At the Muslim American Society (MAS) Islamic Center in Philadelphia this past April, young children sang songs in praise of torture and murder, pledging that they would “chop off the heads” of the Jews in Israel, and subject them “to eternal torture.”
The children were videotaped by adults belonging to the MAS, who then proudly posted the Arabic-language video on the MAS Facebook page. Unfortunately for the Muslim American Society, that video was seen by members of MEMRI (the Middle East Media Research Institute).who translated the Arabic, and posted the video, with English-language subtitles, and a transcript, at their own site. This caused an immediate furor, with expressions of horror at the homicidal hate the children had been taught to express.
“A national Muslim group says it will conduct an investigation into an event at a Philadelphia Islamic center last month during which a group of youngsters sang songs it said were not “properly vetted,” calling that “an unintended mistake and an oversight.”
“Youngsters at the Muslim American Society Islamic Center in North Philadelphia are shown in video footage speaking in Arabic during a celebration of “Ummah Day,” said the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a Middle East monitoring organization. One girl says “we will chop off their heads” to “liberate the sorrowful and exalted Al-Aqsa Mosque” in Jerusalem, according to MEMRI.
“While we celebrate the coming together of different cultures and languages, not all songs were properly vetted,” the Muslim American Society, based in Washington, said in a statement issued on May 3. “This was an unintended mistake and an oversight in which the center and the students are remorseful. MAS will conduct an internal investigation to ensure this does not occur again.”
“Representatives of MAS did not respond to requests for additional comment on May 4. The nonprofit has more than 50 chapters throughout the United States, according to its website.
“As a faith-based organization dedicated to moving people to strive for God-consciousness and a just and virtuous society, we affirm our long-standing position on our shared values of humanity. We stand resolutely in our condemnation of hate, bigotry, Islamophobia, xenophobia, racism, anti-Semitism and all the illnesses of hate that plague our society,” MAS said in its statement.
“According to MEMRI, one girl reads: “We will defend the land of divine guidance with our bodies, and we will sacrifice our souls without hesitation. We will lead the army of Allah fulfilling his promise, and we will subject them to eternal torture.”
“In other videos, students sing songs about the “blood of martyrs” and “Rebels, rebels, rebels.”
“The videos were posted on the center’s Facebook page, the media monitoring group said, but the videos included in the MEMRI report appear to have been taken down from the center’s page.
“The Anti-Defamation League in Philadelphia called the incident “extremely disturbing.”
“Children should not be indoctrinated to hate. These young people should never have been asked to make speeches and dance and lip-sync to songs that glorify violence against Jews and the State of Israel. The conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is deeply complex and painful on all sides, and the only chance for a peaceful future is to teach our children to pursue peace,” the statement read.
This event happened in April. But the Muslim American Society (MAS) expressed its supposed regret only weeks later, after a video of it (with the Arabic translated into English), appeared on the site of MEMRI, where it attracted much unfavorable attention.
Until then, not a single Muslim adult who was present during the children’s horrific expression of murderous hate apparently objected to it. And why would they? Adults were the ones who had to have taught the children what to say, and what to sing, to have supplied them with their scripts, and rehearsed with them what they had memorized, Someone decided that the video was so inspiring that it ought to be put up at the Facebook page of the Philadelphia chapter of the Muslim American Society, and it was. Many Muslims must have seen it there; none of them objected to the video or called for it to be taken down. Only after MEMRI had posted the video at its own site, with what the children said translated into English, was that video removed from the MAS Facebook page.
MAS then claimed that it had all been an “unintended mistake,” a failure of “vetting,” and that the whole matter would be investigated. This is nonsense, of course, for no one was simply making a “mistake” in composing such lines for children to memorize and recite, rehearsing with them, listening proudly as they pledged to torture and kill Jews in Israel, videotaping the performance, and then posting it at the Facebook page of the Philadelphia chapter of the Muslim American Society. No MAS member thought there was anything wrong with this performance. They were proud of their would-be Jihadis. But they had not counted on MEMRI, which found the video at the Facebook page of MAS Philly, translated the Arabic, and made that video, with the transcript, available to the world.
At MAS they must have been thinking: “How dare those Infidels listen in on what our little children happen to babble about! Have those Jews no respect for privacy? Do we post what they whisper to each other in their synagogues?” But here’s what they said: “We stand resolutely in our condemnation of hate, bigotry, Islamophobia, xenophobia, racism, anti-Semitism and all the illnesses of hate that plague our society.”
