Women: you’d better dress like this…
Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali has a wonderful message for fellow believers: if a woman gets raped, it really is her fault. In essence, so he reasoned, who can blame a man for raping a woman if she dresses like a prostitute?
“But when it comes to adultery, it’s 90 per cent the women’s responsibility. Why? Because a woman possesses the weapon of seduction. It is she who takes off her clothes, shortens them, flirts, puts on make-up and powder and takes to the streets, God protect us, dallying. It’s she who shortens, raises and lowers. Then it’s a look, then a smile, then a conversation, a greeting, then a conversation, then a date, then a meeting, then a crime, then Long Bay jail. (laughs).
“Then you get a judge, who has no mercy, and he gives you 65 years.
“But when it comes to this disaster, who started it? In his literature, scholar al-Rafihi says: ‘If I came across a rape crime – kidnap and violation of honour – I would discipline the man and order that the woman be arrested and jailed for life.’ Why would you do this, Rafihi? He says because if she had not left the meat uncovered, the cat wouldn’t have snatched it.”
“If you take a kilo of meat, and you don’t put it in the fridge or in the pot or in the kitchen but you leave it on a plate in the backyard, and then you have a fight with the neighbour because his cats eat the meat, you’re crazy. Isn’t this true?
“If you take uncovered meat and put it on the street, on the pavement, in a garden, in a park or in the backyard, without a cover and the cats eat it, is it the fault of the cat or the uncovered meat? The uncovered meat is the problem.
“If the meat was covered, the cats wouldn’t roam around it. If the meat is inside the fridge, they won’t get it.
“If the meat was in the fridge and it (the cat) smelled it, it can bang its head as much as it wants, but it’s no use.
“If the woman is in her boudoir, in her house and if she’s wearing the veil and if she shows modesty, disasters don’t happen.
What a wonderful, enlightened man.
Anyway – and this is the good news – he is not getting away with it:
AUSTRALIA’S Muslims yesterday turned on their leader, Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali, amid calls for him to be sacked as the nation’s mufti for blaming women for inciting rape.
Muslim women were devastated by the sermon – revealed in The Australian yesterday – while John Howard described the comments as “appalling and reprehensible”.
Members of the Lebanese Muslim Association, which owns Sheik Hilali’s home mosque in Lakemba, in Sydney’s southwest, met late last night to consider his eviction.
Association board members agreed to delay their decision on the mufti’s future until after they had listened to a tape of the controversial comments and considered the context in which they were made.
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Countless Muslim women angrily denounced Sheik Hilali as preaching with a “voice from the Dark Ages” and Islamic Council of Victoria spokesman Waleed Aly warned: “I am expecting a deluge of hate mail, I am expecting people to get abused in the street and get abused at work.”Tom Zreika, head of the Lebanese Muslim Association, threatened to ban Sheik Hilali from teaching at the Lakemba Mosque. “I received a lot of complaints today from ladies in our community saying how appalled with this statement they are. Unfortunately (these words) have also made men look like animals,” Mr Zreika said.
“The board (of the Lebanese Muslim Association) has unlimited powers in respect of his teachings in the mosque. We can do anything that’s required to prevent him from teaching in our mosque. If you haven’t got the backing of Australia’s largest and most established Islamic organisation, then you are out on a limb.”
Goodbye mister al-Hilali. Please move to Syria, Iran or Saudi Arabia. Perhaps they’ll enjoy ‘speeches’ like that there.
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