Australia Not Having Anything To Do With Sharia
This will be good for Australia's security.
Right on.
More from Howard himself:
Now if we could get Australia to export this kind of thinking to some other nations I could think of we'd be doing pretty good.
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, 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 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 practises it, perhaps, then, that's a better option," Costello said.
Right on.
More from Howard himself:
Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Australian Prime Minister John Howard said the government may infiltrate mosques, prayer halls and schools to detect any teaching of the ``virtues of terrorism.''
``We have a right to know whether there is, within any section of the Islamic community, a preaching of the virtues of terrorism,'' Howard told Radio 6PR in Perth when asked if the government was prepared to ``get inside'' mosques, prayer halls and schools. Or, ``whether any comfort or harbor is given to terrorism within that community.''
Howard yesterday met 14 Islamic leaders for the first time and agreed on a framework for further talks. He has said last month's bombings in London that killed 56 people, including an Australian, highlight the need to ``remain vigilant.''
Now if we could get Australia to export this kind of thinking to some other nations I could think of we'd be doing pretty good.
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