Posted on 12/03/2006 6:02:56 AM PST by Dark Skies
POLICE have been asked to protect Australia's largest mosque next weekend because of concerns that a bikini march staged to coincide with the anniversary of the Cronulla riots may get out of control.
The caretaker of Lakemba Mosque, the Lebanese Muslim Association, says it is taking no risks, requesting at least 32 police officers to protect the place of worship on Saturday and Sunday.
Association president Tom Zreik said he met police on several occasions to ensure there would be adequate numbers of officers present to defuse problems and arrest troublemakers.
"We are treating this as something that is funny and hilarious but also taking precautions," Mr Zreika said of the bikini march. "Some people may see this as provocation and the last thing that we want is to see anyone being attacked."
The organiser, Melbourne grandmother Christine Hawkins, has asked women nationally to dress in bikinis and colourful beachwear and rally outside large mosques to show their disgust at comments by leading Muslim cleric, Sheik Taj el-Din al Hilaly, who likened women to "uncovered meat".
A white supremacist website has promoted the march. Members of Sydney's Muslim community began raising their concerns last week, with hundreds joining an internet discussion to find a "peaceful avenue" to protect their mosque.
Many Muslim women suggested joining the march in their hijabs and burqas to voice their outrage at comments made by Senator Bronwyn Bishop and Prime Minister John Howard about the way they dress. "We're really asking people not to bother coming to the mosque," Mr Zreika said.
"All this is doing is degrading women and giving men a great excuse to have a perv. There are better ways women can express their concerns."
In Cronulla yesterday members of the Lakembaroos sports club attended a barbecue at North Cronulla Surf Club to mark the progress of more than 20 Muslim lifesavers, who are training for their bronze medallions.
"If we didn't have the events of Cronulla last December in the back of our minds, we wouldn't even be conscious that the people here were of Lebanese background," Community Relations Commission chairman Stepan Kerkyasharian said.
"They look Australian, they are taking part in an Australian activity and you have to ask 'what's the problem?"'
The training is an initiative of Surf Life Saving Australia.
Thank you! The fashion industry and the media is trying to push a male homosexual image of what is attractive. Women should have curves. I also think it also has to do with a warped sense of egalitarianism. If everyone should be "equal," they should look equal, regardless of apparel. That's why, in principle, I support the ideal of identifiably-different clothing between the sexes.
Creepy? Her anorexia or whatever is creepy and just gross. Others here clearly agree. So me thinks it is you who needs an eye test.
She looks like she is on the Nicole Ritchie diet.
Leave it to a Muslim to equate healthy heterosexual attraction with perversity. ;)
"A white supremacist website has promoted the march."
Ward Connerlly in one of his books mentioned how during the debate about affirmative action in the 90's, the leftists at one of the UC campuses set up a panel with the usual assortment of leftist retreads taking the pro affirmative action side of the aisle. Who did they invite for the con side? David Duke. Its a typical leftist tactic - paint the other side as being one that is populated only by racists and psychos and thus those who agree with the "wrong" side of the argument are akin to such losers.
That said, I don't find her all that attractive but not because she is thin. She just doesn't strike me as anything special.
Don't we all???
;^)
Your opinion is requested re the attractiveness of Miss Australia on this thread.
Bless you my son.
Cheers,
knewshound
http://www.knewshound.blogspot.com/
"Muslims need police protection from women in bikinis?"
They might need a bit of protection from Grandma Hawkins :)
Creepy? Her anorexia or whatever is creepy and just gross. Others here clearly agree. So me thinks it is you who needs an eye test.
Ok.
Now let's see your picture here on this thread and compare you to her.
Sound fair?
NO!!!!
My EYES! My EYES!!!!
Liberalism isn't either. I say we keep them under greater scrutiny as well. Although I think Mr. Limbaugh does an excellent job of that.
But here's a gal for those other guys...
Each to his own, I say...
Thank you. Now I'm blind.
Antidote at post #47.
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