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Muslim cleric: “Jihad against the Jews, fighting them” is “mandatory”

Nov 5, 2015 2:57 pm By Robert Spencer

“The brothers of apes and pigs….” That’s from the Qur’an, as is the claim that the Jews murdered the prophets.

“And when We took your covenant, and We raised over you the mount, ‘Take what We have given you with determination and remember what is in it that perhaps you may become righteous.’ Then you turned away after that. And if not for the favor of Allah upon you and His mercy, you would have been among the losers. And you had already known about those who transgressed among you concerning the sabbath, and We said to them, ‘Be apes, despised.’ And We made it a deterrent punishment for those who were present and those who succeeded [them] and a lesson for those who fear Allah.” (Qur’an 2:63-66)

“Say, ‘O People of the Scripture, do you resent us except that we have believed in Allah and what was revealed to us and what was revealed before and because most of you are defiantly disobedient?’ Say, ‘Shall I inform you of worse than that as penalty from Allah? Those whom Allah has cursed and with whom He became angry and made of them apes and pigs and slaves of Taghut. Those are worse in position and further astray from the sound way.” (Qur’an 5:59-60)

“So when they were insolent about that which they had been forbidden, We said to them, “Be apes, despised.” (Qur’an 7:166)

“Jordanian Cleric Who Banned Killing Jews Sets Record Straight: Jihad against Brothers of Apes and Pigs a Duty,” MEMRI, November 3, 2015:

In a video from February that has been circulating on social media platforms in recent days (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77bqzT5n5Vs), Jordanian cleric Ali Hassan Al-Halabi said that killing Jews is not permissible, adding that the Jews “don’t attack you if you don’t attack them.” On November 3, Sheikh Al-Halabi posted two lengthy videos in which he rebutted criticism by political rivals, especially from the Muslim Brotherhood. In the new videos, Sheikh Al-Halabi referred to Jews as “the brothers of apes and pigs” and said that Jihad against them is a duty, but that the Muslims are not up for the task right now, and must prepare first.

Following are excerpts:

Caller: “Dear Sheikh, a few days ago I read on the Internet that you had issued a fatwa, about which there has been a lot of confusion.”

Al-Halabi: “Yes.”

Caller: “Could you please clarify your fatwa? My question is: When was the Israeli soldier ever not ready [for war]?”

Al-Halabi: “Right. Thank you. Thank you very much… Dear brothers, the Jews are occupiers and plunderers. They are people [prone to] betrayal, fraud, cunning, and deceit. They are the slayers of the prophets and the messengers.

[…]

“The conflict with the Jews cannot be won just by those defenseless [Palestinians]. No matter how hard they try, they will not succeed.

[…]

“We hope that our brothers and folk in the West Bank will have the ability and strength to uproot that treacherous enemy. The Jihad against the Jews is a mandatory Jihad, incumbent upon any Muslim country, as upon any Muslim who accepts Allah as the Lord and Islam as his religion. But it cannot be done through such an emotional thrust, and with such excitement that only serves to harm us. How can we think that this leads us to victory? The nation must prepare and unite in order to uproot this enemy.

[…]

“By Allah, if your brother, the son of your mother and father, were to attack you in your own home, and you have no way to fend him off other than killing him, then we say that he was the aggressor and you were the defender – all the more so when the aggressor is an evil Jew, from among the brothers of apes and pigs.

“But what we should really do is save our strength, and protect our unity, our religion, our men and our youth for the right moment that is bound to come.

[…]

“A few days ago, a fatwa that I issued in a meeting began spreading like wildfire. That was two days ago, although the aforementioned meeting took place almost a year ago.

[…]

“Unfortunately, tens of thousands of Palestinians work with the Jews, and accept money from the Jews. They need the Jews. Sadly, this is the reality of an occupied people. I am not saying this, as some people mistakenly understood it, as praise for the Jews, who deserve nothing but more and more curses. I am talking about the reality. What will be the outcome of such an asymmetric war, if not, sadly, total defeat?

