A new YouGov poll from Australia has revealed that Australians are favorable toward immigration but negative about Islam. There should be nothing surprising or deemed to be anomalous about those findings. Chances are that similar results would be replicated in studies across most Western countries. Citizens however are wary of admitting publicly about their sentiments with regards to Islam, lest the “Islamophobia” battering ram starts beating them down. Mainstream media and globalists have perpetually referenced those with valid concerns about Islam and the Islamization of Western countries as “anti-immigrant”. This invented link between negativity toward Islam to views about immigration could not be more inaccurate. To be wary about any doctrine in fact, that promotes abuses is to be prudent, not ‘anti-immigrant’ and not ‘racist’.
Normative Islam promotes such “values” as supremacy of its doctrines above all others, conquest of infidels, anti-semitism, the inferiority of women, the murder of gays, the murder of apostates, sex slavery, child marriage, wife-beating, FGM and the like–not to mention the astronomical incidence of human rights abuses in the name of Islam. To not like such doctrine has nothing to do with being anti-immigrant.
“Australians accepting of migrants but negative towards Islam, poll finds”, by Naaman Zhou, The Guardian, May 3, 2019:
Lovers of regulation, supporters of same-sex couples and very liberal when it comes to abortion – this is how a sample of a thousand Australians perceive themselves.
Australia is a country that accepts gay couples, hates the big banks, considers second-generation migrants “Australian”, but the majority feel negatively towards Islam.
New wide-ranging data released by YouGov has revealed fascinating insights into the Australian identity, its place in the world, and its many contradictions.
Australians were the second-highest out of 23 countries surveyed in not considering where someone’s parents come from as relevant to identifying as Australian, but in our personal lives, 47% admitted to having “very few” or no close friends of a different ethnic background. And 80% of us believe women still suffer discrimination, but a third also think the women’s rights movement has gone too far.
Older Australians, perhaps surprisingly, are just as supportive of gender equality as their younger counterparts. In some cases, more so. But generational fault lines opened up over same-sex relationships (those under 45 vs over 45) and the acceptance of transgender Australians (under 35 and over 35).
Across 1,006 Australians, and thousands more around the world, the YouGov-Cambridge Globalism Project has already shed light on Australians’ sentiments towards immigration and our institutions. Here are some of its other insights:
Islam and other religions
51% of Australians had unfavourable sentiments towards Islam, and only 10% looked upon the religion positively, making Australia more negative than 17 of the other 22 countries surveyed.In fact, 37% of people said they were “very unfavourable”– the most negative response available. This was far higher than the milder option of “fairly unfavourable” (14%), and made it the single most common response to the religion. 23% of people were neutral…..