Tone's war may give him a bump in the polls at home amongst racist rednecks, but the effect of the anti-Muslim hysteria he's created for the war is now being noticed overseas. The International Business Times has run an article pointing out the indicators that racism in Australia is on the rise.
Lay had claimed the police had no information to confirm the rise of "prejudice-related crime" but he was aware of a number of issues in the community that have not been reported to the authorities, The Age reports.
The commissioner acknowledged that Muslim women are "insulted about their garb" while on the street. He said the police are looking into CCTV footage related to the attack on the woman on the train.
According to the results of the latest Mapping Social Cohesion survey, racism in Australia is on the rise. The survey in 2013, conducted by the Scanlon Foundation, found that 19 percent of Australians struggle with some form of racial or religious discrimination. The current figures reveal that racism is at its highest level since Scanlon Foundation began the survey in 2007
In 2011, another survey conducted by a group of Australian universities found that half of the population in Australia have anti-Muslim views. Since the national terror threat level was raised in Australia, the Grand Mufti has called on the Muslim-Australian community to be calm and exercise restraint since the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria issued threats against Australians through social media. Incidents of Australians hurling offensive and racist remarks on Muslims were reported to the police. more
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