“Yes, we are happy when the Jews are humiliated and defeated, when they fall, but there is a way of doing things. In the words of the poet, a boat cannot sail on dry land.

[…]

“By God, a Muslim’s fingernail is worth more to us than the heads of a thousand Jews.

[…]

“Jihad against the Jews, fighting them, and liberating the land from them is a binding and mandatory duty, incumbent upon the Islamic countries and upon the Muslim individuals, but it depends on capabilities, because everybody knows that America has Israel’s back. Are today’s fragmented Muslims up for the task? Let’s be honest. Let’s not fool ourselves.”

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  1. Angemon says

    Nov 5, 2015 at 3:25 pm

    n a video from February that has been circulating on social media platforms in recent days (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77bqzT5n5Vs), Jordanian cleric Ali Hassan Al-Halabi said that killing Jews is not permissible, adding that the Jews “don’t attack you if you don’t attack them.” On November 3, Sheikh Al-Halabi posted two lengthy videos in which he rebutted criticism by political rivals, especially from the Muslim Brotherhood. In the new videos, Sheikh Al-Halabi referred to Jews as “the brothers of apes and pigs” and said that Jihad against them is a duty, but that the Muslims are not up for the task right now, and must prepare first.

    Poor bastard, can’t even pretend to be “moderate” without risking his neck…

  2. jayell says

    Nov 5, 2015 at 4:26 pm

    “…..the Jews are occupiers and plunderers. They are people [prone to] betrayal, fraud, cunning, and deceit….”

    This coming from a MUSLIM???? Surely a case of ‘the pot calling the refrigerator black’!!! Quite unbelievable! Such outrageous impudence as I have ever heard in my entire life!

  3. mortimer says

    Nov 5, 2015 at 5:50 pm

    Morons. Cleric Ali Hassan Al-Halabi (and his followers) conveniently forget or never knew that Koran ‘assigns’ Israel to the ‘children of Israel’.

  4. Jas says

    Nov 5, 2015 at 5:56 pm

    It must also be mandatory for civilized people in free, democratic countries to fight and oppose the ignorant, barbaric murder cult of islam in any way possible to assure its complete destruction. If that requires killing of muslims, so be it. Jews and Christians are not going to wait around to be murdered by muslims, we are going to counter attack, so get used to it!

  5. Godwin says

    Nov 6, 2015 at 1:01 am

    Yes, for a start it is the Jews, then the Christians n finally all the infidels. This bloody fool never realizes that how weak are his followers having to fight with primitive weapons. Why doesn’t he set an example, n do jihad himself. All he can do is to talk rots.

  6. Baucent says

    Nov 6, 2015 at 2:04 am

    “Unfortunately, tens of thousands of Palestinians work with the Jews, and accept money from the Jews. They need the Jews. Sadly, this is the reality of an occupied people”.

    The “sad” reality is without Israel these thousands of Arabs would be unemployed like their brothers in Gaza and Jordan.

  7. Linde Barrera says

    Nov 6, 2015 at 12:49 pm

    Sheikh Al-Halabi must be superb at Taquiyya because he reversed himself in less than 9 months. And it is so hypocritical how he says in effect, if it were not for the Jewish bosses who employ our poor Palestinian brothers, then our poor Palestinian brothers wouldn’t be able to eat. So he is offended by Jews, offended by Israel, offended by the Israeli flag, by he is not offended by the benefits that Jews offer to Palestinians? This guy is a piece of garbage and a pile of crap. I hope the Holy Spirit converts him to Christ.

  8. JAS says

    Nov 6, 2015 at 5:35 pm

    What hoot! The Religion of Murder… calling the Israelis “bad” for employing and paying their enemies so that they may eat! I suggest the Israelis fire all muslim workers and let them damn well starve so they have some meaningful basis for comparison… ‘let ’em eat korans and sharia law’! the Pallies remind me of American blacks, cursing the system that feeds them. Just as many blacks in US cities whine and hate as they cash their welfare checks, the pallies are doing the same thing. Without Israel, they would die!

