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Down Under

Meeting to decide cleric's future

2006-10-29

MUSLIM leaders will decide on the future of controversial Sheik Taj al-Din al-Hilaly tonight. Sheik Hilaly has said he will stand down if he is proved to have been deliberately offensive in his sermon that suggested women provoked sexual attacks.

A meeting of senior clerics and the Lebanese Muslim Association was planned for 9pm (AEDT) tonight at Lakemba Mosque, in Sydney's west, Lebanese Muslim Association spokesman Keysar Trad said today. "It is open to clerics who want to go, and they will be mostly from NSW," Mr Trad said.

Sheik Hilaly said he would not be attending the Multicultural Eid Festival and Fair to celebrate the end of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan at Fairfield today. A spokesman for the sheik said he did not want his presence to take the focus off the festival itself. The sheik was widely criticised last week for comparing scantily clad women to uncovered meat.

Posted by:Fred

#6 Kinda makes me wonder if they'll address (1) the idea that men have no hope of self control and are therefore innocent in their decision, and (2) the fact that it's all the woman's victim's fault.

Thay already have. They did it when they appointed this rutbag. The above two points you make are long-standing fixtures of Islamic doctrine. This is why this dogmatic political ideology must be wholly reformed or universally banned. No other options.

Posted by: Zenster 2006-10-29 16:38

#5 It won't be deliberately offensive because that's how they think. Who is "they"? Probably a group of five good ol' Muslims from his hometown, all of them male with daughters who have been brainwashed likewise, and all of them steeped in this kind of thinking. Like I said a couple of days ago, he'll get a symbolic slap on the wrist. And if it is even remembered a year later, even that will probably be withdrawn or made moot after they feel they are in control of the situation.

TW: He probably didn't apologize because he didn't think it was deliberately offensive, if offensive at all. Since he's an Imam, you can guess how his judge-jury colleagues are going to think . . . . But we'll see. It's an opportunity for them to show the world what they're made of and it's in their control. If they drop it like I suspect they will, it will be a opportunity for the rest of the world to drop. Kinda makes me wonder if they'll address (1) the idea that men have no hope of self control and are therefore innocent in their decision, and (2) the fact that it's all the ~~woman's~~ victim's fault.

Posted by: gorb 2006-10-29 15:39

#4 But true gentlemen apologize when they've been inadvertently offensive. They know when they've been deliberately offensive, because it was deliberate.

Posted by: trailing wife 2006-10-29 13:39

#3 It'll be three days of closed-doors. Then they'll piously announce they made a decision that won't be popular with the kuffirs couldn't come to a decision, so he stays.

Posted by: Pappy 2006-10-29 11:25

#2 Suffice to say that al-Hilali's mere existence is deliberately offensive to all women. You can be sure that this scurrilous cretin probably considers himself God's gift to same.

Posted by: Zenster 2006-10-29 05:17

#1 Hilaly has said he will stand down if he is proved to have been deliberately offensive

since his daughter already said he was just misunderstood and he was only trying to get the old men to encourage women to be modest, I think his defense is established and trial concluded.

Posted by: Clkethel OHlkdj 2006-10-29 00:15

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