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Date Posted: Thursday, October 26, 06:05:10am
Author: Brassman
Subject: Your religion of "PEACE" and "TOLLERENCE"...

NOT! Cruel, evil, bastards who live in a seventh century mindset.
Stands to reason when you read things like this that we kicked a hornets next when we invaded Iraq.

Times Online October 26, 2006

Muslim cleric triggers outrage by blaming women for rape
By Elsa McLaren and agencies

Australia's most senior Muslim cleric has triggered international outrage for describing women who dress immodestly as "uncovered meat" who are inviting a sexual attack.

Sheik Taj al Hilali made the comments in a Ramadan sermon to 500 worshippers in which he criticised women who "sway suggestively", wear make-up and no hijab or Islamic headscarf, The Austrialian reported.

"If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden, or in the park, or in the backyard without cover, and the cats come to eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats' or the uncovered meat?

"The uncovered meat is the problem. If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred."

The newspaper reported that he went on to say that women were "weapons" used by "Satan" to control men.

A spokesman for the Muslim cleric said that his comments, made last month, had been taken out of context in the newspaper report, but did not challenge the accuracy of the paper's translation.

John Howard, the Australian Prime Minister, condemned his comments as "appalling and reprehensible". "The idea that women are to blame for rapes is preposterous," he said.

Pru Goward, Sex Discrimination Commissioner, said that Al-Hilali, who has the title Mufti of Australia, had a history of making such comments and should be thrown out of the country.

"It is incitement to a crime. Young Muslim men who now rape women can cite this in court, can quote this man, their leader in court," she told Australian television.

"It's time we stopped just saying he should apologise. It is time the Islamic community did more then say they were horrified. I think it's time he was asked to go."

Islamic groups have tried to disassociate themselves from Al-Hilaly's remarks. The Islamic Council of New South Wales said his comments were "un-Islamic, un-Australian and unacceptable".

Trying to defend his comments, Al-Hihali told The Australian that he only meant to refer to prostitutes as meat, and not any woman who does not wear a hijab, but the paper said there was no mention of the word prostitute in the sermon.

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