Posted on 11/20/2008 7:20:06 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
SOME Muslim imams condone rape and domestic violence within marriage, exploitation of women, welfare fraud and polygamy, a report has found.
The report was based on a study commissioned and funded by the former coalition government and produced by the Islamic Welfare Council of Victoria, Fairfax newspapers report.
The report, presented on yesterday at a National Centre for Excellence in Islamic Studies conference at the University of Melbourne, alleged that some Victorian imams:
* Apply Sharia law only where it benefits men; * Hinder police investigations of domestic violence claims; and * Knowingly perform polygamous marriages, which allow a second wife to claim Centrelink payments because they are regarded as de facto wives under Australian law.
The study was based on extensive community consultation; interviews with police, lawyers, court staff and academics, and meetings and interviews with the Victorian Board of Imams, Fairfax said. The report said the 24-man board ignored or did not directly answer many of the questions put to it.
Women, community and legal workers and police said they were concerned about domestic violence and said imams put the interest of families ahead of women.
Relatives and community members sometimes pressured women to drop domestic violence cases, the report said.
Former husbands entered the houses of their separated but not religiously divorced ex-wives, demanding sex and, in some cases, committing rape.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Some?
Don’t forget slavery — they are OK with it.
Ho hum.
Another day, another Mahometan outrage.
Considering that their “prophet”, after whom all Mahometan men are told to model their lives, was a pirate, a mass murderer, a plunderer, a trucebreaker, a liar, a pedophile, a polygamist, and a misogynist, why should we be shocked or even surprised by such revelations?
This is news? Hello. You have people with a Medieval mentality following a brutal, Medieval religion. Of course it condones treating women like animals, multiple marriages, rape, etc. It isn’t going to change over night. It probably isn’t going to change in our lives.
Stop letting them immigrate into Western countries!
And, mayhap … deporting those that are already here. ;-)
Saving the US is more important to me than PC, at least in my mind.
I’m shocked!! Shocked I tell ‘ya.
Oh, yes...
The piece of meat syndrome...
They would burn crosses if they could tie a Cristian or a Jew to it.
This just in.... sunny day skies are BLUE!
You’re just jealous that you can’t treat your women that way.
Careful, you are talking about the founder of the “peaceful” religion of Islam!
Saying some imams condone that implies that other imams don't. Does anyone have any support for that?
What do you expect from a Satanic religion. Harmony?
Get the muslims out of the USA.
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