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Hilaly urges Muslims not to rally (Awwww!!!)
news.com.au ^ | 2 November 2006

Posted on 11/01/2006 8:50:03 PM PST by Aussie Dasher

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 Friday prayers at Lakemba Mosque tomorrow and has asked Muslims to show their support by joining him there.

Thousands of Muslims had been marshalled to attend a rally on Saturday by text messages and emails, but Mr Legha said all clerics had tried to stop the unofficial demonstration.

The sheik has been under fire to step down as Australia's senior Muslim cleric following his delivery of a sermon last month which suggested immodestly dressed women invited sexual assault.

Muslim community groups have come together to call for an end to "overblown" public scrutiny of Sheik Taj al-Din al-Hilaly's comments.

They accused the media and politicians of using the scandal surrounding the mufti to vilify Muslims.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hilaly; madmoozies; moozierally; rape
Such a pity...I was looking foward to a weekend in Sydney! :-)
1 posted on 11/01/2006 8:50:06 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
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To: Aussie Dasher

You are bad AD that so funny ROFL

I am little disappoint I want see Aussie cops go LAPD smackdown on these guys LOL!


2 posted on 11/01/2006 8:53:57 PM PST by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: SevenofNine

Only reason I'd be there!!!


3 posted on 11/01/2006 8:57:10 PM PST by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: Aussie Dasher

True very true indeed ROFL

Come think of it do you think my news network here in the US Fox news would cover any rioting by these guys like they did with French muslums PROBABLY MOST LIKELY


4 posted on 11/01/2006 8:58:32 PM PST by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Will Hillary

now start claiming that she was named after SHEIK Taj al-Din al-

Hilaly?

Probably not - she will likely carry Michigan anyway...


5 posted on 11/01/2006 9:00:38 PM PST by Notwithstanding
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To: Notwithstanding

OMG that too funny ROFL LOL!

If I know Hill beast oh yeah PROBABLY


6 posted on 11/01/2006 9:01:11 PM PST by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: Notwithstanding

How can she be a moozie and a pig at the same time?


7 posted on 11/01/2006 9:04:05 PM PST by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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Seems Hilaly is pulling a Kerry, by ducking out


8 posted on 11/01/2006 9:04:07 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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9 posted on 11/01/2006 9:15:44 PM PST by Fred Nerks ("Illegitimi non carborundum",)
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Hilaly praises Iraq jihadists
NEWS.com.au ^ | 10/30/06 | Richard Kerbaj
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1727972/posts

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The revelation comes as a neighbouring cleric from Sydney's Bankstown accused Sheik Hilaly of supporting military Islamic jihad against the West and called on imams from around the country to band together and force the mufti to step down.
Sheik Ibrahim El-Shafie yesterday said Sheik Hilaly was a follower of the Egyptian Islamic scholar Qutb, one of the founding fathers of modern jihad, whose teachings are seized upon by al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiah.

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As the Lebanese Muslim Association, which hosts the Lakemba Mosque, was last night still divided about how to handle the Hilaly crisis, Sheik Shafie launched a scathing attack on his fellow Sunni cleric.
Sheik Shafie said Sheik Hilaly was "extremist" who posed as a moderate for political advantage which ultimately gained him citizenship.
"This person is acting like a chameleon," he told The Australian yesterday. "The chameleon, if it stands on green spot it turns green. If it stands on a blue spot it turns blue - so he's camouflaging.
"He might say we condemn such and such but then on the other side, when he is with his followers in the mosque, he'll start expressing his anti-Western views."
Sheik Shafie said the nation's imams needed to unite to remove him as spiritual leader at Lakemba, where he presides over the largest group of Muslim worshipper in Australia.




10 posted on 11/01/2006 9:44:16 PM PST by Valin (http://www.irey.com/)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Welcome to FR! Hope you go to Sydney for a little FReeping!

A FReeping we will go! A FReeping we will go! Hi, ho, a dairio! A FReeping we will go!


11 posted on 11/01/2006 10:15:42 PM PST by oneamericanvoice (Standing for freedom, one Muslim at a time!)
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Muslim community groups have come together to call for an end to "overblown" public scrutiny of Sheik Taj al-Din al-Hilaly's comments.

They accused the media and politicians of using the scandal surrounding the mufti to vilify Muslims.

I wondered how long they could hold off from taking this line.

They just had to be in extreme pain from their previous public stance of, "don't confuse him and his offensive remarks with us! We are really, (really, this time we mean it) peaceful Australians who just happen to also be Muslim!"

Go to Sydney anyway; a bunch may still show up for you to point & laugh at.

12 posted on 11/02/2006 12:13:25 AM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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