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Perhaps he might need a couple of these as he has attracted an audience up to 80:

"Keysar Trad from the Muslim Friendship Society told an 80-strong Stop the War Coalition meeting here on February 27 that the “backlash” against the Muslim community is a direct result of “politicians and radio shock jocks trying to sell the 'clash of cultures’ image”.

Trad criticised all attempts to portray the Muslim community as misogynist and backward, but added that it didn’t just start recently. “[Minister for the aged] Bronwyn Bishop has been saying for some time that Muslim women are oppressed by having to wear the scarf.”

But Trad did say that the attacks on Muslims have reached new heights recently and that “Islamaphobic politicians are upset that there has been no violent reaction to the publication of the racist, anti-Muslim cartoons”. He described Treasurer Peter Costello’s suggestion that Muslims want to impose sharia law on Australians as “absurd”, as well as his threat to revoke people’s citizenship rights if they don’t agree with “Australian values”."