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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (2643)10/26/2006 8:45:33 PM
From: Proud_Infidel  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 20106
 
Australia: 'I'm misunderstood' excuse is wearing thin
The Australian ^ | October 26 2006 | Richard Kerbaj

theaustralian.news.com.au

FOR more than two decades, Taj Din al-Hilali has courted controversy - and has more than once fought off calls for him to be kicked out of the country. Troubles for the Egyptian-born mufti stretch back to the 1980s, soon after he arrived in Australia. Before yesterday, he had most recently sparked anger with a sermon in which he questioned the Holocaust.

The cleric was once again reaching for a credibility lifeline in July when The Weekend Australian revealed that he had called the Holocaust "a ploy made by the Zionists" and trivialised the number of Jews killed by the Nazis.

But the imam's ability to manoeuvre his way out of controversy by claiming that hateful or divisive remarks he had made were "taken out of context" by listeners - especially the media - enabled him to escape deportation on at least two occasions before he was granted permanent residency in 1990.

(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ....



To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (2643)10/26/2006 9:04:23 PM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 20106
 
The only holiday they are welcome to is a nice stint in Gitmo!