Thursday, January 11, 2007
MR CATMEAT REQUIRES CONTEXT
The latest from Australia’s Sheikh Taj El-Deen El-Hilali:
Muslim cleric Sheik Taj Aldin Alhilali branded Australians liars and excused gang rapists in an interview aired on Egyptian television this week.
The controversial religious leader also claimed in the interview that Muslims had more right to live in Australia than those descended from convicts.The sheik’s comments come just months after he compared scantily clad women to uncovered meat and said such women should blame themselves if they were raped.
"Their values [Australia’s] are upside down. They have no democracy, no freedom. They are the worst liars and unjust people,” the sheik said in the Arabic-language interview.
Alhilali also defended the Muslim men convicted of Sydney’s gang rapes, a position that has caused controversy in the past.
"They arranged to meet in a public park at 2 or 3 am in the morning, and it (the sex) was agreed on,” he said.
Alhilali also poured scorn on Australia’s convict history and seemed to suggest Muslims were in Australia long before the British settled here in 1788.
"Australia is no longer Anglo-Saxon. We’ve been in Australia longer than them. Islam is deep rooted in the Australian soil. Islam was here before the English fleet."
Leftoids will have to revise their Invasion Day date. Further Hilali news:
The sheik was invited to appear on Egyptian television to explain his sermon comparing women who show some skin, to uncovered pieces of meat that invite predators.
At the time, Sheikh al Hilaly claimed his comments were taken out of context, but on Today in Cairo he defended the remarks, blaming the media for the national outcry.
"This is a calculated conspiracy aimed at terrorising our Islamic community, aimed at me first in order to bring the Islamic community to its knees,” Sheik Hilaly said in Arabic.
As usual, Keysar Trad claims Hilali was quoted out of context:
IFAA spokesman Keysar Trad says says he apologises for the comments if they have caused offence, but says the Sheikh has been misinterpreted.
"I do understand that some people taking these comments without looking at the full video would take offence to them,” he said.
"As an Australian Muslim ... I do feel like apologising to these people and also appealing to them to understand the context, it would seem he was trying to explain away that controversy and put it behind him and there were a couple of slip-ups."
Nostradamus predicted this only last week:
A Mohammedan leader again causes great consternation,
Speaking of women as vile temptresses and harlots,
And predicting the coming sharia revolution.
“He was quoted out of context,” says Keysar Trad.
(Via Dr Sam, Dan Lewis, Steve M., Wolfbane, Raff, Ann J., and J.F Beck)