Tony Abbott wants “moderate Muslims” to spread the word of peace. He obviously hasn’t done his research…
The Project host Waleed Aly has served Joe Hockey a dose of reality about the Australian Muslim community.
The Federal Treasurer appeared on the news talk show on Monday to discuss the government’s new anti-terror laws.
Waleed Aly drew the treasurer’s attention to comments made by Prime Minister Tony Abbott:
“Now, I’ve often heard Western leaders describe Islam as a religion of peace. I wish more Muslim leaders would say that more often, and mean it,” Abbott said upon announcing the new laws.
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Aly went on to debunk this clearly unfounded assumption, listing the multitude of statements made by prominent leaders in the Islamic community he found in “five minutes of Googling”.
Among those he listed were the Grand Mufti of Australia, Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohammed, the Grand Mufti of Egypt, and more than 40 Muslim groups condemning the actions of Sydney siege gunman, Man Haron Monis.
“I could literally go on and on and on, I don’t have time. What more exactly do you want from the Muslim community?” Aly posed.
According to Hockey, the government wants the Muslim community to do “as much as they possibly can.”
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in the us as it wants to pass laws it creates a false flag in order to bring in these laws both him and Murdoch like tony we are sick to death of your lies and you know and this Iraq thing is the us fault anyway the invaded Iraq to make a few very rich take a look at the bush families they have oil refineries they made men like bush junior and dick chaney Rumsfeld all rich one should look at the republicans that were involved here congress is working double time billions of dollars to buy politicians to make the few meaning about 600 men and their families this is what tony abbot wants for us and he knows it and he is working for Rupert Murdoch and now every one knows that has anyone noticed I mean anyone there were no high level terror alerts until abbot was elected pm strange isn't it
The Radical Islamist will kill you. The moderate Islamist will stay silent, then go back to Azan