Instead of the scenes of violence and protest seen at Reclaim Australia rallies across the country’s biggest cities, the rally held in Toowoomba was a peaceful gathering.
Just more than 40 people gathered at the East Creek Park yesterday morning for the rally which included guest speakers Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Ipswich West candidate Dr Chris Reynolds, One Nation party Queensland president Ian Nelson and national secretary of the Freedom and Heritage Society Dr David Truman.
Dr Truman said the group had nothing to do with racism or hatred of immigrants.
“We are temperate, reasoning, moderate people, we affirm and defend our constitution and our law,” he said.
“The reason that we are out here speaking against the ‘Islamisation’ of our society is because the values and the doctrines of Islam are completely incompatible with pluralist democracy.
“People need to understand that the way they behave when they are in a small proportion of the population bears no relationship to how they behave as they become numerically much stronger.”
Dr Truman said the group did support immigration to Australia, for people who wanted to become Australian and blend in and accept the values of the majority culture.
“But people who come here with the view of rejecting the majority culture and seeking to subvert and overturn it, they are not welcome,” he said.
“It’s not a matter of hating Muslims, we don’t hate Muslims, but the ideology of political Islam is not acceptable in Australia, it should have no place here.
“It’s true that there are people, just as there are Christians, who are purely cultural Muslims and who are temperate, moderate people that will fit in and be good neighbours.”
Members of the gathering cheered as Dr Reynolds spoke about how multiculturalism would not work in Australia as the Muslim Sharia law was a ‘barbaric ancient system’.
He said he wanted Australia to be a ‘monoculture’, meaning just one culture.
Dr Reynolds said if people wanted to join the fun they were most welcome, but if anyone wanted to bring their own way of life, they were not welcome.