Posted on 11/02/2006 5:00:30 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
RIOT police will be on hand during prayers at Sheik Taj al-Din al-Hilaly's Sydney mosque today.
The sheik has called on his faithful to join him for Friday prayers at Lakemba Mosque for his first public appearances since being rushed to hospital with chest pains on Monday.
Police have already closed the road outside the mosque in western Sydney in anticipation of the thousands of supporters expected to gather before prayers begin at 1pm (AEDT).
Large numbers of police, including riot police, will also be on hand.
Officers with bomb-sniffer dogs had been through the mosque, which has been covered in flowers from the sheik's supporters.
The mufti will speak at the prayers and his appearance is expected to promote a strong display of loyalty from supporters galvanised by calls for his resignation.
The sheik, one of the country's most senior Muslim clerics, has been under fire from sections of his own community as well as others over a sermon he gave last month in which he suggested immodestly dressed women invited sexual assault.
Thousands of Muslims had been marshalled to attend a rally in Lakemba tomorrow but the sheik, speaking on Voice of Islam Radio in Sydney yesterday urged them not to attend.
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If it's November, the Muslims must be rioting. Of course, that also goes for December, January, February, etc.
Heck, we have no need to vilify muslims, not while they do such a bang-up good job of it all by themselves...
Ain't it the truth!!!
Ah, they're trying to learn the left's trick of blaming the messenger and changing the subject, just like the left seems intent on picking up tips on al tarqiya from them.
I do hope the cops will be sending the bill for all these security measures to the good mufti.
birds of a feather, the Left and islam...neither have a leg to stand on, so they gotta lie like a Queensland brown snake.
Snakes, socialists and muslims, venemous, unpredictable and downright dangerous!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1728334/posts?page=8#8
a little background on the mufti...
"Where else would we need riot police for "prayers"???"
Unlike the Brits or the Frogs, I don't think out Aussie buddies are going to put up with this crap.
Believe me, we won't!
OMG did Aussie cops go LAPD smackdown on his supporters please say YES
Sorry mate, it didn't happen.
The spin doctors got to the moozies first.
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