Earlier this month, a jar of coffee with its seal broken was allegedly found at a Woolworths supermarket at Underwood, south of Brisbane, featuring a sticker stating "Beware! Halal food funds terrorists".

The stickers can be purchased from Restore Australia, whose chief executive officer is One Nation candidate Mike Holt.

The Queensland One Nation candidate remains unapologetic for selling the stickers.

But Queensland Multicultural Affairs Minister Glen Elmes on Thursday condemned the merchandise as “offensive, grotesque and designed to inflame hatred”.

Mr Elmes said the candidate ran a racist website through which people were encouraged to purchase the stickers carrying the slogan and put them on food products in supermarkets.

Doing so wasn’t “just racial discrimination”, Mr Elmes said, it was also vandalism.

“The full force of the law should be brought down on anyone found to be vandalising supermarket property and promoting racial discrimination through using the stickers,” he said.

“These sorts of outrageous politics might play out well amongst a small group of political fringe dwellers, but they are offensive to the vast majority of Australians.

“And so they should be.

“Queensland is home to 37,000 people of the Muslim faith and they should be free to practice their religious and cultural beliefs without attack from idiots like the One Nation candidate for Fairfax.”

However Mr Elmes also took aim at the Palmer United Party federal candidate for Hinkler and former LNP member, Rob Messenger.

He said Mr Messenger had written an anti-Muslim letter to newspapers that was “designed to inflame anti-Muslim sentiment" and that Mr Messenger and Mr Holt should both be dis-endorsed.

But Mr Messenger, who left the LNP in 2010 to serve out his term in Queensland Parliament as the Member for Burnett as an independent, said his former colleague had “completely misunderstood” the intention of his letter.

“I wrote my letter in response to the cold-blooding killing by two self-confessed Islamic extremists who were literally caught brazenly red-handed in what was a vile act of extremism,” he said.

“My letter essentially warned against all people, including those of the Islamic faith, remaining silent against extremism.

“The risk of a terror attack is so great that a policy of appeasement in the face of such extremism will fail.

“It is quite controversial letter, but he’s taken it out of context, and tried to apply to me that I was racist, and all the other ‘isms’.

“I was the only MP to speak out against neo-Nazis in Queensland – where was Mr Elmes on that issue?

Mr Holt has been selling an array of merchandise through his website, Restore Australia, for two months.

But the Sunshine Coast politician denies he is inflaming racist sentiments.

‘‘I am not perpetuating anything, anti-Muslim sentiment is real,’’ he said.

‘‘I wanted to raise awareness that people buy all this food in good faith and they are not being told almost everything has a Halal tax which goes to Muslim organisations.’’

It emerged Mr Holt was selling the merchandise when a 26-year-old woman was charged on Wednesday.

Mr Holt said he knew of the woman, a follower of Restore Australia, but did not condone her alleged actions.

‘‘I do state you shouldn’t do that but the young girl is keen to stop this Halal certification, she acted in good faith,’’ he said.

The Kingston woman is due to appear in Beenleigh Magistrates Court on Friday, charged with contaminating or interfering with goods.

A police spokesman said there was absolutely no evidence to support the claims being spruiked on the stickers.

Mr Holt said he had sold about 24,000 stickers in the two months since the items were available, including to customers in Australia, the UK, New Zealand and Switzerland.

The One Nation candidate, who is married to a Thai woman, denied he was racist.

‘‘Of course I’m not racist, how can you be racist against a religion,’’ he said.

Fairfax Media is seeking comment from the Islam Council of Queensland.

- with Katherine Feeney