Odd developments at the Lakemba Mosque tonight: Ambulance rushes to Lakemba Mosque. (Hat tip: Paul.)

An ambulance has been called to the Lakemba Mosque in Sydney’s south-west.

The ambulance service says someone has collapsed inside the mosque.

The incident happened at the same time a meeting between controversial Sydney Muslim cleric Sheikh Taj El-Din Al Hilaly and the president of the Lebanese Muslim Association, Tom Zreika, was meant to take place to discuss the Sheikh’s future.

The ambulance officers have entered the Sheik’s office, but it is not known if the Sheik himself has collapsed.

UPDATE at 10/30/06 7:17:24 am:

The poor persecuted Islamofascist Sheikh is under so much stress from the dastardly kuffar and their unreasonable insistence on women’s rights that he collapsed: Hilaly seeks indefinite leave from duties.

Sheikh Taj el Din Al Hilaly has asked for indefinite leave from his duties at Sydney’s Lakemba mosque, after being taken to hospital earlier today.

In a statement released this evening, Sheikh Al Hilaly says in due course he will take the necessary decision to lift the pressures that have been placed on the Muslim community and which will benefit all Australians.

He is now under observation in hospital and is listed as being in a stable condition.

The sheikh has been embroiled in controversy after making disparaging comments about women.