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Coronavirus Is for Infidels: Some Toronto Mosques Stay Open Despite Pandemic

Mar 30, 2020 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

My latest in PJ Media:

Anyone who doesn’t comply with coronavirus restrictions is endangering others. Accordingly, it is a matter of more than local concern that while most mosques in the Toronto area (where Ontario Premier Doug Ford has declared a state of emergency) have closed, some are stubbornly staying open.

This is not for want of trying. Zahir Bacchus, who serves as the imam at Jamiat Al Ansar in Brampton, Ontario, and belongs to the Canadian Council of Imams (CCI), said: “The COVID-19 pandemic has put Muslims in uncharted territory. We’ve asked Muslims to pray at home, pray with their families and loved ones — just don’t come to the mosque.”

The imams of the CCI believe that the Muslims who are not heeding this advice are reflecting an “allegiance to certain foreign scholars not heeding the calls, and in the process endangering Canadian lives.”

There is certainly no shortage of “foreign scholars” who are downplaying the coronavirus. Nigeria’s Punch reported Wednesday that a Muslim leader in that country, Sheikh Sani Jingir, “claims coronavirus is Western conspiracy to stop Muslims from performing their religious rites.” In a televised sermon, Jingir “insisted that coronavirus was not real,” and “said any Muslims who believed in Trump and stopped praying at the Holy Mosque in Mecca should seek for God’s forgiveness.”

In a similar vein, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), an imam in Gaza, Jamil Al-Mutawa, preached a sermon in which he said that Allah “has sent just one soldier,” referring to the coronavirus. “What would happen had he sent 50 like the coronavirus? He has sent just one soldier and it has hit all 50 [American] states. An hour ago, they said on TV that in California… They said that they expect 58% of California to be infected within two months. They talk about 25 million infected people in just one of the 50 states. Allah be praised. Look how anyone who schemes against the Al-Aqsa Mosque is being shattered to smithereens by the soldiers of Allah.” He spoke about Israel in the same way: “Look how empty the [Israeli] cities are. Look how empty their streets are and look how crowded this mosque is. Who is it that has given us security and terrified them? Who is it that has protected us and harmed them? It is,” he said, triumphantly drawing the word out, “Allaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”

Al-Mutawa added: “The Muslims are the people who are least infected. The only country where nobody has died… When I entered this mosque, I received a text message that the 56 people who had been quarantined in Bethlehem have been completely healed by the grace of Allah. Brothers, before I entered the mosque, I contacted senior doctors, and they told me that as of this moment, there is not a single case in Gaza.”

There is much more. Read the rest here.

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Filed Under: Canada, Featured, Islamic supremacism, mosques Tagged With: Brampton, Canadian Council of Imams (CCI), coronavirus, Doug Ford, Jamiat Al Ansar, Ontario, Zahir Bacchus


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  1. jca reid says

    Mar 30, 2020 at 5:54 pm

    If this doesn’t take the biscuit!! This is just another example of how Islam is incompatible, not just the Western World, but really just Humanity & Mankind in general. Wonder what these Libtard Apologists make of this latest contempt they have for non-Muslims. Probably just do their usual thing by burying their heads in the sand & ignore it all.

    • Wellington says

      Mar 30, 2020 at 6:40 pm

      +1

      • mortimer says

        Mar 30, 2020 at 7:10 pm

        Yes, totally incompatible … Islam is in competition to the death. Only one side can win.

        • Templer says

          Mar 31, 2020 at 10:01 am

          Yes toal incompatible with any wester chirstain society there fake god the toady false Koran hope corna virse will hit the muzes hard and many more off the die then let’s see his there bs saves them

    • Lion heart says

      Mar 30, 2020 at 9:53 pm

      Jca Reid : as a Canadian Christian guy myself originally from Iraq, I wanna say that when 9/11 terrorist attacks happened, Muslims in all Muslim countries including in Iraq were very happy about it and in Egypt for example , Muslims were handing out candies to their fellow Muslims out of joy for the 9/ 11 terrorist attacks ! do that tells you what kind of people Muslims are !!and what an evil ideology Islam is ! And someone would object to me and said that not all Muslims are evil or happy for the 9/11 , well I would say that those peaceful Muslims who are not on board with Islamic evil teachings are those types of Muslims who haven’t got deeper into Islamic teaching yet !

