Hilali charity probe widens ( uncovered meat mufti )

The Australian ^ | April 07, 2007 | Richard Kerbaj

[george76]

THE Australian Federal Police has seized documents and will question key Islamic community figures after widening its investigation into allegations Australia's mufti, Taj Din al-Hilali, gave charity funds to supporters of al-Qa'ida and Hezbollah terrorist outfits in Lebanon last year.

The Weekend Australian understands the AFP this week contacted Sheik Hilali's confidant Keysar Trad -- who is in Lebanon -- about the probe.

In recent days, police have seized documents from the Sydney-based Lebanese Muslim Association, which is linked to Sheik Hilali, and also interviewed its president, Tom Zreika.

It is believed the federal police "intelligence probe" will include the LMA's affiliate organisations that helped raise the charity donations.

The Australian revealed this week the LMA raised $70,000 in conjunction with other Islamic bodies following the Israel-Hezbollah war in Lebanon last year.

The money was earmarked for war victims.

But LMA documents, in Sheik Hilali's handwriting, reveal he gave $US10,000 to a political party leader and alleged supporter of the Iraqi insurgency and al-Qa'ida, Sheik Bilal Shaaban.

The LMA, which runs the nation's most powerful mosque in Lakemba, in Sydney's southwest, will also be asked by the AFP to submit paperwork detailing its financial transactions.

The Weekend Australian understands Sheik Hilali, who is overseas, and LMA employee Sheik Yihya Safi will be asked by the AFP to provide a detailed outline of how they distributed the Australian-raised funds in Lebanon, amid accusations that Sheik Hilali met the leader of Hezbollah's terrorist wing, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah.

Hezbollah is an Iranian-backed group with a political arm in Lebanon and a militant arm that is proscribed in Australia.

Supporting both its political and military wings is illegal under UN counter-terrorist financing declarations.

[george76]

... in the state of zina (adultery), the responsibility falls 90 per cent of the time on the woman.

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[george76]

the 66-year-old controversial cleric was given a three-month extension in his role as mufti two weeks ago by the newly formed Australian National Imams Council.

[Fred Nerks]

Mufti Al-Hilali made headlines in January 2003 when a traffic policeman who stopped him while he was driving a car with building supplies protruding from it insisted on searching him. The mufti objected, claiming, so his spokesman said, that the policeman had pushed him. Following this instance, Mufti Al-Hilali told Australian Channel Seven that in his view the police officer had acted in an “un-Australian” manner: “Police officer, he try to do his job but not through Australian way, I think he try the Chicago way, not Australian way.” Reuters, January 7, 2003, http://uktop100.reuters.com/latest/Aldi/top10/20030106-australia-muslims.ASP On another occasion, Sheikh Al-Hilali stood trial in Egypt on charges of smuggling archeological artifacts, but he said that the Egyptian court cleared him. Al-Bayan (UAE), February 16, 2002.

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We’ll get him eventually. I want to see that scumbag deported.

[george76]

or dead ?

Please let me know when they get this POS.

[BIGLOOK]

Years ago, Australia had had a limited immagration policy. This was about the time of the Sukarno and Suharto regimes in Indonesia and the flight of the last of the Dutch from the region.

I haven't followed the historical changes in your backyard as closely as other areas. Didn't Australia and NZ have strict restrictions on immigration for Muslims and Chinese once?

[Fred Nerks]

IIRC Prime Minister Harold Holt abolished the White Australia Policy in 1967.

Holt was the Prime Minister who famously drowned whilst scuba diving.

It’s a very small minority in Oz that just doesn’t get along - mostly Lebanese muslims who support the self-appointed ‘mufti’ Sheik Hilali.

You need to read this to follow why they do not assimilate:

PRESERVING THE ISLAMIC IDENTITY IN THE WEST.

http://www.missionislam.com/knowledge/preserveident.htm

[BIGLOOK]

In History, we see a euro-centric view of the world in which the Christians are viewed as the only people worthy of any respect or any admiration.
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The only sentence in the article that made sense. I can't remember contributions to society or technology or business ethics made by Muslims. Somehow bombings, be-headings and deceit have addled my sense of Muslim history and enlightened mores.

Sorry to hear about Holt. Maybe a Great White took offense to his policy.

[Fred Nerks]

I will, count on it!