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2007-02-07 Down Under

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Posted by tipper 2007-02-07 09:21|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 LMA president Tom Zreika yesterday said that Sheik Hilali needed to stop playing politics if the Muslim community was to recover from the damage his past remarks had caused.

IMO the "sheik" has done a wonderful job of presenting Islam for what it is. I trust his successor will keep up the good work.

Posted by Whiskettes4Hilali 2007-02-07 09:51|| 2007-02-07 09:51|| Front Page Top

#2 The company collects 25 million payments a year from motorists who pay to drive into central London.

Leave or die?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-02-07 09:54|| 2007-02-07 09:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Dammit, button is sticking,Try again.

initially resisted the ban before agreeing to abandon the pulpit on the basis of "mutual understanding" between him and the LMA executives.

Leave or die?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-02-07 09:57|| 2007-02-07 09:57|| Front Page Top

#4 So does this mean he takes a "ride in the desert"?

Posted by tu3031 2007-02-07 10:04|| 2007-02-07 10:04|| Front Page Top

#5 At least he spoke the islamic truth for the world to hear.

The next guy will be more devious-Giving out a Western image public wise but the same as predecessor privately!!!!

Posted by Ebbolump Glomotle9608 2007-02-07 10:08|| 2007-02-07 10:08|| Front Page Top

#6 lets see, the muslims stay silent when a loon speaks up, that shows theyre complicit. They toss out the loon, and thats Taqiya.

Unfalsifiable propositions, anyone?

Posted by liberalhawk 2007-02-07 10:12|| 2007-02-07 10:12|| Front Page Top

#7 So does this mean he takes a "ride in the desert"?

He might go for a late night swim in the Lane Cove river.

Posted by Whiskettes4Hilali 2007-02-07 10:12|| 2007-02-07 10:12|| Front Page Top

#8 The Bogle-Chandler scenario, Whiskettes? Works for me.
I used to work for CSIRO at Lane Cove, checked out those mangroves in my lunch break. Very romantic, not.

Posted by Grunter 2007-02-07 10:21|| 2007-02-07 10:21|| Front Page Top

#9 The usual method is to promote him to imam emeritus, move him down the hall to the tiny spare office, and assign his secretary to his replacement. Oh, and host a lovely rubber chicken farewell dinner so congregation members can tell him how wonderful he is, and how he'll always be their real imam, before they abandon him for the new guy. I wonder how long before the congregation decides they can't afford the stipend and the rent, and cut him off? I'm guessing he'll get about a year.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-07 10:27|| 2007-02-07 10:27|| Front Page Top

#10 The Bogle-Chandler scenario, Whiskettes? Works for me.

That's what I had in mind. I always liked the conotoxin theory, though tetrodotoxin would do.

I used to work for CSIRO at Lane Cove, checked out those mangroves in my lunch break. Very romantic, not.

I saw the ABC doco that supported natural hydrogen sulphide as the "culprit", but I wasn't convinced.

Who will name & profile Hilali's likely successors, as was done with Pope JP II over the years?

Will it be Yahya Safi, Sheikh Shady, Amin Hady ...?

Posted by Whiskettes4Hilali 2007-02-07 10:54|| 2007-02-07 10:54|| Front Page Top

#11 When the Imams meet to choose their new leader, ummm, how should I put this ?
Wouldn't it be tragic if the building collapsed on them ?
BANG...splatter.

Posted by wxjames 2007-02-07 12:42|| 2007-02-07 12:42|| Front Page Top

#12 Please, what is a whiskette?

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-07 13:02|| 2007-02-07 13:02|| Front Page Top

#13 A female whisk, TW

/sarc

Posted by BA 2007-02-07 14:15|| 2007-02-07 14:15|| Front Page Top

#14

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-02-07 14:49|| 2007-02-07 14:49|| Front Page Top

#15 TW, Whiskettes is a popular brand of cat food in Australia. Referring to Hilali's comments a while back about uncovered meat.

Posted by Grunter 2007-02-07 15:29|| 2007-02-07 15:29|| Front Page Top

#16 Thanks -- I was feeling more ignorant than usual. :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-07 15:53|| 2007-02-07 15:53|| Front Page Top

#17 They toss out the loon, and thats Taqiya

Nope, that's being in the temporary minority.

Posted by Shipman 2007-02-07 17:28|| 2007-02-07 17:28|| Front Page Top

#18 [TW]I'm guessing he'll get about a year.

He might not get that long. The Lebanese Muslim Association (LMA) denies that a deal has been struck and says it doesn't pay him, he's a "man of god"!!! and does it for free out of the goodness of his heart.

Posted by Whiskettes4Hilali 2007-02-07 20:53|| 2007-02-07 20:53|| Front Page Top

#19 As people round here are so fond of saying, "Life is hard. It's even harder when you're stupid." Great news for the end of the day, Whiskettes4Hilali. Thanks!

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-07 21:36|| 2007-02-07 21:36|| Front Page Top

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