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Imams council president condemns speech made at pro-Palestinian rally · The Slippery Slope

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  OK, let's let's check out this video together.
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  This is something that came up as a video that was shared, I
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  think it was a day after a day after the attacks in Israel in
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  October a few years ago. This is an imam in Australia.
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  And please correct me if I'm wrong, but there are people here
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  in Australia who have been arrested, charged, gone before
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  the courts for much, much less than what this spiritual leader,
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  this head of his, you know, leader within his community has
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  said. Australians have gone to jail.
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  Australians have been charged, gone to court for much less than
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  what this gentleman is saying. And I'll, but don't worry
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  because you know, the council of imams, whatever they call
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  they've, you know, they've, they've had a good little, good
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  little talk, talk to him, asked him to explain what he meant.
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  I'm pretty sure I'm very confident that what he says in
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  this video that we're about to see, we, we can all be.
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  He clarified exactly how he feels and exactly what he meant.
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  So what I ask is why, why has our government allowed people
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  like this into our country, into the country of Australia?
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  Why are they allowed? Why are they allowed to stay?
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  Check out this video. A day after the October 7 Hamas
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  attacks, Sheikh Ibrahim Dadoun addressed a large crowd in La
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  Kemba. I'm smiling.
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  And I'm. Happy I'm united.
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  And it was these comments that brought swift condemnation from
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  political leaders. It's a day of courage.
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  You hear what he just said. I'm smiling and I'm happy.
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  I'm elated. So I'm feeling.
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  I'm very confident that we all know how he felt.
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  Just. Sheikh Tadun is a member and
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  former director of the Australian National Imams
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  Council. Appearing at the royal
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  Commission, its president said the comments were inappropriate.
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  We spoke to him. Oh, oh, the comments were
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  inappropriate. He was telling everyone.
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  He's telling this large group of people, hey, he was so happy.
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  He's elated that all these people got butchered.
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  So happy, so smiling. And then what have they said?
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  Oh, your comments were inappropriate.
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  We spoke to him. He's very cooperative.
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  He was very cooperative. He knew that it was a mistake to
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  use that language. I would just say that, yeah,
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  he's saying he knew it was a mistake to use that language out
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  in public because they're all, I'll say it, snakes.
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  They're snakes. He is saying that he shouldn't
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  have said that out in public because he knows he shouldn't
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  have said it out in public. He's revealing, revealed exactly
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  how he felt. He's revealed the truth in how
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  he felt he'd rather and all he's all he's admitting to there is
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  that, yeah, it would have been better if I had just said that
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  in the privacy of, you know, a few of our members.
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  Not for everyone to to record, not for the evidence to be
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  there. Again, I'm very confident that
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  there are people who have gone to court, being charged, going
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  to court for much, much less, for saying much less than what
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  this gentleman said. And the killing of innocent
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  people must not be condoned in any way, in any form, in any
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  shape. The.
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  Commission was told the Australian National Imams
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  Council asked Sheikh d'adun to clarify his position publicly
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  after being counselled about the speech.
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  Clarify. Clarify his position publicly.
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  He clarified it. What he said was exactly what he
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  meant. He's elated, joyful.
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  He was happy all those people got killed, massacred.
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  He loved it. He wished there were more people
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  that were killed. What is there to clarify?
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  He did so in a Facebook post the following day, but Sheikh Al
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  Suleiman conceded it did not include an apology.
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  We don't have authority over what the imams do or say, but we
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  did our best to make sure that imams are written what they say.
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  Yeah, yeah, OK. This council mightn't have
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  authority over what imams say, but you know who does?
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  Because they've made sure they have.
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  They have authority over what we say.
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  The Australian government, they, they monitor everything that
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  everyone else says. Why aren't they?
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  Why isn't this gentleman being charged?
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  Why isn't he sitting in a prison?
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  Why hasn't he been charged? If he wasn't born in Australia,
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  why wasn't he sent back to whatever country he came from?
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  Why is he allowed to talk like this whereas everyone else on
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  the Internet has to monitor everything?
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  Has to, you know, be careful with every word that comes out
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  of their mouths. The senior imam also emphasised
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  ongoing ties with Jewish leaders in the wake of the Bondi Beach
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  terror attack. We stood.
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  Shoulder to shoulder by the Jewish community post Bondi.
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  We visited them, we engaged with them.
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  The Commission is expected to hear from further Muslim leaders
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  next week. So at the heart of all this, the
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  Australian government is quite happy to monitor, monitor the
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  Internet, you know, regulate, regulate free speech.
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  They're quite happy to do it for everyone, apparently, except if
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  you're a Muslim leader, except for if you're an imam.
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  Well, then you can say whatever the heck you want.
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  You can celebrate the massacre of innocent people, innocent
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  lives. You can say whatever you want.
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  You can be there joyful, celebrating in the streets,
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  celebrating the murder of unborn children.
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  That's all good. You can say all of that.
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  But hey, if you say, you know, if you're a Christian and you
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  you say some things out of the Bible, we're going to come down.
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  If you're someone walking around, walking past A and this
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  is not to condone what what's happened, but there have been
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  some people who are intoxicated. They've been walking past the
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  Jewish synagogue. They've gone past their, they've
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  raised their hand doing a silly salute, kind of mocking.
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  OK, it's not a good thing to do, but they've been charged.
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  They've gone before the court, they've paid fines.
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  They've had the prospects of going to prison.
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  You know, they get charged for those kinds of things, for, for
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  being intoxicated, for joking. Now, that's not to condone their
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  actions, but still, it seems it kind of pales in comparison to
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  what this imam was saying. He celebrated, he was elated, he
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  was joyful at the massacre of innocent people, at the
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  slaughter of unborn children, unborn babies ripped out of
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  their mothers. Bellies loved it.
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  This is pathetic, pathetic. The Australian government should
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  be ashamed of themselves. But Elbow won't be.
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  And these kinds of people should not be in our country.
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  Islam, Islam does not, does not, is not compatible with the
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  Australian culture, with the Australian way of life.
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  Islam should stay with Islam. It's all my opinion.
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