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In 2006, the now-deceased Muslim cleric Sheik Taj Aldin al-Hilali caused outrage when he gave a sermon comparing women who do not wear a headscarf to “uncovered meat” who invited sexual assault.

“If you take uncovered meat and place it outside … without cover, and the cats come and eat it … whose fault is it, the cats’ or the uncovered meat’s?” he lectured a group of about 500 worshippers at a Ramadan sermon.

“The uncovered meat is the problem. If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would…

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