Right you are! So naturally they have to play the race card (NB: Hey Mo,Islam is not a race.) and roll out the usual pc canards and progressive weasel words. Additionally, the multi-cult & PC weenies in the Aussie parliament have to distance themselves fro the evil petition.
AIRO – A new petition in the Australian Federal Parliament for a ten-year moratorium on Muslim immigrants is drawing the fury of the Muslim community in the country.
"That's hardly a loving Christian to be very selective in whom you want to enter in your home," Ikebal Patel, president of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, told the Herald Sun on Tuesday, February 15.
ACT Liberal Senator Gary Humphries presented a petition calling for a 10-year suspension of Muslim immigration into Australia and for a review of the country’s immigration policy to ensure priority is given to Christians.
"For God's sake we've gone beyond the white Australia policy and now we are talking about ... a policy that only allows Christians," said Patel.
The petition cites the constitution, the founding fathers and the currently parliament prayer to insist that Australia is a Christian commonwealth.
It also insists on rejecting what it describes as ‘attempts to establish a Muslim nation in Australia’.
Senator Humphries said the petition expresses a view about Australia's immigration policy and wasn't racially vilifying.
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A 2007 poll taken by the Issues Deliberation Australia (IDA) think-tank found that Australians basically see Islam as a threat to the Australian way of life.
A recent governmental report revealed that Muslims are facing deep-seated Islamophobia and race-based treatment like never before.
Related here and here and here and one more Aussie story at Winds of Jihad. This is something related from Europe.
