WA Muslim senator forced to cancel iftar dinner after Gaza backlash

March 6, 2024   

(WA Today) The first Muslim woman to wear a hijab in federal parliament was forced to cancel a planned iftar dinner featuring her Labor colleagues after pushback from the West Australian Islamic community.

Labor WA Senator Fatima Payman’s March 23 iftar fundraising dinner boasted “special guests” in attendance including Perth MP and assistant minister to the prime minister, Patrick Gorman, and state Labor members.

Gorman’s planned presentation at the dinner dismayed WA Islamic leaders, who wrote to Payman to vent their frustrations over her party’s response to the Gaza conflict and urged her to cancel it.

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