A leading Muslim businessman says he was just being a ‘larrikin’ when he said the white race would become extinct within 40 years because Australian men are too busy smoking, drinking beer and taking drugs to procreate.
Halal certification boss Mohamed Elmouelhy said he was embracing the ‘Australian larrikin way’ when he told his Facebook followers Australian women needed Muslim men to ‘fertilise them’ and ‘keep them surrounded by Muslim babies’.
‘I’m an Australian, Australian’s are known for being a larrikin,’ Mr Elmouelhy told 2GB’s Chris Smith on Friday, defending his vile comments as ‘tongue in cheek’.
Mr Elmouelhy said his Facebook post instructing Australian women to be ‘fertilised’ by Muslim men instead of ‘beer swilling, cigarette smoking, drug injecting’ Australian men was all tongue in cheek ‘from beginning to end’.
The Halal Certification Authority president told 2GB his post was only aimed at ‘Australian bigots’, not all Australians.
‘I’m only calling certain Australians bigots ... it didn’t say all Australian bigots, it says Australian bigots,’ he said.
‘I am writing to specific people who are bigots ... the thousands of people who assault me on a daily basis, insult my religion, insult Muslims, derogatory things are said every day.’
Mr Elmouelhy published his Facebook post after Hebrew University in Jerusalem released research findings showing sperm counts in men from Australia, New Zealand, North America and Europe had declined by more than 50 per cent in less than 40 years.
‘Your men are a dying breed, Australian women need us to fertilise them and keep them surrounded by Muslim babies while beer swilling, cigarette smoking, drug injecting can only dream of what Muslim men are capable of,’ he said.
‘Muslims have a duty to make your women happy.’
Mr Elmouelhy said Australia’s white race ‘will be extinct in another 40 years’ if the country is ‘left to bigots’.
The Muslim businessman called on these ‘bigots’ to kill themselves or plan to die.
‘Because you are declining, better go choose a plot for yourself at your local cemetery,’ he said.
‘If you can’t afford it, commit suicide. It is a cheaper alternative for bigots.’
The Hebrew University-Hadassah Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine in Jerusalem found male fertility had sharply declined by more than 50 per cent in less than 40 years in Western nations, including Australia.
The analysis did not explore reasons for the decline in sperm counts, but researchers have previously cited links to certain chemicals and pesticides, smoking, stress and obesity.
This suggests measures of sperm quality may reflect the effects of modern living on male health and act as a ‘canary in the coal mine’ signalling broader health risks.
‘This study is an urgent wake-up call for researchers and health authorities around the world to investigate the causes of the sharp ongoing drop in sperm count,’ said Hagai Levine, who co-led the research.
Mr Elmouelhy’s latest post comes just days after he predicted more non-Muslims in Australia would be eating more halal food than ever.
The 2016 Census revealed that Muslims made up 2.6 per cent of the Australian population, up from 2.2 per cent in 2011.
Australia’s Muslim population soared to more than 604,000 people, overtaking Buddhism as the most popular non-Christian religion, and marking a significant jump from 341,000 a decade earlier.