Sydney hostage crisis prompts #illridewithyou show of solidarity with Australian Muslims

The hostage standoff in Sydney, carried out by a suspected radical Muslim preacher, has threatened to fan anti-Islamic sentiment in Australia. A poll in October found that the average Australian believes that the country's Muslim population is nine times its actual size, an indicator, perhaps, of the over-inflated fears of fundamentalist Islam in the Antipodes. […]

















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