Stephanie Banister, dubbed as "Australia's Sarah Palin" for vying a spot in the Parliament of Australia has drawn online flak for giving surprisingly inaccurate facts about Islam.

Ms Banister is a candidate for a Brisbane seat of Rankin under the right-wing One Nation party. Despite her desire to run for public office, this election might not turn out to be a happy ending for her. Ms Banister has been charged for sticking labels on Nestle products in a Brisbane store. The alleged stickers said "halal food funds terrorism", according to news reports by local media.

In an interview, Australia's Sarah Palin tagged Islam as a "country" and said that kosher food is for Jews is fine because "they follow Jesus Christ".

As Australia waits for election day on Sept 7, things seem to be getting weird with politicians in the news. The 27-year-old politician needs to have her facts straight about religion. Ms. Banister said she doesn't "oppose Islam as a country" but felt "their laws should not be welcome here in Australia".

Ms Banister continued to dish out "expert" facts about Islam and said that less than two per cent of Australians follow "haram". She obviously meant "the Quran" instead of "haram" which in Arabic language means "forbidden".

Ms Banister is taking a firm stand in banning halal food in Australia but approves of kosher food for Jews. She repeated her earlier mistake by saying "Jews aren't under haram" since they have their own religion and follow Jesus Christ.

Again, Australia's Sarah Palin, made another mistake. Jews don't follow the teachings of Jesus Christ.

According to Ms Banister, she knew she made mistakes and corrected herself several times. She told Fairfax Media that her corrections were allegedly edited out during the interview. She said "they've completely twisted all my words" and made her look like a stupid moron and a stand-up criminal.

Ms Banister's political party, One Nation, is a far-right Australian political party with plans of restricting immigration and abolishing multi-racialism, according to its Web site, which it claims to be "destroying Australian culture".

The interview of Ms. Banister can be compared to the infamous interview with Katie Couric and Sarah Palin in 2008 when Ms. Palin was the Republic candidate for the vice-presidency in the U.S. The real Ms Palin was unable to name a newspaper she told media she had read. One of her foreign policy credentials was about Alaska's close proximity to Russia.

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