Posted on 10/27/2006 6:14:13 PM PDT by naturalman1975
THE apology from the sheik was profuse. He had verbally attacked women, endorsed suicide bombings in Lebanon and declared that Jews were plotting world domination.
"The two cheapest things in Australia are the flesh of a woman and the meat of a pig," he said.
Taj Din al-Hilali accepted his words were offensive. "I genuinely believe that I have changed for the better," he insisted.
Nothing, it seems, has changed in the last 20 years. The nation's most senior Muslim cleric was not responding to public damnation over his Ramadan sermon last month in which he blamed women for inciting rape and likened them to abandoned "meat".
Chris Hurford, immigration minister in the Hawke Labor government, tried in 1986 to have him deported after Hilali had overstayed a tourist visa in 1982 and settled in Sydney.
Hurford wanted the sheik sent home to Egypt because his reported utterances were dividing the Muslim community.
But Hilali had two powerful Labor supporters on his side - Paul Keating and Leo McLeay - who would ultimately help him win his quest for permanent residency.
Keating, then federal treasurer, and McLeay, an influential backbencher from his party's Right faction, made no bones about their belief that Hilali should stay and lobbied on his behalf.
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If not, I can't imagine why he was let in in the first place.
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hell give him a one way trip to the outback
Australia had a left leaning socialist Labor government and of course the left always supports crimminals and psycopaths at the expense of the sane majority. Sound familiar?
I remember having seen Keating once on TV here in a telecast of Prime Minister's Question Time.
He struck me as a smarmy,Clintonesque kind of guy.What little I saw of him gave me the creeps.
He and the "cleric" should both take a swim off that same beach where the vanished Prime Minister was swimming. With apologies to the relatives of the vanished guy.
Yes, that's a pretty accurate description in my view. Only Australian Prime Minister since World War II not to wear Australian made suits, because his sense of style demanded he wear Italian ones.
The fact that there were plenty of Australian tailors who could have - and would have - made him suits of the same materials in exactly the same cuts didn't matter.
Why oh why do these Australians allow so many Muslims in their country in the first place ?
The again, why dont we ?
After the Civil Rights Era when the likes of Ted Kennedy weded our country's immigration policy to that movement -
who can so no to third worlders .
It would be racist, wouldn't it !
Wankers!
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