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May 2nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Senator Nick Xenophon will take legal action against a Malaysian newspaper that wrongly said he made an anti-Islamic speech in parliament.
The South Australian senator says he’s “gobsmacked” about a story in the New Straits Times on Wednesday questioning his impartiality as an observer of a demonstration in Kuala Lumpur over the weekend.
Senator Xenophon was caught up in the melee in which police unleashed teargas and chemical-laced water on the 25,000 protesters calling for fair rules for imminent national elections.
He was in the city on an international fact-finding mission on election processes in Malaysia.
The story on the New Straits Times website, which also ran on page six of the newspaper, quotes an extract from a 2009 speech the senator made condemning Scientology.
But it claims the speech to the Australian Senate was about Islam.
It uses a quote with the word “Islam” substituted where Senator Xenophon in fact said “Scientology”.
The story also says that in the speech Senator Xenophon “came out openly in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issue” (sic).
It quotes an independent Malaysian MP questioning whether the senator’s association with opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim meant the latter also supported gay rights. Homosexuality is illegal in Malaysia.
In fact, while the senator supports same sex civil unions, the only mention in that speech of gay rights issues is that a former Scientology member “was instructed by the organisation to disconnect from her sister because her sister was gay and therefore, according to Scientology, dangerous, perverted and evil”.
Senator Xenophon told AAP the story was a “complete lie” and he was seeking legal advice regarding it.
“It’s a vile defamation and I’ll be taking action,” he said.
“I’m gobsmacked that someone could stoop so low.”
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