Of course. Nothing says “we stand resolutely in condemnation of antisemitism” like promising to “chop of the heads” of Jews.
It was all an “oversight.” A case of insufficient vetting. “We at MAS Philly will get to the bottom of this. A few months ago a visiting imam, Abdelmohsen Abouhatab, made remarks at the Al Aqsa Islamic Society, that some people considered antisemitic. And our mosque officials, who had no idea what this imam had been preaching, quickly apologized, expressing surprise that an imam could have uttered such insensitive remarks. It’s no different with this disturbing video. As soon as it came to our attention, we expressed our deepest regrets. We at MAS Philly solemnly pledge: we will get to the bottom of this.”
Mendacious words to that effect.
“War is deceit.” said Muhammad, so here’s another possible line of inquiry for the MAS Philly to throw out there:
“Perhaps the children were misled by someone intending to show Muslims in a bad light. Who, after all, benefits from publicizing that performance? We took the video down from our Facebook page just as soon as we were alerted that someone had posted it; truth to tell, none of us had even noticed it. Lots of stuff gets posted at our site by all kinds of people; we don’t pay much attention.. We’re still trying to figure out how that video was made.Some people say it must have been Zionists. Without wanting to rush to judgement, we can’t help but notice that the people who run MEMRI are Israelis, so we will of course be looking into that angle as well. Could there have been a setup all along, in which little Muslim children were merely the useful pawns of those trying to smear the image of Islam? It’s hard to know exactly what’s going on. But I can give you my word: we will follow every lead.”
“Meanwhile, we want to join our Jewish brothers and sisters in expressing dismay at this video and our “oversight” in letting it appear. We will make every effort to ensure that such oversights do not happen again.”
That may satisfy the terminally naive, but it should fool no one else. The Phlladelphia chapter of the Muslim American Society was caught in flagrante delicto, and now its members realize that they must be careful what videos they put on-line. MEMRI is watching. MEMRI can translate from Arabic and Farsi. MEMRI can post videos on-line. The Muslim Society of America is prepared to deceive, but it wasn’t prepared for that.
Victoria says
Yes we know what the oversight was… someone filmed it and shared it.
Rufluc says
Absolutely correct Victoria. Yet again they get caught out with their lies (which are of course sanctioned by their ‘Allah’ if it benefits their cause for world domination), and yet again they respond in an apologetic way that is totally bogus.
They are incessant liars (as they are told to be in the Quran) and it is only the mentally deficient left that swallow these lies time and time again. Unfortunately there are many of these left wing imbeciles in our society that seem to be aiding and abetting the Islamic treachery that is going on in our neighbourhoods, and it is they that Trump should next target for their treason. It’s only a matter of time.
Jean Terry says
I spent a little time in Iran. Lying is part of the culture and considered fine if it gets you what you want.
Sun says
Same ‘oversight’ happended in Europe too.
Lu says
Some people overlooked something.
Sobieski says
Yesterday, I was in a hurry and I forgot to shut the lid on the garbage can, and the dog got into it and made a mess.
That was an oversight.
Allowing and encouraging children to sing about the desire of one people to torture and execute another people is not an oversight.
mortimer says
MOHAMMEDAN YOUTH MOVEMENT like HITLER YOUTH = GENOCIDAL IDEATION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybaZgwTlMME
CRUSADER says
“Former Hitler Youth Officer on Radical Islam…”
(But is it RADICAL Islam? Is that what it should be called?)
Rev. G says
No, it is not radical, it is basic, or fundamental Islam.
Michael Copeland says
Fundamental, core, root – in Latin RADIX, from which “radical”.
mortimer says
Michael Copeland’s Latin is correct. The ‘ROOT’ of the above teaching is AL WALAA WAL BARAA an ‘essential’ … thus a ‘radical’ teaching of Islam requiring Muslims to hate kafirs ‘for the sake of Allah’.
I am not surprised that careless commentators (who are without any serious study of Islam) consider themselves prepared to spontaneously comment on Islam even though they are without a MASTERY of its BASIC, FOUNDATIONAL, RADICAL teachings.
If you have not MASTERED the teaching of Al Walaa wal Baraa, you are NOT prepared to discuss this post. It is ALL about Al Walaa wal Baraa.
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Learn.
del says
Thank you Michael Copeland. How about radixical (a made-up word to call attention to the often foolish opposite and inapposite understanding of radical as “completely different”)?
