Australian Muslim leader compares uncovered women to exposed meat ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/oct/26/australia.marktran
The most senior Muslim cleric in Australia has sparked a furore by
comparing women who do not wear a headscarf to "uncovered meat",
implying that they invited ***ual assault.
Sheik Taj Aldin al-Hilali delivered his comments in a religious
address on adultery to around 500 wor****ppers in Sydney last month,
but they only came to the attention of the wider public when they were
published in the Australian paper today.
Sheik Hilali was quoted as saying: "If you take out uncovered meat and
place it outside ... without cover, and the cats come to eat it ...
whose fault is it, the cats' or the uncovered meat's? The uncovered
meat is the problem. If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab
[the headdress worn by some Muslim women], no problem would have
occurred."
The Egyptian-born cleric, the mufti of Sydney's biggest mosque, today
sought to defuse the outrage his comments had sparked, including among
fellow Muslims.
Sheik Hilali said in a statement he was shocked by reaction to his
sermon.
"I would like to unequivocally confirm that the presentation related
to religious teachings on modesty and not to go to extremes in
enticements. This does not condone rape. I condemn rape," he said.
"Women in our Australian society have the freedom and right to dress
as they choose; the duty of man is to avert his glance or walk away."
But Muslim community leaders rounded on Sheik Hilali for his comments,
insisting that he no longer deserved his title as Australia's mufti.
The country's most prominent female Muslim leader, Aziza Abdel-Halim,
said the hijab did not "detract or add to a person's moral standards",
while an Islamic Council of Victoria spokesman, Waleed Ali, said it
was "ignorant and naive" for anyone to believe that a hijab could stop
***ual assault. "Anyone who is foolish enough to believe that there is
a relation****p between rape or unwelcome ***ual interference and the
failure to wear a hijab, clearly has no understanding of the nature of
***ual crime," he told the Australian.
The paper also re****ted that Sheik Hilali alluded in his sermon to the
gang rapes in Sydney of six years ago, suggesting the attackers were
not entirely to blame.
While not specifically referring to the attacks on four women, for
which a group of young Lebanese men received long jail sentences,
Sheik Hilali said there were women who "sway suggestively" and wore
make up and immodest dress ... "and then you get a judge without mercy
[rahma] and he gives you 65 years... but the problem all began with
who?"
Sheik Hilali, the top cleric at Sydney's largest mosque, is considered
the most senior Islamic leader by many Muslims in Australia and New
Zealand.
He has served as an adviser to the Australian government on Muslim
issues, but has attracted controversy before. In 2004 he was
criticised for saying, in a sermon in Lebanon, that the September 11
attacks were "God's work against the oppressors".
The uproar after Sheik Hilali's comments threatens to further inflame
relations between Australia's 300,000 Muslims and the rest of the
population, after riots in Sydney last December that pitted white
gangs against youths of Middle Eastern descent, many of whom were
Muslim.
Many Muslims have said they were increasingly treated with suspicion
after the September 11 and other terrorist attacks. Mr Ali said Sheik
Hilali's comments would result in more antagonism toward Muslims.
"I am expecting a deluge of hate mail," he said. "I am expecting
people to get abused in the street and get abused at work."
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