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YouTube personality Lauren Southern has broadcast another video fail during her Australian tour, this time attempting to stir up controversy in the Sydney suburb of Lakemba.
Flanked by seven security guards, Southern visited the area in an attempt to expose the western Sydney suburb, which has a significant Muslim population, as a “no-go zone”.
“I think that in Australia the no-go areas wouldn’t be as bad as Europe because they’ve got less mass immigration,” the provocative critic of Islam said in a video uploaded to her YouTube channel this afternoon.
“But I’ve heard some pretty bizarre stories about riots, about attacks, kind of grooming gangs in Lakemba. I want to see what’s going on there.”
Southern claimed there were “heads turning” as soon as she and her guards and film crew hit the streets of Lakemba.
“Men started yelling in Arabic across the street at us,” she said.
But reporters in Lakemba from the Canterbury-Bankstown Express said she was “largely ignored” as she tried to bait locals.
When she tried to interview passers-by and “criticise Islam” outside Lakemba mosque, the 23-year-old was halted by local police who stopped her, saying they had “grave concerns” about what she planned to do.