Payman said “stay tuned” and “anything can happen” when asked if she wanted to collaborate with a coalition of Muslim community groups planning to run against Labor MPs.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has warned against faith-based political parties and argued one that advocated for Muslim Australians would only isolate the religious group, as rebel senator Fatima Payman hints at a new political movement., said “stay tuned” and “anything can happen” when asked if she wanted to collaborate with a coalition of Islamic community groups planning to run against Labor MPs in seats with large Muslim populations.
“Just because you are a person of faith, doesn’t mean you don’t have principles or that you would impose your beliefs on people who don’t hold those beliefs,” she said in a long interview with OnePath Network, a group to which Payman donates and which has labelled theIn the interview, Payman used Arabic terms such as “alhamdulillah”, which means “praise be to God” but is commonly used by non-Muslim Arabic speakers as well as non-devout Muslims.
Payman added that she was accountable to her voters but said it was crucial to “seek the pleasure of God and make sure we are doing right by him”. Meanwhile, Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja on Thursday accused Opposition Leader Peter Dutton of Islamophobia in relation to comments Dutton made about Payman quitting the government.
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