Muslim Cleric Blames Woman for Sex Assaults
Not wearing a headscarve, you get what you deserve:
Australia’s most senior Muslim cleric has suggested that women who do not wear headscarves are to blame for sexual assaults, comparing them to uncovered pieces of meat.
Sheikh Taj El-Din Hamid Hilaly, the mufti of Sydney’s biggest mosque, said in a Ramadan sermon that sexual assaults might not happen if women wore a hijab and stayed at home.
Hilaly criticised women who “sway suggestively”, wear make-up and no hijab, or Islamic headscarf, for inviting sexual attack.
Ok, ick and double-ick:
“If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the back yard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it … whose fault is it, the cats or the uncovered meat? The uncovered meat is the problem,” Hilaly told about 500 worshippers, according to a newspaper translation.
Throw Da Bum out:
Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commission called on Thursday for Hilaly to be deported.
Pru Goward, Australia’s sex discrimination commissioner, said Hilaly, who two years ago praised martyrdom and called the September 11 attacks the work of God, should be deported for inciting rape.
“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 than say they were horrified. I think it’s time he was asked to go.”
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