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By Shakira Hussein, published 11/4/2007Taj Din al-Hilali seems determined to, once again, damage the moderate Muslim cause.
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Logically, the first thing you're saying there is that Australian citizenship can be revoked. Tell me, does this also apply to Australians who don't have a second nation to go to?
Your precedent there is, that Australian citizenship is not permanent, and is at the whim of the government.
Next point - what exactly, do you consider a deportable offence? Who decides? Effectively, would the People's Party be giving politicians permission to revoke the citizenship of individuals and send them overseas?
Do they need to have been tried in a criminal court? What are the charges? Are you honestly telling me, that we'll give someone a suspended sentence for something like assault, but we're willing to send someone overseas for vilification? I take it then, you don't subscribe to the notion that actions speak louder than words.
It's all well and good to run with a popular notion, but politicians need to operate within a certain framework, or else we live in little more than a banana republic.
I don't like Hilaly and I certainly don't condon anything he says.
But I'm not a huge fan of empty rhetoric, & I believe in due process.