While the issue of terrorism and how best to engage Muslims will remain a potentially divisive issue within the government, there is the growing rise of another ideology of resentment, in symbiosis with Islamism and Muslim victimhood, which is the white identity politics of anti-immigration groups.
It overlaps with debates about race and often clearly illustrates how accusations of racism are largely about class sneering with Muslims or other ethnic groups used as cover, evidence that multiculturalism is sometimes the racism of the anti-racists.
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Dr Tanveer Ahmed is a western Sydney based psychiatrist
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