In this week's Jihad Watch videoblog at HotAir, I discuss the notorious words of the Mufti of Australia, Sheikh al-Hilali, blaming women if they are raped.
In this week's Jihad Watch videoblog at HotAir, I discuss the notorious words of the Mufti of Australia, Sheikh al-Hilali, blaming women if they are raped.
Robert,
Good presentation. It is too bad that the iman in question has to use my favorite animal, the cat, and a cat lover and woman in order to demean women at the same time.
Can anyone translate what - Hilali - means? Thanks
A dog would've been a more appropriate choice, because men who commit rape sure aren't behaving like cats!
Re: the photo above
Looks like a photo op, and that Hilali doesn't pick up cats too often -- neither cat nor cleric look comfortable.
Poor kitty!
Haven't seen the video yet. But seeing that picture makes me sick. That poor cat being held by such slimy hands. I'm surprised the idiot didn't hold it by the tail or ears. Too bad it wasn't a pig-that would have been more appropriate!
This is cruelty to animals. Call Ricky Lake. Call PETA!
Great speech,
and pleeeeaase cut out the background music next time.
Some people are not native english speakers and have to concentrate on what you say, Robert.
l think the cat is trying to get away from that smelly beast holding him! no doubt the cat was looking for uncovered meat and then he got picked up that beast who smelled like uncoverved meat! hope the cat can give that smelly beast a good scratching before getting away towards freedom.
FreeSpeech:
The music is added after my part is finished. I have nothing to do with it. I can ask, but I think that others like it.
Cordially
Robert Spencer
I do hope that the cat will clean him/herself after being picked up.
Robert -- how 'bout something from the "industrial metal" genre? Rammstein or Laibach (speaking of cats roaming the streets), for example.
(Just kidding.)
Robert -
Are you allergic to cats? Looks like you're about to sneeze.
Or maybe you're allergic to lying Muftis?
I think the background music is fine. Its low key and does not interfere with hearing Rober Spencer clearly.
Also, I was chilled about the interpretation regarding "spoils of war"--if young muslims see the west as a warzone then ANY girl who is just walking on the street minding her own business is a potential spoil of that war.
Okay you know what?
That about does it for me.
I will NO LONGER tolerate the "moderate muslim" myth --because moderates (lapsed muslims really) can become radical (aka observant ones really) at any time and say "hey theres uncovered meat lets go get it..."
As that French politician said about the radical muslims rioting in Paris "they are scum"
Is that an unfair word? What else would you call somebody who can justify random rape whenever he wants because he is not in a muslim country and because a woman is not covered. I call that scum.
So much comic potential, so little time....
There is a great op-ed piece here.Some people are not going to let this issue die down as they realise the full importance of it.
If you want to comment you can post also on Andrew Bolt's 'blog.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,20690632-5006029,00.html
Gramfan:
This idiot has done more to wake up the native Australians than anything I"ve seen. Andrew Bolt's article is fantastic and look at the tremendous response from Australian's who see the exact same way.
Also, it has become a dividing point where the fake "moderate muslim" mask is melting as they sign petitions to support this bigot. Those who have eyes will see and the Australians have 20/20 vision. As you can see from the responses from Bolt's article. We have learned of the threat now we must do something about.
The Aussie's will not surrender and may be an example to the rest of us caught in the Muslim grip, our culture ready to be destroyed, our women to be oppressed under sadistic barbarians.
Champ wrote, "A dog would've been a more appropriate choice, because men who commit rape sure aren't behaving like cats!"
I don't think a religious Muslim, certainly not an imam, could allow himself to touch a dog, let alone pick one up; they consider dogs as unclean as pigs. Witness all the controversy recently about some Muslim cabdrivers in Brtain not allowing dogs into their cabs. For some reason cats are a little higher on the scale, although they don't like them very much in that culture either.
Which one has the hairball?
Perhaps that is wife #9 in the photo. Nine wives, nine lives.
This may have been posted already.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6106500.stm
Egyptians are horrified by the news that women have been assaulted by hordes of young men in the centre of the capital, Cairo.
Blogs broke the story that has scandalised Egyptians (Picture: misrdigital.com)
The incidents were first reported online by Egyptian bloggers, some of whom saw large number of men harassing the women and ripping off their clothes.
