“I'm not into banning people on the premise of their belief,” Joyce told Sky News Australia. “Every group has its ratbags, even Catholics. We had, in the past, the IRA (Irish Republican Army), but if someone says every Catholic is a member of the IRA, I'd say no."

Pauline Hanson, a senator-elect for the One Nation Party, has called for a royal commission on Islam, a ban on new mosques and to prohibit Muslim immigration. She founded the One Nation Party in 1997 with a populist platform against Indigenous rights and immigration.

Her comments on ABC's Q&A debate program on Monday created a national stir.

Hanson said that people are “in fear of terrorism, which is happening around the world. Why? Because of Islam … I don't believe that Islam is compatible with our culture and our way of life."

Responding to Hanson’s calls for security camera’s inside mosques, Joyce said that, “If you can put them in mosques, then when I go to mass we're going to have one in a Catholic church?”

Debates over Muslim bans peaked this week when Today Extra host Sonia Kruger said that she would like to see a ban on Muslim immigration “because I want to feel safe as all of our citizens do when we go out to celebrate Australia Day."

The comments came during a debate about whether migrants increase the risk of terror attacks following the Bastille Day attacks in Nice, which killed 84 people, including at least 20 Muslims.

Kruger's comments were heavily criticized across the country. Waleed Aly, an award-winning Muslim journalist from the Channel Ten's The Project, said that “Kruger is not evil, she's scared." He added that this kind of rhetoric, however, creates a xenophobic environment.

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