'Accept our law or leave'

news.com.au ^ | 10 November 2005

[Aussie Dasher]

(Australian) TREASURER Peter Costello said radical Muslims would not be allowed to turn Australia into an Islamic state.

Mr Costello said Muslims who wanted to live in a country governed by sharia law, which imposes strict limitations on freedoms, would be better off living elsewhere.

"If you are somebody who wants to live in an Islamic state governed by sharia law you are not going to be happy in Australia, because Australia is not an Islamic state, will never be an Islamic state and will never be governed by sharia law," Mr Costello said.

"We are a secular state under our constitution, our law is made by parliament elected in democratic elections.

"We do not derive our laws from religious instruction."

Mr Costello said anyone who was alienated by Australia's form of government, judicial system and civil rights and wanted something else "might be better advised to find the 'something else' somewhere else".

"There are Islamic states around the world that practise sharia law and if that's your object you may well be much more at home in such a country than trying to turn Australia into one of those countries, because it's not going to happen," he said.

[sheik yerbouty]

ALLAHU FUBAR!

[Drew68]

but in general terms, any Australian without a criminal record can own basic longarms with no difficulty, and semi-automatics and handguns without too much difficulty.

Thank you for clarifying this matter. Many people here believed that Australia underwent a British-style confiscation program and that compliance was near universal.

It is refreshing to know that our Australian friends value their God-given right to be armed. Registration is still a bad idea anywhere but it is much preferable to confiscation. Hopefully that never happens.

[indianrightwinger]

Name a US politician who actually said such a thing? Well, Tom T in Congress comes close.

Very simply put and well said.