Idiotic Sheik
Nice to see this isn't the first time the moronic Sheik Hilali has opened his stupid mouth:
Two decades ago Chris Hurford, immigration minister under Bob Hawke, rejected the cleric's application for permanent residency and attempted to deport him because of his divisiveness. In 1988, he infamously told Muslim students at Sydney University that Jews used "sex and abominable acts of buggery, espionage, treason and economic hoarding to control the world". Despite this, in 1990 Sheik Hilali was granted permanent residency by the Hawke government, thanks to heavy lobbying by senior ALP figures including Paul Keating eager to secure votes in western Sydney and burnish their multicultural credentials.
In 2004, he visited Lebanon and described the September 11 terrorist attacks as "God's work against oppressors" and said that "good lies in evil".Sheik Hilali would later defend himself to the ABC's Geraldine Doogue, saying that the controversy stemmed from errors in translation from his florid, High Arabic style. The Mufti has since showed no desire to abandon these ancient themes of virulent anti-Semitism. In the midst of a sermon last November criticising anti-terrorism laws, the sheik complained that the Holocaust was a "Zionist lie" and asked, "What's that six million all about? Is there six million?". This past winter he described Israel as a "cancer" in the heart of the Muslim world.
The notion that he was lost in translation again is beyond the mortal realms of belief. You can not justify what he said in any way, in any language (see SBS translation). Also, I thought it was common knowledge that rape is predominatly due to men seeking power, not sexual desire. Meanwhile, this academic has landed himself in trouble:
Sheik Hilali did win some support from the chairman of the Prime Minister's Muslim advisory council, Ameer Ali, who compared his contentious remarks to the Pope's comments on Islam.
"He's our spiritual leader and nobody is more knowledgeable about Islam," said Dr Ali, an economics lecturer at Murdoch University in Perth.
"A few months ago, the Pope said some things about Islam, and he was criticised, and now we have a few things being said here, and it's been taken out of context. But all this talk about having the mufti deported, I mean, come on, they cannot be serious."
Can you imagine how many students will be egging his office? Strangely enough, The Age hardly covers the story. Pity. I was waiting for my Leunig cartoon - Leunig being the same clown who asked everyone to give Christmas prayers to Bin Laden a couple of years back. Then again both Leunig and the sheik believe women should stay at home.
Update: Directly addressing calls for him to be stripped of his title as the nation's Muslim leader, Sheik Hilali declared: "My name is Taj, my job is a sheik, my tools are my turban, and I am a servant serving the religion of God. I pray to God ... and I will die attesting to the religion of God. I don't belong to any establishment or to any government. And whoever wants to terminate my wages, let them terminate it"
And yet he had to come to Australia - a country slightly more prosperous than his homeland Egypt. I don't support the revoking of his Australia citizenship but I wish he had never got it in the first place.
Two decades ago Chris Hurford, immigration minister under Bob Hawke, rejected the cleric's application for permanent residency and attempted to deport him because of his divisiveness. In 1988, he infamously told Muslim students at Sydney University that Jews used "sex and abominable acts of buggery, espionage, treason and economic hoarding to control the world". Despite this, in 1990 Sheik Hilali was granted permanent residency by the Hawke government, thanks to heavy lobbying by senior ALP figures including Paul Keating eager to secure votes in western Sydney and burnish their multicultural credentials.
In 2004, he visited Lebanon and described the September 11 terrorist attacks as "God's work against oppressors" and said that "good lies in evil".Sheik Hilali would later defend himself to the ABC's Geraldine Doogue, saying that the controversy stemmed from errors in translation from his florid, High Arabic style. The Mufti has since showed no desire to abandon these ancient themes of virulent anti-Semitism. In the midst of a sermon last November criticising anti-terrorism laws, the sheik complained that the Holocaust was a "Zionist lie" and asked, "What's that six million all about? Is there six million?". This past winter he described Israel as a "cancer" in the heart of the Muslim world.
The notion that he was lost in translation again is beyond the mortal realms of belief. You can not justify what he said in any way, in any language (see SBS translation). Also, I thought it was common knowledge that rape is predominatly due to men seeking power, not sexual desire. Meanwhile, this academic has landed himself in trouble:
Sheik Hilali did win some support from the chairman of the Prime Minister's Muslim advisory council, Ameer Ali, who compared his contentious remarks to the Pope's comments on Islam.
"He's our spiritual leader and nobody is more knowledgeable about Islam," said Dr Ali, an economics lecturer at Murdoch University in Perth.
"A few months ago, the Pope said some things about Islam, and he was criticised, and now we have a few things being said here, and it's been taken out of context. But all this talk about having the mufti deported, I mean, come on, they cannot be serious."
Can you imagine how many students will be egging his office? Strangely enough, The Age hardly covers the story. Pity. I was waiting for my Leunig cartoon - Leunig being the same clown who asked everyone to give Christmas prayers to Bin Laden a couple of years back. Then again both Leunig and the sheik believe women should stay at home.
Update: Directly addressing calls for him to be stripped of his title as the nation's Muslim leader, Sheik Hilali declared: "My name is Taj, my job is a sheik, my tools are my turban, and I am a servant serving the religion of God. I pray to God ... and I will die attesting to the religion of God. I don't belong to any establishment or to any government. And whoever wants to terminate my wages, let them terminate it"
And yet he had to come to Australia - a country slightly more prosperous than his homeland Egypt. I don't support the revoking of his Australia citizenship but I wish he had never got it in the first place.
posted by Engels at 9:47 am
2 Comments:
Leunig and Sheik Hilarity = Total Arseclowns.
Indeed.
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