An "interest-free" halal housing project aimed at Muslims near Sydney has been unveiled by Qartaba Homes. Qartaba Homes.....hmmmmm - sounds a lot like Qatar doesn't it - you know, that quaint little Muslim country which owns half of England (and LOTS of farmland in Australia) and which
But I digress. Qartaba Homes is touting a 'halal' housing project aimed at....well Muslims. Just what the heck does halal housing mean? Do all the houses have to face Mecca? Do they eat them? Does it have to have a stoning pit; or a hand/foot amputation area; or a flogging courtyard included in the deal? No, apparently it means that there's a dividing line for men and women sections in the houses, so that the women can be hidden when guests arrive. After all, who can resist the sight of a women covered from her feet to the top of her head by a tent! Mohammed forbid! I guess if the houses are halal, then they are also able to lock the women and kids in the
In any case, let's all take a step back and ask ourselves the following: what if Qartaba Homes was offering a housing project aimed at Christians? Or gasp! only Jews? Or how about only Whites? I'm sure that would go down quite a treat with the Muslim community.....and the progressives of course. I'm sure both these groups are quite happy with the Qartaba development - after all, only Whites and Christians are evil (add male to that mix and then you're really talking!), and the poor Muslims are just misunderstood, or something.
Oh, don't get me wrong. Apparently anyone is allowed to buy in the development. I mean, who wouldn't want to live in a halal housing estate among Muslims? Why I'm raiding my bank account as I type so I can get me some of that!......not.
Halal housing - don't laugh as it's coming to a neighbourhood near you soon too!
AN interest-free housing project aimed at the Muslim community and boasting 100 per cent halal housing has sparked a major row, with critics labelling it a discriminatory plan that could lead to a Muslim enclave.
Qartaba Homes' plan offers "100 per cent Halal housing to the growing Muslim community of Australia" in the heart of the northwestern Sydney suburb of Riverstone.
While the company has insisted people from all religious backgrounds are free to take up the offer, it advises that the loans are "100 per cent Halal" and a "chance to escape Riba (interest)" because interest is a sin under Islamic law.
Qartaba Homes director Khurram Jawaid said it was the real estate deal of a lifetime, open to Australians of all faiths and backgrounds, but the state MP for Hawkesbury Ray Williams said the project was divisive.
"I can only imagine the repercussions if a developer were to advertise a new Judeo-Christian housing estate; they would be hung, drawn and quartered," Mr Williams said.
"I hardly think the advertisement for a 100 per cent halal Muslim housing community is inclusive; it's very divisive and I'm sure it will be viewed that way by the majority of fair-minded Australians."Blacktown councillor Alan Pendleton said the community was concerned it could turn into an enclave.
"There's great concern about ... what they consider could be an enclave. (There's a belief) you have to be a Muslim, otherwise they won't sell you a site," Mr Pendleton said.
The proposed development is on land bordered by Riverstone Rd, McCulloch St and Cranbourne St with the company planning to subdivide the land, along with a smaller parcel in Gordon St, Schofields."Our philosophy is interest-free, pay as you own," Mr Jawaid said.
"You don't have to go to a bank or a financial institution.
"It's open to everyone.
"From the business point of view, we can't do it that way (Muslims only)."
While subdivision plans have yet to be presented to Blacktown Council, the company has already "booked out" virtually all of the proposed 150 lots in Riverstone and 30 in Schofields.
Land parcels range from 400sq m to 800sq m and are being offered at $85,000 plus charges, including a booking deposit of 30-35 per cent and a 24-30 month interest-free payment plan.
Blacktown Council is investigating the deal, with the mayor Len Robinson saying there is no application before council for a subdivision, but pre-lodgment plans have been given to council.
The company has bought the land from various owners, but Mr Jawaid said Muslim take-up of the offer was "not that overwhelming".
The aim is for work to be finished by 2014, but go-ahead is needed from Blacktown Council and Sydney Water, which has yet to connect the land to the water network.
A spokesperson for Fair Trading Minister Anthony Roberts said the department had found no grounds for discrimination action against the Qartaba Homes flyer.
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pandering to ass-lifters, the liberal way..
ReplyDeletealso coming to a neighbourhood near you; street name changes, honouring muslame 'freedom fighters"...
Like Beheaded Lane? Or Stoned Road?.....
DeleteJust give it another 10 years or so and the Australia as you know it will be stuffed and bugged up.
ReplyDeleteIt's up to us to keep spreading the word!
DeleteI find your comments childish. You obviously have no knowledge of Muslims and Islam. Obviously your way of living is better. Your women have the freedom to walk around practically naked, (apparently this is called having freedom) so men can treat them as nothong better than sexualised objects. They can sleep with as many men as they wish, until (many men later) they finally find someone who will finally want to marry them, only after many years together. These women are treated with no respect, and have no self respect. Yet you make fun of Muslim women who keep themselves covered so that only their husband can see their body, who's husbands are the only ones they are intimate with. They are respected for their character and their minds, not for how much of their body is on display. If you bothered to find out, you would discover just how cruel it is to lend someone $300,000, then make them work and slave for the next thirty years to pay off much more than the original amount you borrowed. That is why it is considered wrong in Islam to pay interest. How many people struggle in this society to pay their mortgage every month, and have to put their children in childcare and rarely see them? Imagine the holidays and other things you could do with your family if you only had to pay back the three hundred thousand? I'm sure you have been in the same situation. Instead of making fun of a religion and its people when you obviously don't know anything about them, why don't you actually find out what Islam is about? And you obviously don't know any Muslim people either, so who are you to comment?
ReplyDeleteFirstly - I don't care if your women want to cover themselves. STAY IN YOUR OWN COUNTRIES then if our lifestyles offend you. No one asked you to bring your backward religion into OUR countries. If you can't keep your mouths shut then leave and don't come back. Secondly, if you think 'interest free' loans is halal then think again. How do you think these institutions make money by just lending? You are so stupid. They add the interest to the price of the property and then sell it to you 'interest free'. Why? Because it's included int he price you genius. Now FO and don't come back here again. I don't care about you Muslims and your crap cult. You have brought untold misery to millions of people. Don't let the door hit you and your tented women on the way out.
DeleteYou are so sacred. Asking ppl not to comment on your ill thinking about other religions. Muslims living here are abiding with Australian law and are respectful citizen who are working in the community and for the community. Providing people with interest fee is a option for ppl who want to escape rise n fall of interest rate and high fixed interest. You to and your family can benefit from interest free housing. Think about it and hurry as its very populer.
ReplyDeleteThats ok, it is a great idea. Stick them all in one spot so when the Holy war comes to OZ, will be much easier to find our target.
ReplyDeleteYou are just a miserable, old, racist, prejudiced loser who doesn't have a life, so needs to pick on others to make himself feel better. Perhaps you should go back to YOUR country - this land belongs to the Indigenous people, and your lifestyle probably offends them. You must have a really horrible life. Australia is a MULTICULTURAL country - so go back to whatever you and your racist, prejudiced buddies who have also written on here come from. Go check your local GP and hospital - majority of the people doing their best to look after patients and keep them alive are muslim!
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