AU: Sheikh Hilali savages Australia

3 min 3 sec - 12/01/2007

Description: Muslim leader Sheikh Taj al-din al-Hilali has savaged Australia in an interview on Egyptian television.

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The Islamic Council of Victoria's women's officer, Saara Sabbagh, said, "Statements like that set us back 10 years, but I think the wider community doesn't take him too seriously any more — we certainly don't."* The council's spokesman Waleed Aly, also added that there were Muslims among convicts sent out in the first dozen years of settlement.

Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone said, "I remind Sheikh Hilali that if he doesn't like Australia or our heritage or our way of life, he doesn't have to come back".

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