I write in response to your item about me on the front page of (The Express, 3 November) with your heading “Threat to Australia” and your sub-heading “Morwell candidate claims non-Christian immigrants threat to the nation”.
After you phoned me to interview me, did you then decide that it would be a clever journalistic thing to do to put your own slant to my platform?
I sent you a press release which you have butchered.
I did not sat that non-Christian immigrants were a threat to the nation, – the only time I used the word “threat” was in my heading “Ten Facts – How to Overcome the Terrorist Threat in Victoria and Australia”
Furthermore I did not, in your second paragraph, say the following: “...allowing immigrants into Australia who do not worship the Christian god as an “error” that has allowed a threat to the nation “that we know” to develop.
You are pharaphrasing in an incorrect and detrimental way point five of my “Ten Facts”, being:
“Biblically based/western countries historically have thus erred in allowing citizenship to immigrants whose allegiance is to a foreign god”.
I did not say they had to “worship” God or Jesus, but their allegiance must first be to our constitutional monarchy.
Many Australians are atheists, but if they have to choose between living in a Christian country or a Muslim country which one do you think they would choose, i.e., give allegiance to? Which one would you choose, Ms Chambers?
Under my heading “Implementation of the Ten Facts in the Victorian State Government,” point 3(a), you have correctly quoted me by writing “asylum seekers and new immigrants to be given visas and entry only if they give allegiance to our religion”.
I did not say that “new arrivals should be happy to be forced to renounce their religion”.
You know quite well that I said that some Muslims may well be relieved if our government made it a necessary provision to renounce their religion, as this may well prevent their relatives who are still enslaved in backward Muslim countries to be punished because their relatives in Australia 'chose' to give up Islam.
See how you have twisted and perverted what I have said. Further along you write: “While Ms Rose would not say what she disliked about other religions, she said “others” only had to watch the television news for reasons”.
First – I did not say that I disliked other religions. I am not talking about other religions – I am talking about upholding our own religion, which you certainly did not do in your article.
I also did not say “others” – I include myself in with everyone else – I said “you” or “we”.
And I did not say “for reasons”.
Reasons meaning what? Reasons to dislike other religions?
Or reasons for why we must make sure that our country does not regress to the level of violence in countries which are not biblically based?
Not once did I use the word “Christian” in what I sent you, yet you have attributed that word to me a number of times. I use the word “biblical”, as this includes the Jews.
Jaqueline Rose, Traralgon
