{"id":9437,"date":"2019-05-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/another-liberal-candidate-has-been-dumped-for-anti-muslim-comments\/"},"modified":"2019-05-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T00:00:00","slug":"another-liberal-candidate-has-been-dumped-for-anti-muslim-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/another-liberal-candidate-has-been-dumped-for-anti-muslim-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Liberal Candidate Has Been Dumped For Anti-Muslim Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Liberal Party candidate Jessica Whelan has been stood down after screenshots emerged of her making anti-Muslim and anti-immigration comments online.<\/h3>\n<p>In one of the posts she refers to a man as a \u201cfilthy Muslim\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"943\" width=\"347\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/whelan-posts.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Friday Ms Whelan stated she did not make some of the comments she was accused of making &#8212; including references to genital mutilation &#8212; but conceded she had made other \u201cinappropriate\u201d comments and was therefore resigning.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Statement from the Tasmanian Liberals on FORMER Lyons Liberal candidate Jessica Whelan. She maintains she did not call for feminists\u2019 clitorises to be cut off but did say racist stuff elsewhere so has resigned accordingly. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/politas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#politas<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ausvotes2019?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ausvotes2019<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yOTkmnjpWg\">pic.twitter.com\/yOTkmnjpWg<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Emily Baker (@emlybkr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emlybkr\/status\/1124074897502871554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p>Earlier SA Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham said he didn\u2019t expect Ms Whelan could continue in her position.<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p>\u201cI expect, based on the additional information that has come to light, that she will not continue to be the Liberal candidate,\u201d Senator Birmingham told the Today show.<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BREAKING<\/a>: &quot;I expect based on information that has come to light overnight &#8211; the additional information &#8211; that she&#39;ll not be continued to be Liberal candidate.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Birmo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Birmo<\/a> reveals that Liberal candidate for Lyons Jessica Whelan will be stood down. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/9Today?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#9Today<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VjGsJSnb20\">pic.twitter.com\/VjGsJSnb20<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Today Show (@TheTodayShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTodayShow\/status\/1124064446526238737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p>Earlier this week Victorian Liberal party candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/Liberal-Candidate-Dumped-Over-Anti-Muslim-Comments\">Jeremy Hearn was also dumped<\/a> by the party for anti-Muslim comments.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberal Party candidate Jessica Whelan has been stood down after screenshots emerged of her making anti-Muslim and anti-immigration comments online. In one of the posts she refers to a man as a \u201cfilthy Muslim\u201d. On Friday Ms Whelan stated she did not make some of the comments she was accused of making &#8212; including references [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-9437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Another Liberal Candidate Has Been Dumped For Anti-Muslim Comments - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/another-liberal-candidate-has-been-dumped-for-anti-muslim-comments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Another Liberal Candidate Has Been Dumped For Anti-Muslim Comments\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Liberal Party candidate Jessica Whelan has been stood down after screenshots emerged of her making anti-Muslim and anti-immigration comments online. 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