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  • Radical Muslims told to leave Australia (if they prefer Sharia law, a fundamental part of Islam)

    08/24/2005 10:01:16 AM PDT · by Mark Felton · 101 replies · 3,656+ views
    AFP ^ | 8/24/2005 | AFP
    SYDNEY (AFP) - Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law have been told to get out of Australia. A day after a group of mainstream Muslim leaders pledged loyalty to Australia 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,...