It all happened over the Eid al-Fitr period starting on 23 October, as thousands of young men thronged the streets of central Cairo to celebrate the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.
One blogger who took pictures of what happened dubbed the incidents "sexual voracity down town".
According to the bloggers, the attackers targeted veiled as well as unveiled women who happened to be on their own.
The state media ignored the incidents, but ordinary Egyptians where shocked when they heard for the first time eyewitness accounts broadcast on the private television channel Dream.
Women chased
"We saw one girl being chased by a man, her blouse torn off, she ran inside a restaurant," one eyewitness reported.
We took the girl inside and locked the door. There were four or five of us. But there were hundreds of young men outside trying to break down the door
Cairo shop owner
"Seconds later young boys were shouting that there was another one by the Miami cinema. We went there and saw another girl surrounded by a crowd trying to assault her. She managed to run inside a nearby building.
"A third girl jumped into a cab as she was being chased. But the taxi couldn't move because of the crowd. Then they tried to pull the driver out of the car then the girl herself," the witness told Dream TV.
One eyewitness was too embarrassed to recount what he saw: "There were youths harassing the young women. What a shame! I really can not say any more about it."
Social malaise
One blogger wrote that as the police failed to protect the women, shop keepers had to intervene.
A shop owner described to the TV station what happened: "We took the girl inside and locked the door. There were four or five of us. But there were hundreds of young men outside trying to break down the door."
The bloggers blamed the incidents on widespread sexual frustration among Egypt's youths.
Most of them cannot afford to get married and premarital sex is strictly forbidden.
One commentator said that this was evidence of the breakdown of law and order in Egypt.
Another said the state deployed the police only to suppress political dissent but could not care less about the welfare of its own citizens.
A psychologist, Amr Abu Khaleel, attributed the predatory behaviour to the possible use of drugs and the breakdown of traditional values.
One prominent writer and journalist, Nabeel Sharaf al-Deen, said that such behaviour was the symptom of a deeper malaise in Egyptian society and warned that such incidents were the first stirrings of much bigger social unrest.
A statement by the ministry of the interior played down the incident, adding that it had not received any complaints from the public. It urged those who had anything to report to contact the police.
A couple of comments on Borg's post: I wonder how long it'll be before some so-called "religious" leaders start blaming the women themselves for these assaults? Just wait for it.
Even blaming "widespread sexual frustration among young men" is lame. They can commit the sin of Onan, or is that forbidden in their religion too? And even if it is, so what? Who's gonna know? It never stopped us Catholics.
Second, all due respect but this reference to "Ramadan fasting" never fails to irk me, because it isn't real fasting at all. Going without all food and drink during daylight hours and then bingeing once the sun goes down does not require the same discipline as going without food (and only a suicidal lunatic would go without water on a real fast) for several days. Talk to someone who has really fasted and you'll understand the difference. It's no challenge just to go without food from sunup to sundown; try going without it for five days. It's extremely difficult, it's not pleasant, you won't feel good, but if you're healthy it's not likely to damage you in any way. On the other hand, going without water for any length of time is lunacy. Even a layperson knows that going without liquids for even a short period of time is medically dangerous, resulting among other things in a drastic drop in blood sugar level, causing dizziness, headaches, nausea, fatigue, confusion, irritability, and irrational and sometimes violent behaviour. And I'm talking about in healthy people. That's even before that old standby killer of many, dehydration, sets in. People deprived of both food and water die of dehydration long before anything resembling starvation begins. People can't function normally without liquids, and they certainly can't work, at least not without grave danger to their health. Factor dangerous work into the equation, say, oh, air traffic controller, construction worker, bus driver, nurse, doctor, bomb de-activator, and the picture gets truly scary. I understand that Muslims are are excused from Ramadan fasting for reasons of health, preganancy or nursing, or age. How about work? Does that factor in at all?
Just a little rant there. Like I imagine many are, I am sick of hearing about Ramadan. It seems to be the only religious holiday in the world where pathological behaviour becomes the norm.
"It's no challenge just to go without food from sunup to sundown"
It is when you're spending most of your daylight hours brimming with pride, arrogance, irrationality, paranoia and hatred.
angloirishslav
Many muslims put on weight during ramadan. There is more food bought and consumed during the month of 'fasting' than during the other eleven months of the year. Some fast.