BY ELISE KINSELLA
A 10-year ban on Islamic immigration to Australia and on the construction of any Islamic schools or mosques is the main election policy for one of Macarthur's federal election candidates.Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group) candidate Godwin Goh said his party, if elected, would also lobby the NSW Government and Federal Government to change any anti-vilification or anti-discrimination laws that could make such a proposal illegal.Mr Goh said he wanted: "No Muslim immigration for 10 years, no setting up schools and mosques, too."A decade is the time Mr Goh said was needed to review the impact of Muslim migration to Australia.Critics of the party have called its members bigots but Mr Goh denied the accusation."That word means intolerant," he said."We're not intolerant, we actually love Muslims but we don't like what they practise and some of their beliefs because they're not favourable to our society and community harmony."The Liberal MP for Macarthur, Pat Farmer, rejected Mr Goh's proposal. "Immigration requests need to be analysed on a case-by-case basis," he said. "You can't throw a blanket over the top of everybody and say they're all terrorists and all incite violence. That's wrong and that's not the Australian way."Mr Farmer said the Federal Government decided immigration cases on "people's involvement in the community, what they can add to the country, their ability as far as being able to support themselves and get a job, whether they have family here already or a police record in their home country"."Basically we're looking for people who can be good upstanding citizens."When asked to respond to Mr Goh's proposed 10-year ban on Muslim immigration, schools and mosques, the Labor candidate for Macarthur, Nick Bleasdale, said: "Let me make it clear. I'm totally opposed to the development of the new Islamic school and the community has my full support on the issue. Make no mistake, this issue has nothing to do with race. It's based on the fact that such a large development will undoubtedly have an impact on our semi-rural way of life, especially without the local infrastructure to support it."Mr Goh is opposed to all Islamic schools because, he claims, they teach extreme versions of Islam. He cited as an example an Islamic school in Victoria. "The teacher asked the students who their hero was and they all said Osama binLaden," he said."The teachers are brainwashing. Can't you see it's brainwashing? What about Australian heroes? Sport heroes? Such brainwashing, this is when these children have been taught this kind of teaching in their formative years."When they grow up they're going to idolise the greatest of all terrorists and, furthermore, there's nothing illegal about teaching about the Taliban, Osama binLaden and an extreme interpretation of Islam."The Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group) has so far promised to send its preferences to the Family First Party and the Liberals.