Khazali quotes the Qur’an to support his claim: “You shall find the strongest in enmity towards the believers to be the Jews and the polytheists.” (5:82) Will some moderate Muslim spokesman in the West explain how Khazali is misunderstanding this passage and the Qur’an’s other antisemitic passages? Of course not.
“Iraqi Shiite Militia Leader Qais Khazali: The Jews Are the Enemies of Mankind; Israel Dug Its Own Grave by Carrying out Attacks in Iraq,” MEMRI, September 1, 2019:
Qais Khazali, the leader of the Iraqi Shiite militia Asa’ib Ahl Al-Haq, said in a September 1, 2019 speech that aired on Al-Ahd TV (Iraq) that the Jews, who he described as the enemies of mankind, attempted to assassinate Imam Hussein and that they are today trying to locate and kill Imam Al-Mahdi. He claimed that there has always been a Jewish-Zionist lobby that has been the main enemy of the Iraqi people, that there has always been a superpower, such as the United States, used by the Jewish-Zionist lobby to execute its plans, and that there have always been “hypocrite Bedouins,” like Saudi Arabia, that have been used by the superpower to achieve its goals. In addition, Khazali said that the Iraqi PMU and its storehouses are being targeted because the enemies know that their “evil plans” cannot succeed if the PMU and Iran are strong. He threatened that Israel’s attacks on Iraq will not go unanswered and that they constituted a “sentence of extinction” for the “plundering entity.”
Following are excerpts:
Qais Khazali: [The Quran says] “You shall find the strongest in enmity towards the believers to be the Jews and the polytheists.” If the Byzantine state represented the polytheists in the past, the Jews are said to have even greater enmity towards the believers. The Jews looked for Imam Hussein at his grandfather’s [house] when he was an infant. They looked for him in order to kill him. And the assassination attempts by the Jews continued, as history tell us. And the Jews are looking today for Imam Hussein’s descendant, the Imam Al-Mahdi, in order to kill him.
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The Jews are the enemies of mankind. The Jews are the enemies of Islam. The Jews are the enemies of Allah’s Messenger. The Jews are the enemies of Ali Ibn Abu Talib. The Jews are the enemies of Imam Hussein. The Jews are the enemies of Imam Al-Mahdi. The Jews are the enemies of the Iraqi people. Since the dawn of history, or at least since the time of the Babylonian civilization, and to this very day, the Jews have been the main enemy of the Iraqi people. If we want to put the links in the chain of Imam Hussein’s killers in order, we can say that there has always been a Jewish-Zionist lobby. Its name has not changed. And there has always been a superpower that this lobby has used to execute its plans. This superpower used to be the Byzantine state, and today, it is called the United States of America. Only the name has changed. And there have always been Bedouins, who are the worst in their heresy and hypocrisy, whom the superpower has used to execute its plans. They are the tools of the superpower. In the past, they were called the Umayyad Caliphate, and today they are called Saudi Arabia. Only the name has changed. So, you can see that the three enemies that the Quran mentions – the Jews, the polytheists, and the hypocrite Bedouins – stay the same throughout history. Only their names change. They are the ones who carry the banner of enmity towards Muhammad’s Islam and towards humankind, justice, goodness, and virtue….
These attacks [in Iraq] will not go unanswered. The Iraqis can defend their honor, their sovereignty, and their people. You should have read history more carefully. Throughout history, you have not been able to stand against the Iraqis. By doing what you did, you’ve sentenced your plundering entity to extinction, and you have dug your own grave.
jayell says
I see. Muslims don’t like Jews, therefore Jews are ipso facto the enemies of all humanity. The Disciples of the Great prophet have spoken. Getting a bit above themselves, aren’t they?
mortimer says
Jews in Arabia saw immediately that Mohammed was a false prophet and when he asked them why they would not support him, they tried to explain why. However, Mohammed was not interested in stopping his nonsense. He developed a hatred for the Jews of Arabia because they stood in the way of his vision. Mohammed eventually exterminated and exiled Jews from Arabia.
