The Silenced Afghan-Australian Perspective on the Brereton Report

Did you know that 40% of permanent ADF personnel in 2019, were aged between 20-29? That means that during their most formative childhood and adolescent years, these ADF personnel would have been bombarded with anti-Muslim rhetoric from the most senior members of parliament, overexposed to sensationalised anti-Muslim stories from the media, and they would have contextualised it all in their classrooms as they sat through that same propaganda-infused curriculum that I did.

Is the idea of an ideological campaign sounding less far-fetched now? To me, what I’ve described so far sounds like an effective way to create an army of soldiers with extreme anti-Muslim sentiment. This process has another name: Radicalisation, and you’ve been stewing in it for quite some time, Australia.