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  • Muslim group sets up panel to investigate sheikh's remarks

    11/04/2006 9:31:31 PM PST · by Aussie Dasher · 14 replies · 599+ views
    The Lebanese Muslim Association (LMA) says an independent panel is being set up to investigate if comments made by Sydney cleric, Sheikh Taj el-Din Al Hilali, endorse rape. Sheikh Al Hilali has been at the centre of controversy since comments he made suggested women who dressed immodestly were inviting sexual assault. He says his comments have been taken out of context and will resign if an independent panel finds him guilty of endorsing rape. LMA president Tom Zreika says a panel will be established to look at the matter. "The process has to be conducted and it will be conducted,"...
  • How a vile sermon has done Australia a big favour [More on "They're asking for rape"]

    10/28/2006 4:59:29 PM PDT · by aculeus · 82 replies · 2,696+ views
    Sydney Morning Herald ^ | October 29, 2006 | Unsigned
    When you think about it, Sheik Hilaly has done us a favour. For one thing, his recently translated sermon, declaring women as Satan's agents who incite rape with immodest dress, has at last provoked Australia's moderate Muslims to find a strong voice, as they lined up last week to condemn the mufti. "His comments imply we've got no sense of right and wrong," said Mustapha Kara-Ali, the youth representative on the Prime Minister's Muslim community reference group. As well, by revealing so unequivocally his primitive views of women, Hilaly destroyed the claims by cultural relativists that Sydney's series of gang...