"Turkey a model Muslim state, says Costello
AM - Saturday, 23 September , 2006 08:00:50
Reporter: Toni Hassan
ELIZABETH JACKSON: The Treasurer Peter Costello will today use a speech in Canberra to indirectly send a message to the Muslim community by talking up the importance of the separation of established religion and state.
Extracts from the Treasurer's speech have been published in the Murdoch press today.
At the Australian Christian Lobby's annual conference this morning, Mr Costello is expected to criticise Muslims who engage in violent struggle to create governments whose prime authority is Islamic law or Sharia.
The Treasurer will tell the Christian audience that Ataturk's creation of a secular Muslim state in Turkey is a model which should be adopted by the modern Islamics."
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