Muslim cleric triggers outrage for blaming women for rape
Muslim leaders, women’s rights advocates and political leaders in Australia today condemned one of the country’s top Islamic clerics for comparing women who don’t wear head scarves to “uncovered meat” who invite rape.
The cleric, Sheikh Taj Aldin al Hilali, apologised for any offence he had caused in making the comments a month ago during a sermon marking the holy month of Ramadan, after they were printed today in a front page story in national newspaper The Australian.
