Photo: Getty ImagesAustralian MP Fraser Anning has joined the choir of those upset at the idea of a Muslim prayer during an Anzac Day service. He says the plan to broadcast a Muslim prayer during the ceremony is nothing more than “left wing virtue signaling”. “An Islamic call to prayer is now being broadcasted at an Anzac Day ceremony in New Zealand,” he wrote. The decision to invite a Muslim cleric to say a prayer at an Anzac Day service also sparked an anguished backlash from war veterans. “Anzac Day came about to recognise all those who went overseas and served their country and returned, and those who never returned.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 04, 2019 04:52 UTC