CogitoErgoSum says
Notice the line “We will defend the land of divine guidance with our bodies, and we will sacrifice our souls without hesitation.” Indeed, Muslims do sacrifice their souls for their religion.
mortimer says
Yes, CES, they sacrifice their rational faculty to believe unscientific nonsense, namely, that the sun sets in a murky spring, etc.
Greycap says
Someone caught damn Muslims with their hands in the cookie jar – AGAIN!
CRUSADER says
Yep! This sure as heck did happen!
gravenimage says
Hugh Fitzgerald: In Philadelphia, The Muslim American Society Regrets “The Oversight”
…………………….
Yeah–“oversight”. I could imagine a Church or Synagogue where kids without proper oversight might, say, sing somewhat inappropriate pop songs–but songs about torture, murder, and beheading? I *think not*.
Kudos to MEMRI for exposing this savagery.
CRUSADER says
They are simply just humans who have the wrong ideation about things, that’s all.
They need to get De-Programmed.
It’ll all be alright afterwards.
mortimer says
Yes, one substantial, compelling doubt will cause a Muslim to reject jihadism. I have seen this happen. Why do you think your wild guesses are better than knowledge based on face-to-face interactions?
CRUSADER says
MEMRI had been great.
Daniel Pipes admitted that he along with a few others, including Steven Emerson were
bravely at this Countering of Jihad and Exposing the Shariah based Terrorism
early on…
We have them to thank. They should have our gratitude.
MEMRI fellow, Robert Reilly — “Closing of Muslim Mind”
https://www.academia.edu/1792939/Review_The_Closing_of_the_Muslim_Mind._By_Robert_R._Reilly
(Frank Gaffney)
MEMRI fellow, Steven Emerson
(“How I made ‘Jihad in America’ and lived to tell about it”)
http://www.steveemerson.com
Christian Zionist says
Oh! So they are going to “investigate”? They are going to “investigate” why the song got out to us infidels!
Aussie Infidel says
“We stand resolutely in our condemnation of hate, bigotry, Islamophobia, xenophobia, racism, anti-Semitism and all the illnesses of hate that plague our society,” MAS said in its statement.
This is no “unintended mistake and an oversight”, as MAS claims. It is simply Islamic taqiyya (propaganda). Hatred of Jews (and all other non-Muslims is a core tenet of Islam; and these tenets provide the basic motivation for jihadis to commit their acts of violence against ‘infidels’. The only guaranteed way of a Muslim making it to Paradise
when they die, is to become a martyr fighting for the cause of Allah. Mohammad was a warlord and knew how to motivate young impressionable wannabe jihadis.
Does this mean that Muslims condemn their own holy scriptures?
“We cursed them (Jews and Christians) and made their hearts hard.” (Quran 5:15)
“O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are [in fact] allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to them among you – then indeed, he is [one] of them. Indeed, Allah guides not the wrongdoing people.” (Quran 5:51).
“The most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers [are] the Jews and those who associate others with Allah (Christians).” (Quran 5:82). In reality, it is the Muslims who have intense animosity toward the Jews and Christians.
“And fight them until there is no fitnah (opposition) and [until] the religion, all of it, is for Allah. And if they cease – then indeed, Allah is Seeing of what they do.” (Quran 8:39).
“Indeed, those who disbelieve will be addressed, ‘The hatred of Allah for you was [even] greater than your hatred of yourselves [this Day in Hell] when you were invited to faith, but you refused’.” (Quran 40:10).
“Indeed, we are disassociated from you and from whatever you worship other than Allah . We have denied you, and there has appeared between us and you animosity and hatred forever until you believe in Allah alone.” (Quran 60:4).
In Islam it is against the law (the Sharia), to not hate Jews and all other non-Muslims. This is their doctrine of Al-wala’a wal bara’a: “And this clarifies the Koranic verses and hadiths about hatred for the sake of Allah and love for the sake of Allah, being unyielding towards the unbelievers, hard against them, and detesting them, while accepting the destiny of Allah Most High insofar as it is the decree of Allah Mighty and Majestic. (Reliance of the Traveller, Acceptance and Hatred, w59.2).
As Golda Meir once said, “There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs (Muslims) love their children more than they hate us.”
mneidoff says
I am not worried about what they post on line, I am concerned that they will secretly continue to indoctrinate children to be terrorists. The is immoral influence of minors, teaching them to murder. That should not just be condemned, it must be prosecuted legally in a court. Why else will they stop, if they can just say “oops, got caught”
gravenimage says
Not everything Muslims post on line is benign–including this. Moreover, this was in Arabic–they didn’t think the “filthy Infidels” of MEMRI would be able to translate it.