  9. jimmy says

    Nov 6, 2015 at 5:50 pm

    Without Israeli largesse, the palestinians would face the same choice the Israelis faced in 1947… build your own nation, a decent nation… or starve. I think we can guess what the pals would do… the same thing they did when Israel gave them Gaza… trash the whole place, the infrastructure, the industries and businesses and then devote themselves entirely to murdering their benefactors! My Gawd, what barbaric, self-destructive cretins. And we are supposed to feel sorry for them??? What for?

  10. Mathew Solo says

    Nov 6, 2015 at 10:07 pm

    Arabs who desire to control the Temple Mount in Jerusalem often deny that Israelite presence there predates Muslim presence that first appears about 700 AD. Yet, recent archaeological evidence counters the Arab claim. “A 10-year-old Russian boy… recently made an extraordinary discovery in Jerusalem. Working as a volunteer in the Temple Mount Sifting Project, he found a 3,000-year-old seal—engraved limestone about the size of a thimble, with a hole at one end so it could be hung from a string—from the time of King David [about 1000 BC]. The artifact was nestled in the hundreds of tons of earth and rock that had been illegally excavated from below the Temple Mount in the late 1990s by the Muslim Waqf… the seal confirms the ancient Jewish presence in Jerusalem—more than a millennium before the Muslim Dome of the Rock was built…” (Wall Street Journal, October 25, 2015).

  11. Mathew Solo says

    Nov 6, 2015 at 10:11 pm

    These people who call themselves Palestinian Arabs …they are mostly Amalekites a nomadic people who are commonly considered to be Amalek’s descendants…

    Though the definite origins of the word “Palestine” have been debated for years and are still not known for sure, the name is believed to be derived from the Egyptian and Hebrew word peleshet. Roughly translated to mean “rolling” or “migratory,” the term was used to describe the inhabitants of the land to the northeast of Egypt – the Philistines. The Philistines were an Aegean people – more closely related to the Greeks and with No Connection Ethnically, Linguistically or Historically with Arabia – Arabia who conquered in the 12th Century BCE the Mediterranean coastal plain that is now Israel and Gaza.

    A derivitave of the name “Palestine” first appears in Greek literature in the 5th Century BCE when the historian Herodotus called the area “Palaistinē” In the 2nd century CE, the Romans crushed the Jewish revolt against Roman rule (132 CE), during which Jerusalem and Judea were regained by the Romans and the area of Judea was renamed Palaestina in an attempt by Rome to minimize Jewish identification with the land of Israel.

    In Arabic, the corresponding term for the Amalek is Imlīq, whose descendants Al-′Amālīq were early residents of the Haram at Mecca, later supplanted by the Banu Jurhum, and formed one of the first tribes of ancient Arabia to speak Arabic.

    While considerable knowledge about nomadic Arabs have been recovered through archeological research, no specific artifacts or sites have been linked to Amalek with any certainty

    The PLO seems to be the ones to have made the name Palistinian stick on These… People which are mainly in Jordan and in Israel…there are very many of those among them who will Never Accept Being Good Settled Citizens Anywhere …It seems to be the Amalekite Way…and just like all the humans on this planet…they will see themselves right and the others wrong…The Nation of Israel has not taken anything from These People…Israel instead Wants Things These people Don’t Want National Organized Law and Rule by a Democratic People…National Boundaries and the Willingness to keep them…To Prosper Through Hard Work Which Allows Anyone Participating in It to Grow and move on with Their Own Lives…and last but not least Israel just will not be Amalekite…how dare them… Jews!

  12. Jimmy says

    Nov 10, 2015 at 3:50 pm

    Time to face the obvious truth about “palestinians”…. they are ignorant, backward, barbaric savages who are unfit to be citizens of any nation. Israel has found out the hard way what primitive muslim mentality really means. Look at the Fogel family slaughter by palestinian “youths”, who murdered Israeli babies in their beds. Muslims prove themselves incapable of civilized behavior in any setting and any place they infest. Education should have cured the problem, but education seems to be in short supply among muslims, same as it has always been. Immune to education and learning, muslims are forever dangerous and beyond trusting! How are we supposed to live with these “people”?

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