Leaders plan to dump Hilali

The Australian ^ | 2/8/07 | Richard Kerbaj

[Valin]

A GOLDEN handshake -- including a weekly stipend and rent-free accommodation -- is being drawn up for Muslim cleric Taj Din al-Hilali as powerful community leaders head a push to oust the controversial imam. Sheik Hilali has been officially banned from delivering sermons, and his title as mufti of Australia is expected to be up for grabs when the nation's imams meet in coming weeks to discuss a potential successor. The future of the 66-year-old's spiritual position at Lakemba Mosque in western Sydney was thrashed out last week by more than 50 Sydney-based Muslim leaders during a secret meeting.

The talks at the Lakemba Mosque last Thursday came after the Lebanese Muslim Association indefinitely banned Sheik Hilali -- whose community support base continues to nosedive -- from delivering sermons at the mosque following his return from Egypt last month.

The Australian understands that Sheik Hilali, who came under fire from community leaders and politicians for comparing women to uncovered meat, initially resisted the ban before agreeing to abandon the pulpit on the basis of "mutual understanding" between him and the LMA executives.

Lebanese Islamic leader Mustafa Hamed said the LMA, along with 10 Sydney-based Muslim community organisations present at the secret meeting, were negotiating a "long-service" package for the Sheik.

[theDentist]

So they'll put in someone who will urge the deaths of all infidels privately, out of earshot of others instead of publicly.

[kinoxi]

He should be rotting in a pit somewhere IMO.

[Nathan Zachary]

Of course. One more skilled in the art of deception. When a Imam is too truthful about what Islam is all about, it makes Islam look bad, and causes a spotlight to be focused on the Islamic community, making it more difficult to move about unnoticed.

The apologist Imam however, makes Islam look like the victim, a poor, misunderstood peaceful religion, hijacked by a few evil people who misinterpret the koran.

Infidel governments they know, are too stupid to read the Koran and hadith for themselves, and take notice of the Islamic jihad that is happening all over the world, which shows by muslim action what Islam really is.

[3AngelaD]

Why haven't the Aussies sent this POS back to his ancestral hell hole? Why is he allowed to remain in Australia? Even if stripped of his position, he still is up to no good. The keep him there at their peril.

[naturalman1975]

Because unfortunately, back in the early 1990s, a number of senior left-wing politicians, lead by the then Acting Prime Minister, Paul Keating, put pressure on their own Immigration Minister who had chosen to deny Hilali Australian citizenship, to reverse that decision - and so Hilali became an Australian citizen.

Australian citizens can't be deported and Hilali has not come close to committing the heinous crimes that would be the only grounds for stripping him of his citizenship - only sedition and treason allow for that.