Pauline Hanson uses London attacks to ramp up calls for Muslim ban

Pauline Hanson was quick to capitalise on the London terror attack to push her message about a ban on muslim immigration to Australia. 

But Labor leader Bill Shorten was not impressed, calling a tweet by Hanson “crass, idiotic and disgusting”.

Soon after the attacks in London on Saturday night that left seven people dead, the One Nation founder tweeted a mocked-up meme that imitated the Metropolitan Police’s ‘run, hide, tell’ message that the force sent out in the immediate aftermath of the attacks.

London’s Met advised people fleeing the attack scene to run to a place of safety, and if that was not possible, to barricade themselves in and call police as soon as it was safe to do so. 

#Londonbridge #boroughmarket #vauxhall pic.twitter.com/a7OciBEBjH

— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) June 3, 2017

Hanson’s meme, which called on Australia to “stop Islamic immigration before Australia hits 5 percent like England”, says that Australians are tired of the the major political parties “running their campaign that islamic is good for Australia”. It also says that Australia should not hide the fact that terrorism was related ti Islamic teachings and that Aussies are tired of telling both sides of government that Islam is incompatible with Australian values.

Stop Islamic immigration before it is too late. #auspol pic.twitter.com/u9nmVc9MaW

— Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺 (@PaulineHansonOz) June 4, 2017

When asked about Hanson’s tweet, Shorten said that “people on the extremes of Australian politics” should hold their horses.

“We don’t even know fully what’s happened and now what we’ve got is people using this for the crassest of political messages within hours of this event happening,” Shorten said, according to a report in The Australian.

But Hanson was undeterred, tweeting after Shorten’s comments that people of Britain had been let down by leaders who allowed large-scale muslim immigration, and that the same was happening in Australia.

“Rudd and Gillard opened the borders,” she tweeted. “Bill Shorten will make the same mistake.”

The spat comes as Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May said that any tolerance for breeding grounds of extremist Islam in the UK had to end.

“We need to live our lives not in a series of separated, segregated communities but as one truly United Kingdom,” May said.

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