After days of headlines over her controversial anti-vaccination stance, Monday night saw Pauline Hanson return to her favourite topic: Muslims. Over the course of the interview with A Current Affair's Tracy Grimshaw—watch the whole thing if you're feeling overly "peppy"—the One Nation leader outlined how Muslim people are quietly destroying Australian society while our PC government and institutions sit back and watch."I hear from Australians that have lived just nice, quiet lives in their suburbs and then they've had Muslims come in there who have changed their suburbs," Hanson said. "They've built these mosques and they have their cars parked across the driveway or they have rubbish thrown over their fences."Hanson made a number of frankly weird allegations against Muslim Australians, including that they were offering bribes to get their white neighbours to move out of their nice Ramsay Street-style suburban homes. "They go and knock on their door because they won't move out and threaten them: 'Listen mate, you better take this suitcase full of cash and get out of here.' It's having an impact on our educational system and, you know, in our schools, and our swimming baths," she said. Yes—the nation's swimming baths are at stake.Hanson also accused all Muslim people of being liars by nature, which—on a completely unrelated note—is what Hitler said about Jewish people in Mein Kampf. "They can lie to you, it's called taqiyya. They can tell you anything they want to, it's to blend into a society until the numbers grow, and then they use their will to take control of governments. That's what their tactic is," Hanson continued to explain, completely straight-faced.As an FYI, there are a number of interpretations of taqiyya within Islam but all relate back to the practice of hiding one's faith to avoid persecution. It is more common within Shia Islam than for Sunnis—who make up the majority of the world's Muslims. Grimshaw, who appeared disturbed by Hanson's comments, asked the politician whether she truly believed whether there was no such thing as a "good Muslim." Hanson's reply was stark: "I believe there are some that want to live a good life and a quiet life. But Tracy you tell me—you line up a number of Muslims, who's the good one?"As with Trump, a politician the One Nation leader admires greatly, it's hard to know whether Hanson believes her own rhetoric. But she's a populist, and she knows it works. The polls currently indicate One Nation enjoys as much support as the Greens. The party is also set to do well in the upcoming Western Australian election, where it has appealed effectively to voters afflicted by the state's economic downturn. As Hanson herself said at the end of the interview, "People actually want to see One Nation in power. And that's what I'm picking up all the time."Follow Kat on Twitter
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