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SYDNEY, Australia - Australia's top Islamic cleric, under fire for comparing women who go without head scarves to "uncovered meat," ignored his promise to refrain from preaching and delivered a sermon to the applause of hundreds of supporters Friday. Sheik Taj Aldin al-Hilali, mufti of Australia since 1989, had apologized last week for any offense he caused to women and then agreed with the Lakemba Mosque's administrators to take three months off from preaching as outraged politicians called for his resignation. But the 65-year-old native of Egypt appeared for noon prayers at the mosque Friday, Muslims' sabbath, and preached for...

SHEIK Taj al-Din al-Hilaly has asked his followers to call off Saturday's planned rally which has been organised as a show of support for the besieged cleric. The sheik has gone on Voice of Islam Radio in Sydney thanking his supporters for their faith but urging them not to attend the unofficial rally at Lakemba. "He just called for people not to go, not to participate in the rally which doesn't show our way of faith," said Moussab Legha, a cleric at the radio station. "He said everyone should be cooled down." Mr Legha said the sheik will be attending...

An ambulance has been called to the Lakemba Mosque in Sydney's south-west. The ambulance service says someone has collapsed inside the mosque. The incident happened at the same time a meeting between controversial Sydney Muslim cleric Sheikh Taj El-Din Al Hilaly and the president of the Lebanese Muslim Association, Tom Zreika, was meant to take place to discuss the Sheikh's future. The ambulance officers have entered the Sheik's office, but it is not known if the Sheik himself has collapsed.

Briton backs imam in 'uncovered meat' rowFrom Bernard Lagan in Sydney ONE of Britain's most senior Muslims has defended as "a great scholar" the Australian imam who likened scantily clad women to uncovered meat that draws predators. Abduljalil Sajid, a senior figure in the Muslim Council of Britain, offered support for Sheikh Taj Din al-Hilali's views, saying that "loose women like prostitutes" encouraged men to be immoral. Dr Sajid, visiting Australia, said that Sheikh al-Hilali was attacking immodesty and loose dress, or "standing in the streets, inviting men to do these bad acts". Although the Australian cleric did not use...

If you missed Part I, here it is: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1726241/posts --- So what if "WHITE" Hitler would burn all "BROWN" Arab asses, good-Muslims could still hold signs "G. Bless Hitler" as the best/holy/Islamic response to "offensive" cartoons. Encourage (or do it unwillingly, unknowingly anyway, duping) "Palestinian" kids to be either human bombs or human shields, the cause: 'anti-Zionist - Fascism' is greater than ANY human lives. To dance, celebrate, rejoice in infidels' deaths, pain, such as (the "wonderful Palestinians") on 9/11, the smiling Bali bomber, or the laughing Moussaoui, but mourn the deaths of chief terrorists like Zarqawi, though - a...

ISLAM'S CRIME OF (ENCOURAGING ON) RAPING WOMENNot too many in the west were so exposed to that awful truth as lately with:Imam justifies rape of unveiled women Ynetnews - Oct 26, 2006 Australia's top Muslim cleric rationalized a series of gang rapes by Arab ... The cleric also said the judge in the case, who sentenced ... "The uncovered meat is the ... http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3320149,00.htmlMuslim leader blames women for sex attacks The Australian, Australia - Oct 25, 2006... whose fault is it, the cats or the uncovered meat? ... by Sheik Hilali's remarks, insisting the cleric was no ... Young Muslim...

SO it wasn't a political stunt. It isn't about Iraq. And the threat of Islamist terror right here is more real than many pretend. How real? If the police are right, they have saved scores of you from being blown up -- as people in Madrid and London were blown up. As NSW Police Commissioner Ken Moroney put it, the arrest yesterday of 17 Muslim men disrupted "the final stages of a large-scale terrorist attack". He said explosive material had already been collected. Yet only last week, Prime Minister John Howard was pilloried by many for having warned of an...

TO HIS family and friends, Mamdouh Habib was a devoted father and husband. But to others, the calm suburban veneer disguised an angry and often violent man whose actions were fuelled by his religious fanaticism. Seemingly a helpful supporter at his son's soccer matches, Habib also had a nasty streak which landed him with an AVO against former colleagues and a court order to destroy firearms and ammunition in his home. Nine days after the September 11 attack in New York, his home was raided by the nation's chief spy watchdog ASIO. Today, the fate of the man named as...

WE should be grateful Australia's most senior Islamic cleric has trekked to Baghdad to save the life of Australian hostage Douglas Wood. But the Mufti of Australia, Sheik Taj El-Din El-Hilaly, has at the same time shown -- again -- that not all the Muslim extremists who threaten us are in Iraq. Surely now even his closest supporters see that this man of hate should no longer represent our Muslims. Hilaly on the weekend filmed an appeal in Arabic for Wood's kidnappers to spare the life of the 63-year-old engineer, who had been bashed, shaved bald, and threatened with execution...