GreekEmpress says
I was so upset that I called the Philadelphia mayor’s office to find out what they intend to do about it. I was told that they are investigating—-
What that Entails, who knows—
PS—Oversight? That just means next time no cameras.
revereridesagain says
‘This was an unintended mistake and an oversight…” Translation: We got caught.
Michael Copeland says
They are Shocked! Shocked! They tell us.
hat tip to “Casablanca”
mummymovie says
And as expected, the only coverage I’ve seen on this stuff seems to be on Counter-Jihad websites and forums.
The establishment media is nowhere to be found on this:
They are completely silent, as predicted; in keeping with the their role in the Kalergian Globalist agenda and the Red-Green establishment’s vast conspiracy and multi-pronged and multi-faceted campaign to suppress critical and real news that would otherwise expose the motives of so-called mainstream organizations that directly support violent islamic jihad and the rapid demographic replacement invasion of the hijra.
The war is upon us, and it is raging on.
CRUSADER says
You’d think REAL journalists would have a field day investigating all this stuff that CounterJihad-ers crop up. It’s really a gold mine for stories.
But, as you say — it’s a war with the Green/Red status.
mummymovie says
I know, right? You certainly would. But the shocking fact that they are able to hold back and resist the temptation to sink their teeth into this plethora of extraordinarily sensational news really shows just how serious and committed they are to keeping people misinformed about the global jihad and hijra invasion/replacement that’s happening in the West.
It really makes one feel that there is something vastly more sinister at work behind it all.
Scary to think about.
Wellington says
Sometimes, the bad guys get caught. Like here in Philly.
Islam and its deluded followers are profoundly bad for freedom, equality under the law, a true Golden Rule for all, women’s rights, et al. And if you are a non-Muslim adult and live in a free society (hardly any, now are there, outside of Western Civilization?—Hmmm, telling, no?), and don’t yet understand the threat that Islam poses to liberty, then you are a lazy-ass parasite of freedom. Shame on such people. Unfortunately, such people can be numbered in tens or even hundreds of millions.
Malevolence (and if Islam is not malevolent then virtually nothing is) profits from ignorance. Islam sure is doing so to date, including where an independent America was founded, i.e., Philadelphia.
Wake the hell up ALL NON-MUSLIMS because Islam has designs for us all. By now one knows this or should know it. So tired of people who don’t.
mummymovie says
It depends on what you mean by “caught”:
If the establishment media refuses to cover or report on it, and their co-conspirators do their best to suppress coverage of it, to what extent have they been caught, unless they are charged with a crime, or a legal consortium of some kind (hint, hint…) presses charges against them.
This is another reason the C-J movement needs a consortium / alliance of legal experts and representatives: This is primarily what is holding us back, and keeping running in place.
The civilization jihadis, “refugees”, “asylees”, and other elements of the hijra/islamic invasion lobby has such representation.
Where is the counter-balance?
Though surely to have to endure slings and arrows, and accusations of “racism”, the old strength in numbers truism might apply to such a group, right?
Wellington says
I meant “caught” only in a temporary, non-legal way. “Caught” in a truly constructive, legal and permanent way would be a beautiful thing for, let’s see here, and among other “things,” Western Civilization, freedom and the permanent assignment of Islam to the extreme margins of society, which is where it surely belongs.
Michael Casmer says
But don’t you know, the rise of anti-Semitism is due to the rise of far-right white male supremist groups?
Abraham says
Your an idiot. Not a single white Supremacist is a conservative but a far-left ideolog. The civil rights act in 1964 was passed only bc the Republicans control the House and Senate. Not a single vote by a Democrat was cast for equal rights. They continue to lie about the numbers of white supremacists and that they are far right which is another lie..
During a March of KKK members which the liberal media and politicians put on Republican and the far right but after each member of the group were identified, every single one was a registered Drmocrat and far left nutcase.
The KKK grew with the help of the Demonicrats who still support them today.
Look at history.
Welfare paid women more money if there was no father at home which I’d still enforced by the welfare system knowing it would destroy the Black family units by removing the father from the home.
gravenimage says
Michael was being sarcastic.
And this was the case with welfare whether the recipient was Black or not.
Wellington says
Abraham: Many white supremacists, in fact virtually all of them, are not on the Far Left but on the Far Right. It’s the difference between being a reactionary (Far Right) as opposed to being a conservative. To the permanent shame of people on the Left, whether “mere” Left or radical Left, they regularly do not distinguish between reactionaries and conservatives and screw them for this.
