As Americans “fall back” in their biannual hourly Daylight Savings time adjustment, muslim women in Australia are hoping for a much longer and more permanent adjustment in the misogynous attitudes as characterized by a Ramadan sermon delivered at the Lakemba mosque near Bankstown, Australia.

The Australian last week revealed that in a sermon last month, Sheik Taj al-Din al-Hilaly blamed the rape victim for being raped, and likened immodestly dressed women to “meat” that attracted voracious predators.

“I am not fresh meat; he should not compare girls to meat,” said one young Muslim woman. “It was totally unacceptable and I am embarrassed by him,” said another. Yet another described him as “ignorant, unprofessional, unacceptable”.

Another speaker said:

“No matter what colour or creed, it is just not right. I think the majority of Muslim women would feel this way, it would be unimaginable for them to support him. Being a woman, how could you support that view?”

She said that as an educator she taught children they needed to be responsible for their actions. “This is what a leader should be saying to his male followers, that they should be responsible for their actions.”

Saying that these attitudes do not represent true islam is either a true statement, or it is not. It is, however, not the responsibility of the Western world to learn the meaning of true islam through CAIR-sponsored sensitivity training, or by listening to the pious pronouncements of talking-head taquiya saying that islam is a Religion of Peace™.

Honor killing, intimidation, intifada, riot, murder, mayhem, and the constant seething against a perceived insult or slight, speaks with a volume and intensity that words simply cannot excuse. It is time for the islamic world to “Spring Forward” a millennium, and clean up its act, or face marginalization, if not outright separation, from civilized society.

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