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Islam is the second-largest religion in Australia. According to the 2021 Census in Australia, the combined number of people who self-identified as Australian Muslims, from all forms of Islam, constituted 813,392 people, or 3.2% of the total Australian population. [1][2] That total Muslim population makes Islam, in all its denominations and ...
e. Islamophobia in Australia is highly speculative and affective distrust and hostility towards Muslims, Islam, and those perceived as following the religion. [ 1 ] This social aversion and bias is often facilitated and perpetuated in the media through the stereotyping of Muslims as violent and uncivilised. Various Australian politicians and ...
In the 2001 census, 248,807 Australian residents reported Arab ancestry. Additionally, 209,372 Australians indicated that they spoke Arabic at home. 162,283 Australian residents were born in one of the 22 Arab League nations, a proportion which represented 0.8% of Australia's population. 120,000 Australians also had a parent who was born in an Arab state.
Since September 2020, Sharia is applied to matters of personal status for Muslims and to determine blood money amounts, while other aspects of the law, including criminal law and non-Muslim personal status is governed by civil law. The federal and local court systems comprises Sharia courts and civil courts.
Muslim Women Australia (MWA) is an Australian organisation formed in 1983.The executive director is Maha Abdo. [1] The group's president is Joumana Harris. [2] The group initially included many women activists from Lebanon, but women from Turkey, Singapore, Egypt and other Muslim countries participated as well.
In Australia, there is an ongoing debate over the possibility of a ban on the wearing of burqa and niqab, conservative forms of dress for Islamic women. There are currently 14 nations that have banned the burqa and niqab, including Austria, France, Belgium, Denmark, Switzerland, Netherlands, [1] Latvia, [2] Bulgaria, [3] Cameroon, Chad, Congo ...
Islam in Oceania. Gallipoli mosque, Auburn, Sydney. Islam in Oceania refers to Islam and Muslims in Oceania. By current estimates, there are 620,156 total Muslims in Oceania: 476,600 in Australia, 48,151 in New Zealand, 52,520 in Fiji, 6,352 in New Caledonia, 2,200 in Papua New Guinea, 360 in Solomon Islands, 221 in Vanuatu, 110 in Tonga. [1]
This figure dropped to 7.2% in 2021. The 2021 Australian census data showed that 43.9% of Australians classify themselves Christian, 8.2% less in real terms than five years prior, [23] The second-largest classification was the 38.9% who identified as "no religion".