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Australian government urges Muslims to rein in imam
The Straits Times
March 10, 2004
SYDNEY - The government urged Muslims yesterday to rein in Australia's top
imam for reportedly defending suicide bombers and praising the Sept 11, 2001
attacks.
Multicultural Affairs Minister Gary Hardgrave told the Australian Federation of
Islamic Councils (Afic) in a letter that he did not accept Sheik Taj el-Din Al
Hilaly's explanation that he was misrepresented in a translation of an
address he gave in Lebanon last month. He is
keeping with the commands of the Koran:
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O ye who believe! When ye go abroad in the cause of Allah,
investigate carefully, and say not to any one who offers you a salutation:
"Thou art none of a believer!" Therefore carefully investigate.
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Never should a believer kill a believer [But
the 'unbelievers' - they are commanded to slay. That includes ALL who believe in the Son of God}
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(But the treaties are) not dissolved with those
Pagans with whom ye have entered into alliance and who have not subsequently
failed you in aught, nor aided any one against you. So fulfil your engagements
with them to the end of their term.
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But when the
forbidden months are past [when the
'treaties' expire} then fight and
slay the Pagans
''''wherever'''' ye find them, and
seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait
for them in every stratagem of war.
'If he was misreported, which seems to be his constant cry - and he has been
using that excuse for 15 years - then he needs to clear the record and
moreover not just in Australia, where he is under pressure, but in the Middle
East, where he made the speech,' he said.
Australian diplomats translated his address as calling for a jihad against
Israel, backing suicide bombers, referring to the Sept 11 attacks
in the United States as 'God's work against oppressors' and describing
some Arab leaders as 'trash' for their pro-US policies.
The imam said he was misrepresented and that he had actually been trying to arrange
a multireligious summit to end the conflict in Israel.
Mr Hardgrave said that if the
imam went to the Middle East to seek peace, that would be 'terrific' but added:
''If Muslims in Australia are not happy with what he has said, they should deal with him".
Are they happy with these?
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Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day
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And slacken not in following up the enemy: If ye are suffering hardships,
they are suffering similar hardships.
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Fighting is prescribed for you,
and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing
[war] which is good for you and that ye love a
thing [peace]
which is bad for you?
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Unless ye go forth, He will punish you
with a grievous penalty, and put others in your place.
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Therefore, when ye meet the
Unbelievers (in fight),
smite at their necks. [Behead them]
Are Muslims happy with those commands?
There is a BETTER WAY
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