Man, it sure is nice to see that idiots roam free all over the world. Shame on us all for giving them any attention whatsoever.
CANBERRA (Reuters) - One of Australia's top Muslim clerics, who inflamed anti-Muslim sentiment by comparing unveiled women to "uncovered meat", was in trouble again on Friday after saying Muslim Australians had more right to the country than people descended from convicts.
Sheikh Taj El-Din Hilaly, the mufti of Australia's biggest mosque in Sydney, told Egyptian television in an interview that white Australians originally arrived in convict chains.
"We (Muslims) came as free people. We bought our own tickets. We are entitled to Australia more than they are," he said in comments translated for Australian television networks.
The controversy last year over his 'women as meat' sermon was a conspiracy to "bring the Islamic community to its knees", Hilaly said, calling white Australians the "biggest liars".
Hilaly angered community and political leaders and divided the country's 280,000 Muslims in a Ramadan sermon last September in which he appeared to criticise heavy jail sentences given to a group of convicted gang rapists.
The Egyptian-born cleric said immodestly dressed women were like uncovered meat left out for a cat.
Prime Minister John Howard said Hilaly's latest comments would bring a wry smile to the face of Australians whose ancestors came to the country between 1788 and 1850 among 162,000 convicts sent from England.
"It's almost a badge of honour for many Australians," Howard said.
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Hilaly was no longer taken seriously.
"I'm a South Australian. South Australia was never a convict colony, so I'm very relaxed about what people say about convicts," Downer quipped.
Islamic Friendship Association president Keysar Trad, a close friend of Hilaly's, said the cleric's latest comments were "ill-advised", apologising for any offence.
A popular men's magazine this month awarded Hilaly its "Funny Guy of the Year" award for 2006 and compared his meat sermon to an "absurdist comedy" worthy of an "Islamic Seinfeld".
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5 years ago
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truly this man is something else.
I think idiots should be exterminated. It would be showing mercy to them and to the rest of us. Stupidity is the root of all evil.
There was no need for what Sheikh Hilaly said, it is condemned, but deporting him will be the most undemocratic action, it will show the double standards of the Western civilization -which is assumed to be democratic and encouraging freedom of speech- towards Arabs and Muslims. When the Danish newspaper published inappropriate Cartoons against the Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him), we wanted it only to apologize, but all foreign countries said that this is a freedom of speech, we can't abolish freedom and we can't apologize!! All foreign countries backed Denmark against Muslims, but when a Muslim cleric express his feelings .... then he has to be deported out of his own country -as Sheikh Hilaly is Australian-.
I don't agree with what Sheikh Hilalay said, but it's a free country and he is free to say anything "according to westerners themselves"!!
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