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Aftab Malik says Islamaphobia ‘hidden cancer’ with incidents ‘common’ but nothing being done about it

Australia’s Islamophobia envoy, Aftab Malik, has told ABC Radio National that Islamophobia is a “hidden cancer” that eats away at social cohesion in society.

Those words have no place in a multicultural and multifaith Australia. Islamophobia is a hidden cancer that eats away at social cohesion … it hasn’t warranted or received a public outcry that many of us believe it should.

It’s disturbing in the sense that it’s so common and nothing, apparently, has been done about this.