"Images of arrested Muslims dominated our airwaves for quite a few days," Michael Barnes of Gordon Uniting Church in New South Wales told the Huffington Post after increased anti-terrorism efforts by the Australian government took hold.

"I was concerned that this, unwittingly, fed into and exacerbated general fear and anxiety in the community and more importantly that it made Muslims feel unwelcome in their own country."

Barnes said that discrimination against minority groups in Australia is increasing, an ...