Everyday Australians have reacted with outrage after Muslims took over the streets of Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide with massive religious processions.
Thousands of attendees chanted and waved flags as they marched through some of Australia’s biggest cities on Saturday to observe Ashura, a day of mourning where Shia Muslims worldwide to commemorate the death of Imam Hussein.
Videos taken by local residents and Muslim groups show marchers, mainly dressed in black and segregated by sex, filling up footpaths and praying in public parks, and many of the women were dressed in full-face Islamic veils.
The footage sparked debate on social media, where some Aussies described the parades as displays of “intimidation” and others said they showed multiculturalism had failed.
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This is not immigration or multiculturalism, Australia is being conquered & our own government if funding & facilitating a foreign invasion on our shores.
This is TREASON.
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Thousands of Muslims, including many women in burqas, take over the streets of Adelaide for a religious procession.
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The Sydney Shia community gathered for the Day 10 walk of Ashura with a message of unity that has echoed for over 1,300 years.
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Ashura Procession 2026 Melbourne Australia #Ashura#Muharram2026 pic.twitter.com/fdcFVNInjJ
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Popular political commentator Lozzy B shared a clip of the Melbourne parade, which include vision of thousands of Muslims gathered in a park.
“This is not immigration or multiculturalism, Australia is being conquered and our own government is funding and facilitating a foreign invasion on our shores,” she wrote.
A video taken from a bus in Adelaide and shared on Facebook also sparked anger on Facebook, with one saying “this is pure intimidation”.
“I have a question… why was it necessary to have this parade on the streets of Adelaide?.. Why is it not equally as worthy if held at a mosque?” asked one local.
“It’s a show of power,” replied another.
“It makes me sad that this is allowed to happen in Australia. The government need to answer some serious questions,” wrote a third Adelaide resident.
But others accused those who objected to the parades of “bigotry” and “fearmongering”.
“It was a peaceful march. Who cares if they were all Muslim. Would you have made the same complaint if it was a march by a Christian group?” one man asked.
Header image: Left, the marchers praying in a park in Melbourne (X). Right, the Adelaide parade (Facebook).
