The far Right "Reclaim Australia" plans to hold an anti-Muslim rally in Melbourne and also
at other places around Australia. They want people to believe they're just "ordinary
Australians" who are worried about "radical Islam". What they're NOT telling you is that
they are Fascists - yes, actual far Right, Hitler-loving racists who have decided it's a
tactical advantage to wrap themselves in Australian flags. ---- The far Right "Reclaim
Australia" plans to hold an anti-Muslim rally in Melbourne and also at other places around
Australia. They want people to believe they're just "ordinary Australians" who are worried
about "radical Islam". What they're NOT telling you is that they are Fascists - yes,
actual far Right, Hitler-loving racists who have decided it's a tactical advantage to wrap
themselves in Australian flags.
Just check the Slackbastard blog to see what he's dug up on them:
http://www.slackbastard.anarchobase.com
Of course, not everyone who turns up to their rally will be a booted and suited Fascist.
The organisers have told their followers to "leave your swastikas and your white pride
T-shirts at home" (which speaks volumes in itself). They are hoping to attract people who
are just prejudiced against Muslims and who can't tell the difference between most
followers of a religion and what a handful do in its name. They hope to recruit people by
claiming to be the only "patriots" who are prepared to act against the phantom Islamic
menace against which they foam.
It is in the interests of workers in Australia to oppose Islamophobic racism and take a
stand in favour of freedom of religion - the right to believe any religion or none, the
right to practice any religion or none and the right to preach any religion or none.
Today, it is Muslims who find themselves attacked for exercising this right. Women are
assaulted in the street for wearing the scarf, objections are raised against the
construction of mosques and absurd fantasies are conjured up about halal certification.
The right to be a Muslim in Australia is the front line in defending the freedom of
everyone. We must defend freedom of religion here in order to spread it to places like
Saudi Arabia or Iran. If the right to live according to one's conscience is destroyed
here, we cannot establish it elsewhere. So come to the counter-rally - say no to racist
Islamophobia and block the Fascists who are trying to use it to make themselves respectable.
*This leaflet was produced by the Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group as a contribution to
the United Front Against Fascism.
https://melbacg.wordpress.com/2015/03/27/rally-against-racism-sat-4-april/
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