Free Republic

BEHIND the frenzied scenes and the headlines the Federal Government is quietly pleased about how the drama surrounding Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali is playing out. No one is happy, of course, about the comments that sparked the controversy – the sheik's Ramadan speech in which he referred to women as sexual meat and Satan's soldiers. What's pleased the Government and the Parliamentary Secretary responsible for Multicultural Affairs, Andrew Robb, is what came next; a spontaneous condemnation by most sections of the Muslim community of his grotesquely offensive remarks . It is important to realise that this has never happened before....