The great sage of Judaism, Moses Maimonides wrote about the persecution of Jews in Medieval Spain by the Muslim invaders:
“… on account of our sins God has cast us into the midst of this people, the nation of Ishmael [Muslims], who PERSECUTED US SEVERELY, and who devise ways to HARM us and to DEBASE us…. No nation has ever done MORE HARM to Israel. None has matched it in DEBASING and HUMILIATING us. None has been able to REDUCE us as they have…. We have borne their imposed degradation, their lies, their absurdities, which are BEYOND HUMAN POWER TO BEAR…. We have done as our sages of blessed memory have instructed us, bearing the lies and absurdities of Ishmael…. In spite of all this, we are not spared from the ferocity of their wickedness and their outbursts at any time. On the contrary, the more we suffer and choose to conciliate them, the more they choose to act belligerently toward us…”
Meanwhile, Jews in modern France are suffering such constant persecution in France by Muslims, that the leader of French Jews predicts most will have left France within 10 years.
jayell says
My point was that we seem to have a presumption here on the part of muslims that they consider themselves entitled to prescribe what (or who) will be deemed acceptable for the whole of humanity. They will no doubt answer that their Holy Writ, set out word-by-word by the Supreme Being of the Universe (whom they call ‘Allah’) through His sole appointed intermediary Mohammed, ordains that they are the ‘best of people’ and therefore the only human group sufficiently qualified through natural superiority to hold any such position of universal authority that would entitle them to make such value judgements. My response would be that any Universal Supreme Being would have the capability of communicating with whomever He (She/It) wanted and if it was so imperative that the whole of humanity recognise the supremacy of any one designated group or any leading authority within that group, that information could have been disseminated by divine inspiration (or whatever subtle method) to anyone else at any time in history; and then we would all no doubt would have eventually complied and the whole world would be deliriously happy. Simply barging into someone else’s territory and declaring that ‘we are the greatest because our God said so’ whilst demanding compliance and ownership of all available resources on pain of decapitation and violation of all available females, would not in itself constitute grounds for any recognition of any corporate supremacy as far as the average intelligent person is concerned, and certainly not where such claims are not backed up by any evidence of a track-record of extraordinary achievement apart from criminal thuggery (which the civilised world would consider worthy only of a term of confinement within a penitential institution). One could reasonably contend that, on the contrary, there is plenty of evidence of ‘extraordinary, constructive achievement’ on the part of the so-called ‘enemies of mankind’ (according to Qais Khazali) that would rather throw the any claims of ‘superiority’ into serious contention.
Now, I wonder what this character Qais Khazali would answer to my argument?
jayell says
Perhaps I should also have added that, in the light of this argument, which group of people would best deserve the epithet ‘enemy of mankind’?
Sabri S. says
Well, one again, he speaks the truth. As uncomfortable as it may be, the middle east will know no peace or prosperity as long as the apartheid state of israel exists. No one with a brain could support these European converts, that are systematically exterminating and displacing the regions indigenous peoples. And for God’s sake, this synagogue of satan is now equating garbage Zionism with judaism, their distorted and racist made up european version of ancient judaism. Ever wonder why these Zionist jews cant get along with anyone, even jews of color…because they are NOT real jews people! All praise is due to allah, and god willing this zionist regime will be destroyed in our lifetime.
FYI says
The Jews may be the enemy of islam,your pagan Arab cult of al LAH {“The Best of deceivers” k3:64} but they cannot be the enemy of mankind.
“We Jews know whom we worship because it is from the Jews that salvation comes”
Jesus Christ{Jewish}
John 4 v 22
All Biblical prophets were Jewish for this reason:except in your ‘holy’ koran where we are told
“Abraham was not a Jew” k3:67
“No one with a brain”:We know islamic apologists cannot process logic or have reasoning faculties.
After all they subscribe to a pagan god who cannot even get the religion of Abraham right.
Israel is the ancestral homeland of the Jews and their right to be there is even supported by your koran.
k5:20-26
islam and logic:separated at birth.
gravenimage says
Jihad apologist Sabri S wrote:
Well, one again, he speaks the truth. As uncomfortable as it may be, the middle east will know no peace or prosperity as long as the apartheid state of israel (sic) exists.
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What crap. Israel has never unilaterally attacked anyone–they have only acted when Muslims attacked them.
And how does Sabri S. explain the other violence in the Middle East–in Syria, in Iraq, in Yemen–and that has nothing to do with Israel at all, but is all Muslim-on-Muslim violence? What about the recent “Arab Spring”, which was more of the same? Sabri S. hopes you don’t know about this.
