Far right Australian candidate on Islam

[Zostrianos]

This is hilarious. This Australian far right politician (whom many are calling the australian Sarah Palin) says she doesn't oppose Islam 'as a country', and she supports Jews because they follow Jesus :laugh:

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http://dangerousminds.net/comments/australias_sarah_palin_doesnt_oppose_islam_as_a_co untry

Banister, who is currently facing criminal charges for engaging in anti-Muslim hate-based acts of vandalism, is running to represent her native Queensland in the Australian Parliament. She is representing the far-right One Nation party and hopes to make Australia an overtly hostile environment to Muslims.
The 27-year-old mother of two told Australia’s Channel Seven, “I don’t oppose Islam as a country, but I do feel that their laws should not be welcome here in Australia.”
The woman who some are calling “Australia’s Sarah Palin” went on to say that she supports “the Jews” because “they follow Jesus Christ” (they don’t) and that while she would outlaw halal food — which she repeatedly referred to as “haram food” — she would allow kosher food to remain in stores because it doesn’t carry a tax like “haram food.” (It does.)

[fahadsul3man]

LOL too funny , I didn't know Islam was a country :sly:

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[dodger]

That was funny...not least because the 100 or so muslims at work expressed no displeasure at eating chicken sourced from a Kosher butcher. Simply put it was not an issue......Keep taking the bigotry pills. ma'am Not an attractive facet of human nature, laughing fit to piss at people more stupid than ourselves. Jeez, sometimes yer just can't help yerself....:crying::crying:

[3OPNCA]

No, my country's Sarah Palin is Pauline Hansen. Have you listened to some of that crazy *****es policies? She wants to reinstate the White Australian Policy, which would so not work because most Aussies are foreign. In my high school, there are six girls of Anglo-Saxon decent. And there are 1, 782 girls in my school.

[3OPNCA]

And really, Islam a country? How people are so idiotic is beyond me. Then again, Queenslander's can be pretty racially ignorant, what with the inhabitants of that State being almost completely Anglo. (I would know, I lived there for 6 months).

[G4b3n]

I live in the country of Islam, we all Jews that Worship Jesus. Come at me bro.

[Flying Purple People Eater]

I didn't even know this twit existed, but this stereotype is common in Australia. Everyone just feeds into ridiculous, shitty conservative stereotypes and run away with it. These fucking morons don't listen to reason - they just want to get off to the bullshit about Islam they hear on Murdoch news. It's against their vivid ideals of 'white 'ozzy culture. Fair dinkum mate', and any attempts to criticise this are met with dumbass nationalist ass-kissing and kneejerk emotional attacks.

Absolute bogans.

Also, Pauline Hanson should be deported. Hell, every member of One Nation should be deported; they're a bunch of white racist dogs. I cannot believe how someone who's most famous quote is "There is a great danger of Australia being overrun by Asians" is still allowed to fucking run for parliament.

EDIT: Just realised that she's an Israel ass-kisser. Now I want to get the pitchforks ready.

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

what a thicko.

[Quail]

No, my country's Sarah Palin is Pauline Hansen. Have you listened to some of that crazy *****es policies? She wants to reinstate the White Australian Policy, which would so not work because most Aussies are foreign. In my high school, there are six girls of Anglo-Saxon decent. And there are 1, 782 girls in my school.
Verbal warning for prejudiced language. Please don't call women "crazy *****es" in future, regardless of how ignorant and ridiculous they are.

[roy]

And really, Islam a country? How people are so idiotic is beyond me. Then again, Queenslander's can be pretty racially ignorant, what with the inhabitants of that State being almost completely Anglo. (I would know, I lived there for 6 months).

qld is pretty white but 'almost completely anglo' is a bit of a stretch. anyway not important lol, putting it down for the smart state

[Zostrianos]

Well, she decided to quit the race

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23644422

An Australian election candidate who was widely mocked after she mistook Islam for a country in a TV interview has withdrawn her candidacy.
Stephanie Banister, 27, was contesting a seat in Queensland for the anti-immigration One Nation Party. She had only been in politics for 48 hours.
Ms Banister also confused the term "haram" (forbidden) with the Koran and suggested Jews worshipped Jesus Christ.
The interview (http://au.news.yahoo.com/election/a/-/article/18429781/australian-sarah-palin/), which aired early this week, went viral on social media.
''I don't oppose Islam as a country, umm, but I do feel that their laws should not be welcome here in Australia,'' Ms Banister told Seven News reporter Erin Edwards.
'Quite the fool' She announced her withdrawal from the election on Saturday.
"With the way Channel Seven edited my interview, I was left quite the fool," Ms Banister said in a brief statement.
"I'd like to apologise to One Nation, to my friends and family, for any embarrassment this has brought to them."
One newspaper headline said Ms Banister had managed to put Islam literally on the map.
The leader of One Nation, Jim Savage, said Ms Banister continued to have the "full support" of the party executive.
He said she had been under "enormous pressure", including threats to her and her family.
Commentators compared Ms Banister to Sarah Palin, the gaffe-prone Republican vice-presidential candidate in the 2008 US election.
Even before this interview, Ms Banister was regarded as a rank outsider to win her seat, says the BBC's Jon Donnison, in Sydney.
The mother-of-two rose to prominence when she was arrested for going into a supermarket and putting stickers saying "halal food funds terrorism" on Nestle products.
She is facing charges of "contaminating or interfering with goods". If convicted before polling day, she would have been barred from standing.

[Comrade Jacob]

Halal food is the national dish of Islam. Sharia law is the regional law of the south province of the Republic of Islam. They must oppose the Jesus loving Jews to the East for the Republic of Islam's constitution (The Koran) doesn't mention Jesus at all!

:laugh:

[synthesis]

"With the way Channel Seven edited my interview, I was left quite the fool," Ms Banister said in a brief statement.

Jesus Christ, if you're in a pit stop digging.

[Vireya]

Sometimes I seriously wonder how we've made it so far as a species.

[Bostana]

I thought the video was funny,
then I read the comment section

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

I believe it was Greg Proops who once describes Australia as: "like Arkansas with a beach, an entire continent with a 'no fat chicks' sticker on it."

Seriously though, I thought our conservatives were bad.