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SME Times News Bureau | 18 Mar, 2019
An Australian Senator has drawn flak for blaming "Muslim migration" for
the New Zealand mosque massacres that left at least 49 people dead.
At
least 49 people were killed on Friday after gunmen opened
indiscriminate fire at two mosques in Christchurch in what a shocked New
Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern termed as a terror attack.
Fraser
Anning, a Senator in Queensland since November 2017, issued a statement
in which he described the attacks as "vigilantism," and said "while
Muslims may be the victims today, usually they are the perpetrators."
"Worldwide,
Muslims are killing people in the name of their faith on an industrial
scale. As always, left-wing politicians and the media will rush to claim
that the causes of today's shootings lie with gun laws or those who
hold nationalist views but this is all clichéd nonsense," the
69-year-old Senator said in the statement.
"The real cause of
bloodshed on New Zealand streets today is the immigration program which
allowed Muslim fanatics to migrate to New Zealand in the first place,"
he said.
"Whilst this kind of violent vigilantism can never be
justified, what it highlights is the growing fear within our community,
both in Australia and New Zealand, of the increasing Muslim presence,"
Anning said.
The Senator later took to Twitter to further express
his opinions. "Does anyone still dispute the link between Muslim
immigration and violence?" he wrote.
"I wonder if there will be
as much outrage from the left wing when the next Muslim terrorist attack
occurs? Most likely silence and talk about ‘lone wolf attacks, mental
illness and no connection to Islam,'" he tweeted.
Commenting on Anning's remarks, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said there was no place for his "disgusting" views.
"The
remarks by Senator Fraser Anning blaming the murderous attacks by a
violent, right-wing, extremist terrorist in New Zealand on immigration
are disgusting. Those views have no place in Australia, let alone the
Australian Parliament," Morrison tweeted.
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