It-Can't-Happen-Here Update from The Australian, with thanks to Leslie:
THE leader of the nation's first Muslim political party says all Australians should be living under Islamic law dictated by the Koran.The Best Party of Allah in Australia applied for registration in the ACT yesterday, claiming to provide a political voice for Muslims.
Founder Kurt Kennedy, a Vietnamese-born Muslim convert and candidate in the ACT assembly elections last year, said the party wanted to "implement the laws as stated in the Koran".
"The positive part of sharia law is (about) treating everybody fairly," he said. "I don't think anybody should have any worries about it.
"If they read through the Koran, there's nothing there that will threaten them or threaten their personal life or property."
Sure. Non-Muslim Australians will have to live as despised dhimmis, deprived of equality of rights with Muslims, but who cares? Their lives and property will be safe!
The Australians, I hope and trust, will have the balls to tell these people to clear off. The Australians, unlike the British, are given to calling a spade a spade. Not for them the niceties of being everso gentle and genteel! I certainly hope they live up to their reputation this time.
Kurt Kennedy must be a right idiot, or a 'look at me' wannabe type.
The one thing he will not get, other than votes, is respect.
What a jerk.
I had a feeling that as soon as there was a christian political party in Australia, then sooner or later a muslim one would start up.
With our preferential voting system, they may very well win seats with very few votes.
Peter Costello, Australian Treasurer:
Any of the 22 Arab League countries would do or they might think about emigrating to the new state of Palestine to help build a golden Islamic society.
Didn't they just tell these Islamists to get out of their country if they wanted to live under the Shari'ah?
Dense, thick skulled, and dangerous Islamonazis.
Ordinarily I don't have much time for Mr. Costello but in this case I can only echo his sentiments. In our country ("the lucky country" as we call it and, I hope, will be able to continue calling it) Muslims are free to practice their religion - protected by the laws and agencies that serve and protect all Australians without preference or prejudice. The introduction of Sharia Law would see an end to the freedom and tolerance that Australia not only values but enshrines in its legal codes. We have a great number of Muslims living in this country (more that 200,000 last time I checked) and their rights are protected in the same manner as everybody else's.
This begs the question; what is the motivation for our Muslim population to ask for Sharia Law to be implemented? Australian Law stipulates that all are equal in the eyes of the Law, regardless of race, ethnic background, religion or sexual preference - Sharia does not. Australian Law has no room for an outdated, discriminatory and brutal legal code like Sharia Law.
As for those who want oh-so-badly to live under Sharia Law - nobody is forcing them to live in a country that they, clearly, find so repugnant. As my fellow JWer, Hulegu Khan, so correctly pointed out: "any of the 22 Arab League nations would do" or in the words of Sid Vicious: "Like it or lump it!"
It might be wise for Australians to document Mr. Kennedy's history, in particular, everything he's ever said about Islam, Sharia law, and non-believers.
Compile a list.
And let him continue speaking. And keep documenting what he's said. Others need to know what he wants for them.
And when the time is right, begin reminding him, and other Australians, of what has been said.
Hang him with his own rope.
what is the motivation for our Muslim population to ask for Sharia Law to be implemented? Australian Law stipulates that all are equal in the eyes of the Law, regardless of race, ethnic background, religion or sexual preference - Sharia does not.
I think the answer lies within your question above - Sharia puts them on top, which is where they truly believe they should be. Their Quran tells them so. Superior. Our betters. Lording it over us dhimmis. Owning us. Raping us. Extorting money from us. Sharia is about inequality in the extreme. This is what they are taught from day one. Islam is the best, Muslims are best, the rest of us are excrement.
For Muslim men, Sharia is paradise on earth. Lots of nookie. Get tired of the old hag, divorce her just like that, and bring in a fresh one. Nine years old even. If she gives you any lip - beat her and it's okay. On a business trip? Temporary marriages are the answer to those lonely nights on the road. When you're done, toss her away like yesterday's garbage. No worries about working too hard either - you can have slaves to do the dirty, backbreaking work. And dhimmis pay jizya tax so money will be pouring in.
I'm sure Kurt is just drooling at the prospect. It's probably what attracted him to Islam in the first place. He was probably tired of being an everyday schmuck. Islam promises him he'll be Big Cheese.
I notice they offer a free quran to anyone. Maybe it would be good for a lot of the australian posters here to tkae them up on that offer, and their friends, relatives etc. The best weapon against them is their own holy book, distribute copies of it everywhere, underline all the filth and nastiness that they call a religion.
"If they read through the Koran, there's nothing there that will threaten them or threaten their personal life or property."
Unless you happen to be a Jew, or an 'idolator' or an 'unbeliever', or a homosexual, or a woman...
I have read thru the quran - it made me sick to my stomach.
Australian MP Sophie Panopoulos totally opposes this party.
Please email her your support.
Her email address is: sophie.panopoulos.MP@aph.gov.au
I see on their site (courtesy of Terminator) that this "Best Party" (lol!) perpetuates the fantasy of more Muslims in the world than there really are. Point 'H' says that currently a third of the world accepts the Koran as the basis for belief. So with over 6 billion people, that means over 2 billion are Muslims apparently. They're really pushing that myth for all its worth. Like all the other myths, like peace and tolerance. And equality.
What was that Thom? Free toilet paper?
....Where?
Mark, sorry to disillusion you but a spade is called a manual earth moving implement in modern Australia.
Timbo, I wouldnt even accord it that much dignity.
But its enormously useful to have one around, for convincing your friends about wht you're saying - 'Look, right there, where it says slay them wherever you find them...'.
They've given us the ammo, we just need to keep the gun loaded and firing...
The Australians, unlike the British, are given to calling a spade a spade. Mark
Okay, Timbo, I stand corrected. In this case, I shall re-phrase what I said:
The Australians, unlike the British, are given to calling a manual earth moving implement a manual earth moving implement.
Thank you for the correction. :-)
You could also just order Korans simply to cost them money.
Just an FYI.. Ordered my copy over a month ago ,we are still waiting, maybe they've figured out that most requests are to infidels to help them show the true horror of the koran.
It would be good if somebody could produce an anti-Islamic Koran, with all the worst verses highlighted and footnotes which shed light on its worst facets.
The annotated koran is useful
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/index.htm
"Ordinarily I don't have much time for Mr. Costello but in this case I can only echo his sentiments."
Why is it that, by and large, it's mostly only those for whom "we don't have much time" ("we" being I assume liberally sensitive souls who wince when the likes of Oriana Fallaci voice rationality from the chthonic depths) -- the Fortuyn Pyms, the Oriana Fallacis, the Geert Wilders, the Carl Hagens, the Claude Imberts -- who forthrightly recognize the enemy we face?
From the manifesto of the Best party
Protecting the reputation of the Prophet
He most certainly is in need of that.
Yeah, protecting the reputation of their "prophet". How? By pushing for federal thought control laws, no doubt. Or as they euphemistically call it: "anti-vilification laws". Nothing nasty can be said about one of the nastiest creeps that ever lived. That's the only way to maintain the lie that Islam is just another religion, a religion of Peace. Look at the founder, and see what he really got up to, and figure out his motivation (total self-serving greed and power), and you get the true picture. But we can't have people knowing the real story. Just the fairy tales of how their "prophet" who never prophesied anything, was kind and merciful, spending his days preaching the word of Allah, giving alms to the poor and all that. A regular Mother Theresa of the 7th Century. Bah!