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According to Australia's census, 1, people identify as Aboriginal Muslims, almost double the number of Aboriginal Muslims recorded in the census. Some academics who have studied these issues have come to less positive conclusions regarding the relationship between the Aboriginal people and the visiting trepangers. According to the Australian Census, Bangladeshi origin population were around 55,; among them about 33, were living in NSW. Bangladeshi Muslims are located primarily in Rockdale, Lakemba, Bankstown and many suburbs in Western Sydney region with a mosque in Sefton [45] and in the south-east of Melbourne, with a mosque at Huntingdale.
Bosnian Muslims have predominantly arrived in Australia after , with most of the community living in the south east of Melbourne and in the south west of Sydney. It is reported that enrolments for its co-educational places are booked out until Iraqi Muslims mainly came to the country as a refugees after the Iran—Iraq War , failed uprisings in Iraq , and then post They predominately settled in the western suburbs of Sydney, such as Fairfield and Auburn. Kurdish Muslims have predominantly arrived in Australia since the second half of the s, with most of the community settling in Melbourne and Sydney.
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Although the large majority of the Kurdish Australians are Muslims, there are no registered Kurdish run mosques in Australia. Approximately 3. Approximately 4. In November , Immigration Minister , Peter Dutton said that it was a mistake of a previous administration to have brought out Lebanese Muslim immigrants. Although the first Somali community in Victoria was established in , most Somalis began to settle in the country in the early s following the civil war in Somalia.
Turkish Muslims are a significant segment of the Australian Muslim community. Some statistical reports forecast the Turkish Muslim population in Australia surpassing the Lebanese Muslim population in the s and s. Melbourne has the largest Turkish community in Australia, [] with the majority of Turkish Muslims living around Broadmeadows and other northern suburbs.
Despite still having a large Turkish population in Auburn and Eastlakes, many Turks moved out of these areas and moved to Prestons to be close to the new and growing Turkish private school, Amity College which is run by people closely affiliated with the Galaxy Foundation formerly Feza Foundation. Concerns and contemporary issues facing the Australian Muslim community include rates of unemployment, the rights of women, concerns over Islamism and Islamic radicalism , among others.
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Islamic preachers and clerics in Australia have been covered in the Australian press on account of the messages they have delivered publicly to the Muslim community or have otherwise shared with others in public settings. In some instances, various ideas and viewpoints espoused by these preachers have been subject of public or internal debate. A number of incidents have highlighted the issues associated with radical Islam in Australia, including terrorism and militant activity.
Several foreign terrorist organisations have sponsored the establishment of cells in Australia, including Lashkar-e-Taiba , [] [] and Jemaah Islamiah. In December the Director General of ASIO Duncan Lewis stated that the number of Australians seeking to travel overseas to fight with groups such as ISIS had "plateaued a bit" due to better awareness of the issue among the Islamic community, few young Australians being attracted to ISIS and improvements to the speed with which passports could be cancelled.
At this time the government believed there were around Australians fighting with extremist groups, which was slightly lower than previous levels, and 44 Australians had been killed in Syria. In an Australia-wide survey published in November , which was based on 1, interviews, which asked, "What is the likelihood that Islamic State will carry out a large scale terrorist attack in Australia? Greens' voters were least concerned about an attack.
In May , answering the questions during the Australian Senate -hearing, Duncan Lewis , the director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation , stated that there's de facto no connection between refugees and terrorism in Australia whilst adding: "But the context is very important.
The reason they are terrorists is not because they are refugees but because of the violent, extremist interpretation of Sunni Islam that they have adopted. Sheik Taj el-Din al-Hilali , former Grand Mufti of Australia said, "Jews try to control the world through sex, then sexual perversion, then the promotion of espionage, treason and economic hoarding" [] [] with Christians and Jews being, "the worst in God's creation".
A Sheik who leads a Sydney prayer hall, told a group including children, that Jews, "don't have mercy. They don't have anything in the heart.
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They've got only envy and they've got hatred". Material sold at some Sunni Islamic bookshops have raised concerns. For example, the Islamic Information Bookshop in Melbourne was stocking literature "calling for violence against non-Muslims"; [] the Al Risalah Bookshop [] was said to be "encouraging young Australians to fight in Syria"; [] [] and the Al-Furqan Bookshop [] [] was said to be polarising members with extreme views.
