"uncovered meat"

From the Times, the top Muslim cleric in Australia "said sexual assaults might not happen if women wore a hijab and stayed at home":

“If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it,” he said, according to the translation, “whose fault is it, the cats or the uncovered meat? The uncovered meat is the problem.”

There are just so many problems with this analogy. For instance, women in Western street clothes are not the first thing that comes to mind when I think "uncovered meat."

Secondly, men are now cats in this analogy? Like, Michelle Pfeiffer in the second Batman movie?

Thirdly, the problem with uncovered meat is not necessarily so much its enticingness as its propensity to spoil. Does a hijab serve a Saran-Wrap-like function, preventing spoilage? If so, Upper East Side women would probably start wearing it every day, to prevent aging. Hrm, isn't it funny that the few people who would actually gain some health benefits from shrouding themselves entirely in fabric -- that is, very pale people living in very sunny regions* -- are rarely the people who do?

* Fun reminder of our own mortality: white people in Hawaii are the most likely of any people on Earth to get skin cancer.