On the matter of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, you are dead wrong that the Republicans controlled the House and Senate at that time. They controlled neither. What is the case is that a greater percentage of Republicans in the House and Senate in 1964 voted for the landmark Civil Rights Act of that year than did Democrats. This is to the great credit of Republicans (which is conveniently not mentioned by Leftists) but you need to get your facts down straight, which you did not, if you want to praise Republicans for this.
Yes, the KKK should be associated with the Democratic Party. Indeed, the KKK hated Republicans, in fact worked to intimidate them (especially black Republicans), and were regularly associated with Democrats. This should be emphasized in history books but it is not because pc/mc in our time entirely tilts to the Democrats and thus reveals again how pc/mc is a giant distortion of the truth nine times out of ten.
The paying to welfare mothers more money if the father left the home was not done to deliberately destroy the black family but it had that effect. It serves as a classic example of how good intentions without wisdom, knowledge and tough love can ruin things a great deal.
This is all for now.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“Paris Taxi Drivers Avoiding Migrant Areas so Not to Shock Tourists”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/05/08/paris-taxis-avoiding-migrant-areas-to-not-shock-tourists/
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“French Police Arrest Man In Connection To Faeces Smearing Church Attack”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/05/08/french-police-arrest-man-in-connection-to-faeces-smearing-church-attack/
Joe@joemail.com says
Let me guess, he was a white nationalist?
James Lincoln says
So a national Muslim group says a group of youngsters sang songs it said were not “properly vetted.”
So, apparently, the songs were not properly vetted for youngsters.
So, I guess, the songs are okay to be sung by Muslim adults ???
UNCLE VLADDI says
It meant the songs were not properly vetted as suitable to be observed by infidels. YET.
intrepid says
islamic core teachings are satanic and should be assaulted on all fronts – to tell these people in no uncertain terms that their ideology has no place in this world – that their ‘prophet’ was a murderous pedophile who takes his cue from satan himself and they call it allah, a moon god, that their unholy place called the kaaba is nothing more than a hugely adorned receptacle for demonic pagan figurines from the dark ages!
intrepid says
the time to assault islam on all fronts has long been overdue – islam’s core teachings have already been exposed for what it is – it is satanic and has no place in this world – its prophet is nothing more than a murderous pedophile who gets its cue from satan himself and it is called by the unholy name of allah, its holy place is nothing more than a highly adorned receptacle for demon infested pantheon of pagan gods from the dark ages!
Teh says
What are the authorities doing about this?
UNCLE VLADDI says
Re: ““As a faith-based organization dedicated to moving people to strive for God-consciousness and a just and virtuous society, we affirm our long-standing position on our shared values of humanity. We stand resolutely in our condemnation of hate, bigotry, Islamophobia, xenophobia, racism, and all the illnesses of hate that plague our society,” MAS said in its statement.”
Tee hee! “Faith!”? And … “God-consciousness!”? In ISLAM?!?!?! Really?!?!?!
How is islam a “religion” at all?!
It’s atheism because it declares its god to be permanently unknown and unknowable – then threatens to kill everyone who disagrees with their definition and who dare to assert that the nature of god can and should be known to some if not by all.
And (if you are of a Judeo-Christian bent, which I personally am not, but I’m feeling a tad mischievous today) who might be most violently inclined to assert that everyone else is wrong about the nature of god, and that only he knows him best?
(Church Lady voice)
“Could it be ….. “SATAN!”?
😉
Joe@joemail.com says
They teach death and hate while we teach please and thank you. The future will be filled with strife, thanks to the religion of peace.
Paul J says
Me thinks the only “unintended mistake” was that it was filmed, not that it was sung.
Or Else! says
MEMO: To all Western mosques
Unplug the Jihad Jukebox….for now…..
Please select only from Taqiyya Tunes.
===============================================
What a load of garbage.
Jean Terry says
These are immigrant families who should have been denied entry to this country. If that is the case. It shows that there are many Muslims lucky enough to be living here who espouse radical or true Muslim beliefs. They should be routed out and sent back to whence they came.
OLD GUY says
Their true colors always show, these people do not belong in a country that believes in freedom they need to stay or go back to their sharia shit hole countries and rape and murder their own. Obeying sharia law seems to be and option with Muslims so they should have no trouble finding victims amongst them selves.
toomanhobbies says
OVERSIGHT?? BS! they got caught with their pants down in there hate and racism scam! WAKE UP AMERICA!