De Australische Wilders

[Ernst Debets]

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Ik dacht dat Christen-Democraten zo verdraagzaam waren?



http://www.smh.com.au/national/obscene-antimuslim-emails-put-nile-on-the-def
ensive-20091120-iqv7.html



ABUSIVE emails written by the son of the campaign manager of the Christian
Democratic Party containing anti-Muslim and homophobic comments have
embarrassed the party's president, the Reverend Fred Nile, only two weeks
before the December 5 Bradfield byelection, in which the party will field
nine candidates.



Mr Nile has been forced to apologise to dozens of recipients of the emails,
which also attack the Reverend Gordon Moyes, the CDP-turned-Family-First MP
in the NSW upper house. Their author, Douglas Darby, the son of the former
Liberal identity Michael Darby, who is the CDP's campaign manager, has been
expelled from the party.



In one email Douglas Darby attacks a Muslim activist, Mal Mac Rae, as a
''stupid moslem c---'' and says ''muslim scum are too busy stacking ALP
branches and raping Aussie chicks''.



In another, Douglas Darby suggests Muslims ''who habitually engage in child
molestation, incest, pack rape . obey the laws of this country or f--- off
to Afghanistan where Australians are allowed to shoot you people''.



Yet another urges Mr Mac Rae to become a suicide bomber. ''Please do it
inside either a Sunni or Shiite mosque.''



The emails are part of a bitter exchange between Mr Darby and Mr Mac Rae
that appears to have begun when Mr Mac Rae wrote questioning an aspect of Mr
Nile's military service record.



On Tuesday Mr Nile wrote to recipients ''on behalf of the Christian
Democratic Party to sincerely apologise for the appalling emails you have
received''.



He told them that the CDP ''disassociates itself completely'' from the
comments, ''which we totally reject'', and apologised to Mr Mac Rae. ''No
one deserves to be subjected to such language and insult,'' Mr Nile wrote.



Douglas Darby did not respond to a request for comment, and Michael Darby
declined to comment.



Mr Nile said Douglas Darby had begun working for the party but was soon
''upsetting people left, right and centre'' and was banned from the
parliamentary offices of the CDP and its headquarters a year ago.



One of the CDP's campaign slogans for Bradfield is ''Stand your ground in
defence of Christian values''.



Mr Nile and the NSW upper house Liberal MP David Clarke are advertised to
speak at an Australian Christian Nation Association conference today which
has the theme ''Australia's Future and Global Jihad''.



Mr Mac Rae said yesterday he had accepted Mr Nile's apology. ''However, the
vilification of the Islamic community in the party continues behind closed
doors.''



Dr Moyes said he had asked Mr Nile for an apology, ''which I haven't
received''.




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