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>Subject: [ajisaja] Australian cleric in dress furore
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>BBC, Thursday, 26 October 2006, 11:40 GMT 12:40 UK
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>Australian cleric in dress furore
>
>Australia's most senior Muslim cleric has prompted an uproar by 
>saying that some women are attracting sexual assault by the way they dress.
>Sheikh Taj el-Din al-Hilali said women who did not wear a hijab 
>(head dress) were like "uncovered meat".
>
>But he has now apologised for any offence caused by his comments, 
>The Australian newspaper reports.
>Leading Muslim women condemned the comments and PM John Howard said 
>the remarks were "appalling".
>"The idea that women are to blame for rapes is preposterous," Mr 
>Howard told reporters.
>In a statement released on Thursday, Sheikh Hilali said he had been 
>quoting another, unnamed, source and did not mean his words to condone rape.
>"I unreservedly apologise to any woman who is offended by my 
>comments. I had only intended to protect women's honour," the 
>statement published in The Australian said.
>
>"Women in our Australian society have the freedom and the right to 
>dress as they choose.
>"Whether a man endorses or not a particular form of dress, any form 
>of harassment of women is unacceptable."
>A spokesman for Sheikh Hilali earlier said the quote had been taken 
>out of context and referred not to sexual assault, but to sexual infidelity.
>The sermon was targeted against men and women who engaged in 
>extra-marital sex and did so through alluring types of clothes, he said.
>Ban threat
>The leader of Australia's largest Islamic organisation has 
>threatened to ban the cleric from teaching at Lakemba Mosque in 
>Western Sydney.
>Tom Zreika, president of the Lebanese Muslim Association, which owns 
>the mosque, said he condemned Sheikh Hilali's words.
>"The board [of the LMA] has unlimited powers in respect of his 
>teachings in the mosque. We can do anything that's required to 
>prevent him from teaching in our mosque. If you haven't got the 
>backing of Australia's largest and most established Islamic 
>organisation then you are out on a limb," he is quoted as saying in 
>The Australian.
>
>
>But Mr Zreika said the LMA had yet to fully review the contents of 
>the sermon and Sheik Hilali should be offered the benefit of the 
>doubt until any offence had been proved.
>A copy of the cleric's comments delivered in a sermon to some 500 
>worshippers in Sydney last month during the Muslim holy month of 
>Ramadan was initially published in The Australian.
>"If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside... and the cats 
>come and eat it... whose fault is it, the cats' or the uncovered 
>meat?" he asked.
>The uncovered meat is the problem, he went on to say.
>"If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would 
>have occurred," he added.
>Sheikh Hilali also condemned women who swayed suggestively and wore 
>make-up, implying they attracted sexual assault.
>"Then you get a judge without mercy... and gives you 65 years," he added.
>Sheikh Hilali's critics have previously accused him of praising 
>suicide bombers and claiming the attacks in the United States on 11 
>September 2001 were "God's work against oppressors".
>High-profile case
>The BBC's Nick Bryant in Sydney says the cleric's latest comments 
>are seen as particularly insensitive because Sydney was the scene 
>six years ago of a series of gang rapes committed by a group of 
>Lebanese Australians, who received long prison sentences.
>Finance Minister Peter Costello called on Muslims to condemn the speech.
>"If you have a significant religious leader like this preaching to a 
>flock in a situation where we've had gang rapes, in a way that seems 
>to make it justifiable, then people that listen to that kind of 
>comment can get the wrong idea," he said.
>"They can actually think that it's not as bad as it is."
>A number of leading Muslim women have already spoken out against the 
>sermon, describing it as repulsive and offensive.
>Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward said the comments 
>could be an incitement to crime.
>"Young Muslim men who now rape women can cite this in court, can 
>quote this man... their leader in court," she told Australian media.
>She added that the cleric should be deported for inciting rape.
>
>Story from BBC NEWS:
>SHEIKH TAJ EL-DIN AL-HILALI
>Born in Egypt
>Aged 64
>Imam in Sydney
>Appointed mufti of Australia in 1989
>
>




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