Jacqui Lambie had a screaming match with a Muslim youth leader, live on Q&A.
Senator Lambie and Founder of Youth Without Borders, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, had completely conflicting views about migration and specifically the idea of deporting Muslims who support Sharia Law.
Lambie says she agrees with Trump’s attempted ‘Muslim ban’, stating:
“Yep, that’s right. Anybody who supports Sharia Law should be deported.”
Abdel-Magied interrupted by asking: “Do you know what that is?”
“Me praying 5 times a day is Sharia,” she explained.
Lambie retorted: “The fact is, we have one law in this country and it is the Australian law – it is not sharia law, not in this country, not in my day.”
“In Sharia it says you follow the law of the land you are on,” Abdel-Magied replied.
The argument soon resulted in full-blown yelling, with Lambie shouting over Abdel-Magied, demanding an answer to why women are treated like second class citizens, and roaring “You tell me why … gays are killed. You tell me that.”
“That is not my religion,” Abdel-Magied screamed back as Q&A host Tony Jones intervened.
Abdel-Magied, who was the 2015 Queensland Young Australian of the Year, proceeded to give Lambie the correct definition of Islam.
“My frustration is that people talk about Islam without knowing anything about it. They’re willing to completely negate any of my rights as a human being, as a woman, as a person with agency, simply because they have an idea about what my faith is about.
“Islam to me is the most feminist religion, right. We got equal rights well before the Europeans. We don’t take our husband’s last names because we ain’t their property. We were given the right to own land. What is culture is separate from what is faith.”
Senator Lambie said she accepted that her words could come across as hateful but concluded:
“But the majority want to feel safe, be safe – and Donald Trump, if he wants to put that and put those on hold for three months, he has every right to do so, until he can work out exactly what is going on. Stop playing the victim, we’ve had enough. Your ban got lifted, get over it – it hasn’t hurt you at all.”
