The video was made by Sydney Macquarie University media and law student Kamal Saleh, as a social experiment to test if anti-Islamic views in Australia were as widespread as the media would have us believe.
“This video is hard proof that the Australian public do not welcome hate against Muslims,” he said. “Yes it does occur but it is clearly not welcome.”
The footage was shot at Hyde Park in Sydney on 2nd October, between 2pm and 5pm
Mr Saleh said he expected most people would ignore the Muslim woman and boy who participated in the experiment. Instead almost every person who witnessed the attacks sought to intervene.
Well done, Australia. Hope for humanity yet.
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This is great, Colin! I get so fed up with constant complaints about what a racist country this is. There are racists, like everywhere else, and what our government is doing, on the assumption it will get more votes, is unforgivable. But there are plenty of people like the ones in this video. I hope he eventually told the folk in the video what he was doing, as it must have been a stressful experience. And he’s very lucky no one punched him.
Yeah it was a very brave thing to do. I think he was surprised - he said he didn’t expect to get the reaction that he got. This video is getting a lot of attention around the world, which is great.