At least some country has it right.
Wouldn't it be wonderful to wake up tomorrow and find that John Howard was President of the United States?
Sounds like a good plan to me.
Where is our John Howard?
How insensitive. Doesn't everyone have a right to impose his own form of religious totalitarianism on his neighbor? What would the good people of Europe say about this clarion Aussie call for Liberty be? How gauche.
The Aussies might survive the next 100 years, where some others (including us?) might not be so lucky....
Good for John Howard. We could use a few hundred politicians like him. There is a profound lack of politicians having the large bi-spherical nature of John Howard in this country.
Australia may become a superpower in this century.
Maybe we ought to live under their hedgemony instead of the other way around. I'm so sick of DC these days and both political parties selling us out to the third world.
It starts with real quotes, and then continues with made up ones.
The accurate portion is as follows:
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 headoff potential terror attacks.
A day after a group of mainstream Muslim leaders pledged loyalty to Australia and her Queen 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, 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 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 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.
That part is accurate. What comes later is made up.
We won't hear tough talk like that in the US anytime soon.
Ping, in case you missed this article.