Certainly in a country like Australia — where despite all its claims of multiculturalism, ethnic groups tend to stick together and don’t understand each other nearly as much as they should — this kind of thing does not help anyone to gain a positive view of Muslims.

My biggest complaint against comments such as these is that they evade responsibility for the actions of Muslims who commit crimes. If the sheik were to tell his followers that women shouldn’t wear short skirts, but that faith in the teachings of the Koran should make them able to resist any such temptation, then good for him. But how dare he come to a country seeking a better lifestyle for himself and then tell the women of that country to sit at home or be raped.

The best thing for both the mainstream and Muslim communities in Australia would be for this guy to be deported and never heard from again. Why try to make my country a place where women have no rights, when there are plenty of perfectly good countries like that already, where he can freely preach his madness?