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Posted on 10/26/2006 8:01:56 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
A Muslim cleric's claim that women who do not wear the veil are like 'uncovered meat' who attract sexual predators sparked outrage around Australia yesterday.
Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali, the nation's most senior Muslim cleric, compared immodestly-dressed women who do not wear the Islamic headdress with meat that is left uncovered in the street and is then eaten by cats.
Politicians including Prime Minister John Howard, community leaders and a large number of Muslims condemned the mufti's comments amid calls that he should be deported to Egypt, his country of origin.
In a Ramadam sermon in a Sydney mosque, Sheik al-Hilali suggested that a group of Muslim men recently jailed for many years for gang rapes were not entirely to blame.
There were women, he said, who 'sway suggestively' and wore make-up and immodest dress "and then you get a judge without mercy and gives you 65 years. But the problem, but the problem all began with who?" he said, referring to the women victims.
Addressing 500 worshippers on the topic of adultery, Sheik al-Hilali added: "If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it..whose fault is it - the cats or the uncovered meat?
"The uncovered meat is the problem."
He went on: "If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab (veil), no problem would have occurred."
Women, he said, were 'weapons' used by Satan to control men.
His comments, reported yesterday in the nationally-circulated newspaper The Australian, created a storm of outrage.
It follows anger that erupted among Muslims in Britain earlier this month when MP Jack Straw said women who wear veils over their face can make community relations harder.
But Sheik al-Hilali's has created an even bigger storm by using the uncovered meat example to accuse women who do not cover their heads and faces of tempting men.
Prime Minister Howard labelled the mufti's comments as 'appalling and reprehensible', adding: "They are quite out of touch with contemporary values in Australia.
"The idea that women are to blame for rapes is preposterous. I not only reject the comments, I condemn them unconditionally." Treasurer Peter Costello urged the Muslim community to condemn the comments and take action against the Sheik.
"If you have a significant religious leader like this preaching to a flock in a situation where we've had gang rapes, in a way that seems to make it justifiable, or at least lighten the dehumanising and degrading extent of the offence."
A close associate of the sheik, Keysar Trad, said the speech was about adultery, not rape. "He wasn't talking about standard norms of dress in Australia or any country, he wasn't talking about the hijab, he was talking about people who engage in extramarital sex."
But Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner Miss Pru Goward said there could be no backtracking over the comments. "He could be guilty of incitement to the crime of rape and should be deported," she said.
I'm a breast man.
His simple message: Muslim men are feral animals
All of Islam is out of touch with any country's values.
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I envy the Aussies. They have a President with the guts to stand up and call these maggots what they are.
If these garbage creatures feel confident enough to speak publicly about the nonmoslem victims of moslem rapists in this manner, what are they saying in the privacy of their mosques? Are they actively encouraging their "youths" to rape nonmoslem women ?
Damn straight. The more uncovered, the better!
He must have went through a very nasty divorce.....
Australian feminist whacko Germaine Greer wrote a despicable little piece for the London Guardian (she allegedly "teaches" in the UK) about the death of Steve Irwin.
Where is Greer's voice on the ongoing and reprehensible behavior of Australian Muslims toward every female on the continent, be they spouses or strangers or beachgoers or even of the ilk of Greer herself?
The other white meat.
~snorrfle!!!~ Good one!
"Stone age freaks" is spot on.
"Is that A-1 behind your ears? Yum!" Wild & crazy moose-limb swinging pick-up line
So if they can have a dress code stating that any female not wearing a hajib can be raped, can we have one that says anyone in a turbin can be shot?
The problem with this analogy, Sheik, is that cats are 'animals' and so they act like animals. In western culture, unlike the racist and sexist world of Islam, when men treat women like animals they are caged like animals in jail. Mohammad never was quite able to grasp this concept. Go back to Egypt where your twisted logic is accepted as wisdom.
Read very carefully. Paragraph 3:
Politicians including Prime Minister John Howard, community leaders and a large number of Muslims condemned the mufti's comments amid calls that he should be deported to Egypt, his country of origin.
While not technically Demonstrating in outrage, it is a start.
I'm with them. Punt him back to Egypt.
In a more civilized era, he would have been beaten to death already.
Thank goodness the Aussies have the stones to stand up to this muzzie nonsense. I wish some American pols would make similar comments. I am fed up with muslims.
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