The new leader of NSW Labor Party. Still does not get that ISIS is Islam. ‘ Islamic extremism a threat’ The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney), Australia Jan 4, 2015 15 ALICIA WOOD FOUR years before Sydney suffered its first terrorist attack at Martin Place, Luke Foley had used his first speech in parliament to warn against the threat of Islamic extremism. It is an issue that he has not softened on since. “I don’t think progressives should be soft at all on Islamist extremism,” Foley told the Sunday Telegraph. “It is both a threat to our security, and a perversion of the Islamic faith.” In a twist of fate, it was Sydney’s first terrorist attack by crazed gunman Man Haron Monis that began a series of events leading to his endorsement as NSW ALP leader tomorrow. When it was revealed that former opposition leader John Robertson had in 2011 signed a letter for Monis, a constituent of his electorate of Blacktown, he was forced to resign. In Foley’s 2010 maiden speech, he said that Islamic terrorism was a “movement of the far right”, that posed a threat to democracy, and to “the lives and freedoms of people in many societies, including our own”. “This global Islamist movement is misogynist, racist and homophobic,” he said. “This movement’s extremist ideology is, of course, based on an utter perversion of the Islamic faith. Too many progressives are silent about this or deny this. Governments everywhere have a profound duty to protect their citizens from the threat of extremist Islamist terrorism. “I intend to maintain an active interest in this over my time in this place.”
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