And there is, of course, no apartheid in democratic Israel–but there is in most of the Muslim world. In fact, most of Dar-al-Islam expelled their entire surviving Jewish populations in 1947–Jews who had lived there in many cases since before Islam even existed.
And is Sabi S. even Shia? If not, then Qais Khazali considers him a “hypocrite Bedouin”. The Shiite militia Asa’ib Ahl Al-Haq also regularly kills Sunnis–but who cares? Sabri S. has an opportunity here to condemn and threaten Americans and Jews, so he is running with it.
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No one with a brain could support these European converts, that are systematically exterminating and displacing the regions indigenous peoples.
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We’ve heard this before–that Jews today are not real Jews, but are “Khazars” or all Askenazis, and it is quite false, and also ignores the many Israelis who are Sephardic, Mizrahi, or even from Ethiopia.
And this is all a smokescreen, in any case–the Qur’an and the Hadith do not just condemn “not real Jews”, but Jews in general. The “Prophet” enslaved and murdered Jews on a regular basis, and his last command was that Jews and Christians be driven from the Arabian peninsula. How does Sabri S. explain this?
And this last is false–Sabri S, is claiming that Jews do not belong in a place where they have lived for over 3,000 years, but that invading Muslims do.
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And for God’s sake, this synagogue of satan is now equating garbage Zionism with judaism, their distorted and racist made up european version of ancient judaism. Ever wonder why these Zionist jews cant get along with anyone, even jews of color…because they are NOT real jews people! All praise is due to allah, and god willing this zionist regime will be destroyed in our lifetime.
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Yes, how awful that Jews want to live in freedom “satan”. And Sabri S. has said before that Israel saving the Ethiopian Jews from genocide was a bad thing for them–how would *that* work?
And of course he wants to see civilized Israel destroyed–all pious Muslims do.
Terry Gain says
Sabri S
Thank you for your very clear expression of the hate within your heart and soul. It’s unfortunate that you haven’t provided your full name and the source of your derangement, but most of us know.
gravenimage says
Muslims like Sabri S. expose what Islam is really like.
Angemon says
“As uncomfortable as it may be, the middle east will know no peace or prosperity as long as the apartheid state of israel exists.”
Columbus looked for a way to the Far East that didn’t include the Middle East. Because it was not exactly a “peaceful” area. Israel is not the issue here…
Lavéritétriomphera says
Sabri S,
How do you make difference between true and “fake”Jews, what are your criteria for selection?
Saoudi Arabians don’t make a priori this difference https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/saudi-arabia-israel-and-the-palestinian-authority/.
John Hawk says
A true follower of the vile and morally bankrupt Muhammad and his psychotic projection Allah. You can tell these by their fruits, each and every time.
mortimer says
Shiite Militia Leader Qais Khazali spent decades studying Islam, so he is an expert on its doctrines. Khazali’s WARLIKE and GENOCIDAL statements are based on his KNOWLEDGE of Islam, rather than his GUESSES. Khazali can quote chapter and verse.
Where is lebel now to tell us that the mullah misunderstands Islam and doesn’t mean what he says to his congregation in the mosque?
C’mon, lebel, tell us that the Koran doesn’t actually say what it says.
DHazard says
Western media will simply not cover the deepest, widest and longest chasm of racism known to Mankind.
The more trustworthy the source, the more they will ignore it. It’s almost as if they believe they can ignore something into non-existence. On the rare occasion where they can’t play dumb and still appear believable, they play dumb.
Allan Scott says
Just a slight bit of projection going on here.
mortimer says
This mullah Qais Khazali is trying to create war fever through his sermon. In fact, the worst enemies Iraqis have are fools like Khazali.
gravenimage says
Allan Scott wrote:
Just a slight bit of projection going on here.
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Is “Allan Scott” saying that quoting a high-ranking Muslim cleric’s own words of hatred for the Jews is–somehow–actually Jews hating Muslims? How would that work?
Edmund says
Change some names and close Your eyes. You see Hitler speaking why Germany were “forced to defend” their country in 1939. Of course in the name of “justice”.
