{"id":11607,"date":"2013-08-08T19:55:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T09:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=11607"},"modified":"2013-08-08T19:55:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T09:55:22","slug":"australia-decides-2013-one-nation-candidate-stephanie-banister-i-dont-oppose-islam-as-a-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=11607","title":{"rendered":"Australia Decides 2013:  One Nation candidate Stephanie Banister &#8211; &#8220;I don&#8217;t oppose Islam as a country&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2svbrclqESw\" height=\"354\" width=\"629\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t oppose Islam as a country, but I do feel that their laws should not be welcome here in Australia,&#8221; she said, apparently oblivious to the fact that Islam is a religion, not a country.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, Ms Banister doesn&#8217;t have a problem with Jewish Kosher food.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jews aren&#8217;t under Haram, they have their own religion which follows Jesus Christ,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re thinking of Christianity there, Stephanie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They don&#8217;t have a tax on it, they&#8217;ve just got a certain way of making it where Haram has a tax on the food,&#8221; Ms Banister said. Except, as Channel Seven pointed out, Kosher food does have a fee.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Banister was also asked her opinion of the government&#8217;s National Disability Insurance Scheme.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe that the disability scheme is working at the moment,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The NDIS doesn&#8217;t actually start until 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Banister doesn&#8217;t know who her opponents are either. Rankin, a Queensland seat currently held by retiring Labor MP and former minister Craig Emerson, is being contested by David Lin for the Liberals and Jim Chalmers for Labor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m still learning all of the names of people in politics,&#8221; Ms Bannister said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/national-news\/federal-election\/one-nation-candidate-stephanie-banister-8216doesn8217t-oppose-islam-as-a-country8217\/story-fnho52ip-1226693452708\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t oppose Islam as a country, but I do feel that their laws should not be welcome here in Australia,&#8221; she said, apparently oblivious to the fact that Islam is a religion, not a country. In any case, Ms Banister doesn&#8217;t have a problem with Jewish Kosher food. &#8220;Jews aren&#8217;t under Haram, they have &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1046,1506],"class_list":["post-11607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-auspol","tag-australia-decides-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11609,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11607\/revisions\/11609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}