The chief executive of the Islamic College of Brisbane, Ali Kadri is speaking to ABC News Breakfast about Pauline Hanson’s latest Islamophobic stunt, after she wore a burqa in the senate for the second time in her career.

Asked what he thought when he saw it, Kadri says:

When I saw Pauline Hanson do this again, I thought that that stunt belonged on TikTok, not in our Parliament. I mean, all she’s doing is making a joke out of the Parliament and the parliamentary process with this red herring issue, which no-one else except her and a few other people care about.

Kadri said he sees the impact Hanson and those like her have on the Muslim community, including children:

Let me give you a fresh example from yesterday. I represent one of the largest Islamic schools in the state with 1,800 And yesterday, when I was driving back home, one of the students was waiting to get picked up outside the gates of the school. And this is a young, primary aged student who of waiting for a parent to come and pick her up. And an adult male passing in a ute was slurring and hurling abuses at her. This is the experience of Australian Muslims. Whenever Pauline Hanson does these stunts in the Parliament, it escalates and radicalises people even more where people think that it is OK to abuse a little Australian Muslim girl wearing a hijab.