ABC Media Watch host Paul Barry says Yassmin Abdel-Magied's Anzac Day post was "tactless", and rightly defends her from some of the more hysterical abuse.

But this was his most interesting concession:

Abdel-Magied presents a round-up of ABC news on Saturday morning. She’s also appeared as a guest on Q&A and The Drum. And she partly owes those roles to being Muslim, black and a woman.

So the ABC is both racist and pro-Muslim in its hiring.

But think this through. The ABC has hired this inexperienced and unwise 26 year old on the understanding that she is Muslim - which sends her a message. Stay Muslim, or else your job is in danger.

Then there are the ABC's other similar hirings of celebrity Muslims. There's Waleed Aly and his wife Susan Carland, with Maha Abdo and Silma Ihram appearing regularly as ABC panellists. Note that all the women covering their heads. The ABC seems to have no interest in hiring women who have left Islam or who have their head uncovered and thus are not identifiably Muslim.

This means the ABC promotes a relatively strict form of Islam, and largely uncritically. It does not give the same promotion to any other faith, including ones less hostile to our values and freedoms.

Why?