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Muslim Cleric: Women Are Like ‘Uncovered Meat’
A Muslim cleric in Australia has sparked outrage with his disparaging comments about women, who he claimed are "weapons" used by Satan to control men.
According to a report in the United Kingdom's Daily Mail newspaper, Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali — Australia’s most senior Muslim cleric — compared women who do not wear the Islamic headdress with "meat that is left uncovered in the street and is then eaten by cats.”
The cleric, after criticism from Australian Prime Minister John Howard and opposition from other civic leaders, has since apologized for the comments.
The remarks came during a Ramadan sermon in a Sydney mosque as the Sheik was trying to justify the actions of a group of Muslim men who had been jailed for alleged gang rapes.
Saying the makeup-wearing women enticed the men by "swaying suggestively,” and "dressing inappropriately” — without veils — the sheik set off a firestorm of controversy with his analogy about unguarded pet food.
Story Continues Below "If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it . . . whose fault is it — the cats or the uncovered meat?” he asked, rhetorically. "The uncovered meat is the problem.”
Saying women were "weapons” used by Satan to control men, he continued: "If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab [veil], no problem would have occurred.”
Prime Minister Howard was quick to condemn the comments. "They are quite out of touch with contemporary values in Australia,” Howard said, adding that the remarks were "appalling and reprehensible.”
The sheik’s comments so enraged Australians that many leaders are calling for his deportation to Egypt, his nation of origin.
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