I'm rolling on the floor laughing after reading this
even Wolly's muslim mates don't like him
Hizb ut-Tahrir slams Waleed Aly’s Gold Logie win
Hizb ut-Tahrir spokesman Wassim Doureihi took to Facebook following Waleed Aly’s Logies win asserting Muslims should not be happy with the award. Picture: Jason Edwards
Extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir has launched an extraordinary attack on Waleed Aly’s Gold Logie win, claiming the media personality risked no longer “finding an adequate home in Islam”.
In criticism he admits would be “contentious”, Hizb ut-Tahrir spokesman Wassim Doureihi took to Facebook following Aly’s Logies win asserting Muslims should not be happy with the award. On his personal page, under the heading “Waleed Aly and the manufactured Muslim industry”, Mr Doureihi said he had “nothing personal against”
The Project host and ABC presenter but argued “Waleed Aly’s Gold Logie, rather than being a cause for celebration, is a cause for commiseration”.
“To Waleed, for being a victim of the government’s self-serving identity politics, and for the Muslim community, in failing people like Waleed by making secular politics look more appealing than Islamic politics.”
Mr Doureihi, who sparked nationwide outrage and proposals to ban Hizb ut-Tahrir by repeatedly refusing to condemn Islamic State during a 2014 interview, did not respond to requests for comment yesterday.
Aly also could not be reached for comment on the matter, but he recently told
The Weekend Australian Magazine that he focused on his work, not on being a public face for the Islamic community.
“I never wake up and go into work thinking how can I be Muslim about this or how can I be non-aligned about this,” he said.
In his 2007 book
People Like Us, Aly had used a 2005 ABC interview with Mr Doureihi to criticise how some Muslim spokespeople would rather “err on the side of aggression and pride than be apologetic” — which he described as “humiliated arrogance”.
On Facebook, Mr Doureihi wrote that Aly represented a notion of a “good Muslim”, having secular, democratic views rather than an aim to establish an Islamic caliphate.
“Soon enough these personalities start to look down upon the very people they originally sought to assist,” he wrote. “Faced with a choice of engaging a fractured and sometimes unforgiving (Muslim) community, or engaging government and civil society who ostensibly value your input and reward you manifestly, the choice soon becomes too difficult to ignore.”
