Australian voter support for a lift in immigration of Muslims has collapsed in the wake of last week’s Islamic State-inspired terror attack in Melbourne.
It is a pity that Australians need to experience such attacks to wake up. Unfortunately, the memory fades, and people forget as headlines change.
Despite the constant charge of “racism” from Leftist ideologues hurled at those who oppose the open borders (as opposed to legal immigration), the threat is real. Many have argued that Western nations have nothing to worry about, because so few jihad attacks have happened on Western soil. But 22,000 civilians have been murdered worldwide last year by Islamic jihadists. And recently, Christians have been dragged out of cars and beaten, as well as “haunted with fear as the case of Asia Bibi tears Pakistan apart” — all over an innocent Christian woman who sentenced to death over a bogus blasphemy charge by a group of Muslim women in Pakistan, and who was recently freed after eight years in prison. Islamic supremacist beliefs do not change as they cross borders.
“Poll: Support for Increase in Muslim Immigration Collapses in Australia,” by Simon Kent, Breitbart, November 18, 2018:
Australian voter support for a lift in immigration of Muslims has collapsed in the wake of last week’s Islamic State-inspired terror attack in Melbourne.
According to a Fairfax Media Ipsos poll, support for an increase in Muslim immigration dropped from 23 percent to a bare 14 percent between October and November, the Australian Financial Review reports.Just 35 percent of those polled believe the intake should stay the same. Another 46 percent believe the intake should be reduced a lot or a little – a position backed by a clear majority of supporters of the governing conservative coalition and one third of Labor voters.
The survey comes after the Bourke Street terror attack by Somali immigrant Hassan Khalif Shire Ali and amid growing calls from some conservative members of Parliament to slash migration from Muslim-majority nations.
Australia is a nation built on immigration and has historically opened its arms to people from around the world looking to start a new life Down Under.
Attitudes have been slowly shifting in the past seven years however, amid terrorist attacks and heightened political debate about migration, according to annual research by the Scanlon Foundation on social cohesion.
While 31.9 per cent of respondents said they had a positive attitude to Muslims in 2010, this slipped to 28.3 per cent in the Scanlon research in 2017. The proportion with a negative attitude rose from 23.5 per cent to 25 per cent, but there was no consistent year-on-year trend up or down over the period…..