#AsAMother trends on Twitter after Sonia Kruger’s Muslim comments

The host of Channel Nine’s The Voice and Today Extra said she agreed with US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has called for a similar ban to be imposed in the US.

On Monday morning Kruger sparked online fury – which left her name trending on Twitter and more than 2000 comments on the broadcaster’s Facebook page – by linking the number of Muslims entering a country to the number of terrorist attacks occurring.

He said: ‘As you know Australia has a non-discriminatory immigration program and a non-discriminatory humanitarian program, and has done for many, many years.

“Personally, I would like to see it (Muslim migration) stop now for Australia”, she admitted.

Ms Kruger said she had a lot of “peace-loving, lovely Muslim friends”, but agreed with the controversial opinion piece.

“There is a correlation between the number of people in a country who are Muslim and the number of terrorist attacks”, said Kruger.

Sonia Kruger has defended the controversial comments she made about Muslim immigration, with the Nine Network backing her “freedom of speech” in expressing the opinion.

Kruger, on national television, reading an article by nationally syndicated columnist Andrew Bolt, then claimed her free speech was being silenced. “They both go hand in hand”.

He said: ‘This breeds hate, this sort of article breeds hate’.

Today host Lisa Wilkinson pressed Kruger for clarification.

When asked by Lisa Wilkinson if Sonia would want the borders closed to Muslim migrants, Sonia replied, “Yes, yes I would”.

Ms Kruger said the parents who had children killed in France after a truck drove into a crowd in Nice, killing 84 and injuring 202 more, would disagree with Mr Campbell. “For the safety of the citizens here, I think it’s important”.

In 2008 Kruger attempted to joke on Dancing with the Stars about her clothes for the Melbourne Cup carnival, saying “let’s just say there is a sweat shop full of illegal immigrants working on them right now”.

Kruger said the victims of Nice would agree with her and as a mother she felt it was “vital” to be able to discuss the issue.