Friday, October 27, 2006

Rapers not at fault, its the women.

Story: "Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali, the nation's most senior Muslim cleric, compared immodestly-dressed women who do not wear the Islamic headdress with meat that is left uncovered in the street and is then eaten by cats.
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In a Ramadam sermon in a Sydney mosque, Sheik al-Hilali suggested that a group of Muslim men recently jailed for many years for gang rapes were not entirely to blame.
There were women, he said, who 'sway suggestively' and wore make-up and immodest dress "and then you get a judge without mercy and gives you 65 years. But the problem, but the problem all began with who?" he said, referring to the women victims.

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The uncovered meat is the problem."
He went on: "If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab (veil), no problem would have occurred."
Women, he said, were 'weapons' used by Satan to control men.
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Ok, this cleric is crazy. Its not the men who raped the wormes fault, its her fault for walking in public without being covered from head to toe in cloth, and walking with her head bowed submissivly along the side of the street. If she hadn't gone outside, then she would have been safe, because you can't blame the men for assulting and violating her.
And perhaps, fundamentally, this is one of the reasons we have a large culture clash taking place.

Pushing Back the Frontiers of Ignorance side note:
Sorry for the lack of posts recently, some of my scholarly pursuits are beginning to catch up with me. This weekend won't be different, as I'll be treking in the wilderness with a backpack and some friends. I should be back by sunday evening.
God bless your endevours over the weekend, and contine ue to push back the frontiers of ignorance.

3 comments:

Matthew Celestine said...

Well, funnily enough, women get raped in Islamic countries too.

Mercy Now said...

This is nothing new, after all, the liberals in this country have been doing this for sometime. For example, it's the fault of society when the Los Angeles riots occurred. It's not really the murderer's fault since he was raised in a bad childhood. We can't blame kids for failing in school because we do not put enough money into the system, etc.

BTW, Happy backpacking!

RobertDWood said...

Daweed, indeed. Justice has been served, as I don't think they'll live long enough to get back out.

Matt, I hadn't thought of it that way. :D

Mercy, it does seem remarkably similar to liberalism...But evil comes in many packages, does it not?

I had a great backpacking trip, I'll make a post on it in the morning.