Anti-Aussie Muslims "should clear off"

Daily Telegraph:

MUSLIMS in Australia who don't want to accept local values should leave the country, Federal Education Minister Brendan Nelson says.

Muslim schools will have to denounce terrorism as part of an effort to stamp out home-grown extremism under measures announced yesterday following a meeting between Muslim leaders and Prime Minister John Howard.

Dr Nelson today said he would meet with the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils to discuss programs that ensure students understand Australia's history, culture and values.

He said all Australian schools were required to teach the national values framework, including tolerance, responsibility and understanding, to students.

People who were not prepared to follow these Australian values should "clear off", he said.

"We believe in giving every person a fair go, we don't care where people come from, we don't mind what religion they've got," Dr Nelson said.

"But what we want them to do is commit to the Australian constitution, Australian rule of law and basically, people who don't want to be Australians, and they don't want to live by Australian values and understand them, well then they can basically clear off."

Treasurer Peter Costello has also raised the prospect of the government asking radical Muslims clerics who put Islamic law above Australian law to leave the country if they are dual citizens.

"There might be other countries where the system of law is more acceptable to them," he said.

"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 practices it, perhaps, then, that's a better option."

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