      • James Lincoln says

        Mar 30, 2020 at 10:09 pm

        Lion heart,

        I guess that Pres. Trump was right once again…

    • Rob says

      Mar 30, 2020 at 10:00 pm

      ‘We Muslims will pray together at the Mosque, but you Unbelievers will care for us if we get sick’.

    • Margaret Cornes says

      Mar 31, 2020 at 4:49 am

      What do we do about it ??

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 31, 2020 at 11:16 pm

        They should be shut down.

  2. AleX says

    Mar 30, 2020 at 6:02 pm

    Does any sane individual think mohamedans will comply with the kuffar-state rules and regulations?
    Aren’t those rules man-made, hence not applicable to muslimhood?
    Indeed, allah is all-knowing, wise.

    • David says

      Mar 31, 2020 at 9:45 am

      Yes Allah is a wise-guy. A know-all.

  3. gravenimage says

    Mar 30, 2020 at 6:24 pm

    Coronavirus Is for Infidels: Some Toronto Mosques Stay Open Despite Pandemic
    ……………….

    Why is Canada allowing this?

    • Wellington says

      Mar 30, 2020 at 6:55 pm

      “Why is Canada allowing this?”

      Well, my guess, gravenimage, is that it’s wrapped up with those twin idiocies which have their genesis in the 1960’s West and which go by the names of “political correctness” and “multiculturalism.”

      There is a death wish in Islam which is front and center like—you know the rot, “We love death, you love life,” blah, blah, blah. Islam is rooted in a culture of death and it’s obvious for all to see but the metaphorically blind.

      But the self-criticism of Western Civilization, which was developed in antiquity with the ancient Greeks and Jews, and which has many admirable and noble elements, has morphed into PC/MC in our time and it is highly destructive and stupid.

      Just goes to show you that a good thing can become a bad thing. Of course, I am not referencing Islam here because it started out as a bad thing and remains a bad thing to this day.

      Thus, verily, and so on, the REAL problem is not Islam, rotten from the start though it be. It is, rather, current Western Civilization which foolishly has BECOME rotten. This, I submit (not at all meant in an Islamic way) is, I would argue, the essence of it all. If this “essence” were absent, there would be no need for Jihad Watch. But this essence is most definitely absent. Verily.

      Trust you are well. The world in several ways of course is not. Not properly identifying Islam for the enormous monster that it is arguably leads the list here, though there are several other “worthy contenders.

      • James Lincoln says

        Mar 30, 2020 at 10:19 pm

        Wellington says,

        …Western Civilization…has morphed into PC/MC in our time and it is highly destructive and stupid…”

        100% correct.

        Reminds me of some previously successful US companies (e.g., Polaroid, Kodak, Compaq Computers, etc.,) that got lazy, fat, and happy and lost their compass – and eventually had to file for bankruptcy.

        Hopefully, the United States, the greatest country in the history of the world can rekindle the spark that made it great.

        It can start this process by tackling islam head-on…

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 31, 2020 at 11:18 pm

        Agreed, Wellington. I should have made it plain that mine was a rhetorical question.

        And yes–I am as well as I can be in these uncertain times. Hope the same is true for you and yours.

    • JoBo says

      Mar 31, 2020 at 3:47 am

      Easy reply – Trudeau.

  4. PRCS says

    Mar 30, 2020 at 6:29 pm

    No excuse if Ford doesn’t force those mosques to close.
    Relying upon clerics to ‘encourage’ other clerics to obey Canadian law obviously doesn’t work.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 30, 2020 at 7:13 pm

      The Ontario Provincial Police and the local sheriff will pay a call to deliver the appropriate orders.

      They selfishly put their own community and the larger community at risk.

  5. Bella says

    Mar 30, 2020 at 6:35 pm

    They’re retards. Guess they haven’t kept up with the news about how the Iranians are dropping like flies. If I posted on CBC about the mosques being open, it will be deleted. As it stands now, I’m banned because I don’t regurgitate their leftwing nonsense. What has this world come to.

    • Helper says

      Mar 31, 2020 at 12:22 am

      Muslims are controlling the media.

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 31, 2020 at 11:20 pm

        Not really, Helper–but their dhimmi apologists are, which is almost as bad.

