Oh CHRIST, here we are again. For some reason, Pauline Hanson regularly gets pulled out of the box of horrors from whence she came, dusted off, and plonked in front of a camera to talk about whichever group of people she doesn’t want in Australia that day.
And today, it’s Muslims, or what Mark Latham calls “the Muslim problem.” (Unfortunately NOT A JOKE.)
On Wednesday, Pauline Hanson revealed her election policies ahead of her run for Queensland Senate at the next election [*cries*], which are, word-for-word: “No more Mosques, Sharia law, halal certification, Muslim refugees.”
So – naturally – The TODAY Show decides to interview her about her policies, in which she literally declares both the entire Muslim population are troublemakers, but that “I’ve never said one racist word in my life.” In. the. same. interview.
Pauline Hanson: “You can’t bring people into Australia who is not on the same level as you are as far as culture, their beliefs, their laws, their way of life, and that is why we have the problems these days.”
Karl Stefanovic, who’s doing the journalist equivalent of lighting a firecracker and running for the hills: “Hey, uh, look, you say also no more Muslims, no more mosques, or Muslim refugees. Why?”
WHY INDEED. Let her please explain:
Pauline Hanson: “Karl, no one’s got the answers to all this, so you’ve got to go to where the problem is coming from. It is clearly – and you see it many other counties around the world, you go to England, you’ve got over a thousand mosques, you got areas people won’t go in, even in France over 740 no-go zones, the police can’t control it. Why can’t we learn from these other countries round the world?”
“There’s nothing racist about what I’ve said, I’ve never said one racist word in my life. I speak the way I see it, and I speak the truth.”
CC: Pauline, ICYMI.
At one point during the interview, Karlos stirs the absolute shit by asking Pauline, “Do you have any Muslim friends,” to which she replies “I possibly do, I have met Muslim people over the years by all means“, evidently confusing ‘friends’ with ‘people who want to thump her’ again.
“I think you’re a very bright woman,” says Karl, “I would have thought at some point you might have had a Muslim friend,” which is followed by TWO ENTIRE SECONDS OF SILENCE.
Everything quickly devolves from there, where Pauline Hanson takes all of 60 seconds to say that: she can’t identify Muslims at a glance, she doesn’t have a ‘what religion are you?‘ question on her party sign-up form, that they wouldn’t want to join her party anyway because she “doesn’t believe in Sharia law“, and she “wouldn’t sell her house to a Muslim“, which is just the cherry on top of this turd sundae.
Her highlights interview is below, if you can bear it [or watch the whole thing HERE]:
Pauline Hanson has spoken out about her controversial political manifesto. More TODAY on #Mornings9 from 9.00am.
https://t.co/7a0ZJqthaU
— MORNINGS (@Mornings9) October 8, 2015
Image: The TODAY show.
