Yes, I know: Muslims are nice cuddly people like the rest of us, the majority of them certainly. The problem is that at this moment in history you have to take the proposition on faith. No, not any particular faith, just faith. A few days ago, I posted "Exposed Meat" on The Spine reporting on the comments of Sheik Taj Aldin al-Hilali, the Mufti of Australia (kind of like the cardinal-archbishop or the chief rabbi) about unveiled women. OK, they are "exposed meat," exactly. He also declared that Muslims are more entitled to Australia than Anglo-Saxons who came to the continent in chains. So he's a nut case. But he is also the Mufti. As I go to bed this morning, I read the early Times online. And there is another article, an AP dispatch, about another sheik: "Radical Cleric Sparks Fury in Australia." This radical cleric is not an Episcopalian. No, not Sheik al-Hilali but another sheik, this time Sheik Feiz Mohammed, the director of the Global Islamic Youth Center. Mohammed has a double message. The first is that Jews are pigs and will go to hell. In the second, he preaches that Muslim children should be prepared to die as martyrs, they should be prepared for dying as martyrs. As Jihadniks. A storm is now gathering in Australia. Even from the Labor government. But the Muslim community seems curiously to be hiding. On the other hand, it is likely to be upset at one consequence of the malign statements from its leaders. Keysar Trad, the president of the Islamic Friendship Association, observed laconically that such statements were not likely to be helpful to Australian Muslims.