Posted on 07/31/2017 11:08:10 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
What Happens When an Imam Calls for Killing Jews How the Left covered up Muslim anti-Semitism in California. July 31, 2017 Daniel Greenfield
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On Friday July 21st, Imam Ammar Shahin delivered a sermon at the Islamic Center of Davis calling for the extermination of the Jews. He quoted an infamous Islamic Hadith which claims that Judgement Day wont come around until the Muslims hunt down and exterminate the Jews.
Oh Allah, liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the filth of the Jews, he prayed. Annihilate them down to the very last one, he added.
Next Friday, after the video went viral, the Imam appeared at a press conference to apologize to the filthy Jews. I said things that were hurtful to Jews.
The whole thing was sanctified by Rabbi Seth Castleman, a former Buddhist monk married to the Rev. Elizabeth Griswold, the pastor of Parkside Community Church. Castleman leads Buddhist meditation sessions at his current house of worship. When bacon was dumped on the Islamic Center, Castleman appeared and declared that, Attacks such as this one are a strike against all of us.
"Look, the Old and New Testaments have horrible things in them, Castleman had opined in response to the imams anti-Semitic rant. You can always find horrible things.
The Islamic Center of Davis had tried to claim that the Imams rant had been taken out of context. If the sermon was misconstrued, we sincerely apologize to anyone offended, it offered.
"It's unfair when I have spoken about nonviolence, and here is some two minutes. My record is very clear, I have always been against violence," Imam Shahin told the Washington Post.
At the press conference, he conceded that his words might have encouraged violent acts. The farce finally came to an end with a halting apology delivered from a written statement in broken English.
Then he committed to fighting for social justice and against hate speech and violence.
Imam Shahins apology was preceded by an address from a senior minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church who denounced the language that we hear coming from the highest office in our country.
When an Imam spews hate at Jews, the left will go right back to attacking President Trump.
The diverse clergy and community leaders at the event were more than happy to give Shahin a pass. And Shahin blamed the whole thing on his emotions. It went without saying that a Christian leader calling for Muslim genocide would not have been allowed to use his overwrought feelings as an excuse.
While the media had rushed to cover the Islamic Center of Davis bacon scandal, the same outlets had far less interest in the Centers anti-Semitism problem. At first the story could only be found in Jewish and conservative outlets. When the media was finally forced to cover the viral video, it made excuses.
MEMRI, the monitoring organization that found, translated and uploaded the video, was smeared. Since Shahins remarks had been translated, challenging the translation was the easiest way to shoot the messenger. The Islamic Center accused MEMRI of having mistranslated destroy as annihilate.
And it attacked MEMRI for not having featured the countless lectures and sermons he has given regarding treating all people, especially non-Muslims, with kindness.
Why indeed didnt MEMRI highlight all the lectures in which he didnt call for genocide?
The Muslim Public Affairs Council put out a statement complaining that, Groups like MEMRI exacerbate political divisions on the Middle East conflict rather than aim to reconcile differences. And who better to bring us together than MPAC whose boss had accused Israel of being behind the 9/11 attacks.
Salam al-Marayati had also defended Hamas and Hezbollah. Despite that, or perhaps because of it, the JTA built its story around the MPAC press release without bothering to quote anyone from MEMRI.
The Washington Post tried bringing in its own translator, who accused MEMRI of Islamophobia, and tried to claim that the Imam had only been referring to those Jews involved in the fighting in Jerusalem. Whether this was limited to the Israeli authorities or the millions of Jews in Israel was left open to interpretation. There have been plenty of Islamist fatwas authorizing the extermination of Israeli Jews.
Sheikh Rashid Ghannouchi, of Tunisias Islamist Ennahda, had stated, There are no civilians in Israel. The populationmales, females and childrenare the army reserve soldiers, and thus can be killed.
Ghannouchi had been hosted by MPAC. The Islamist group had called him, One of the most important figures in modern Islamic political thought and theory.
The Washington Post had run an interview with Ghannouchi and stories and editorials in the paper had repeatedly praised him and his movement. One article describes him as visionary.
Genocide is visionary indeed.
All the quibbling over the exact translation misses the point. The real horror of Shahins rant wasnt his reference to the filth of the Jews. It was the Hadith of the rock and the tree.
The genocidal Hadith is widely quoted by Muslim preachers. Hamas invoked it in its covenant. There was nothing unusual about Shahins rant.
Thats the horrifying part.
The hour will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them. A Jew will hide behind a rock or a tree, and the rock or tree will call upon the Muslim: O Muslim, O slave of Allah! There is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!
Thats the Hadith that Shahin referenced.
"Judgment Day will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Jews hide behind stones and trees, and the stones and the trees say: Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, he quotes.
But then he begins offering his own elaboration on what Muslims should do about it.
To Shahin, the genocidal text represents a call for Muslim unity that transcends national differences. "They will not say: Oh Egyptian, oh Palestinian, oh Jordanian, oh Syrian, oh Afghan, oh Pakistani."
