Prime Minister Howard sounds good

Prime Minister John Howard has defended Treasurer Peter Costello’s comments about Islamic extremism that have angered the Muslim community. In a speech to the Sydney Institute last night, Mr Costello said anyone not prepared to accept Australian values, and who had citizenship of another country, should not remain an Australian citizen. He said anyone who believed Islamic sharia law could co-exist with Australian law should move to a country where they felt more comfortable.

Muslim leaders hit back today, calling on Mr Howard to censure Mr Costello over his remarks. But Mr Howard told Southern Cross Broadcasting the Treasurer’s comments were similar to some of his own and Mr Costello should not be censured. Asked why not, Mr Howard said: “Because what he said was fundamentally accurate.” “He’s not trying to stir up hostilities with Islamic people any more than I was when I made some comments three days before the Cronulla riots,” he said. “I made some comments to the effect that there was a section of the Islamic community, because of its extreme views and its rejection of the fundamentals of our society that posed a problem,” he said. “I also expressed a concern about the attitude of some, I stress some, in the Islamic community towards women. “I thought both those statements were perfectly acceptable.”

Mr Howard refused to be drawn on whether those who advocated sharia law - society run according to a fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic teaching - should leave the country. “I think what Peter was doing was to make the point that a belief in that would be inconsistent with Australian values,” he said. Mr Howard said he supported multiculturalism if it meant simply showing respect and tolerance for other people’s cultures. But he said Australia could not have a federation of cultures. “Over the years at its zenith the more zealous multiculturalism base said that this country should be a federation of cultures,” he said. “You can’t have a nation with a federation of cultures. “You can have a nation where a whole variety of cultures constantly influence and mould and change and blend in with the mainstream culture.”

Mr Howard said Australia had a core culture as an offshoot of Western civilisation with a heavily Anglo-Saxon identity and Christianity as the great moral shaping force.

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Posted by jonjayray on Friday, February 24, 2006 at 01:08 AM in Australian Politics
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Posted by Al Ross on February 24, 2006, 02:02 AM | #

This is an overdue improvement. In the recent past,especially during that cringing nitwit Keating’s tenure, genuine Australian citizens would have been patronized by inane PC-gabble about how fortunate they were to be in the presence of such culturally diverse Muslim adornments to their ‘boring’ Anglo-Celtic societal construct. Next step - family reunification; this by encouraging Muslims to rejoin their families in Muslim-run homelands.

Posted by AD on February 24, 2006, 05:58 AM | #

This is the same Howard Government who have the highest immigration rate in Australia’s history, including the biggest intake of Muslims and African refugees. Not even anti-white Keating dared to import Africans.

“If you don’t adapt to our ‘values’, we’ll import more of you until you do!”

That’s been the ‘right-leaning’ Liberal Party way for nearly a decade. Talk tough to appease the whites, do the opposite in reality.

Despite the rhetoric, no one has advanced multiculturalism more than this government. Worse than Whitlam, Fraser, Hawke and Keating combined. Before Howard and his gaggle of diversity freaks, the streets of Australia’s cities were still overhwelmingly Australian, now they’re unrecognisable. And the immigration intake just keeps going up year after year to fuel neverending ‘economic growth’. I’d prefer a government that was pro-multiculturalism on the surface, but low immigration.

Thankfully, most people are waking up to the deceit of the Liberal Party. Listening to talkback radio this morning, the pro-Liberal Party host, expecting ‘hoorahs’ from the masses, had to hang up on most people as they were calling Costello on his BS.

Anyone but the Liberals at the next election.

Posted by AD on February 24, 2006, 06:11 AM | #

And this isn’t even taking into consideration the treason of Gun Control these ‘right-wing’ ex-Trotskyites put in place.

Posted by Steve Edwards on February 24, 2006, 12:05 PM | #

“Thankfully, most people are waking up to the deceit of the Liberal Party.”

It’s so obvious that they are just reciting their lines. Who would possibly take their rubbish seriously?

“And this isn’t even taking into consideration the treason of Gun Control these ‘right-wing’ ex-Trotskyites put in place.”

That was quite simply the most disgusting thing our government has ever done. And that’s saying something - they are an abominable regime indeed. How do these imposters get away with it???

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