Attacks on Muslims Rises in Australia

Muslims in Australia should be more careful. Australian Muslim leaders compiled a list of the attacks were racially motivated or religious. Observations indicate that up to now has happened dozens of such attacks, especially against women who wear the hijab.

Threats to Australia conducted by ISIS radical groups that have pushed anti-Islamic sentiment. Islamic organizations in Australia said, at least 30 attacks occurred against Muslims, since the counter-terrorist raid conducted in Sydney and Brisbane. A lawyer and a spokesperson for the Islamic community to compile a list of the attacks, Mariam Veiszadeh, said that the violence reported across the country.

Mariam said that in one incident, a mother and her baby in West Sydney spat, and kicked her baby carriage. In another case, a man in Perth drew a veil (hijab) in the head of a Muslim woman. Some mosques in Australia have been threatened, pelted with rotten eggs, vandalized, and fitted with a cross decorated with a pig's head.

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The number of attacks and intimidation were reported, most occurred in the state of Queensland. There mosques threatened and death threats directed at local Islamic leaders. However, police statistics are definitely on the attack cannot be obtained. Nevertheless, police in New South Wales says it is trying to ease tensions with the Muslim community since the anti-terrorist raid last month in Sydney.

Most of Australia's political leaders have urged the public to have self-restraint and respect the different religions. Nevertheless, there are still groups that are accused of causing tension between Muslim groups with the general Australian population.

Moderate Muslims in Australia in general actually also condemned ISIS. However, community leaders say the level of harassment and intimidation against Muslims increased as happened after the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, and after the bomb attacks in Bali, a year later in which 88 Australians were killed.

The Australian government did show that increased level vigilance against terrorism case. Warplanes Australia has joined a US-led attack against Iraq ISIS. Driven by concerns about the possible dangers posed by jihadists Australian home of the conflict in the Middle East, the Australian government has recently raised the terror threat level in the country from mid-level to be high. The new law would also give the anti-terrorist authorities greater powers to detain suspects and confiscate passports.

Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, said the legislation would not affect the Muslims who obey the law. He is also planning a new rule that states that perform terrorist acts in Australia are a crime, and the name of the radical group Hizb ut-Tahrir. The group is regarded as an organization that campaigns against Australian values, and against the interests of Australia. Tony Abbott stated that they are an organization that is totally unacceptable.