One would assume that Members of Parliament would be restrained enough, mature enough and knowledgeable enough not to buy into the sorts of mythologies the bogots do.
However that is somewhat of a forlorn hope.
We have already seen the antics of supposedly mainstream politicians like Senator Corey Bernardi. Now we have yet another MP, this time someone from the House of Representatives who obviously wants to balance the stupidity across both Houses, lining up for the title of Canberra Idiot of the Week.
This week and every week by the look of things.
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NICK BUTTERLY CANBERRA,
The West Australian November 25, 2011, 3:50 pm
A WA Liberal MP has claimed Australians are unknowingly being converted to Islam by eating Halal meat.
In a speech to Parliament yesterday, backbencher Luke Simpkins said most Australians did not know that most of the meat they ate came from animals killed in accordance with Muslim law.
“By having Australians unwittingly eating Halal food we are all one step down the path towards the conversion, and that is a step we should only make with full knowledge and one that should not be imposed upon us without us knowing,” Mr Simpkins told Parliament.
“What is happening is wrong. Too often the minorities in this country are looked after without regard to the majority.”
Mr Simpkins said he had carried out an unofficial survey in his northern-suburbs electorate of Cowan and had discovered that most meat at major chains such as Coles or Woolworths had been killed under Halal conditions, but had not been labelled as such.
He tabled a petition demanding that all Halal meat be clearly identified, complaining people could not buy meat for their “Aussie barbecue” without the influence of the “minority religion”.
Mr Simpkins said that Mohammed the prophet of Islam had talked of how the religion could be expanded around the world by getting people to eat Halal meat.
“He reportedly said, ‘The non-believers will become Muslims when, amongst other things, they eat the meat that we have slaughtered’. This is one of the key aspects to converting non-believers to Islam,” Mr Simpkins said.
The petition tabled by Mr Simpkins had been organised by the Barnabas Fund, an organisation that supports Christians living in Muslim countries.
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said Opposition Leader Tony Abbott should pull Mr Simpkins into line.
“All members of Parliament should be looking to promote understanding and harmony between religions. Mr Simpkins has done the complete opposite,” he said.
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You can find Luke Simpkins on Facebook when he is not relentlessly prowling the butcher shops and meat sections of supermarkets rescuing Christians from that damn sinister halal meat.
you said it... 
Nice example of how to run off at the mouth about something you know nothing about. How do these people get to be where they are?! Well, we can be grateful he doesn’t teach in schools.
Hmm…. I wonder what they had to do to his ‘meat’ to convert him to such a wanker.
Thank fuck I’m a vego.
If ex-Backbencher Luke Simpkins stop lying and actually done any research he would see reality that HE DOES NOT SPEAK FOR most Australians and he doesn’t know for sure that most of the meat they ate came from animals killed in accordance with Muslim law.
(Sorry Luke getting your rocks off watching Today Tonight is not research, but proves you are sick)
Also from barnabasfund.org “Barnabas Aid supports Christians where they are in a minority and suffer discrimination, oppression and persecution as a consequence of their faith”
So by organising a petition The Barnabas Fund has proven they don’t practice what they preach and don’t care that Muslims suffer discrimination, oppression and persecution as a consequence of their faith.
Buy pork sausages, if you really that scared, Mr. Simpkins.
Oh, the facepalm.
Seriously starting to shit me all these high profile racist pricks arc’ing up over bullshit. How can you be converted to a religion you do not believe in.
Also please go to this fb page and report it please…would love to see it removed.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Move-to-Australia-and-argue-how-your-country-is-better-Suggestion-FUCK-OFF/188591294536600
Wondering why Simpkins ‘liked’ the movie Invictus about uniting a black and white africa after apartheid. I hope I never cross paths with him may find myself in trouble for verbal harassment.
If those dickheads who hid AGAIN behind another racist Facebook, group don’t like what is happening in Australia. FUCK OFF BACK TO MOTHER ENGLAND.
Don Smith
19 Winterton Way
Girrawheen WA 6064
Phone: 93435484
Letters to The Editor
WA Newspapers
GPO Box N1027
Perth WA 6843
Dear Editor
As a citizen in the electorate of Cowan, I’d like to congratulate my local member Luke Simpkins for pointing out that much of the meat sold in my area is killed in the Halal method preferred by Muslims.
I had no idea that this was the case, and I think it’s important that we know these things. In his speech to federal parliament on 25th November this year, Mister Simpkins said, “By having Australians unwittingly eating Halal food we are all one step down the path towards the conversion, and that is a step we should only make with full knowledge and one that should not be imposed upon us without us knowing.”
He is absolutely correct to make this abomination clear to all. And from the point of view of my own experience, I think he is really on to something. Just recently, after a barbecue at my neighbour’s house (where we no doubt consumed too much Halal meat) I found myself at the local supermarket unwittingly and unconsciously attempting to buy prayer mats, and later during that week, for no apparent reason, I began to grow a beard. This behaviour was clearly a response to the Halal meat. I even found myself hating my dog Gypsy – a dog I’ve owned for twelve years! In the Muslim faith dogs are considered to be unclean.
As proof of Mr Simpkins theory – that eating their food can lead to conversion – I have instances of other situations where this is true. For example, a few months ago I ate some French toast and the next day found myself wearing a beret and saying ‘Oooooo La La’ every few minutes! On another occasion at a local multicultural picnic I ate some kangaroo, and within hours I was wearing white paint on my body, doing dot drawings and playing a didgeridoo!
If not for the intelligent observations of our local member, I really don’t know how we people of Cowan could possibly survive the invasion of dangerous cultural activities and methods entering our community. Thankyou Luke.
Yours sincerely
Don Smith
HOLY SHIT!!!!! 😮
I ate Kosher meat the other day & I’m so scared to lose my foreskin 😦
I ate rancid meat and woke up the following morning a Liberal Parliamentarian.
“Opposition Leader Tony Abbott should pull Mr Simpkins into line” not likely and Abbott well blame Labor for another f**k up by a LIbEral lost cause, one of the other lost cause is Abbott himself.
I have a confession to make. As we all know Hitler was a vegetarian. I too am a vegetarian. My fellow brethren and I have been busy converting Australians to the cause of Nazism by making them all eat vegetables.
Hitler was vegetarian? WHAT an enigma oxymoron quandary paradox sh*t. I will fight the urge to generalise all vegetarians as genocidal maniacs just like most politicians don’t with muslims.