From MEMRI:
In response to criticism about funds he contributed to Hizbullah, Sheikh Taj al-Hilali, the controversial mufti of Australia and New Zealand, said [in the Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, London, April 24] that the amount he had carried with him to Lebanon did not exceed $50,000. This sum, he said, would not buy “a quarter of a missile owned by Hizbullah.”
Quips Charles at LGF (who, like many of us, is agog at the recent candor of many Islamic clerics):
Interesting that a religious leader seems to know the price of a Hizballah missile.
—Which, while pointed, is not really fair, given that there are likely a number of rabbis in New York City who, if pressed, could— in addition to giving you the going market value for a pound of whitefish— quote you the exact price of a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder with cheese, or a bacon-slathered Quizno’s turkey club…
The hypocrisy. It’s everywhere!
Pressing. That’s like waterboarding, right?
Personally , I’m agog at the deliciousness of anything bacon-slathered .
What is it exactly that Hilali gets for his $50K? Just wondering – I don’t mean to imply there’s anything not kosher going on – just seems like an odd place to want to win friends. For an Australian.
Okay, Bill, but you realize you’re not eligible to be gobsmacked, right?
I WILL NOT BE DENIED MY RIGHT TO BE GOBSMACKED …..I’m pretty sure it’s in there , somewhere around a right to own arms … and consume transfats … and …
This is too rich not to self-pimp, if I do say so myself: When Christianists Attack.
Just to confuse our lefty friends–
That would buy 125 9mm handguns.
Just sayin’….
Thanks for linking that Mike Daisey thing. I’m not really on the same page as you but that was interesting and the Paris Hilton thing was funny. It’s a big break for him.
It was interesting that it took a pretty long way into the video to decide it wasn’t a Spalding Gray parody.
For $50K Hilali could have had whoa bout 4549 pounds of that there whitefish. You can make a lot of friends with 4549 pounds of whitefish.
You telling me those crap unguided rockets cost $200K EACH?
HOW MANY BANNED HIGH-CAPACITY “CLIPS” THAT BOOOO$H ALLOWED CHO TO BUY SO HE COULD MURDEFR INNOCENT PEOPLE IS THAT!!!1!1!?
Please tell me he actually admitted to giving the money to Hezbollah – is there a transcript of the newspaper report with that admission – because the excerpt at MEMRI blog does not imply that. And such an admission would really help to put him away.
Only if they get them from the French. Crazy Ivan’s Missle Discount Barn is definitely the place to shop for a deal on ordnance.
For whitefish? Not so good.
TW: No longer red17—they’re all capitalists now.
Whitefish????
PISCESIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yea! YEA! MCCHIMPY HITLER DOESN’T LIKE PREDOMINATELY WHITE COLLEGE STUDENTS AND PROFESSORS. HE’S PERFORMED HIS OWN ETHNIC CLEANSING AND … AND … and … um …
never mind …
$50,000 for a quarter of a rocket?! I know people back in NE Afghanistan that could get you hundreds of mostly working 107mm rockets for that much…
Think comparison shopping.
Major John:
or…
Maybe a baker’s dozen sale
“Buy twelve RPG’s with 20 rounds each and get a Zionist hating unguided rocket FREE! FREE! FREE!”
Agog is the right word. Either this guy is too stupid to realise the impact of his phrasing or too fanatical to care.
I choose option B.
The Joooos can get it for you wholesale, ‘coz you’re like the son of my body to me!
Zionist hating rockets are guided by screeching Allah Akbar repetitively.
The clerics seem to be finding that Allah is a lot more willing when laser technology is used.
BJ,
RPGs? Heck, they throw those in for nothing! I remember finding a nice, shiny new RPG round beside a road. I called EOD and when they came out, they basically said – “meh, another one…put it in with the pile for the ANA…”
Maybe DSHK rounds instead? I’ll call marketing.
In a different light, 4549 white fish x 8 = 36392 Sure, any dude can go to Gaza and barter a fish taco for oral sex with a younger darker version of a.. Rosie O’Donnell-ish businesswoman wearing a bag-like head-to-toe party dress.
But can 36,392 fish tacos buy true Love?
I’ll bet the most hardened among us would readily admit that 36-thousand bartered white-fish taco for fellatio sessions can’t compare to the once-a-month humping that accompanies legal matrimony and true Love.
But can 36,392 fish tacos buy true Love?
I reckon you could rent it for a goodly while. In the same sense that one only rents cognac.