Controversial The Footy Showย co-host Sam Newman has unleashed on the Muslim community on this week's Sam, Mike and Thommo podcast.
In the wake of the incident which saw Muslims Bachar Houli and Adam Saad come together ahead of Richmond's clash with Essendon last Friday night in a bid to show a gesture of unity following a divisive speech delivered during Parliament last week, Newman slammed Muslims, suggesting they aren't on the same page as the rest of the nation.
โThey donโt generally nationalise, they colonise,โ Newman said.
โThere are 600,000 Muslims in Australia, they share no common interest with what weโre on about."
Newman went on to suggest Muslims were becoming a "huge problem" in Europe, and now also in the United States.
โWhy would the AFL, instead of thinking theyโre virtuous by getting those boys to shake hands, instead theyโre being divisive,โ Newman said.
Newman then defended Queensland senator Fraser Anning and his comments suggesting Australia should limit Muslim immigration.
โOf course heโs been vilified because people donโt want to be identified with what might be โฆ popular opinion, as opposed to being virtue signalling in saying that weโre not racist,โ he said.
The former Geelong star wanted the AFL to not worry about being political, and should instead focus on fixing the look and feel of the game itself.
โThey just to get a game on, and get the rules right and get it umpired properly and get a match review panel is competent โฆ thatโs all they got to do,โ Newman said.
