'Not racist' senate hopeful calls for Muslim immigration ban
"Until there is a fail proof filter we have to stop all Muslims from coming in because we don't know which ones are going to blow us up."
A senator for a microparty says she doesn't have a problem with immigrants, just Muslims.
Former receptionist and body builder Rosalie Crestani, 42, hopes to fill a Victorian seat in the Upper House by running on Rise Up Australia’s "love it or leave it" platform, which includes a call for a ban on Muslim immigration.
Ms Crestani captioned this picture: "Australian Flag March Event...Peaceful rally. No patriot arrests. I saw one arrest of socialist left. We sang national anthem. Heard Daniel Nalliah of Rise Up, Blair Cottrell of UPF and myself speak. Pictured with the mighty George Jameson of Party for Freedom and Melanie Vassiliou Chisholm candidate for Rise Up." (Facebook)
"Until there is a fail proof filter we have to stop all Muslims from coming in because we don't know which ones are going to blow us up."
The leader of RUA, Sri Lankan-born pastor Daniel Nalliah, touted on the party's website as a "prominent human rights advocate" and "major voice against multiculturalism", is also the author of Life Under the Sword, a zealous tome that casts him as a "modern-day David".
August 29, 2015: Violence has broken out on the streets of Bendigo, as two rival groups clashed over the planned construction of a mosque.
Ms Crestani, who has addressed crowds associated with cryptofascist gangs the United Patriots Front and True Blue Crew, as well as the Party for Freedom, says the fact that her leader is south Asian is proof enough that she is not a "racist Nazi".
"I am definitely not a Nazi and don't want to be aligned to that line of thought," she told the Mail, which the party has used as source material for its policies .
"The leader of my party is black – if I was a Nazi I wouldn't be following someone black."
July 19, 2015: Five people have been arrested in clashes between police and protesters at two opposing race rallies on Sydney's city streets today.
Rise Up Australia, which Nalliah founded in 2010, contested seats around the nation at the last federal election, according to the party's website.
Earlier this year a small band led by Cottrell unfurled a "Stop the Mosques" banner at a Collingwood-Richmond AFL match. The group's action was later defended by Kirralie Smith, of the Angry Anderson-fronted Australian Liberation Alliance, which is rhetorically markedly similar to the RUA.
