Australian racists of the left. By Chris Michell in The Australian.

Journalists are often quick to channel discussions about immigration into questions of political motivation.

ABC Insiders host David Speers was keen on April 19 to move the discussion on when both The Australian Financial Review’s Jennifer Hewett and news.com.au’s Samantha Maiden mentioned public concern about immigration.

Speers, Maiden and Faruqi seemed to agree [Liberal leader Angus] Taylor’s approach “may not be racist enough” to appeal to One Nation voters but too racist for others. …

That’s rich, coming from people who promoted The Voice. A more blatantly racist proposal than The Voice would be hard to imagine, but Australia’s left all supported it.

Note: saying “The Voice wasn’t racist because it targets descendants of ‘people who lived on this continent before’ rather than race” doesn’t get them off the hook. South African apartheid laws could have been framed as targeting descendants of ‘people who lived on this continent before’ or some such, but it wouldn’t have it been any less racist. The world sees right through such childish evasions.

And is this racism, or ideological/religious intolerance?

Dearborn, Michigan, is 55 per cent Muslim.

Its Muslim mayor last September demanded a Christian minister on the city’s council leave Dearborn after criticising the renaming of an intersection after a prominent Hezbollah supporter.

Christianity was not long ago the dominant religion in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt (Coptic), Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Libya. Sudan and Somalia were Christian and animist.

None of this means most Muslims here are not good Australians. Nor at only three per cent of the population is Islam likely to become our dominant religion. But we do need a mature focus on integration and less naivety about multiculturalism.

Oh, we know what the Australian left would say. They love Islam, because they hate successful or conservative whites — those with higher status than themselves in their own society.