EXCLUSIVE: THE AFL’s two most high profile Muslims will deliver a powerful political statement against racism on Friday night at the MCG.

With the unequivocal support of Richmond and Essendon football clubs, foxfooty.com.au understands Bachar Houli and Adam Saad will share an important act of solidarity and unity against Senator Fraser Anning’s inflammatory anti-immigration speech, which was delivered on Tuesday.

The act will see Saad and Houli toss the coins alongside the club’s two captains.

Full details will be announced on Friday.

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Bachar Houli. (Photo by Matt King/Getty Images) Source: Getty Images

Houli and Saad are practising Muslims and will come together with the support of Bombers and Tigers teammates and coaches.

AFL great Leigh Matthews told Sportsday it will be “interesting” to see how the sign of unity plays out.

“Let’s see how it all plays out,” Matthews said after the news broke. “The principle of sticking up for your rights … If they feel the need to, then I guess they’ve got the right. It will be interesting to see what transpires.”

On Tuesday, Australian crossbench senator Fraser Anning delivered an inflammatory speech calling for a plebiscite asking the nation whether they wanted to eliminate immigration for all Muslims and non-English speaking people.

Anning’s speech was condemned by Pauline Hanson, with whom he used to work for as part of the far-right One Nation party.

It was his maiden speech in the Senate.

“I thought we had moved beyond this in the parliament. Australia is a warm and open nation,” Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told Channel 9 after the speech.

Adam Saad. (AAP Image/Julian Smith) Source: AAP

Anning said: “The reasons for ending all further Muslim immigration are both compelling and self-evident.

“The record of Muslims who have already come to this country in terms of rates of crime, welfare dependency and terrorism are the worst of any migrant and vastly exceed another immigrant group,” he said.

“The majority of Muslims in Australia of working age do not work and exist on welfare. Muslims in New South Wales and Victoria are three times more likely than other groups to be convicted of crimes.”

“We have black African Muslim gangs terrorising Melbourne, we have ISIS-sympathising Muslims trying to go overseas to try and fight for ISIS and while all Muslims are not terrorists, certainly all terrorists these days are Muslims.

“So why would anyone want to bring more of them here?”

Anning’s speech has been widely condemned across the political spectrum and throughout the community.

A number of his statements have been found to be factually incorrect — for example, the Australian Bureau of Statistics does not collect data on the religious affiliations of criminal offenders.

Along with Turnbull’s comments, opposition leader Bill Shorten said the speech was “repugnant and disgraceful,” while Labor Senator Penny Wong said it “sought to fan racism.”

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