An Anglo-Celtic advocacy group has called for a Greens senator to step down over a series of antiwhite comments, including remarks made this week where she insulted White people in the Senate.
Mehreen Faruqi, a Muslim immigrant from Pakistan who last year successfully sued One Nation leader Pauline Hanson for racial discrimination over a tweet, made the comments while defending aboriginal senator Lidia Thorpe.
Ms Thorpe faced a censure motion for saying “if I have to burn down Parliament House to make a point … I am not there to make friends” during protest, and Ms Faruqi said “you White people in here claim English as your first language” during a racially charged rant aimed at Liberal and Labor senators.
Far-left Pakistan-born Muslim Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi attacks “White people” during emotional rant defending aboriginal colleague’s comment about “burning down Parliament House”.
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British Australian Community (BAC) President Harry Richardson said on Wednesday his organisation was demanding the “immediate resignation” of Ms Faruqi, as a result of a “pattern of what we view as egregious racist remarks directed at Australia’s Anglo-Celtic community”.
“Senator Faruqi has a documented history of statements that appear to target and demean White Australians, most of whom belong to the nation’s founding and majority population of Anglo-Celtic descent,” he said.
Mr Richardson provided four examples – a 2021 tweet calling the phrase “all lives matter” a “catch cry of White supremacists and fascists”, a 2022 tweet saying “Show me White fragility”, her “no comment” response in 2024 when asked if all White people are racist, and her October 27 comments.
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He also said Ms Faruqi’s comments highlighted a “double standard under the very law she invoked against Senator Hanson” and in the BAC’s view she could be seen as violating Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act herself.
“Senator Faruqi’s hypocrisy is astounding. She weaponises anti-racism legislation against others while spewing discriminatory and divisive rhetoric herself,” Mr Richardson said.
“It’s time for accountability; Senator Faruqi has violated the principles that her party claims to support and has shown a contempt for Australia’s majority population which appears to be racially motivated. She must step down.”
The BAC urged all Australians to contact their elected representatives and demand Ms Faruqi be held accountable.
During her Senate tirade Ms Faruqi said: “You would have thought that many of the Coalition MPs and senators, and Labor MPs and senators, you would have thought that they would perhaps understand the meaning of ‘burning down the house’.
“Given that many of you White people in here claim English as your first language, that you would actually know what this means, or maybe, maybe, some of you have heard the Talking Heads song Burning Down The House in the 80s, which is about liberation, it is about freedom, it is about breaking free. But no, but no. For Heaven’s sake, this is a metaphor.”
Ms Faruqi, who was allowed to move to Australia in 1992 and given citizenship just two years later, went on to accuse her Senate colleagues of starting a “pile-on” against Ms Thorpe.
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“Senator Thorpe spoke truth to power about the genocide of first nations people,” she continued, while pausing to say “this is how you treat people of colour, so I’m not surprised at all that you’re ranting back at me” when she was heckled.
“Senator Thorpe spoke truth to power when she spoke about the genocide of first nations people in this country, and the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, and you all, you all can’t bear to hear the truth.
“And one of the first acts of this colony’s NSI (National Security Intelligence) teams, is to target, no no, not neo-Nazis, don’t target neo-Nazis once you set up this team, but to target a black senator.”
She then accused her colleagues of supporting genocide in Gaza and shielding Israel.
The motion to censure Ms Thorpe failed with 34 votes against and 27 for.
Header image: Left, Mehreen Faruqi during her tirade (Parliament). Right, being asked if she thought all White people were racist (Chriscoveries).
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