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Howard stands by Muslim comments
news.com.au ^
| 1 September 2006
Posted on 08/31/2006 9:23:43 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
PRIME Minister John Howard today said he had no need to apologise for telling Muslims they needed to embrace Australian values.
Mr Howard sparked controversy yesterday by saying on talk-back radio that a small group of Muslim migrants had refused to accept their adopted country's values and had not learned English.
His comments sparked fury among some Muslim leaders who say they were offended.
But Mr Howard today stood by his comments.
"I don't apologise," he told reporters.
"I think they are missing the point and the point is that I don't care, and the Australian people don't care, where people come from.
"There's a small section of the Islamic population which is unwilling to integrate and I have said generally all migrants ... they have to integrate."
TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: australia; islam; johnhoward; madmoozies; moozies
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To: Issaquahking
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posted on
09/01/2006 2:57:06 AM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(ENEMY + MEDIA = ENEMEDIA)
To: Aussie Dasher
Do you think he could visit the USA and tell our congress that immigrants to this country need to embrace American values?
I'd sure appreciate it.
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posted on
09/01/2006 3:02:00 AM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine's brother
(Crush Islamofacists; see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of their women.)
To: Just A Nobody
That's going to make all the snotty little left wing journalists very very cranky!
63
posted on
09/01/2006 3:02:01 AM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(ENEMY + MEDIA = ENEMEDIA)
To: Pontiac
Why did they come to Australia if they did not find the culture inviting.
They didn't come for the culture, they came for the LAND.
64
posted on
09/01/2006 3:06:40 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Aussie Dasher
Oh HELL yes. Put THIS guy in charge of the WOT.
65
posted on
09/01/2006 3:13:04 AM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
To: Aussie Dasher
I'll take a Howard for one Bush and one Rice.
BLING BLING BLING
The Daily Double!
66
posted on
09/01/2006 3:17:59 AM PDT
by
safisoft
(Give me Torah!)
To: Aussie Dasher
May God Bless PM John Howard, a man of Courage and leadership.
67
posted on
09/01/2006 5:26:43 AM PDT
by
chatham
To: Fred Nerks
Love the smiley..........in fact, I "borrowed" him for my collection.
68
posted on
09/01/2006 6:00:26 AM PDT
by
Just A Nobody
(NEVER AGAIN..Support our Troops! www.irey.com and www.vets4Irey.com - Now more than Ever!)
To: 4mer Liberal
69
posted on
09/01/2006 6:28:29 AM PDT
by
T Minus Four
(Laughing out loud, out loud, out loud, out loud, out loud!!)
To: Aussie Dasher
This is truely a brave man
Not afraid to make a stand
'Gainst the entire Leftist band
And allied Nazis of the burning sand
70
posted on
09/01/2006 12:17:30 PM PDT
by
attiladhun2
(Islam is a despotism so vile that it would warm the heart of Orwell's Big Brother)
To: GOP_Thug_Mom
I doubt if this priest votes Dhimmicrat. But more and more eyes (even in Europe) are being opened to the dangers of the tyranny that is Islam. The peace of Islam is the peace sought by all despotisms--all dissent muzzled, all dissenters silenced, killed, or imprisoned.
71
posted on
09/01/2006 12:24:16 PM PDT
by
attiladhun2
(Islam is a despotism so vile that it would warm the heart of Orwell's Big Brother)
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