What if you were told that most Australian Muslims are at least fifth-generation Australians and not recent migrants? Or that Muslims had traveled to and settled in Australia way before its "discovery" by European explorers?
Following the Bourke Street attack and the recently thwarted terror plot in Melbourne, a political debate around Islam in Australia has returned. It is a debate that, according to leading academics speaking with SBS Italian, tends to distort reality.
While Islamophobic attacks have been reported in the most recent weeks, a series of opinion polls provide an insight into Australian perceptions of the Muslim world.
