Sheikh Taj el-Din al-Hilali an Egypt born Australian cleric has blamed women for rapes and believes dress plays an important part in the whole act.
In his sermon the sheikh said...(no spin the actual translation)
Who commits the crimes of theft? The man or the woman? The man.
That's why the man was mentioned before the woman when it comes to theft because his responsibility is providing.
But when it comes to adultery, it's 90% the women's responsibility. Why? Because a woman possesses the weapon of seduction.
It is she who takes off her clothes, shortens them, flirts, puts on make-up and powder and takes to the streets, God protect us, dallying. It's she who shortens, raises and lowers.
Then it's a look, then a smile, then a conversation, a greeting, then a conversation, then a date, then a meeting, then a crime, then Long Bay jail. [laughs].
Then you get a judge, who has no mercy, and he gives you 65 years.
But when it comes to this disaster, who started it? In his literature, scholar al-Rafihi says: 'If I came across a rape crime - kidnap and violation of honour - I would discipline the man and order that the woman be arrested and jailed for life.'
Why would you do this, Rafihi? He says because if she had not left the meat uncovered, the cat wouldn't have snatched it.
If you take a kilo of meat, and you don't put it in the fridge or in the pot or in the kitchen but you leave it on a plate in the backyard, and then you have a fight with the neighbour because his cats eat the meat, you're crazy. Isn't this true?
If you take uncovered meat and put it on the street, on the pavement, in a garden, in a park or in the backyard, without a cover and the cats eat it, is it the fault of the cat or the uncovered meat? The uncovered meat is the problem.
If the meat was covered, the cats wouldn't roam around it. If the meat is inside the fridge, they won't get it.
If the meat was in the fridge and it [the cat] smelled it, it can bang its head as much as it wants, but it's no use.
If the woman is in her boudoir, in her house and if she's wearing the veil and if she shows modesty, disasters don't happen.
That's why he said she owns the weapon of seduction.
Satan sees women as half his soldiers: "You're my messenger to achieve my needs."
Satan tells women: "You're my weapon to bring down any stubborn man. There are men that I fail with. But you're the best of my weapons."
The woman was behind Satan playing a role when she disobeyed God and went out all dolled up and unveiled and made of herself palatable food that rakes and perverts would race for. She was the reason behind this sin taking place.There have been calls for his resignation while the Mufti has his supporters behind him but as a muslim I have only one thing to say to him. Sir you are wrong big time. Your speech just shows your mentality and your biases.
Comparing women to meat makes them nothing more than an object of desire and by saying that they ought to be in their homes means you believe that the man shall provide while the ladies shall stay at home. There is a reason why Islam is so much in controversy. Seeing the world change around us with women getting liberated, paranoid old men such as the Mufti have become the voices calling for a rigid enforcement of Islam. And the world simply does not hear the voices of sanity in between.
But let the world not worry. This line of thought is not limited to the Muslim world only. The Mufti has a unique supporter in the radical hindu party Shive Sena which has again and again said a similar thing. Its strange how the radicals have literally no religion.
But moving on let me state the truth. Today is not seventh century Arabia. Islam was and people forget this many times the most progressive religion of its time. Women got respect and property rights. It took 1300 years and the supreme court ruling to give Hindu women similar property rights. So the problem is not with Islam but with the self crowned guardians.
Yes today is not seventh century Arabia. And the fact is to blame wome women for rape is as henious as the act itself. Coz it would not be rape if the women is to blame it would then be sex by mutual consent.
If we are civlized then the women in question should feel safe to walk down any street as she pleases and not feel insecure. As a civilized society we succeed only when we give her that sense of security. Saudi Arabia and other Islamic societies where women are ruthlessly suppressed and not allowed to even go to the market alone are an abhorrence and should be condoned.
And the mufti turns a blind eye to two facts. One most rapists are relatives of the victim who hope that the victim will be too scared to report. And secondly that most of the women who get raped they are very decently dressed. They are preyed upon because they are weak and percieved to be helpless. Its the men's mentality that must change not the women's.
But dont get me wrong. I dont believe the call for change can come from outside. It has to come from inside Islam from the believers themselves. George Bush in his call to change just kills the voice for change. The voices have to be from inside Islam. Like this one and a hundred others that are slowly calling out.
Rape is a crime and Islam has only one penalty for it - death. Nothing less. There can be no justification of so henious a crime. Not in a civilized society.
By the way if u find this interesting also read my earlier blog in support of Project Blank Noise, an anti eve-teasing movement. Click to go there
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