Australia's Muslims plan to launch political party - Clerics urge Muslims not to pay taxes as it is unIslamic

This is passive-aggressive, lawful Islamism.

This is stealth Sharia.

This is happening.

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by Lawrence Bartlett

Mon Mar 12, 2:24 AM ET
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia's Muslims on Monday announced plans to form a political party to fight what they call growing Islamophobia spawned by the so-called war on terror.

(Phobia spawned by our defence of ourselves, not by their barbaric acts of terrorism, claims of superiority and promises of world domination, of course - jillosophy)
The move came as the leader of a Christian party demanded an immediate halt to Islamic immigration to Australia, saying Muslims were beginning to dominate some communities.
Leading the drive for Australia's 300,000 Muslims to take on the mainstream parties is controversial top cleric Sheikh Taj Aldin al-Hilali, who has the title Mufti of Australia.
Hilali created a storm of protest late last year when he described scantily-dressed women as "uncovered meat" inviting rape.
Faced with calls to get out of the country, the Egyptian-born cleric mocked the convict ancestry of many white Australians, saying Muslims had more right to the country because they paid for their tickets...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070312/wl_asia_afp/australiapoliticsreligionislam_070312062403 **

Hardline clerics urge tax cheating
Richard Kerbaj
March 13, 2007
HARDLINE Muslim clerics are encouraging their followers to cheat the tax system because they consider paying income tax contrary to Islamic law.
Muslim leaders have warned that fundamentalist imams who put sharia law ahead of Australian law are also condoning welfare fraud and the cash economy as tax-evasion methods.
Sydney-based Islamic leader Fadi Rahman told The Australian that the extremist clerics who were preaching messages against paying income taxes were also staunchly opposed to Western ideologies, including the Australian way of life.
He said he had heard hardline clerics at Friday sermons in Sydney highlight the importance of cheating the tax system.
"I mean, just like how you've got clerics (with) extreme views who are telling the Muslims in the Western world to declare war against the very country that they live in and the very country that is paying for their day-to-day life, you'll find that these are the clerics who are telling them to dodge the tax system," said Mr Rahman, a youth leader and the president of the Independent Centre for Research Australia.
"Tax, itself, is not allowed in Islam. So they (clerics) encourage them that if there's any way that you can dodge paying the tax, then you should do it." http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21371194-2702,00.html