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Muslim community should run own candidates, says Faruqi

Faruqi says Muslim voters have been ignored" in Australia that their views overlooked.

Politicians [in] both the old parties have for years, decades, used us as tokens, as photo opportunities at religious events but have never actually deemed to address the issues that affect the communities.

I've been in touch with Senator Payman over the past few weeks and also before that. I think being the other brown Muslim woman in that Senate, I can understand far better than most what Senator Payman has been going through.

There has been a denial of an agency. And again, again, that comes down to how Muslim women are stereotyped in this country. How they are boxed into this person who can't make up their own minds. You know, that they are led by someone else - someone else forced them to do this. Someone else forced them or encouraged them to make a decision that they wholly made by themselves. Senator Payman, as far as I can see it, made this decision on her moral compass, following her moral compass, listening to the community, and actually looking at what the situation in Israel is at the moment. That's it. And you know, I'm very proud of her as another Muslim woman for standing strong on her convictions.