In Brisbane, the iQraa Bookstore was said to promote extremism. A number of forums and meetings have been held about the problem of extremist groups or ideology within the Australian Islamic community. Glenn Mohammed a Muslim lawyer has written, "Muslims need to be able to discuss these issues openly and denounce barbaric behaviour. Instead, we choose to remain silent and then criticise a government that tries to make Australia safer. He has said, "Muslim youths have unique difficulties in coming to terms with their identity, especially when they have conflicting value systems at home compared with school or work".
Peter Jennings, Executive Director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute has said Australian Muslim leaders need to recognise that there are a "disturbing number of radicalised ideologues" who do not believe Islam is peaceful. He says, "some dramatic self-healing is needed".
Muslim leaders have criticised the current Grand Mufti of Australia , following the Muftis response to the November Paris attacks. That means he has to rely on the people around him. Harris said, "We have a task ahead of us, a monumental task ahead of us, and that is to begin the process of adapting, reinterpreting our scriptures for the modern day and age. Islam is what it is. In December the Grand Mufti of Australia and several high profile imams issued a new year's message supporting a fatwa against Islamic State.
In March , the Prime Minister said that since September Australian security forces have disrupted 12 planned domestic attacks and charged 62 people with terrorist-related offences. In December , Australian authorities stripped a jihadist who had fought for ISIS and was held in Turkey on terror-related charges of his Australian citizenship.
He had left Australia for Syria in The jihadist had both Australian and Fijian citizenship and according to Australian law, an individual holding dual citizenship can be stripped of citizenship if convicted or suspected of terror offences. According to some scholars, a particular trend of anti-Muslim prejudice has developed in Australia since the late s.
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A report published in by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission pointed to many Muslim Australians who felt the Australian media was unfairly critical of, and often vilified their community due to generalisations of terrorism and the emphasis on crime. The use of ethnic or religious labels in news reports about crime was thought to stir up racial tensions. After the White Australia immigration laws were replaced with multicultural policies the social disadvantage of Muslims was thought to have been alleviated. Some sources, however, note that Muslims now face some disadvantages on account of their religion.
A report from the Islamic Sciences and Research Academy, University of Western Sydney , on mosques in New South Wales found that 44 percent of mosques in the state had "experienced resistance from the local community when the mosque was initially proposed". In around 20 percent of these cases opposition was from a small number of people. According to Michael Humphrey, a professor of sociology at the University of Sydney , much of Islamic culture and organisation in Australia has been borne of the social marginalisation experiences of Muslim working class migrants.
This "immigrant Islam" is often viewed by the host society as a force of "cultural resistance" toward the multicultural and secular nature of the general Australian culture. Muslim practices of praying, fasting and veiling appear as challenging the conformity within public spaces and the values of gender equality in social relationships and individual rights.
The immigrant Muslims are often required to "negotiate their Muslimness" in the course of their encounters with Australian society, the governmental and other social institutions and bureaucracies. A poll of nearly Muslim residents of Sydney released in November found that the respondents were three to five times more likely to have experienced racism than the general Australian population. However, approximately 97 per cent of the Muslim respondents reported that they had friendly relations with non-Muslims and felt welcome in Australia.
In an Australia-wide survey published in November , which was based on 1, interviews, which asked, "Are Muslims that live in Australia doing enough to integrate into the Australian community, or should they be doing more? A poll conducted by the University of South Australia's International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding which was released in found that 10 per cent of Australians have hostile attitudes towards Muslims.
A Council for the Prevention of Islamophobia Inc has been established. Because of her alleged Islamophobia, the Council for the Prevention of Islamophobia told organisers that there would be 5, protesters outside the Festival Hall in Melbourne if she was to speak at that venue. As part of the broader issue of women's rights and Islam , the gender inequality in Islam has often been the focal point of criticism in Australia through comparisons to the situation of women in Islamic nations. Muslim women can face hurdles both from within the Muslim community and from the wider community.
Monash Council has provided a curtain to ensure privacy for Muslim women. It has been reported that a "growing number of Muslim men [have] multiple wives"; the same story cited Islamic Friendship Association of Australia president Keysar Trad as stating that there were "not many more than 50" polygamist Muslim families in Australia.