Australian Senate candidate questions need for Muslim prayer rooms
![Muslim men at prayer outside RMIT University in the the southern Australian city of Melbourne. [ABC]](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200903/r352307_1616839.jpg "Muslim men at prayer outside RMIT University in the the southern Australian city of Melbourne. [ABC]")
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Muslim men at prayer outside RMIT University in the the southern Australian city of Melbourne. [ABC]
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A Victorian Senate candidate for the Christian Democratic Party says she wants to counter what she sees as the 'Islamisation' of Australia.
Senate candidate Vickie Janson says she supports religious freedom but Muslims need to integrate, and should not insist on exclusive facilities such as prayer rooms and toilets.
Ms Janson was speaking at the Christian Democratic Party campaign launch in the Victorian city of Bendigo.
She says the Federal Government is endorsing the Islamisation of the country.
"It's something that we can see in these government funded brochures, we see a presentation of Islam in our schools that just defies historical reality. You've got to question why would we be teaching these things in our school anyway, why would we be insisting upon a Muslim perspective."
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