Faith in Politics – Australia's First Muslim MP

Ed Husic is known to some as 'the minister for the basketball', with other as the first federal MP sworn in the Quran. He became the first ever Muslim frontbencher under Kevin Rudd. What’s next for the outspoken Gen Xer with a friend on the wrong side of the parliament? “do you Want graag’n few words to say?” someone questioning the politician. Ed Husic, federal Labor MP, a visit to St. Francis of Assisi Catholic school in Glendenning, one of the suburbs which form part of the extensive Western Sydney electorate of Chifley. A modest chapel, which serves as a general purpose hall, fully…