Muslim cleric triggers outrage by blaming women for rape

Times Online ^ | 2006-10-26 | Elsa McLaren and agencies

[cartan]

Some more information about this wonderful imam…

[Taggart_D]

He told reporters: “The idea that women are to blame for rapes is preposterous. I not only reject the comments, I condemn them unconditionally.”

You won't hear language like that coming from any muslim. We'll see if the guy is actually removed from the mosque...but I doubt it.

[Vaquero]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1726135/posts

[riverrunner]

It will be interesting to see the "feminist" take on these comments.

Will it be another "Clinton moment" where power politics are shown to be far more important to "feminists" than protecting women and their rights?

[paudio]

I am expecting people to get abused in the street and get abused at work

According to the imam, that's because they don't dress properly...

[Psycho_Bunny]

“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 cover, and the cats come to eat it…whose fault is it, the cats' or the uncovered meat?

He's wrong....for the analogy to work with muslims you have to change "cats" to "brain-damaged pigs"

[Izzy Dunne]

I suppose shootings happen because the gunpowder is immoral...

[YOUGOTIT]

That is what the Religion of Peace says. If a woman is raped it is her fault and she should be stoned or buried alive.

[Izzy Dunne]

I like the "uncovered meat" comment - I suppose the idea of consent never crossed his mind...

[AppyPappy]

I bet if he gets raped in the shower while in prison, his thoughts will be a bit different.

[Chewie84]

"He was reported in the newspaper as saying that he only meant to refer to prostitutes as meat, and not any woman who does not wear a hijab, but the paper said there was no mention of the word prostitute in the sermon."

Maybe he thinks any woman seen in public who's not completely veiled is a prostitute.

[beachn4fun]

Oh my Lord! Why is it that no one seems to want to point out that "that" is an excuse for men NOT TO CONTROL THEMSELVES?

Ever wonder why muslim men want the women covered up? Cause they know how men are. (FYI - not all men)

I'm not saying he doesn't have a point in there about dress, but that's like the rapists trying to convince people that the victim likes it. The victim's fault and not the perpetrator.

[Chewie84]

"Oh my Lord! Why is it that no one seems to want to point out that "that" is an excuse for men NOT TO CONTROL THEMSELVES?"
I know. It's like the parents who constantly use the old saying "Boys will be boys."

[Always Right]

Sheik Taj Aldin al-Hilali is actually moderate Muslim in his views. Young women who have been raped sometimes are killed by family members in 'honor killings' in Islamic countries.

[Little Ray]

We need death squads to "disappear" people like this, along with imam that preach jihad. Just find 'em a grave in a lonely place.

[mutley]

“The uncovered meat is the problem. If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred.”

This is your brain on Islam.

Any questions?

[Nathan Zachary]

"The Islamic Council of New South Wales said his comments were “un-Islamic, un-Australian and unacceptable”.

Liars.

Muslim:B1N142 “‘O womenfolk, you should ask for forgiveness for I saw you in bulk amongst the dwellers of Hell.’ A wise lady said: Why is it, Allah’s Apostle, that women comprise the bulk of the inhabitants of Hell? The Prophet observed: ‘You curse too much and are ungrateful to your spouses. You lack common sense, fail in religion and rob the wisdom of the wise.’ Upon this the woman remarked: What is wrong with our common sense? The Prophet replied, ‘Your lack of common sense can be determined from the fact that the evidence of two women is equal to one man. That is a proof.’”

Bukhari:V3B48N826 “The Prophet said, ‘Isn’t the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a man?’ The women said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘This is because of the deficiency of a woman’s mind.’”

Ishaq:584 “Tell the men with you who have wives: never trust a woman.”

Ishaq:185 “In hell I saw women hanging by their breasts. They had fathered bastards.”

Tabari IX:113 “Allah permits you to shut them in separate rooms and to beat them, but not severely. If they abstain, they have the right to food and clothing. Treat women well for they are like domestic animals and they possess nothing themselves. Allah has made the enjoyment of their bodies lawful in his Qur’an.”

Islam never says nothing bad about women...

[beachn4fun]

"Boys will be boys."

That's for sure.

[MEGoody]

. . .and no hijab or Islamic headscarf. . ."

So a woman's hair is such a turn on to Muslim men that they can't control themselves?

I've heard of fetishes before, but. . .