The Wo! Front

“If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the 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,” he said.

“The uncovered meat is the problem.

“If she was in her room, in her home, in her hajib, no problem would have occurred.”

These were comments made by one of Australia’s most prominent sheik’s, Sheik Taj Aldin Alhilali. So did you get that? Women who don’t wear hijab’s and go outside = uncovered meat. Men = cats.

Thanks for the education Sheik Hilali.

This stuff really fiddles with my grrr factor. And it’s quite disappointing as I was under the impression that Sheik Alhilali was quite moderate. And you’d think after his extensive forays into the public eye he would know better.

So a message to the Sheik: Men aren’t cats and women aren’t meat. Men have autonomy and control and aren’t all rapists. And a hell of a lot less would be rapists if they weren’t taught from birth that they have entitlement over women’s bodies, especially if said women dress skimpily/get drunk/ etc etc. It saddens me that the last few posts on this blog have all been about sexual assault. Aren’t we screaming loud enough yet? Sexual Assault is never the woman’s fault Sheik. Not even if she was drunk, walking around in the middle of the night in a boob tube. It is always the perpetrators fault. The onus starts with them. Why aren’t you teaching that Sheik?