For a Muslim cleric to declare all Jews to be “apes and pigs” is not news at all. This has been their sincere belief for CENTURIES, drilled into the youth almost from birth, and an article of faith.
Too bad, really, because Islam probably needs the Jewish people to act as referees in the ongoing battle between Sunni and Shi’ite. But of course, this is no mere soccer game.
Islam has deliberately blinded itself to the greater revelations that exist in the Torah, and the Old and New Testaments as applied by Christians, by refusing any hint of these Scriptures from being made known to the vast majority of those who have been designated “Muslims”. Even most of the clerics of Islam are forbidden access to these writings, because it may contaminate the “pure” ideology that is the inspiration and core of Islam.
Exposed to these outside influences, most Muslims would convert from their professed religion, except for one thing - the sin of apostasy is punishable by death, and this is one of the more rigorously enforced tenets of Islam.
Once ensnared, you cannot get out of the game.
Too bad, really, because Islam probably needs the Jewish people to act as referees in the ongoing battle between Sunni and Shi’ite. But of course, this is no mere soccer game.
Oh, the hell with them. Maybe they’ll kill each other off.
This cleric has a gift for either irony or projection. Or maybe it’s both.