Meat, cat, women, rapist and a cleric

“If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it...whose fault is it, the cats or the uncovered meat.”

On its own, this sentence makes perfect sense and no one will be offended. However if it was spoken metaphorically, then surely someone is gonna get raving angry.

That’s what had happened in Australia. You see, the remarks above were mentioned by Australian Mufti Sheik Taj Aldin Alhilali, in reference that women who dress revealing will attract sexual attacks.

Our cleric here is blaming the women for being raped. Understandably, feminist movement and rights groups Down Under are not impressed at all. Some even asked him to move back to the middle east to espouse his views.

Read more here and here, and his qualified apology here.