{"id":38556,"date":"2019-04-03T03:23:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T03:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38556"},"modified":"2019-04-03T03:23:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T03:23:20","slug":"senator-anning-blasted-for-new-zealand-mosque-attack-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38556","title":{"rendered":"Senator Anning blasted for New Zealand mosque attack comment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The parliament in Australia<\/a> has overwhelmingly voted to censure an independent far-right senator, Fraser Anning, for his “inflammatory and divisive comments” about the Christchurch mosque attacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a bipartisan motion, the Senate voted on Wednesday to censure Anning, saying his comments were “seeking to attribute blame to victims of a horrific crime and to vilify people on the basis of religion” and does not reflect the opinions of the Senate or of Australians.<\/p>\n

Last month, a self-confessed Australian white supremacist<\/a> killed 50 people in a terror attack on two Christchurch mosques in New Zealand<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Following the attack, which was live streamed on Facebook<\/a>, Anning suggested a link existed between Muslim immigration and violence.<\/p>\n

He later denounced the attack in New Zealand but insisted it represented what he called the “growing
fear … of increasing Muslim presence”.<\/p>\n

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Fraser Anning does not deserve to be in parliament.<\/p>\n

I have no doubt the community will make sure he is not re-elected in May and I will be doing everything in my power to consign his awful views to the history books where they are so clearly from and where they truly belong. pic.twitter.com\/CUrTNx6wFY<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Mehreen Faruqi (@MehreenFaruqi) April 3, 2019<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“It is very important that the Parliament is unified in its condemnation of these appalling comments that have been made,” Senator Mathias Cormann of the Liberal party said.<\/p>\n

“These comments were appalling and sadly made worse given Senator Anning’s position in this Parliament and the platform he enjoys as a senator.”<\/p>\n

Labor’s Penny Wong said the senator blamed the victims “[when] families, friends, communities of those lost were still reeling from the shock”, accusing Anning of\u00a0<\/span>embracing hate speech.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“While those injured were being treated, this senator sought to further fan the flames of division. How pathetic. Shameful and pathetic attempt by a bloke who has never been elected to get attention by exploiting diversity as a fault line for political advantage,” said Wong.<\/p>\n

A teenager struck Anning on the head<\/a> with an egg after his comments and the politician hit him twice in the face in response.<\/p>\n

An online petition calling for Anning’s removal from the Senate has gained more than 1.4 million signatures, which has gone on parliament’s permanent record. However, the Senate cannot remove a senator unless they are convicted of a crime or ruled ineligible.<\/p>\n

The gunman, <\/span>Brenton Tarrant<\/a>, will reappear in court this Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n SOURCE:
\n Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The parliament in Australia has overwhelmingly voted to censure an independent far-right senator, Fraser Anning, for his “inflammatory and divisive comments” about the Christchurch mosque attacks. In a bipartisan motion, the Senate voted on Wednesday to censure Anning, saying his comments were “seeking to attribute blame to victims of a horrific crime and to vilify…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}