Surprised? Don’t be. This is commonplace. Last summer, Ammar Shahin of the Islamic Center of Davis, California, and Mahmoud Harmoush of the Islamic Center of Riverside, California both prayed for the destruction of the Jews. Also this year, Toronto imam Ayman Elkasrawy prayed the same thing.
These imams are not “extremists.” The Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13). They are disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more. They are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29).
“IPT Exclusive: U.S.-Based Imam Prays That ‘Allah Destroy the Zionists,'” IPT News, December 8, 2017 (thanks to Ken):
A Texas-based imam called for Israel’s destruction in a recorded prayer posted to his Facebook page Thursday.While Sheikh Ramadan Elsabagh does not mention President Trump’s proclamation Wednesday recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and starting the process of moving the U.S. embassy there, it seems to be a clear reaction. The Investigative Project on Terrorism translated Elsabagh’s Arabic chanting.
“Our Lord. Help holy Palestine,” Elsabagh said. “… Oh Allah, be with your oppressed worshippers in Palestine, Oh Allah destroy the Zionists and their allies, and those who assist them, and those who allowed them into the abodes of the Muslims. By Your Power, Oh mighty one, Oh Mighty one, through Your Power and Might, Oh Allah deflect them with what You will, and however You will, for You are omnipotent, and with a response omnipotent.”
“Oh Allah save [Al Aqsa] from the hands of the accursed violators, whom you have cursed in every Book, and cursed them through every prophet,” he said in conclusion. “Oh Allah destroy them.”
Elsabagh is listed as the head of the ISF Islamic Institute in Garland, Texas and is featured as a Quran reader on many internet sites….
Savvy Kafir says
This will elicit nothing but yawns from the “journalists” in the mainstream media & the politically-correct sheeple who share their Islam-friendly, reality-adverse worldview.
CRUSADER says
Let’s prove them wrong!
Let’s do everything in our power to ensure that democracy, liberty,
critical thinking, human rights, and basic human decency will dominate the world,
instead of barbarism, misogyny, ignorance, and superstition.
(Inspiration from SavvyKafir website)
AMEN
Savvy Kafir says
Thanks, CRUSADER!
I just wish that more of my fellow Lefties would take my message to heart. Most of them still seem very resistant to facts & common sense when it comes to this subject.
Lynne says
Mine too. Won’t even talk about it.
Lynne says
I’m not a leftie though. I want to hear both sides but I lean more right.
Karen says
Absolutely amen to that.
Westman says
The stunning technical, economic, and political success of Jews in the modern world, through intellect and industry, has made a mockery of Allah and Muhammad’s claim of superiority and humiliated Muslims who believed those false claims.
Of course, Muslims are angry about any shred of humiliation that contradicts Islam’s claims and makes prevaricators of Allah and Muhammad.
Sheikh Ramadan Elsabagh’s incitement to hatred through “prayer” is simply a message to the Umma that hating Jews is approved by the clerics and Allah – some balm “to satisfy the breasts of a believing people” and a “dog whistle” that violence against Jews is Allah-approved.
When this cleric prays, “the accursed violators, whom you have cursed in every Book, and cursed them through every prophet”..” Oh Allah destroy them”, he is clearly illustrating that Islam is not a religion of peace when it refers to Jews, in general, and therefore is NOT a religion of peace.
A primitive religion is most viable in the environment of its origin and fares poorly in a modern meritocracy. Whether Islam, black-magic-cult, “Jim Cargo”, etc, it has no viable ruling future in a modern world.
Savvy Kafir says
Muslims can’t create a modern, civilized society; and they don’t belong in those societies; but they’re doing a very good job of invading & destroying more enlightened societies today — just as they’ve done in the past. That’s what they’re good at.
Wellington says
The hate from Islam is never ending. No coincidence, I might add, that there is also no love in Islam.
Hate, submission, a decided inclination to violence, domination, no Golden Rule for all, the stultification of the mind and a pathetic, childlike conception of the afterlife are all characteristics of this vile belief system which, stunningly, so many non-Muslims in the West still remain ignorant of or even defend.
Islam and all defenses of Islam, whether by Muslims or non-Muslims, are both crystal clear examples of mankind at its worst.
boakai ngombu says
” ,,, Muslims can’t ….”
they are slaves (Muslims), doing the bidding of the allah god of islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers), which has captivated their will and imagination to do its blood work. the more that follow SHARIA – who live in the SHARIA culture – the better.
Karen says
“Oh Allah save [Al Aqsa] from the hands of the accursed violators, whom you have cursed in every Book, and cursed them through every prophet,” he said in conclusion. “Oh Allah destroy them.”
Elsabagh is listed as the head of the ISF Islamic Institute in Garland, Texas and is featured as a Quran reader on many internet sites….”
He’s also a hateful, racist, bigoted ass.
Axis porcinus says
This part time short order cook needs to be deported for hate crimes.
DRHazard says
“Zionist” is the Muslim word for Jews if the Muslim lives in a civilized country.
yzkrieg says
Expect to soon hear at least one Reform Rabbi excuse this Imam saying that the Imam and really loves the Jews. After all Islam has no anti-Semitic doctrines, right?
Yitz says
I wonder why reform “rabbis were not invited to.
The pres hanukah party. Trump doesnt like fake.
Karen says
Based on what took place in Manhatten today, this person should be seriously and deeply investigated.
Dr Thomas Marino says
ANYONE who chants “death” to America, whether directly or indirectly like this Imam did, should be held for IMMEDIATE DEPORTATION, and if it applies, the LOSS of US citizenship or other immigration status.
E. H. D says
Lets turn it around and aim the hate and death threats to the haters, islam radicals.