What was that you were saying about the “oppression” of the “Palestinians”? In any case, Sheikh Assem Amira almost certainly considers this pension his due, in lieu of the jizya that the Qur’an mandates non-Muslims pay to Muslims (9:29).
“Exposed: Radical Islamist leader who calls for killing of non-Muslims collects pension from Israel,” World Israel News, January 1, 2020:
Sheikh Assem Amira, a leader of the extreme Tahrir movement who espouses ideas similar to those of Islamic State (ISIS) and calls for the destruction of the Jewish state, receives a state pension from the Ministry of Interior, TPS has learned.
Until recently, Amira, a resident of the village of Tsur Baher near Jerusalem, received a salary from the state for his role as a religious leader and served as an adviser to the Ministry of Interior on religious affairs.
Amira is considered an extreme figure, even among extreme Islamists in Jerusalem. He is described as “the head of Tahrir in Palestine” and has black ISIS-styled flags hanging in his office.
Amira has called for the establishment of a caliphate, a Muslim state ruled according to Sharia law, which would “deliver the call for Islam to the whole world,” and has said that the enemies of Islam are America and Europe.
The establishment of an Islamic state “requires destroying all the [foreign] entities in the Islamic world. Make no exception. Show no mercy or compassion to any of those entities,” he stated during a sermon at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem in July 2015.
Muslim clerics in Jerusalem, including senior members of the Waqf, told TPS that “this is a dangerous person who has been working for years, by violent means, to obtain the right to preach on the Temple Mount on Fridays and during mass prayers and exploit the events for incitement.”
Due to the Waqf’s pushback, Amira has resorted to holding religious online conferences broadcast from mosques in Jerusalem, Ramallah, Hebron, and Tulkarm. In his sermons, he highlights the violent clashes between the Jerusalem Police and Muslim worshipers, and he recently called for “the liberation of Palestine and the mosques by establishing a caliphate.”
“He is an extreme figure,” R.D., a resident of Tsur Baher, told TPS. “Amira calls for abandoning the idea whereby a Muslim must show courtesy and tolerance to non-Muslims, and is demanding to collect the Jizyah tax from the Jews and Christians as was customary in the ISIS-controlled areas until recently.”
Amira has called for the killing of “anyone who is not Muslim and also a Muslim who does not adopt such an approach,” and those who are not Muslim “do not deserve a comfortable life and we must kill them.”…
Responding to an inquiry on the issue by TPS, the Interior Ministry stated that Amira used to be a ministry employee, and today, “after completing his service as a civil servant, is entitled to a pension under the rules, and therefore, and as he is a private person, we see no room for further comment.”
Kesselman says
In Israel, as in the West as a whole, the political spectrum is divided half and half. One on the side of the globalist leftists the other national conservatives (in Israel Zionists). Today, it’s the real antagonizing battle everywhere, and a fight a democracy has to live with until the day it can’t live with this dichotomy.
Anjuli Pandavar says
During my recent short visit to Israel, this dichotomy was one of the first things that struck me.
Michael Copeland says
He has called for the killing of non-muslims. “He is an extreme figure”.
The Koran calls for the killing of non-muslims – “Kill them wherever you find them”. 2:191.
It must be an “extreme” book.
gravenimage says
+1
ploome says
we have to stop calling them “Radical Islamist”…
leaves all other muslims not responsible and able to deny the elements and mandate of jihad in islam./
Shirley Ann says
Israel, just like America, invited Rabid Muslims into its Country & put these Rabid Animals in the GOV of America & Israel. Our So-Called Leaders are rarely bitten by the Foaming, Rabid Muslims, but the Christian & Jewish Populations are considered FAIR GAME for the MAD DOG MUSLIMS. WHY?
gravenimage says
Actually, there were supremacist Muslims who had previously conquered the Levant. Israel did not just invite them in.
But yes–hiring this homicidal thug as a “civil servant” is the height of suicidal madness. He was preaching the murder of Jews and Christians on the Israeli dime.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Isn’t calling for the killing of all non-muslims incitement to violence? Isn’t that a chime? Don’t those who commit crimes lose their right to pensions? Are the Israelis just as dopey as the rest of the Western world?
gravenimage says
Damn good questions, Hugh.
Crusades Were Right says
Don’t be surprised if a Muslim doesn’t seem grateful for the many benefits Muslims receive in Western lands from Christians and other non-Muslims. He can simply argue it is the right of Muslims to receive them from the “infidels” – and the fact the “infidels” provide them interpreted as evidence of the existence and greatness of Allah.
Anjuli Pandavar says
CWR, “He can simply argue…”
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Except that he won’t argue. What’s there to argue? He sees himself as entitled. That’s all there is to it.
gravenimage says
Israel: Muslim cleric who calls for killing of non-Muslims gets pension as former civil servant
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What insanity. And one can only imagine what sort of “civil servant” he was. Why is Israel paying Muslim clerics. Did they think he was “moderate”?
TKF says
Send em to Allah boys…stat….
ronald says
Please share with muslims
https://davidiqbalkarim.wordpress.com/category/twelve-reasons-for-leaving-islam/