From ABC
By Tyson Shine Updated about 6 hours ago
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Senator Jacqui Lambie was threatened with beheading unless she complied with the letter’s demands.
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A letter containing a threat to behead Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie unless she helps implement Sharia law in Australia has sparked a security assessment at the outspoken independent’s office.
The letter was received at the senator’s Burnie office last week and included threats to behead the former Palmer United Party member unless she converted to Islam and helped implement Sharia law by March 18.
It was accompanied by graphic images of a man being beheaded, which prompted the senator’s office to treat the threats seriously.
“By the powers invested in me by Allah, I sentence you to death,” the letter said.
“I will take the honour in beheading you … when you are least prepared; my men and I will take your office by surprise.”
Senator Lambie has been a vocal critic of Islamic Sharia law, but she said the death-threats would not deter her.
“I have no doubt that it is my stance against Sharia Law and my questions on Halal that are going on at the moment,” she said.
“The bottom line is that we are at war with ISIS and we are just going to have to be extremely cautious.”
She said the matter had been handed over to the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Tasmania Police.
“I’m ex-Army so I guess that I’m always very consious about what’s going on around me and what’s happening in my environment so I’ll just continue to be on that sort of high alert and just lift that a little bit more,” she said.
The staff member that recieved that letter has been offered some counselling.
“At this stage she hasn’t taken up that offer but that offer will always be open.”
The senator said she would continue to go about her business as a senator undeterred.
“I will continue to advocate for a ban on Sharia Law, unnecessary face coverings in public and tighter regulation of Halal certification fees in Australia – and to have those Australian Citizens who assist Islamic State in any way, charged with the high crimes of Sedition or Treason.”
A personal security assessment is being done to ensure the safety of Senator Lambie following the letter, the spokesman said.
The letter specifically mentioned a controversial proposal to build a mosque at Green Fields in Adelaide’s northern suburbs.
Senator Lambie said the threat to her life would not help the proponents of the mosque.
“If they think that’s way of going around to get a mosque in Adelaide by threatening my life then I tell you what, they’re certainly going in the wrong direction,” she said.
The senator conceded the death threat could be a hoax but she said she was taking it very seriously.
“This is what we’re waiting for AFP to determine and I can’t do anything else apart from get on with my daily life until that’s been determined,” she said.
The laws in Australia are AUSTRALIAN LAW FOR AUSTRALIANS if you dont like it sod off back to where you came from….why did you leave in the first place ?
Disgusting they should be happy just to be living in this country now they want our laws changed what’s next a beheading law it makes me sick there religion is medieval and doesn’t belong in our modern society.
Think it was in 2016. Editor
Cairns News..I just happened to look at the date on Replies and it was 2016! Old news? Please delete my comment if necessary as I couldn’t find the delete button.
When did Jacquie receive this threat?
Hyong…no source material? You want it delivered in person with videotape of the person saying it? ? Your comment is totally ridiculous!This is the way Muslims re-act when they can’t get their own way…I hope the AFP get fingerprints off this letter and catch the scumbag.Either deport him or gaol for life, for threatening the life of a Senator!
Lambie is trying to protect Australia against these medieval invaders, you should be backing her.You think it is fake? No way! This is how Muslims work!annie
It start to heat up around the world, time to deport regardless!
Lee ~ According to Malcolm and Bill,leaders of the duopoly, they have it all under control and we the people have got it all wrong …Harry
Start to deport this outfitt!
Personally. . . I think the person who wrote that threatening letter and people behind it, should be interned.
When the hell is internment coming in? We are at war and we are such idiots that all we do is appease and accommodate. What’s more, we don’t even know who in the hell is coming into this country, nor what is going on in the mosques.
Geez . . . The younger generation has been sold out.
Islam does not have any place in the West. Ban the Quran in Australia.
So one by one our politicians are going to be murdered if we don’t allow Sharia law to infest Australia,. This has to stop. What is the government going to do about it????
You need to KILL every male mooslam and deport all the rest in Australia!! Don’t delay. It will get worse every day that you delay!
