Revulsion and Reflection

K. Nebhan
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Since the 1980s, much has been made about the lives of Australia’s first Muslim settlers, the ‘Afghan cameleers’, their pioneering achievements and the suffering they endured through Australia’s discriminatory policies and immigration laws. However, little, if any, academic attention has been given to the converts to Islam during this same period, many of whom were striving to rid the Australian public of misconceptions surrounding their new faith to end this discrimination and ignorance. This article briefly looks at the way Australia’s news media presented and perceived Australian Muslims from the arrival of the first cameleer settlers in the 1860s to the first few decades of the twentieth century when ‘White’ converts were increasing and unwittingly propelling Islam onto the public stage. While protectionist policies, particularly leading up to Federation, saw numerous unfavourable images of ‘coloured’ Muslims in the Australian print media, there was a subtle but significant change at the turn of the twentieth century. While the White Australia Policy stood in the face of Australia’s Asiatic Muslims, it was largely irrelevant to the growing number of European and Australian converts who sought to subvert it in order to lift the Australian Muslim community of which they were part.
厌恶和反思
自20世纪80年代以来,关于澳大利亚第一批穆斯林定居者“阿富汗骆驼人”的生活、他们的开拓成就以及他们在澳大利亚歧视性政策和移民法下所遭受的苦难,已经有了很多报道。然而,在同一时期,学术界很少关注皈依伊斯兰教的人,他们中的许多人正在努力消除澳大利亚公众对他们的新信仰的误解,以结束这种歧视和无知。本文简要介绍了从19世纪60年代第一批骆驼定居者的到来到20世纪头几十年“白人”皈依者不断增加并不知不觉地将伊斯兰教推向公众舞台的澳大利亚新闻媒体呈现和感知澳大利亚穆斯林的方式。虽然保护主义政策,特别是导致联邦,在澳大利亚的印刷媒体上看到了许多对“有色人种”穆斯林不利的形象,但在20世纪初发生了微妙而重大的变化。尽管白澳政策面对的是澳大利亚的亚裔穆斯林,但它在很大程度上与越来越多的欧洲和澳大利亚的皈依者无关,这些人试图颠覆它,以提升他们所属的澳大利亚穆斯林社区。
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