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Sheik Taj Aldin Alhilali, the most controversial senior Muslim cleric in Western Australia has called on women not to leave their homes unaccompanied and insists sexual assaults happen only because “the man is provoked”. The man has caused outrage by suggesting, in a sermon, that women are responsible for sexual attacks because of how they dress and behave. Sheikh Taj Aldin Alhilali drew widespread condemnation for likening scantily clad women to uncovered meat eaten by animals in a sermon to 500 people last month. Sheik Hilaly???s reported comments, compared women who wore make-up and dressed immodestly to meat that attracted cats.
???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???? Alhillali said in Arabic, during a Ramadan sermon on adultery to some 500 worshippers in Sydney several weeks ago ???If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred.???

In the same sermon, Sheikh Taj Aldin Alhilali also alluded to the infamous Sydney gang rapes – carried out in 2000 by mainly Lebanese youths who received long jail sentences – suggesting the attackers were not entirely to blame. He said there were women who ???sway suggestively??? and wore make-up and immodest dress ??? ???and then you get a judge without mercy (rahma) and gives you 65 years???.
Sheik Alhilali has issued a statement apologising for any offence caused but said he had been misinterpreted, he said, ???I unreservedly apologise to any woman who is offended by my comments, I had only intended to protect women???s honour.???

Here are list of controversial comments made by Australia’s mufti, Sheik Taj Aldin Alhilali collected by AAP and published on The Age:

“If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the 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?” the sheik asked.

“The uncovered meat is the problem.”

“If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab (islamic headdress), no problem would have occurred.”

“September 11 is Allah’s work against oppressors.”

Called for holy war against Israel and praised Islamic suicide bombers following a meeting with Hizbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah. “I blessed Hizbollah for liberating the prisoners and the bones of the Shahids and I praised it and its sacrifice. Hizbollah has become a model for all the Mujahideen in the world.”

Claimed Australia was originally Muslim land, settled by Afghans.

Said radical clerics were a disease like AIDS and you can’t cure them with Panadol. “Any cleric who preaches violence or hatred against Australian society should be deported, 100 per cent.”

Dismissed the Holocaust as a “Zionist lie”.

Said George W Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard were the “axis of evil”.

“The media all over the world are controlled by Zionist fingers, particularly the Western media, and that includes Australia.”

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