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Muslims Out Of Australia
http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/australia.asp ^ | Jan 31, 2007 | e-mail

Posted on 01/31/2007 10:57:30 AM PST by UScbass

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. Treasurer Peter Costello, seen as heir apparent to Howard, 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 Austr alia 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 Islamic law that is false. If you can't agree with parliamentary law, independent courts, democracy, and would prefer Sharia law and have the opportunity 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 citizenship could possibly be asked to move to the other country. Education Minister Brendan Nelson later told reporters that Muslims who did not want to accept local values should "clear off. Basically people who don't want to be Australians, and who 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 supported spy agencies monitoring the nation's mosques. Quote: "IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It." "We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society .. Learn the language!"

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: jihad; sharia; terrorism; wot
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To: Aussie Dasher

ping. Go Diggers!


21 posted on 01/31/2007 11:18:44 AM PST by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: Dems_R_Losers

They'd first have to repeal their gun bans.


22 posted on 01/31/2007 11:19:35 AM PST by shekkian
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To: UScbass

WOW!! Twice recently, I've had people say they might move to Australia if the Hildabeast gets elected. It's looking mighty tempting.


23 posted on 01/31/2007 11:19:47 AM PST by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: UScbass
Lest people get confused here, it's worth pointing out that this is from an e-mail that circulated widely in 2005.

scroll to the bottom, per snopes:

The individual statements attributed to Australian government officials included in the e-mail reproduced at the head of this page are thus essentially accurate, but the selectively-quoted excerpts of controversial material from different news stories create the misleading overall impression that Australia enacted a formal policy to force some Muslim groups out of the country. The statements quoted were part of the public debate over an issue that flared briefly in the immediate aftermath of the London Tube bombings, then quietly subsided.

Last updated: 4 April 2006

So, it's essentially a collection of sundry quotes from varous people in the tense time after the bombings, neither official government pronouncement nor representative of current policy.

I just thought we should clarify that for the record here.

24 posted on 01/31/2007 11:21:02 AM PST by leilani
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To: UScbass
"W" really needs to do the same thing - but won't. (sigh)

The Aussies have been standing up against the radical Islamics a lot lately.

Were it not for the gun laws and the high cost of private flying "down under", I'd seriously consider a move.

25 posted on 01/31/2007 11:22:04 AM PST by GoldCountryRedneck ("Idiocy - Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large numbers" - despair.com)
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To: UScbass

Oh to have an elected official in America who has the spine to be so clear!


26 posted on 01/31/2007 11:23:39 AM PST by TChris (The Democrat Party: A sewer into which is emptied treason, inhumanity and barbarism - O. Morton)
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To: UScbass

Someone has backbone, but he will probably be the target of a series of threats by the proponents of the ideology of death and destruction.


27 posted on 01/31/2007 11:27:24 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: UScbass
Bump!

Perhaps they should also be on the lookout for this little perfidity:


Hiding her identity, a woman takes refuge at a jail in northern Jordan. Women who were raped or had adulterous relationships are kept in jail to protect them from “honor killing” by their families.

(Photo Credit: Ali Jarekji, Reuters)


28 posted on 01/31/2007 11:30:02 AM PST by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: Dems_R_Losers

I'm with you...but take water. Australia: The Last Frontier of Freedom.


29 posted on 01/31/2007 11:33:10 AM PST by madison10
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To: UScbass

Boy howdy do the Australians rock. Real men.


30 posted on 01/31/2007 11:34:08 AM PST by TexanToTheCore (If it ain't Rugby or Bullriding, it's for girls.........................................)
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To: madison10

How is a self described "secular state" with the power to force out people of any given religion a "Frontier of Freedom". Sounds more on the totalitarianist side to me. Personally, I'm glad that the US guarantees freedom of religion.


31 posted on 01/31/2007 11:38:04 AM PST by Northeastern_Realist
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To: UScbass

This is great! I admire Howard more and more. And the Brits need to take a lesson from this. We do too.


32 posted on 01/31/2007 11:38:12 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: UScbass

Since this is from SNOPES, the famous urban legend website (motto: Rumor has it...), how sure are you that it is an authentic report?


33 posted on 01/31/2007 11:38:38 AM PST by Captain Rhino ( Dollars spent in India help a friend; dollars spent in China arm an enemy.)
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To: Dems_R_Losers
I guess if it gets bad enough here after the Democrats force our defeat in Iraq, we can always move to Australia.

Thinking about it .... but they have very restrictive gun laws.

34 posted on 01/31/2007 11:39:02 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: UScbass
Quote: "IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It." "We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society .. Learn the language!"

This is it! What Muslims and all other immigrants as well in all of the countries into which they are immigrating ...

are to be told ...

If you do not like it leave. Now.
35 posted on 01/31/2007 11:42:50 AM PST by geologist
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To: UScbass

Hey folks... good story but if one scrolls to the bottom of the "snopes" article you'll find that the article was updated in April of 2006. The post makes it seems as if the news if from 1/31/07. I know it's tough.

Of course, I agree with the notion all together.


36 posted on 01/31/2007 11:46:18 AM PST by arealmansview (Old news isnt' it?)
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To: Northeastern_Realist
Personally, I'm glad that the US guarantees freedom of religion.

Yes, but until we can have islam redefined as something other than a religion, it gives the muzzies a loophole they can drive an explosive-filled truck through.

37 posted on 01/31/2007 11:47:14 AM PST by Max in Utah (WWBFD? "What Would Ben Franklin Do?")
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To: UScbass

How about the same mantra the Libs/MSM/DEMS say about Iraq, US out of Iraq now..... how about LIBS/MSM out of USA NOW ?


38 posted on 01/31/2007 11:51:16 AM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: BuffaloJack

Yeah... at least they " GET IT " .


39 posted on 01/31/2007 11:52:31 AM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: lilylangtree

Aemobas don't have cartlidge much less bone for a spine.


40 posted on 01/31/2007 12:00:50 PM PST by Leatherneck_MT (In a world where Carpenters come back from the dead, ALL things are possible.)
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