In both cases just Satan is speaking …
tim gallagher says
As Edmund says, just above this, it is very much like a re-run of Hitler, this obsessive garbage from these Muslim spokesmen. As everyone here at Jihad watch knows, it is the Koran that calls for all of us non-Muslims to be killed, etc, so no-one here will buy any the crap this vile creature is trying to peddle. I’d say Islam, calling for the oppression or killing of all of us non-believers, is, in fact, the clear enemy of mankind. Unfortunately, a lot of people, who know nothing about Islam’s nature, might actually listen to this liar’s words.
E T says
One might think this clown should consider anger management but he is so warped with madness it would be a waste of time. He is exactly why the West needs to start making some drastic changes with the Muslim Brotherhostupidd hoods/CAIR, the radical congress women, the socialist and antifa NOW. Start deporting.
Eur says
The problem is not this clown.The peoblem is that thousands of Muslims accept the message of this clown and the same thing happens with Salafist clerics, millions of Muslims like to hear the messages of hatred and supposed Islamic superiority over the infidels.
gravenimage says
Muslim cleric: “The Jews are the enemies of mankind. The Jews are the enemies of Islam.”
Khazali quotes the Qur’an to support his claim: “You shall find the strongest in enmity towards the believers to be the Jews and the polytheists.” (5:82)
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Yes, this is orthodox Islam.
More:
Qais Khazali, the leader of the Iraqi Shiite militia Asa’ib Ahl Al-Haq, said in a September 1, 2019 speech that aired on Al-Ahd TV (Iraq) that the Jews, who he described as the enemies of mankind, attempted to assassinate Imam Hussein and that they are today trying to locate and kill Imam Al-Mahdi.
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Well, that’s the first time I’ve seen a claim that Jews tried to assassinate Imam Hussein–who was, of course, *actually* killed by his own coreligionists.
As for the idea that Jews are trying to kill the “Mahdi”–a mythical figure who is supposed to be hiding in a well–this is bizarre but bound to stir up the faithful.
Trick_or_Treat says
Actually, I think you would find, that what the actual truth is squirming in this mangy mutt’s bag-of-maggots mind is, when he refers to ‘mankind’, he is not referring to YOU or ME or any other non-muslim, he is only referring to his fellow ratbag muslims as being ‘mankind’. He / they don’t regard any of us as being mankind, only as trash far below their superior level of humanity. When you consider his words that, it puts them in a different context. According to his f**ked-up little leper brain, the Jews, YOU and ME, and f**king ALL OF US, are ‘enemies’ of his perceived superior muslim ‘mankind’.
gravenimage says
So true, Trick_or_Treat.
abad says
“Islam is the enemy of mankind.”
Fixed it for you.
Ren says
Islam is the enemy of the civilized world.
Gyumza says
If the jews have been able to control every superpower in history including the muslims then
Gyumza says
If the jews have been able to control every superpower in history then what can this dude and his band of killers do?
dubi says
Just look at his eyes and you can see he is possessed by satan and one day will stand before the God of Israel and the Holy One Of Israel, the Lord Jesus Christ and his knees will bow and his tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father! AMEN
Trick_or_Treat says
Ha, Dubi, I was thinking that exact same thing when I checked his ugly mug and his nasty looking, beedy little eyes in JWs mugshot of him above. He looks like he has been sucking on the end of the hashishi hookah for and hour or so before taking the podium.
Giacomo Latta says
So, Khazali, it is not only your co-religionist Sunnis that are all sneaky and evil it is those ”hypocrtite Bedouins.” Sure, bring racism into it and you left out so many others you must hate (Europeans, Australians). Keep it simple and draw a list of those you do like: Qais Khazali, my boss, umm …
elee says
Has he, like a good Muslim, prayed to al Lah for the supremem gift of martyrdom? Well, if al Lah cant grant his wish, he can try asking some real live humans, thats probably a faster way to martyrdom. Oh yeah and if he does that any Muslim can kill him as an aopistate.
OLD GUY says
Islam is the scourge of humankind and should be wiped from the face of the earth.
strangequark says
I am having trouble following Qais Khazali’s logic. Abraham’s first born son is Ishmael whom the Muslims believe to be the father of their people. Ishmael is a descendant of the Jewish tribe whose God is Yahweh. Wouldn’t that make Allah,Yahweh? So how can the worshipers of Yahweh (Jews) be the enemy of the worshipers of Allah (Muslims)? What am I missing here? “Who’s on third” is less confusing to me.