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CANBERRA, Australia
>>Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday
>>to get out of Australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to
>>head off potential terror attacks. 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 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 this is false. If you can'tagree with parliamentary
>>law, independent courts, democracy, and would prefer Sharia law, and have
>>the
>>opportunity to go to another country which practices it, perhaps, then,
>>that's a better option," Costello said.
>>Asked whether he meant radical clerics would be forced to leave, he said
>>those with dual citizenship could possibly be asked move to the other
>>country. Education Minister Brendan Nelson later told reporters that
>>Muslims who did not want to accept local values should "clear off".
>>"Basically, people who don't want to be A! ustralians, and they don't want
>>to live by Australian values and understand them, well then they can
>>basically clear off," he said. Separately, Howard angered some Australian
>>Muslims
>>on Wednesday by saying he supported spies monitoring the nation's mosques.
>>
>>BRITS, AMERICANS and CANADIANS.....ARE YOU LISTENING?
>>This is Leadership with guts! The way it is. The way it should be. Our
>>men and women died in two world wars to get us this country and we are
>>giving it away.
>>Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday
>>to get out of Australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to
>>head off potential terror attacks. 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 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 this is false. If you can'tagree with parliamentary
>>law, independent courts, democracy, and would prefer Sharia law, and have
>>the
>>opportunity to go to another country which practices it, perhaps, then,
>>that's a better option," Costello said.
>>Asked whether he meant radical clerics would be forced to leave, he said
>>those with dual citizenship could possibly be asked move to the other
>>country. Education Minister Brendan Nelson later told reporters that
>>Muslims who did not want to accept local values should "clear off".
>>"Basically, people who don't want to be A! ustralians, and they don't want
>>to live by Australian values and understand them, well then they can
>>basically clear off," he said. Separately, Howard angered some Australian
>>Muslims
>>on Wednesday by saying he supported spies monitoring the nation's mosques.
>>
>>BRITS, AMERICANS and CANADIANS.....ARE YOU LISTENING?
>>This is Leadership with guts! The way it is. The way it should be. Our
>>men and women died in two world wars to get us this country and we are
>>giving it away.
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