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February 18, 2004

Australian Mufti Speaks Candidly

A senior Liberal MP today urged the Federal Government to consider action against the leader of Australia's Muslims for praising Islamic suicide bombers and calling for a holy war against Israel.
The Mufti of Australia, Sheik Taj Aldin Alhilali, made the comments in recent sermons and interviews in Lebanon, according to an internet dispatch by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

Christopher Pyne, parliamentary secretary to the Minister for Family and Community Services, said he was appalled and horrified by Sheik Alhilali's alleged support for violence.

But a spokesman for the Sydney-based Mufti said he had been taken out of context.

According to MEMRI, the Mufti told an interviewer in Lebanon he supported suicide attacks by Muslim martyrs.

"We are proud of the Islamic resistance in Palestine, Lebanon, Kashmir...," Sheik Alhilali is reported to have said.

"We support the resistance and support, with all our might, the martyrdom operations carried out by the Palestinian liberation movements, operations that are a legitimate act against the cruel occupation, according to all international norms and conventions."

The Mufti is also reported to have called in a sermon in Sidon for a jihad, or holy war, against Israel, adding: "The war waged by the US and Israel against the Muslims is a cruel war aimed at annihilating the (Islamic) nation."

The Mufti's spokesman in Sydney, Keysar Trad, said MEMRI had taken the Muslim leader out of context.

"The Mufti is a proponent of peace and peaceful solutions to any conflict," he told ABC radio.
"I spoke to him today and he assured me that the context in which he made his message was not in the way that it was reported by these people."

Posted by Alan Brain at February 18, 2004 10:05 AM | TrackBack

Comments

"Taken out of context" = "Oops, didn't mean for you guys to read that."

Posted by: Spade at February 18, 2004 12:52 PM

"Context"? I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Now "content" is probably the more relevent word here, and I have not seen anyone addressing that.

Posted by: submandave at February 18, 2004 03:40 PM

There are Lies, Damned Lies and...

Posted by: Cap'n DOC at February 18, 2004 03:52 PM

Just so we are all clear... Just what context includes bus bombings, massive PLO corruption, and more than one lost Palestinian generation of children.

More of the same Jihadists double speak. Kiss your ass to get monetary rewards in the form of foreign aid and when its thought your not looking spit in your face.

Posted by: Cranial at February 18, 2004 05:01 PM

Isn't he the same grand poopa that said Australia is really Muslim land, and that the Aborigines are really ancient Afghani- muslims who has lost their way?
Technically, this means muslims can wage jihad in Australia to take their land back. Interesting how this works.
The thing is, the appears will probably believe it.

It's the same as the "palistinian lie". There wasn't such a thing as a palistinian before 1967, now there are a million of them. thats an incredible birth rate.

Mark twain in 1897 wrote that there wasn't a living soul (except for a few Jews in Jerusalem) in the whole region, it was a barren malaria infested wasteland, yet now theres a million palistinians, even if there was ONE at the turn of the century, thats still a fantastic birth rate.

Posted by: Fat Guy at February 19, 2004 06:58 AM

I think there should be a true jihad against muslims, no muslims no terrorism.

Posted by: pete at February 29, 2004 09:52 PM

they are the scum of the earth, if the australian mufti thinks the US and israel are trying to destroy islam, why dosent israel nuke the arabs right now? why didnt usa nuke iraq?

stupid fucking camel fuckers, if they ever attack a church or synagogue in australia i will personally start a REAl war with islam in australia, any woman wearing a headscarf will be spat on and physically abused, and muslim 'man' that helps will be doused in petrol and burnt alive, fucking sand nigs.
Be warned.

Posted by: peter at February 29, 2004 09:56 PM

Peter:

any woman wearing a headscarf will be spat on and physically abused

<sarcasm>How awfully Heroic of you.</sarcasm>
I'm in a position of power here, so know your IP address and a few other things. I don't want to abuse that position, so won't tell you what a thoroughly nasty, ignorant, cowardly, bigotted and racist little post that was.

I can understand your anger at the Islamofascisti, but moronic comments aboout "Sand Nigs" just show that hateful idiocy is not confined to Muslims alone. You know, you'd fit right in with them, bullying women and dousing people with petrol is just exactly what the Taliban did.

In the probably futile hope that you wrote out of anger that left you temporarily insane, and that you're neither a precious little Troll, a "false flag" from the Lakemba Mosque, nor a bloody Galah, I urge you to please have a think about it.

Go meet some Muslims - there's plenty of 'em around. You'll find most to be decent, normal Human Beings. You'll also find some thugs who'll say things like

any woman not wearing a headscarf will be spat on and physically abused, and jewish "man" that helps will be doused in petrol and burnt alive, fucking Kikes

See what I mean? As I said, you'd fit right in. And whatever side you're on, I'm not. Neither are the majority of Australians, and should you ever try to put your blow-hard words into practice, we won't beat you or assault you, we'll just put you in jail for a long, long time. Arsehole.

Posted by: Alan E Brain at March 1, 2004 12:04 AM