Welcome to the 12th Century

If I said something like this to my wife, I would never be heard from again.

SYDNEY, Australia - A senior Muslim cleric compared women who go without a head scarf to "uncovered meat" left out for scavengers, drawing widespread condemnation and calls Thursday for his resignation.

Sheik Taj Aldin al Hilali denied he was condoning rape when he made the comments in a sermon last month, and apologized to any women he had offended, saying they were free to dress as they wished.

Hilali was quoted in The Australian newspaper Thursday as saying in the sermon: "If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside ... without cover, and the cats come to eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats' or the uncovered meat's?"

Wow.

Basically, this guy is saying all men are latent rapists. If a woman gets raped, well, it is her fault for being too damn sexy. Sorry ladies, you have to wear a sheet so that guys will not be tempted. Not to mention that he straight up equated women to meat. That comment alone makes him the lead contender for the 2006 Caveman of the Year Award.

That said, I would pay serious money to see Hilali try this argument out at a NOW rally. The ensuing riot would be a hoot to watch.