A SOUTH Australian man has refused an offer $200,000 over the asking price on his 10-acre property because the buyers were Muslim.

John O’Leary, owner of Gainsborough Equestrian Centre in Golden Grove, said he turned down the offer to purchase the property, listed for $1.79 million, because he wanted “Australia to remain in Australia”.

“We want Australia to remain westernised,” Mr O’Leary told news.com.au.

“We don’t want Muslims coming into this country. They don’t assimilate ... and the fact they take over suburbs and won’t allow Australians in their own suburbs.”

The fifth-generation Australian horseman, whose father was the personal horse escort to General Thomas Blamey, the commander-in-chief of the Australian Military Forces during World War II, said he agrees with One Nation leader Pauline Hanson “completely”.

“We are the silent majority of the right-wing who have been stifled by political correctness over the past two generations from being able to speak our mind,” he told news.com.au.

When asked if he knew whether the buyers were Australian Muslims, he said he was not sure.

But Mr O’Leary did say he also refused the offer to preserve the equestrian industry in South Australia.

According to The Advertiser, the Islamic businessmen who made the offer had considered purchasing the property to build a community centre big enough to hold 1000 people, including prayer rooms and a catering kitchen.

“The Labor Government in this country, and city council, are in love with real estate developers and the horse industry has been kicked pillar to post out of the cities to the sticks and so I am trying to stop the rot there,” Mr O’Leary said.

“I want to sell the property to someone who will run it as an equestrian centre so it doesn’t become a concrete jungle.”

He added that preserving the centre would be good for the “health of the nation” because our children are becoming “more and more obese”.

Mr O’Leary and his wife have been in the property on One Tree Hill Road Golden Grove, about 25km from Adelaide CBD, for 22 years.

The property includes a renovated five-bedroomed, two-bathroom home, 10 paddocks, a saddlery shed, a hay shed, a dressage arena and outdoor jumping arena, and an equine crush.