"Uncovered Meat"

Every now and again, a Muslim says or does something that appalls me utterly and makes me question my ideological commitment to free of religion. Today's fucktard is Sheikh Taj el-Din al-Hilali. He has apologised for his comments but quite frankly that is not good enough. The sickening misogyny spouted by this shameless shithead has no place in a twenty first century liberal democracy.

"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?"

Interesting how some who claims to be a cleric regards women as "meat" to be "eaten". The analogy gives away a lot - Hilali sees women not just as inferior to him but as not even human. Come on, Hilali, say what you think - you see women as "fuck meat." Which is fine, because I see you as an open, oozing, infected sore on the face of the world - a leaking, feculent sewer on legs.

"If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred,"

Unless she fell victim to an honour killing. Or to incestous rape. Which of course would *never* happen in a Muslim household.

"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."

I cannot think of any Western country that gives out a 65 year sentence for rape, but exaggerating really is the least of Hilali's sins. The assertion that by dressing attractively and wearing make up makes a woman a viable target for rape is the thinking of a stone age man. And Hilali is an important figure in the Australian Muslim community - as Pru Goward, an Australian prosecuter, points out:

"Young Muslim men who now rape women can cite this in court, can quote this man... their leader in court"

In his apology Hilali says:

"I had only intended to protect women's honour"

Is Hilali really so goddamned ignorant that he thinks we will be fooled by this utter shite? How can someone who sees a woman wearing a skirt and make-up as a piece of meat possibly talk about honouring women?

The Lebanese Muslim Association apparently condemns Hilali's words and may ban him from speaking in Mosques. Good. Because if they do not condemn, and then take action against, this man then they are condoning his words as the words of Islam. And the only way to bridge the religious and cultural divides is to ostracise the likes of Hilali and ultimately force them to go to a society that is compatible with their atrocious views are acceptable. In the 1980's those in the far left were told to "piss off back to Russia". These days, we should be saying to the likes of Hilali "piss off to a Middle Eastern backwater".