Posted on 02/25/2006 5:45:50 AM PST by xzins
Costello said he was surprised when attending a recent citizenship ceremony to hear a politician extoll multiculturalism's virtues by saying new citizens need not give up their culture, language, religion or love of their birth country.
"I realized that this confused, mushy, misguided multiculturalism completely underestimated the audience," he said. "Becoming a citizen of another country changes their identity."
Costello stood by his comments Friday, reiterating his view that migrants with dual citizenship who scorned Australian values should have their citizenship revoked and go to a country where they would feel more comfortable.
Be he doesn't care if they manage their ports.
Damn. Aren't we looking for a Republican Presidential candidate for 2008? He's got my vote.
Now if other nations would just follow suit, we could eliminate this one-sided tolerance for once and for all.
That's some quote from Danna Vale...do you have any more info about her?
The "oath of citizenship" in the U.S. precludes any kind of evasion or mental reservation.
If a naturalized Islamic citizen in the US were to be advocating the overthrow of the US gov't and its replacement with sharia law, then I'd consider he had falsely sworn his oath of citizenship, and I would ANNUL it....as if it had never been accurately sworn.
The Mussies arrogantly want to set their own rules.
How To Lose Friends & Alienate People 101.
See #7.
Where is a candidate with this kind of backbone in America?
McCain?....nah....
This is a direct attack on liberalism, which has been long overdue.
Liberalism, in its push for multiculturalism and diversity, is directly responsible for the immigration problems of the Western countries.
My liberal brother see's my new camo baseball cap given to me by a chemical company vendor...the companys name,
DIVERSY
He said how nice, that you celebrate Diversity!
Screw Diversity I grumbled back, thats Diversy, a company I do business with. You listen to too much of that NPR bullsh*t, thats your problem.
Tom Tancredo!
Prominent figures in the Muslim community, which numbers about 300,000 or 1.5 percent of Australia's 20 million population, said they could not understand why they were being targeted by Costello and the Howard government.
If the Muslim community is currently only 1.5 % of the Aussie population I don’t see how it could be part of the “mainstream” for 50 years.
As for why they are being targeted by the government, maybe it is because your particular group has obstinately refused to assimilate. Your people continue to keep some of your peculiar customs which the Aussie culture has deemed anti-social such as killing your wives or daughters and expecting to get away with it, beating wives or daughters and expecting to get away with it, raping women caught in public without a burka and expecting to get away with it. These thing and more are unacceptable in the West.
He's one guy who gets it and admits to getting it.
Exactly.
If I couldn't be American, I'd want to be Australian.
Tom Tancredo!
Yes!!!!!
"...deliberate government attempt to scapegoat Muslims..."
The government is NOT attempting to make scapegoats of Muslims...they (Muslims) did it to themselves. These people are intelligent but insane...the "Silence of the Lamb" mentality.
It is the howls of muslims that indirectly proves that they plan to refuse to assimilate into Australian culture. If assimilation and the forcing of sharia weren't an issue, their collective response to comments by Howard and Costello would be a polite "okey dokie."
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