Comments on: Muslim Cleric Calls Women 'Uncovered Meat'

Sheik In Australia Chastises Women Who Do Not Wear Head Scarves

[tpeks40]

This idiot has meat between his ears. He must like boys...

[saransk]

First, while the cleric's comments might be more appropriate for the 11th century not the 21st - calling him names and curses doesn't really make anyone else better.
I personally think that the main seperation between the "Western" religions and the Muslim world is that 2 major changes have never happened for Islam, the Reformation, and the "Age of Enlightenment."

Think about Christianity before the Reformation and think about common thought before "Enlightenment." Not so different than what is often reported from Islamic religious leaders.

Islam has never been forced to review and discard those non-religious practices that have no use in the world. Much of what is reported as Islamic "backwardness," etc. has its roots in tribal society and not theology. It needs a reformation to clean out the excesses.

Islamic society also has not severed the ties between the state and the church as western countries have. There is no secular power to reign in the demigods of ISlamic extremism - it is all about power.

[fallngempire]

Western tolerance only goes so far.

[rsoxfan1123]

xenalily- from what I have read of the Koran, the "radical" ones are the ones most closely adhering to its teachings. The liberal ones that disagree with this guy are the equivalent of Christians that have gay pastors. They have to ignore parts of their holy book to "modernize".

[xenalily]

What part of RADICAL MUSLIM CLERIC don't you people get? RADICALS ARE NOT POLITICCALY CORRECT NICE PEOPLE! Don't group the rest of the Muslim religion in with this man's beliefs. Other Muslims are outraged and demanding an apology so don't start throwing out 'those people' comments equating what one deplorable radical religious freak says with a the whole country of Iraq- that's how Bush gained support to invade- oh excuse me- liberate -Iraq in the first place. There are whack jobs in every religion! It's a slippery slope here so don't fall down on the dumb *** side by clumping people together!

[wolf563]

Simply deport him back to his sand box of a country where the women and men wear dresses and the camels live in fear instead of women .Our women are beautiful and we do not hide them with shame like the arab nations do .

[alphaa10-2009]

This is part of the subrosa battle raging between Western and MidEast Muslim traditionalists over who will lead Muslim affairs for the foreseeable future.

The Aussie Muslim cleric and his comments matches the current fracas in the UK over wearing of veils, and is no coincidence.

Muslim traditionalists deny their ambition is to create two religious blocs around the world, warily eyeing one another with thinly veiled suspicion. But their tactics are undeniably an effort to keep Muslims "pure", separate and living apart from the rest of the world.

If such an attitude fostered only monastic devotion, that might offer a countervailing argument, but the regular result of an isolated muslim community is suspicion, anger, alienation and despair. Not surprisingly, a ghetto against the world is too often a synonym for much of the MidEast

[plsthink]

Amazing and ironic. Anthropologists from all over the world are searching for evidence of ancient human ancestors when millions like this guy are here walking around in 21st century.

[rharrin1]

The problem these towel heads have is their towel is wrapped to tight

[bhart050]

Yes, his comments are deplorable, but only slightly worse than those of the Catholic or any other church which uses guilt and shame in order to control people's minds and conduct. Assuming one accepts that a higher power exists, It must be saddened to realize that we have such a low opinion of the supposedly highest form of life in creation. We are capable of so much, except, apparently, respecting ourselves and one another...so much so that we accept fantastic fairy tales as great truth and allow mean-spirited morons to subjucate us with arbitrary absurd rules, so many of which are designed to keep females in a position of powerlessness. Wake up.

[cathaleen]

He should be thrown out of Australia and put in the desert where he won't have to worry about how women dress. Maybe he'll mee some unclothed female scorpions.

[sy2502]

Sickening, just sickening! All civilized countries should kick these people out on the spot, send them back to their deserts and camels, because they have no place in a civilized society. Just think of these people out on the street looking at your mothers, sisters, and daughters, thinking in their own mind that your loved ones are "uncovered meat", there for taking, because they didn't stay at home, or didn't cover themselves head to toe. These people are roaming our streets, people!

[lindasog]

Just another moslem moderate. The guy is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, says the Holocaust was manufactured by Zionists and Jews are behind all the wars in the world. He's called for the murder of Americans and had ties to Jihadi publications featuring material praising Osama Bin Laden.

and he hates women? OMG!

[observantx]

These radical Muslims are truly psychotic. They are so afraid of *** that they hide their women from view. They segregate the sexes until they get married. They prevent young males from understanding anything about women or the normal attraction between the sexes. Because of the segregation they can't learn how to behave in a civilized fashion to women or control themselves in this atmosphere. On top of that they blame innocent women if they get raped by men who go over the edge at the slightest sexual stimulation such as normal modest western dress. Part of this problem is that women are viewed as property instead of persons. That is why they are hidden away from view and so jealously guarded.

Blaming women for the crimes committed against them by men is another crime on top of the first. We're talking primitive and backward and repressive. This cleric needs to go back to his holy book and try to understand what it really says, not what he wants it to say.

[blondmadison]

"He should be called on to apologize for
his remarks just like the Pope and everbody else that criticizes the almight muslims."

Posted by cathaleen at 12:09 PM : Oct 26, 2006

Dear Cathleen:

Do you believe the Pope said what he said not knowing there would be a huge outburst about it? Think again. This was someone who gives talks regularly knowing his influencial position.

It was an extremely provocative remark intended to raise ire. After witnessing such a derelect act, as far as I am concerned the popes now and forever can take a flying leap. They are deviant politicians in robes, committing pedophilia on our children because they can get away with it. Sickening.

Now we have another provocative remark? Who spewed it? A muslim...and who would react passionately? He's a jerkbag in need of removal...SRR: Sedate, Remove, Relocate.

[laurieleemoo]

okay---we just figured out how to make people / objects invisible. Well, now all we have to do is finish that TIME machine so we can send this MORON back 1,000 years where he belongs. Hey *** can you say "21st CENTURY"???!!!

[hangelle]

And for the likes of this we are bleeding in Iraq?!

[vh588083]

I just lost my lunch

[rsoxfan1123]

Evolution is the solution for people like this...the same thing'd work in Iraq. Maybe if we hang in there until they evolve a bit beyond the savage murder stage? They resemble western culture around the viking days.

[mjv2944]

The Australians ought to run this joker off. Let go back from where he came. These people are nuts. The only difference between them today and 10,000 years ago are the automatic weapons that they kill with. They are violent people who preach violence everyday.