Quote Originally Posted by Navaros
What he says is true that women who do not dress respectably, are encouraging themselves to be sexually assaulted. I'm not saying that it should happen, but it definitely will happen a lot of the time due to the temptation the women cause in psychopaths' minds by dressing like prostitutes. Of course it should never happen and no one deserves that. Although, that they didn't deserve it won't make things much better after the fact. If they didn't dress like prostitutes in the first place, perhaps in many cases they might have been able to entirely avoid the horrible situation. Hence putting aside offense at the Muslim's comments, and women learning to dress more respectably because of them instead of getting caught up in being offended, then the world would be a much better place with less sexual assault.
It's true that some women could have avoided being raped, had they worn clothes that don't reveal any skin.
It's also true that these women could certainly have avoided being raped by staying in their appartment the rest of their lives (he actually makes this point!)

Of course women put themselves at risk if they take a lonely walk, half naked through crime infested neighbourhouds. But if women can't walk without the Hijaab in daily hours without risking their safety, something is wrong.

Not to speak in his defense or to be muslim bashing, BUT, isn't this view pretty much law in several Islamic countries ? (Iran, Pakistan,...) I do think this line of thought is horribly wrong, but this isn't just the problem of one lunatic, there are a whole lot of people trapped in the same 'paradigm'. Not that it's (all) Islam that's to blame, this line of thought was (is?) pretty common in the western world too...
The Australian mufti was immediately rebuked by a ton of muslims. I don't think there are that many muslims who follow his line of reasoning, but having such a person in a position of leadership is asking for trouble. I say sack him.