Nor does the massacre have to be limited to Israel. The Last Hour will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews. We don't say if it is in Palestine or another place, he conjectures.
So much for the Washington Posts attempt at limiting the scope of his genocide to Israel.
There was nothing new about Shahins message. Its a call for Muslims to unify and kill the Jews.
Let us play a part in this. Oh Allah, let us support them in words and in deeds, Shahin prays.
What does he mean by deeds?
The last thing I would do is intentionally hurt anyone, Shahin insisted in his apology. His denunciations of violence however ring rather hollow. Not when he quoted a genocidal Hadith which calls for hunting down and killing the Jews. And not necessarily just in Israel, but potentially everywhere.
Some time ago, David Horowitz called on Islamic organizations to repudiate the Hadith in the Declaration Against Genocide. Not a single Muslim group, including MPAC, agreed to do it.
73% of Muslims in 67 Israel agree with it.
Thats what is at stake in Jerusalem and in Davis and everywhere else. It comes down to genocide.
The left is eager to talk about anti-Semitism on the right, but unwilling to discuss it on the left. Muslims are supposed to be part of one great coalition. Its a coalition in which Seth Castleman signs on for Muslim migrants and Islamic groups show up for interfaith events. And then Imam Shahin spoiled it.
The apology lets everyone on the left go back to pretending that there isnt a problem. But there is a problem. And its not going anywhere. Its only getting worse.
The left has whitewashed and justified Muslim attacks on Jewish synagogues. It justifies and defends violence against Jews. Shahins murderous sermon was inconvenient, but quickly swept under the rug.
After all the spin and excuses, Imam Shahin never disavowed the genocidal Hadith. Instead he apologized for the hurt feelings. The mosque apologized to anyone who was offended.
But the feelings arent the point. The killing is.
Long before the State of Israel was reborn, the Six Day War or the latest terrorist tantrum, an ancient Islamic text ordered Muslims to wipe out the Jews to bring on Judgement Day.
Muslim anti-Semitic violence is not a momentary reaction to metal detectors. Just as Imam Shahins sermon was not an emotional slip. Its the violent bigotry of over a thousand years.
Its in Davis. And its in America. And it must be addressed.
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I believe it would be absolutely justified for any Jew to feel a direct threat from such outrageous, inflammatory comments, and eliminate these so-called “imams.”
Nothing happens. They do it all the time
Islam is evil
There is no moderate version of evil
Islam has been carrying out the mission of every muslim since 622 A.D.
Submit or Die
Sooner or later, this Imam will be at target.
Sooner would be better.
The truth about Islam will not be tolerated.
The Ministry of Propaganda will see to it.
O Muslim, O slave of Allah!
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EVERYONE MUST BE A SLAVE OF ALLAH!
SUBMIT OR DIE!
Generally I would say, No. Just because they were recorded in the old/new Testaments does not mean that they were condoned. The Hebrews of antiquity were directed by the Lord to rid the world of certain evil practitioners, namely the Philistines, worshipers of Molech, and those who built Ashera Poles. Those folk practiced human sacrifice. The New Testament has nothing even remotely close to that and Jesus even admonishes his followers to pray for their enemies. Islam, on the other hand, orders their faithful to murder.
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem spent WWII with Hitler in Berlin.
What else does anyone have to know!
Muslims pray to the devil. Satan wants the “filthy Jews” exterminated, according to the Bible. God does not.
Jesus even admonishes his followers to pray for their enemies
Even animal sacrafices disgusted our Lord.
Happening elsewhere in California
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-riverside-imam-20170730-story.html
Depended upon the motivation for the sacrifice. God required blood to atone for sin. Since human sacrifice was out, animals were the analog. Jesus hated rituals for the sake of rituals. He demanded obedience more than sacrifice.
See the problem is: that if the muzloids were to kill every last jew....they would start in on the next in line, kill the Christians, or Buddhists, or other muzloids who aren’t sufficiently muzloid enough.
The point is that there is no satiating this sort of blood-lust, it is self perpetuating until there is nobody left.
“n Friday July 21st, Imam Ammar Shahin delivered a sermon at the Islamic Center of Davis calling for the extermination of the Jews. He quoted an infamous Islamic Hadith which claims that Judgement Day wont come around until the Muslims hunt down and exterminate the Jews.”
Go away, moron, you’re not even good entertainment.
And it attacked MEMRI for not having featured the countless lectures and sermons he has given regarding treating all people, especially non-Muslims, with kindness.
Why indeed didnt MEMRI highlight all the lectures in which he didnt call for genocide?
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So funny. But not a funny subject.
Depended upon the motivation for the sacrifice. God required blood to atone for sin. Since human sacrifice was out, animals were the analog. Jesus hated rituals for the sake of rituals. He demanded obedience more than sacrifice.
All misunderstandings like this will be corrected for you in heaven.
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