Irfan Yusuf - Australian Muslims not a Monolith

This article is a response to yesterday's boiled frustration from Paul Sheehan. Like yesterday's article this is a straight forward opinion piece talking about fear and the misguided assumption that there exists a single Muslim community in Australia.

"Yet, for some reason, Australian Muslims are treated as some kind of monolith. We hear pundits and self-serving religious leaders speak of a mythical entity called the "Muslim community". The idea that Muslims define themselves primarily by their religion sounds ridiculous when one considers that membership of the Lebanese Moslems Association is limited to adult males eligible for Lebanese citizenship. Yet what happens at this Lakemba mosque is somehow a reflection of 300,000-odd Australians who feel inclined to tick the "Muslim" box on their census forms."

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