‘Really wrong’: Ray Hadley blasts Pauline Hanson after explosive interview left host speechless
Ray Hadley has demanded Pauline Hanson apologise to Australian Muslims after she claimed they ‘hate Westerners’ during a heated live interview.
The former radio king warned conservatives not to ‘think like Pauline Hanson’ and accused the One Nation leader of fuelling dangerous division after she was interviewed by Sky News host Sharri Markson on Monday night.
Markson asked Hanson what she thought of the Albanese government’s handling of Australian women and children linked to Islamic State.
‘I’ve got no time for the radical Islam, their religion concerns me because what it says in the Quran,’ Hanson shot back.
‘They hate Westerners, and that’s what it’s all about. You say there’s great Muslims out there, well I’m sorry, how can you tell me there are good Muslims?
‘These people, these women went over, supported their men to fight in terrorism and against our values, our laws.
‘If we open up the borders and allow more into the country, we’re gonna suffer. Future generations will, as other countries have, like France and Denmark and England and all these other countries and Canada.’
Hadley, a former 2GB radio host, suggested Hanson’s divisive rhetoric was being driven by poll numbers as support for One Nation continues to climb.
Sharri Markson (left) disavowed the comments made by Pauline Hanson (right)
Hadley (pictured) warned conservatives not to ‘think like Pauline Hanson’ after the interview
‘What Pauline said was just wrong, really wrong,’ he said.
‘The fact that she’s empowered by the polls, she thinks she’s got to keep driving that wedge, and I think she’s wrong.’
Markson was quick to distance herself from the One Nation leader.
‘As an Australian Jew, I don’t support what [Hanson] just said,’ she told viewers.
‘Of course I believe the vast majority of Australian Muslims do have a place in Australia and they should be here.
‘There are a lot of moderate Muslims in Australia who are, as you put it, good Muslims. I think we can agree that radical extremist Islam that doesn’t support Australian values has no place here.’
A recent Roy Morgan poll, the first since Angus Taylor became Liberal leader, put One Nation at 21.5 per cent, just behind the Coalition at 23.5 per cent, raising questions about whether Hanson’s polling surge is fuelling her divisive rhetoric.
