Australian cricket legend Mark Waugh’s wife Kim has stunned social media users with her very public outburst at Muslim worshipers who opposed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at a Sydney mosque.
Albanian and Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke were led to Eid al-Fitr prayers to mark the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan on March 20 at the Lakemba Mosque in Sydney’s west.
Kim left the protestors with the comment “they’re a bunch of animals”. She was responding to a recent political article by Avi Yemini of Rebel News Australia.
Kim Waugh is a successful trainer whose horses have a success rate of 14 percent from more than 3,700 starts, according to Racenet.
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Check out Kim’s comment here:
Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi “used Parliament to defend the Islamist mob that drove the Prime Minister out of the Lakemba Mosque,” Yemini wrote on X on March 23.
In Yemini’s story via Rebel News Australia, Kim took aim at Senator Faruqi and the Muslim protesters, commenting: “Stop her (Faruqi) talking. She’s crazy. They (Muslim protesters) are a bunch of animals.”
According to a DailyMail report, in a separate post by Yemini Kim, she attacked Senator Faruqi, commenting: “Is she (Faruqi) for real? Hi, embarrassing.”
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About the protest
Protesters shouted and booed the Albanian and Burke during a visit to Australia’s largest mosque for Eid al-Fitr prayers, expressing anger over his stance on Israel’s allied offensive in Gaza.
The protesters reportedly disrupted the proceedings about 15 minutes after joining worshipers at the Lakemba mosque to mark the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
Albanese and Burke were sitting on the floor of a prayer hall in socks among hundreds of worshipers when protesters whistled and told them, “Get out!” and calling them “supporters of genocide”.
According to a Daily Mail report, the protest was organized by controversial activist group Stand4Palestine over Israel’s killing of Palestinians in Gaza following an attack by Hamas militants in 2023.
“How dare you come here,” said Mukhlis Mah, an organizer for Stand4Palestine, before being led out of the mosque. “This is our sacred place – why are you inviting him (Albanian) here today? Shame on you.”
How did Prime Minister Albanese react?
Despite the incident, the event at the mosque was “incredibly positive”, Albanese said, according to Reuters.
“If you have a few people heckling in a crowd of 30,000 people, it should be put in that perspective,” he told reporters, adding that the community has dealt with some hecklers.
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What did Senator Faruqi say?
Senator Mehreen Faruqi accused the Australian government of continuing to “gas Muslims as they deflect and obscure their role and responsibility in Israel’s genocide in Gaza”.
After allegedly being condemned by Labor MPs in Parliament, Faruqi posted on Instagram: “The Labor Party continues to crack down on people who speak out against genocide and ignore the perpetrators.
“They obviously care more about the pomp and ceremony than the Palestinians who are being starved and killed by the thousands,” she said. “Labour showed more outrage at me holding a sign than Israel starving an entire population.”
