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The Liberal senator accused of supporting a self-confessed Islamophobic Dutch politician has asked a Sydney Muslim to "publicly denounce" fundamentalist Islam before he corresponded with him.
Arch-conservative South Australian senator Cory Bernardi has been under fire from moderates in his own party for extending an invitation to visit Australia to Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
Mr Wilders, whose party holds the balance of power in the Dutch Parliament, is Europe's most famously anti-Islamic politician. He has likened the Koran to Mein Kampf and Islam to fascism.