Muslim woman, 39, is revealed as One Nation’s shock star candidate for Parliament – as she calls for burqa to be BANNED and slams women’s ‘lame excuses’ for wearing the Islamic garb

  • One Nation has recruited a Muslim candidate to run for the NSW Parliament
  • Mark Latham has recruited businesswoman Emma Eros as his star candidate
  • Ms Eros threw her support behind Mr Latham’s ‘ban the burqa’ campaign
  • He wants the burqa banned in government buildings, airports and banks 
  • Ms Eros slammed the ‘lame excuses’ given for wearing niqab or burqa
  • ‘A dutiful Muslim … is about the character of a person,’ she argued

A Muslim woman will run in the upcoming New South Wales election as a One Nation candidate, and has thrown her support behind the party’s ‘ban the burqa’ platform because ‘people need to show their face’.

One Nation NSW leader Mark Latham will announce on Sunday that Sydney businesswoman Emma Eros will be One Nation’s star candidate at the state election in March.  

The 39-year-old businesswoman and daughter of Lebanese migrants grew up in Sydney’s west and runs a plumbing and construction business.

In an exclusive interview, Ms Eros said many women give ‘lame excuses’ for wearing the traditional Muslim head coverings.

‘I am a believer that one needs to show their face,’ she said, backing Mr Latham’s new policy to ban the burqa in government buildings, banks and airports.  

‘Any government building, anything like that, that’s relevant to identification then yeah, bloody hell, remove it’. 

Ms Eros, who is Muslim, will run for Parliament as a One Nation candidate, throwing her support behind the party’s ‘ban the burqa’ platform because ‘people need to show their face’.

Read the article in the Daily Mail Australia.