At least one country has guts enough to call a spade a spade. Hope ours
gets off their duff
too.
Subject: Bravo Australia
CANBERRA: Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told
on Wednesday to get
out of Australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off
potential terror
attacks. A day after a group of mainstream Muslim leaders pledged loyalty
to Australia at a
special meeting with Prime Minister John Howard, he and his ministers
made it clear that extremists would face a crackdown. Treasurer Peter
Costello hinted that
some radical clerics could be asked to leave the country if they did not
accept that Australia
was a secular state and its laws were made by parliament. "If those are
not your values, if
you want a country which has Sharia law or a theocratic state, then
Australia is not for you," he said on national television. "I'd be
saying to clerics who are teaching that there are two laws governing
people in Australia, one
the Australian law and another, the Islamic law, that this is false. If
you can't agree with
parliamentary law, independent courts, democracy, and would prefer Sharia
law, and have the
op****tunity to go to another country which practices it, perhaps, then,
that's a better
option," Costello said.
Asked whether he meant radical clerics would be forced to leave, he
said those with dual
citizen****p could possibly be asked move to the other country. Education
Minister Brendan
Nelson later told re****ters that Muslims who did not want to accept local
values should "clear
off".
"Basically, people who don't want to be Australians, and they don't want
to live by
Australian values and understand them, well then they can basically clear
off," he said.
Separately, Howard angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying
he sup****ted spies
monitoring the nation's mosques.
BRITS, AMERICANS and CANADIANS.....ARE YOU LISTENING?
This is Leader****p with guts! The way it is. The way it should be.
Our men and women died in two world wars to get us this country and we
are giving it away.
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