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One Nation's Pauline Hanson tells court she did not know Greens senator was Muslim when she suggested she go 'back to Pakistan'

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The Queensland senator told court today that when she tweeted that Senator Mehreen Faruqi should 'piss off back to Pakistan', she didn't realise the Greens senator was Muslim or that 97 per cent of the Pakistani population was Muslim.

One Nation's Pauline Hanson tells court she did not know Greens senator was Muslim when she suggested she go 'back to Pakistan'Pauline Hanson has told a court today that when she told Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi on X, formerly Twitter, to "piss off back to Pakistan", she did not realise she was Muslim.Ms Hanson's claim followed comments from a race relations academic who said such a tweet would be considered a "fairly strong form of racism".

Senator Faruqi had called for a treaty with First Nations and said she couldn't mourn "the leader of a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised people". Senator Hanson denied that she believed that Senator Faruqi, as a Muslim, should never have been allowed to migrate to Australia — because "she's not an extremist" and had obtained Australian citizenship.

He disagreed that he had "no basis" to conclude the tweet would likely have a negative impact on readers who shared any or some of a list of group attributes, including migrants or those with migrant heritage born in Australia.

 

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