So, Uh, Here's The Full (Unedited) Text Of Pauline Hanson's Reasoning For A Royal Commission Into Islam
We’ll leave it to you whether it makes coherent sense.
During ABC's Q&A on Monday night, Pauline Hanson was asked to "please explain" her policy calling for a royal commission into Islam.
ABC Q&A
"Islam does not separate itself from political ideology and whereas, the Christianity under the Westminster system we are separate the rule of law from the state. So they are separate. Islam doesn’t and a lot of the countries that are ruled under Islam is their ideology, the political ideology. Now I understand Islam does not believe in democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly or freedom of the press. You have Hizb-ut Tahrir that preaches the fact that they want total control of the people."
At this point host Tony Jones interrupted, asking, "Pauline can I just interrupt you there, can you make such a blanket statement, 'Islam doesn’t believe in democracy', when north of Australia is the biggest democracy in our region and it’s Islamic?" (He's talking about Indonesia.)
ABC Q&A
"No, look, I don’t believe that. I don’t believe that because you’ve got a lot of countries around the world, they have a political ideology that want to control the people. Now I want to see a separation of the two."