– Two stories out recently about radial statements being made by Muslim clerics point up a growing and critical problem. As we continue to fill the world, our cultures and religions are pressing against each other with ever more pressure. This is a volatile situation that grows ever more dangerous. Our cultures and religions need to be ever more tolerant of each other if we are to avoid disaster as we try to muddle our way through the coming historical bottlenecks.
– Stories, like the following, are clear calls for moderate Muslims to control the statements of their more radical brethren. Indeed, be it Muslim, Christian or any religion, I would advocate the same.
– To get the drift of why a story like this might incense Australians so badly, consider that they are 20 million and they are just south of Indonesia, which is the most populous Muslim country in the world – and a very poor one, besides. Consider a statement like the following: “Muslim Australians had more rights to the country than white Australians whose ancestors arrived as convicts. ”
– Below, is the first of the two stories. The next can be found in the next post here.
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The Australian government has condemned a Muslim cleric for making offensive comments in videotaped lectures.
Sheikh Feiz Mohammed, head of the Global Islamic Youth Centre in Sydney, urged children to become martyrs for Islam and mocked Jewish people as pigs.
Police are said to be investigating the tapes, which were exposed in a British TV documentary earlier this week.
Top Australian Islamic cleric Sheikh Hilali also sparked controversy, with remarks on women and white Australians.
Sheikh Feiz Mohammed, who has spent the past year living in Lebanon, talks on the controversial videotapes of his desire for children to be offered “as soldiers defending Islam”.
“Teach them this,” he says, “that there is nothing more beloved to me than wanting to die as a Muhajid.
“Put in their soft, tender heart the zeal of jihad and the love of martyrdom.”
He also ridicules Jewish people as pigs and makes snorting noises, saying they will go to hell.
His comments were shown on a British television documentary called Undercover Mosque, which says it found children selling Islamic tapes in a car park behind a UK mosque.
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