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Phone 9114 6674
MEDIA RELEASE
TUESDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2007
CLOSE ISLAMIC SCHOOLS
Macarthur CDP candidate Godwin Goh and CDP Party Leader Reverend the Hon Fred Nile MLC have applauded the efforts of local residents in opposing the construction at Camden of a school for 1,200 Muslim children.
Senior Christian Democratic Party members attended the Monday 5 November meeting at the Falcons Soccer Club where local residents overwhelmingly rejected the plan.
"Muslim schools in Britain and Europe are breeding grounds for anti-Christian and anti-Jewish hate and terrorism," said Godwin Goh. "The safest thing is to have no Muslim schools here.
"The advocates of exclusively Muslim schools want to impose educational apartheid. I am greatly encouraged by the local popular backlash at this attempt to breed Islam in Camden."
The Christian Democratic Party is campaigning for a ten-year moratorium on Muslim immigration and no more mosques.
Reverend Nile concluded: "Instead of opening new Muslim schools we should be closing existing Muslim Schools. The only way to stop Muslim brainwashing is for Muslim children to mix with non-Muslims at school.
"In the Bankstown Municipality, Muslim children will outnumber Christian children in ten years. The problems will be greatly exacerbated if Muslim children and Christian children are kept separate during their formative years. The answer is NO MUSLIM SCHOOLS."
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INTERVIEWS:
Fred Nile 0418 619 731
Godwin Goh 0414 463 138
Media spokesman 0402 558 947
WHOA. Did I miss that scripture class on tolerance or does that not get taught any more? This media release, which I assure you has been faithfully reproduced here UNABRIDGED, is just too outrageous for me to know where to start. I'll do my best starting from the beginning...
"Muslim schools in Britain and Europe are breeding grounds for anti-Christian and anti-Jewish hate and terrorism" - Evidence please! And while I'm here, might I remind Mr Goh that the biggest terrorist concentration in the UK/Europe in the past 50 years did not come from Muslim schools but from the Catholics and the Protestants in Northern Ireland?
"The advocates of exclusively Muslim schools want to impose educational apartheid" - You mean, unlike Christian schools? Or Catholic schools? Or, say, girls' schools or boys' schools? Or Montessori schools? - I mean, their type of education is really different from 'normal' schools...
"The only way to stop Muslim brainwashing is for Muslim children to mix with non-Muslims at school" - The only way to stop the CDP from brainwashing the public about Muslims is to stop issuing ridiculous, offensive and erroneous media releases.
Did the CDP ever stop to think that their hard line stance against Muslim schools and against the religion in general (reduction of Muslim immigration and "no more mosques") could lead to Muslims feeling, well, unwelcome here in Australia? Could it be that frustration from being unable to practice one's religion may push some of the more, shall we say, extreme faithful to lash out at those who curb their freedom? Is it so much of a stretch, then, to say that it is not the Muslim faith itself that incites "anti-Christian hate and terrorism" but the anti-Muslim sentiment peddled so ferociously at one religion by the very Christians who are accusing Muslims of hate?
Hypocrites, these CDP candidates! They are courting self-fuilfilling prophecies through their ignorance. I, for one, hope that the Muslim community has enough sense to speak calmly against this verbal attack and come off the better for it. And quietly go about their faith through whichever education they feels suits their child best and attend their local mosque as they see fit. And I hope we live in a society that remains free enough for them to do so without fear of retribution from an intolerant, uninformed "Christian" "Democratic" Party leader who has no right to have the title 'Honourable' preceding his name.
You may have noticed that I felt it necessary to print contact details of the perpetrators. Please, if you feel so inclined, tell them what you think.
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