Attack on Jason Wood suggests that if you were a soldier serving your country, liberating Afghanistan from Taliban terrorists, you are the enemy of Australia’s Muslims

Two incidents in two weeks should have us all concerned – one involving a Labor MP and one Liberal. Would you ever expect politicians to have to flee a prayer event at a church, a synagogue, or a Hindu temple?

There’s an ugly change to our political culture in this election campaign, that has politicians being chased out of mosques.

Liberal MP Jason Wood visited a packed Muslim prayer event in Dandenong last Monday, only to be shouted down there by very aggressive men, many pro Palestinian.

Forced to flee, Wood was even threatened by one of the Afghan worshippers, who yelled: “I’ll break your face.”

One eyewitness, from Stand For Palestine, gloated: “They had to get out and they had to get out quick.”

The Ozzy Turks group was also delighted, claiming “Jason Wood has worked extensively at the Australian Defence Force and many from the Afghan community have called him out for working for an army accused of taking part in destroying society in Afghanistan.”

Jason Wood was forced to flee after being yelled at by worshippers at this mosque in Dandenong. Picture: Instagram/TheOzzyTurks

Wood was actually a policeman, but this attack suggests that if you were a soldier serving your country, liberating Afghanistan from Taliban terrorists, you are the enemy of Australia’s Muslims.

That’s a great worry.

Political tribalists will say Wood got what any Liberal should expect for not being more pro Palestinian.

Except for this: Tony Burke is Home Affairs Minister in the Albanese Labor Government, and been very pro-Palestinian, since a quarter of voters in his Sydney seat of Watson are Muslim.

Yet two weeks ago Burke, too, was chased out of a mosque.

Flyers had been sent calling him a “racist’ for supposedly being too pro-Israel, and a message was posted on Muslim sites asked “brothers” to turn up to “hold them to account” and show Burke was “not welcome”.

Young men did show up, and the media reported, almost as a throwaway, that “Burke was forced to leave a Muslim prayer event in western Sydney due to security concerns”.

Hang on.

This is too important to gloss over.

I mean, would you ever expect politicians to have to flee a prayer event at a church, a synagogue, or a Hindu temple?

Why must they flee a mosque – two of them in just two weeks?

That Stand for Palestine group cheered that another federal Labor Minister, Jason Clare, was also stopped from visiting a mosque, adding: “Just like cockroaches – when you shine the light on them they run away.”

Neither the Prime Minister nor the Liberals condemned what happened when asked this week.

That’s the way.

Thanks to mass immigration, a problem once treated as too small to worry about is now too big to confront.

Originally published as Attack on Jason Wood suggests that if you were a soldier serving your country, liberating Afghanistan from Taliban terrorists, you are the enemy of Australia’s Muslims