Isn’t that the ABC reporting on Cairns News. Who knows?
Anti Islam in mainstream media ? Lol
The day anyone is beheaded in Australia will lead to all out madness that will be unstoppable, I fear that day for everyone!
Just like the rest of them gutless put your name, show your face you cowards. This country needs to wake up fast….
Never should have let these backward crapp into our country.
They have threatened us all with three choices, convert to Islam, pay a tax to Islam or be beheaded. The koran commands them to do this to all infidels ( non muslims). That is Islam.
Cairns post, I will call the ABC an unreliable source. Did you not see the falsity the four corners show did on the NT juvenile facility? Even the reporter came out and admitted it was a stitch up!!
UNBELIEVABLE…Send all Mustrats out of this country.
“This has absolutely nothing to do with Islam!” The delusional Obama, our PC-in-Chief Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Jones, David Campbell, Nick Xenophon and the likes are saying over, and over and over again! So tiring and sick to hear these delusional leaders excusing away the cancerous threat!
the government allowed them into our country & now they do this, the world knows what they are like yet they are let in so it all falls on the government leaders for doing so.
Say no to halal/sharia
I think that anyone caught practising sharia law or supporting isis or any organisation that’s supports isis and terrorism should be deported and their whole family whether born here or not should go with them… For too long we have allowed the majority of our politician to wimp out by using political correctness…. IT IS TIME TO TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK…. Starting with ALL muslim only areas!
Send in the federal police backed up by the armed forces and PURGE these areas!
Good on you Senator for taking a stand and having the courage to continue that stand, just goes to show how “peaceful”, the Islamic followers are, the rest of Australia needs you to keep charging before more drastic and forceful measures are taken by the people
Stick to your guns Jacqui. These people are evil and remember to watch your back. These people don’t play by the rules.
well done jaqui the real australians are behind you these barbaric animals need stopping right now before they start making no go zones in australia
I think you will find this is a game of Ducks and Drakes being played here.
Any intelligent person without prejudice could see as much.
Hi there Hyong, don’t know what story you were looking at but you might need spectacles. If you want to call the ABC an unreliable source then take it up with them. Story By Tyson Shine, ABC Updated about 6 hours ago. Editor
The first thing that sets alarm bells here is that there is no source material. Secondly, did any other newspaper make an article on this? I’m going to cal bullroar until there’s something substantial to this article.
Oh my gosh, I didn’t think they’d do that! They don’t seem to be very nice at all! Who let them into our beautiful country? Why do so many of them spend a lot of time at the Centrelink office in our town? If their brown, their comin’ down!
This should me a deporting offense. No ifs or buts, Send them back to from whence they came..
… I’m getting the feeling that these Muslims that are pushing for Sharia law is about to have a tempertantrum. If I had to lay money on it, I’d say they’re pissed that NOBODY has paid any attention to them OR their demands, thus far, and now must resort to threats and violence to be heard, which is the Muslims way of dealing with things. I think the longer we ignore these parasites, the more we piss off these Muslim leaders, who look at their status as important to the world, when really, they don’t mean jackshit to anyone that is non-Muslim … for them, it’s like they’re not being taken seriously, which really irritates these idiots .. So, to all the NON-MUSLIMS in the world, Keep up the good work!!!!
I think we have ALL put up with these Muslims primitive antics for long enough, if this is what’s in store for Canada, like many others, I’m ready and willing to fight for what I believe in … Lock n’ Load Baby ……
We’d all like to think it is only a hoax by some deranged Muppet trying to put the fear of God (or should I rephrase that to “the fear of Allah” into you, Jacqui, but unfortunately, this world is full of dangerous and feeble minded people who may well be more than capable of carrying out such threats. If police manage to find the person or persons responsible for this, they should be tried, convicted and sentenced to a lengthy term of imprisonment of around the 15-20 year mark. That should send a loud and clear message to all infidels that their spurious idealisms and beliefs are not, and never will be, compatible with our culture, religions and way of life!!!
This threatening of one of our politicians makes me very angry. I would be comfortable if those belonging to Sharia law were banned from entering my country.