For several years, a sharp statement attributed to the ex-head of the Australian government has been dispersing over the network. We checked the authenticity of this quote.
In a short version, the statement attributed to Gillard sounds like this: “Muslims who want to live according to the Islamic laws of Sharia must leave Australia ... Not the Australians, but immigrants should adapt!” But there is and expanded A quote option that is a whole speech. In it, Gillard claims that the advancing laws of the Sharia of the Muslims were “asked to leave Australia on Wednesday, as Australia considers Muslims to be fanatical terrorists,” and also requires that they would not pray in public places and learn English. In Runet, this statement is often accompanied by a preamble: "The former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard should become the queen of the world."
In 2025, users distributed this quote "Picabu", Where the corresponding post scored at the time of writing this analysis of 772,000 views, actress Olga Budina In your Telegram channel, as well as users Facebook.
According to data Australian Statistics Bureau, in 2001, 281,000 Muslims lived in the country, and by 2021 their number It has grown up to 813,000. In Australian right -wing and some other political forces, this tendency has repeatedly caused concern and calls to tighten migration policy, and in some cases, frank manifestations Islamophobia.
In 2010 Julia Gillard She became the first woman as Prime Minister of Australia and occupied him until 2013. During her reign, she was not remembered by some frankly anti-Islamic steps. Yes, shortly before his appointment, Gillard Critically She spoke about wearing Burki in Australia (Muslim women's clothing completely covering her face and body), but she skeptically spoke about the idea of prohibiting her. Next year, answering the question of immigrants, a politician She saidWhat in her country is unacceptable discrimination on the basis of race or religion, and condemned the opposition’s attempts to organize a debate on this subject. “We don’t tell people:“ You cannot pray so if you want to come to Australia, ”Gillard said. In September 2012, she Name Disgusting anti -Islamic film "Innocation of Muslims", which caused protests in Sydney. At the same time, the politician, like most influential Islamic organizations in the country, condemned the violence with which these protests were accompanied.
So the real statements and actions of Julia Gillard at the head of the Australian government contradict the rhetoric that is attributed to her in viral publications. "Verified" studied transcripts Gillard speeches, her interview with large media and other authoritative sources and did not find expressions from them from the quote that dispersed through social networks. Actually, outside the social networks, this quote is practically not found - on Facebook it was published with the attribution of Gillard in 2011 And 2012 years. However, if you dig deeper, it turns out that in 2010 year she was attributed to the then Australian Prime Minister Kevin Ruddu, and in 2007 “His predecessor John Howard.”
At the same time, in Australia there were high -ranking officials, whose statements as a whole correspond to the main idea of encircled speech. So, in August 2005, a month and a half after terrorist attacks in Londonwho were arranged by the Islamists, Treasury of Australia, Peter Costello declared: “According to our constitution, we have a secular state. Our laws are adopted by the Australian parliament. If these are not your values, if you want a country with Sharia or a theocratic state, then Australia is not for you. This is not the country where you would feel comfortable, opposing democracy, parliamentary law and independent vessels, so I would say to those who do not like these values that, perhaps, there are other countries where they will more comfortably adhere to their own values and beliefs. ”
On the same days, the Minister of Education of Australia Brendan Nelson expressed About the same thought: “If you want to become an Australian and raise your children in Australia, we expect that these children will study and accept Australian values and beliefs ... We want them to understand our history and culture, as far as we believe in partnership and that they need to give another person equal opportunities, and, in fact, if people do not want to support, accept and transfer to their children Australia values, then they should be removed. "
However, far from all theses and speech turnover used in the encircled text can be found in the words of these politicians. Its source - article 2001 Authority is not at all an Australian, but the US Air Force veteran and the future member of the House of Representatives from Georgia Barry Laudermalka, who first appeared in one of the local newspapers, and then in Vietnow magazine. It was written under the impression of the attacks of September 11 and, of course, is dedicated to purely American realities. In the viral text, some quotes of Laudermalka got almost unchanged (“We speak English, and not in Spanish, not in Arabic, not in Chinese, not in Japanese, not in Russian and not differently. Therefore, if you want to become part of our society, teach our language!”), Others were edited to give greater relevance (for example, in one of the versions of September 11, September 11 Replaced by 2002 terrorist attacks on Bali, but this fragment in the popular version is now absent). The option adapted to Australia even got into performanceAimed at the local Senate.
Thus, the viral text has nothing to do with Julia Gillard and goes back to the article of the American veteran about the attacks of September 11 and the statements of other Australian politicians 20 years ago. The compilation that appeared as a result of compilation, in slightly different options, has gained wide popularity with attribution of several prime ministers. Back in the mid-2000s, he became a source of appeared in the Russian press Fake News pro decree On the eviction of Muslims from Australia.
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