mickijo, any group which can raise the funds and necessary number of supporters to register a party is on the way. Then of course you need to get the numbers to win seats. In this case the issue is a faith based group rather than an ethnic group.

I'm not sure how many votes it takes to win senate seats but few ethnic or faith based parties are likely to have the numbers to get even one of them especially if their voters are spread out across a number of states or their potential voters come from a variety of backgrounds (not all christains vote for Family First).

R0bert

So, everyone in this forum accepts without question that faith and politics have the right to mix. You are all happy to have a prime minister who believes there is a superman in the sky that not only knows the thoughts, hopes and fears of every individual and cares about them personally, but he/she/it made and cares for every molecule in the universe. And this grand entity [origins unknown], not content with being lord of the universe, demands that every human on the planet bends their knee in abject adoration, performs sacrifices to it, and hates everyone who doesn’t blindly worship their god. Well I would prefer a rational person to lead my country!
Bennie… Keyser Trad is on record demanding Sharia law and the right for Muslims to stone to death homosexuals and female adulterers. Do you want him in power? Makes Tony Abbot look effete.
Mickijo… as someone else pointed out, Mohammedanism is a religion, not an ethnicity, just as Jewishness is religious, not ethnic… this is where they confuse you. It’s religion pure and simple.
There is a solution to the impending conflagration: get a Constitution that declares Australia to be a Secular State in which religion and religion based political parties have no part whatsoever. Otherwise, we’ll be a theocracy before you realise without the safeguards built into the U.S.A. constitution. They’re in deep religious poo at the moment, but they will be able to climb out – we won't!

Can someone please explain to me how a politicaly charged group like Islam (disguised as a religion of sort) - with such irreconcilable values to Australia, undermining our society and threatening our national security - could be allowed to exist here let alone compete in the leadership of this country?

This is far beyond democracy – it fringes on lunacy.

Any thoughts RObert?

I really don't know what the fuss is all about. We've had overtly Christian candidates, politicians and political parties for years (e.g. Festival of Homophobes, Fundies First, Tony Abbott etc). Seems to me that fundamentalist Muslims are only slightly sillier and more hateful to than their Xian counterparts.

I'd like to see all the religious hocus pocus confined to churches, mosques etc - but hey, it's a free country.

Or is it?

just to make a point a political party in NSW needs to be one year old before it can nominate people for parliament.

Therefore they will have to be independants, so lets look at that are they really independant no

there agenda is islam anything else.

Let Hilali run as a candidate in Lakemba.We will then kmow where we all stand in terms of extremists being very small in number.

I reckon Hilali would get at least 30% support from Muslims in that electorate.