  6. Battle says

    Mar 30, 2020 at 7:15 pm

    Arrest the dastard imams. Arrest them.

    • David says

      Mar 31, 2020 at 9:52 am

      The problem and the answer is staring us in the face. Imams are responsible for the spread of Hatred.
      How about ‘Grass up an imam week? (every week)

      • FYI says

        Mar 31, 2020 at 10:06 am

        Or how about ‘Grease up an imam week?(every week)’

        To paraphrase Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore of Apocalypse Now.

        “I love the smell of bacon in the morning….the smell,that bacon smell frying in the pan?……..It’s the smell of..{Sniff}….Victory”

  7. Rob says

    Mar 30, 2020 at 10:02 pm

    Why are posts disappearing still?

    • David says

      Mar 31, 2020 at 9:50 am

      Whose posts and what might they be saying? I am intrigued.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 31, 2020 at 11:21 pm

      I know a number of people are having technical trouble posting here now. Contact Marc Louis at the “Contact Us” technical box (second one down). He can help.

  8. Save Europe says

    Mar 30, 2020 at 11:54 pm

    It’s really VERY simple. The entire West has been bought out and is reliant on Saudi, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain etc!

    We should NEVER have got into bed with our vile enemies. We have let them control us!

    Don’t sell them weapons, fighters of ANY kind!
    Don’t let them ‘invest’ our countries! Universities, building projects etc

    STOP sleeping with our obscene enemy!

  9. medaber_emet says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 1:38 am

    the name of the mosque is Jamiat Al Ansar and ansar in arabic means victory ,they are palning their victory over the stupid infidals

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 31, 2020 at 11:23 pm

      medaber, “Ansar” means “helper” in Arabic, and is a reference to those who allied with Muslims and helped them gain power. Most of them soon converted to Islam.

  10. Jeffrey Smith says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 2:03 am

    If you see Muslims praying, they are praying directly at the bottom in front of them. Can the virus be spread by farting? If so, the virus may bring down Islam.

  11. Goofy says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 3:17 am

    To deny the devout Muslims to gather in their mosques to pray to Allah with the petition to strike dead and in general to curse all infidels would be in breach of religious freedom and it would be the ultimate sign of Islamophobia!

    So don’t wait for the laws to cover the Muslim population which follows not the laws of infidel men but of Allah himself!

    In the name of equality let us have a legislation which makes it possible for religious reasons to reject vaccination which we as individuals have reasons to believe are not in our best interest.

  12. A Gnostic Agnostic says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 7:10 am

    COVID-19 was/is part of the global jihad. This is all Islamic warfare. They always project/blame (onto) others what they are themselves guilty of. That is how their religion works: commit a jihad-based crime, blame whoever their adversary is, “Jews” is the default.

    The Deep State is the Muslim Brotherhood / House of Islam. They incessantly hide behind their goyim:
    Clintons, Obama etc. and Adolph Hitler was a puppet for the House of Islam. Nazism is Islamic, it has
    little to do with Jews as the only ones living are the ones left alive to keep blaming.

    Trudeau took the shahada and is a Nazi Muslim Brotherhood Pig. He told Canadians he closed the border, but it is wide open and migrants are still coming through. It is an invasion, global jihad.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 31, 2020 at 11:26 pm

      There is no indication that Muslims caused this disease–but Muslims have been exploiting the Coronavirus and sometimes causing its spread through their appalling unsanitary habits.

  13. jewdog says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 7:45 am

    If you already have the coranovirus, the coronavirus is no big deal.

  14. OLD GUY says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 11:53 am

    This is a great opportunity for Islam to prove its superior faith that Allah has given them. Muslims should now stay together bow together and separate themselves from the Christian world.

  15. Bob K says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 2:47 pm

    Hey Doug, real simple, post Canadian Armed Forces in front of the mosque and enforce the closure. They don’t like it they can go back where they came from.

  16. E T says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 6:06 pm

    The Muslims say migrate, don’t assimilate, dominate and annihilate and Canadian politicians say ZERO.

  17. scherado says

    Apr 1, 2020 at 6:11 am

    The only church open in my small town is the Baptist church. The pastor said that God will keep us safe. (I go there only because I am webmaster for the church. –no pay)

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 1, 2020 at 10:42 pm

      I hope you are avoiding large gatherings for now, scherado.

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