Australia cancels Milo Yiannopoulos’ visa after massacre comments

Published March 16, 2019 6:08pm ET



Australia’s government has revoked the visa of right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos following the New Zealand shooting in Christchurch that targeted two mosques.

Although immigration minister David Coleman approved the visa for Yiannopoulos last week, he announced Saturday the visa would be canceled because of the British online personality’s remarks on Islam after the attack. In a Facebook post, Yiannopoulos said that shootings such as the one in Christchurch occur because “the establishment panders to and mollycoddles extremist leftism and barbaric, alien religious cultures.”

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