Abbott for VP!
Posted on 11/09/2005 7:48:07 PM PST by 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.
Pure, unadulterated hate speech! Lock 'em up!
Yeah....I like the sound of THAT!
Finally, a politician with stones. Maybe the Republicans can learn a thing or two from this fellow. Now the Aussies just need to tell George Soros and IANSA where they can shove their gun ban.
LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT.
That says it all.
I can't understand why people immigrate to another country and then expect it to learn their language and cater to them. I look at it this way...if you don't want to learn English and live the way we do...don't let the door hit you in the behind...GO HOME!!
Wow, got a love it. To bad the spineless american politicians would never say anything like that.... (both dem and rep)
Abbott for VP!
BTTT
Just having a public official say the words is a huge victory of sorts.
Makes sense to me.
Of course he'll probably be in line at the unemployment office any day now, for saying it. Frankly I don't know what happened to right and wrong in this world.
Bueller? .... Bueller? .... Bueller?
Say it AGAIN, Pete!
Pete for POTUS in 2008! (he's the only pol with balls I have heard of lately).
How can he say this? Where is his political sensitivity, his respect for diversity, his pure French will-to-surrender? Doesn't he have any of that?
Ping
The Australians just seem to have guts. Howard too - he's probably my favorite world leader.
I love the Aussies!
Bravo!
He wouldn't be Deputy Prime Minister because in a Liberal/National Coalition government that position goes to the Leader of the National Party.
Pardon me folks. I need to catch a plane to downunder. I am going to kidnap this fine man and make him be governor of our corrupt state.
BUMP to Mr. Costello!
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