Reform-minded Muslims have a new internet destination: a website set up by Queensland MP George Christensen “to expose radical Islamic practices, its adherents and appeasers within our midst”.

The outspoken member for Dawson, who last year addressed a Reclaim Australia rally in Mackay, announced the website on Tuesday in a call-out for writers and researchers.

“The site will also root out political correctness and its purveyors who seek to stymie free speech on this, the most important subject for the future of our Western civilisation,” he wrote on Facebook.

Christensen said he hoped the website, authorised by his office, would be an agent for reform within Islam, “and promote moderate Muslims who are seeking to change their faith for the better”.

But he added: “Where practices of so-called moderate Muslims in this country or elsewhere are found to be less than moderate or appeasing the extremists, this website will call it out.”

Contributors will not be paid but are promised they will help to “fight for a cause which could determine the future of Western civilisation, freedom, liberty and humankind”.

Writing for Guardian Australia in July, Christensen defended his participation in the Reclaim Australia movement, arguing that Islamic extremism “is no longer something that is ‘over there’. It’s not a threat that only exists on foreign shores. Unless we’re prepared to remain vigilant and to stand up and publicly advocate against those who are purveyors of that ideology, then we are acquiescing to it”.

It is not the MP’s first foray into the publishing world: he issued an apology during his 2010 election campaign after articles he wrote during his university years emerged, in which he reportedly made jokes about Aids, labelled women “stupid” and linked Jewish people to the death of Jesus.



He explained at the time that “some of the content I provided for those publications was intended to shock readers or to use humour in a shocking way rather than to provide legitimate commentary”.

Those interested in writing for Christensen’s website are asked to email the MP at his parliamentary address using the subject line, “War on radical Islam”.



According to the 2011 census, Mackay, the major population centre in Christensen’s north Queensland electorate, has a Muslim population of 18.