He ought to be suspended from a rope.

Dumb Bastard. But then again, women are friggin' cattle to a whole lot (majority) of muslims.

I'm sure many people especially women are with ya on that.

I am still waiting for the NAG HAG NOW gals to weigh in on this -- waiting -- waiting -- waiting -- crickets.........

http://geocities.com/arabracismandislamicjihad/TreatingWomen.html - Treating Women

Violence Against Women
Rape, unfortunately, remains a common form of violence against women. In addition, the woman (in Islam) is often blamed for being the victim of rape.
http://www.mwlusa.org/publications/positionpapers/violence.html

Prime Victims The social consequences of this war among its primary victims, women and ... The Islamic Council of Guardians decreed that "a woman does not have the right ...
http://www.iran-e-azad.org/english/book_on_women/chapter2.html

Victims of Islam: Women
http://www.iheu.org/node/1534 pages

BBC World Service Trust.org | Women as victims of Islamic laws
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/trust/news/story/2006/03/060307_piece_by_rafaqat_ali.shtml

FrontPage magazine.com :: Rape in Islam: Blaming the Victim
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=5676

Suspended? Dismissed from office? That'll really show him. What the Aussies need to do is expel him from their country. Until we start denying these cave men (with apologies to Geico) the privilege of living in our societies, they are not going to back down.

No muzzies are marching???? Can't be!

Time for the newspaper to publish a cartoon of the perp, holding some raw meat, being chased by cats.

Then the muzzies will have something to riot for, to bomb the churches, set fire to the flags, brandish swords, and have lots of fun muzzie style, to mark the end of Ramadamadingdong!

Unless the Aussie press will "buy" (the PC) it again that it's "racist anti Arab", as they have portrayed the non Arab native Aussies for hitting back at the Arab gangs on the Sydney beach last year.

I think the Islamic council got cold feet and felt the heat from the "infidel" majority, but it's too Little too late.

Why is he still alive??? Are there any real men left in Australia? He should be beaten to death and stuffed with pig entrails right inside the mosque.

Every hour he is left alive is an insult to Australian women.

There is something a bit odd about the reports on this. The egregious thing the 'cleric' did was to justify or excuse rape.

The 'meat' metaphor has been used by lots of people, as in description of singles-bars as 'meat markets', complaints by women about having been made to feel like a 'piece of meat' by the unwanted attentions of men, and the like.

The headlines and lead paragraphs should be focusing on the 'cleric' excusing rape, not on his metaphor.

Actually, considering that the extension of the metaphor equates the Muslim perps with 'ravening animals', maybe we shouldn't object to the metaphor at all, only to its use to excuse rapes.

No one in this entire conversation has said if the women referred to in his remarks were muslim or not. If Australia is a free country and the women in question were not muslim, why should they be made to cover up in muslim fashion?

Ramadamadingdong............thanks for the laugh!!!!

Sheikh Hilali sparked more controversy on Friday when, asked by reporters if he would resign, he responded: "After we clean the world of the White House first."

Who the h ll does this evil Sheikh Hilali think he is? I truly am finding it harder each day to like Muslims. Maybe we should clean the world of the evil Muslims like him and his kind . Stoning these guys sounds good to me, after all they like to abuse and have stoned women to death in the name of the religion of peace.

"Many people - including some Muslim leaders - have called for the cleric to be dismissed from office. "

He and his supporters should be deported.

Do we know if anyone is Australia is trying to deport him? I would be happy to contribute to the deportation fund.

I thought about the same thing when I read this story....the hypersensitive muslims have no problem with being likened to animals unable to control their own impusles. Nevermind that this seems to be the best description of them in print to date...

Times Online

October 27, 2006

Muslim cleric attacks US and refuses to resign

By Devika Bhat

Australia’s most senior Islamic cleric has defiantly refused to resign over remarks comparing unveiled women to uncovered meat, saying that he would only step down when the White House was "cleaned" out.

Sheikh Taj Din al-Hilali, who caused outrage by suggesting that women who chose not to cover themselves invited rape, was instead suspended from preaching for two to three months by the board of Sydney’s Lakemba Mosque Association.

But the ban has been deemed an insufficient response by critics - including John Howard, the country’s Prime Minister - who have called for the cleric’s resignation and urged the Muslim community to act decisively to repudiate his assertions.

Asked today if he would step down, the cleric, who was welcoming worshippers to Friday prayers at the mosque, responded with a verbal assault on the US President, saying: "After we clean the world of the White House first".

His spokesman said later that the cleric was making the point that George Bush’s foreign policy and invasion of Iraq were more deserving of criticism than a sermon. "He says he’s just a frail old cleric, not the President of the United States, and the media should not be so pedantic about his words," Keysar Trad said.

The 65-year-old cleric, who was born in Egypt, was a vocal opponent of the Iraq war, saying that Mr Bush, Mr Howard and Tony Blair constituted an 'axis of evil' for declaring war on Saddam Hussein’s regime.

He also hit the Australian headlines for glorifying martyrdom and describing the September 11 attacks as "God’s work against the oppressors."

But any controversy he previously generated was overshadowed yesterday when his comments on women’s dress – first made a month’s ago at a Ramadan sermon - were revealed to the public.

"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 cat’s or the uncovered meat? The uncovered meat is the problem," he said in the sermon.

The cleric also spoke of women who "sway suggestively", wore make-up and dressed immodestly "and then you get a judge without mercy and (he) gives you 55 years".

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

After receiving widespread condemnation, Sheikh al-Hilali issued a lengthy apology, insisting that he did not condone rape and claiming he had been misinterpreted by the press.

He said that a translation showed he was quoting an ancient Islamic scholar on the contentious remarks, echoing the storm created last month after Pope Benedict XVI made a speech in which he quoted a 14th century Byzantine emperor who linked Islam with violence.

Mr Howard, usually very cautious in reacting to such matters, slated the cleric and today urged Muslims in Australia to take further action against his comments to avoid being tarnished with the same brush.

"What I am saying to the Islamic community is this: If they do not resolve this matter, it could do lasting damage to the perceptions of that community within the broader Australian community," Howard told Southern Cross Broadcasting.

"We do not want the Islamic community isolated. We do not want the Islamic community to be an object of criticism and derision."

"If it is not resolved, then unfortunately people will run around saying: ‘Well, the reason they didn’t get rid of him is because secretly some of them support his views,’" Mr Howard said, adding that the cleric was an Australian citizen and could not be deported.

But the Lakemba Mosque Association was adamant that the ban on preaching was sufficient and that "certain statements" made by Sheikh al-Hilali had been misinterpreted as he claimed.

"Obviously those comments have been made, but he provided us with an unequivocal apology for saying so," said Toufic Zreika, President of the Association.

Women’s groups and Muslim leader joined in Mr Howard’s denunciations. Pru Goward, Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner, accused Sheikh al-Hilali of inciting rape, and said the temporary ban on preaching was inadequate punishment.

"I know how strongly many Islamic community people felt about those comments yesterday, how damaging they saw them in terms of Australian-Islamic relations, and I think the pressure should not be taken off just because he has agreed to be silent for three months, which we have also seen before," she told ABD radio.

Waleed Aly, spokesman for the Islamic Council of Victoria state, said: "It would seem to us that the comments ... have really caused a lot of pain to a lot of people, and in those circumstances we would have thought resignation was the appropriate course of action."

There are almost 300,000 Muslims in Australia, constituting 1.5 per cent of the population. Many of them come from Lebanon and arrived during the 1975-90 Lebanese civil war.