have gone on then to list all the evils of Mohammed's teachings and how they would adversely affect women.
She should have asked him if he hated violence against women, and produced the Sura that advocates it.
Pauline has never been articulate with the reptilian media
Great post.
The interesting thing is that he is NOT a muslim... he WAS one... but now he's not religious at all. SHE knew it... which is why she kept repeating... are you really ?
But he lied in front of all who saw the program. and all the do-gooders on this page are just drooling behind his lie.
Dumb