Ethnic leaders condemn Muslim cleric from The Age.
I'm glad the Ethnic Communities Council has done so.
Men saying absolute rubbish like the variety Sheik Taj Aldin Alhilali was spouting forth deserve to have their opinions publicly crapped upon.
It's infuriating that there are men who think like this, regardless of whether they're into Allah or God or no gods at all, and dare to say that women who are raped or abused deserve it because of what they wear. To compare it to cats eating meat because it's left out merely indicates how little this guy understands and also that he doesn't seem to think that men are at all accountable for their actions, either.
Comparing a human being to meat truly shows how little respect he gives to women, regardless of what religion they're from or what kind of clothes they've got on.
Somehow women for years have managed to restrain themselves from randomly sexually assaulting men who walk around on hot days with no shirts on. So how can it be that there are still men out there who think that women are "asking for it" based on what they wear?
Apparently he "clarified" his statement to The Australian to say that he only meant prostitutes, but for goodness's sake... It's disgusting to suggest that anyone at all deserves abuse for how they dress.
"Anyone who is foolish enough to believe that there is a relationship between rape or unwelcome sexual interference and the failure to wear a hijab, clearly has no understanding of the nature of sexual crime" - Waleed Ali, Islamic Council of Victoria.
Update: Cleric apologises for 'meat' sermon from The Australian.
2 comments:
I didn't realise you'd already posted on this topic :)
I'm sure most females in Australia are outraged
in some reports the mufti is claiming that Australians had misunderstood what he meant
I think a lot of guys in Australia would be pretty upset by it, too. And it seems like many Muslim people are distancing themselves from it strongly.
Even though The Australian has had some shonky reporting on Islamic sermons before (check out Media Watch's archives), the Mufti's follow-up claims of being misunderstood really seem a bit hollow compared with his previous statements in the sermon.
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