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Jordanian Islamic Scholar: Don’t Worry About the Coronavirus, Worry About the Jews

Mar 18, 2020 10:00 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

Every day, much of the world is consumed with stories about the coronavirus. How many new cases in this country or in that? How fast is it spreading, in China, in Iran, in Italy, here at home? How many test kits are available today? How many will we have next week? Next month? Can we “flatten out” the curve of new cases, so as not to overwhelm the health system? Should we practice triage where ICU beds are scarce, and treat/not-treat those who are over 65, or 85, or 100? Should we shut down a whole country, as happened in Italy, or part of one, as the Chinese did in Wuhan? Should we shut down all sports events, all concerts, all gatherings where more than 500/250/100/50 people might congregate? Should we shut down all schools and universities, or only those within 20/10/2 miles of a cluster of cases? And what constitutes a “cluster”? Is it 5 cases? 10? 15? Shall we keep schools closed for another month, two months, till the end of the school year, through the summer vacation? Do we release figures on the worldwide mortality rates, by region, by country, by city? Do we order all restaurant and stores to be closed down, allowing only pharmacies and grocery stores to remain open?

And let’s go through the drill one more time: Wash your hands with soap, for at least 20 seconds, whenever you can. Don’t shake hands. Stay six feet away, if you can, from all others. Keep your distance. Use Purell. Call this number if you have any questions. Go to a website devoted to preventative measures if you have any questions. If you have any questions, contact your primary care physician. And so on and so endlessly forth, as we enter the Age of the Coronavirus.

Not everyone is convinced, however, that the coronavirus must be the main object of our attention. In the world of Islam, one must always make room in one’s thoughts for hatred of the Infidel. Just to bring us up short, and to remind us of what the Islamic world is like, consider the advice of a Jordanian Islamic scholar Ahmad Al-Shahrouri, who said in a March 8 episode of his show on Yarmouk TV – a Jordanian TV channel affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood — that the Jews are more dangerous than coronavirus, AIDS, cholera, and every disease in the world. Every disease. All diseases put together. Most dangerous of all are the Jews, always the Jews.

And Ahmad Al-Shahrouri reminds his audience it is not hand-washing, Purell, social distancing, or a plenitude of test kits and respirators and ICU beds that will save the Muslims from the coronavirus. No — in order to be saved from coronavirus, and all other known illnesses, Muslims must think of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and their supreme duty of Jihad. Engaging in Jihad, helping to save Al-Aqsa from “the Jews,” serves to protect Believers from those illnesses, including coronavirus. And the reverse is also true. If you are able to avoid getting coronavirus altogether, you should recognize that you now have the honor, and the duty, to help “liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque.” Engaging in Jihad will save you from the coronavirus, being saved from the coronavirus will allow you to engage in Jihad.

Of course, there is nothing to liberate Al-Aqsa Mosque from. No non-Muslims are allowed to pray, or sing, or do anything but look on silently, when on the Temple Mount. Al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock are not under Israeli jurisdiction at all but, rather, under Jordanian custodianship. Yet many Arabs, like Al-Shahrouri, continue to ignore that reality when they demand, quite unnecessarily, that the Al-Aqsa Mosque be “liberated.”

He insists that to be saved from these illnesses, one should remember the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the context of Jihad, which he explains is a means of purification of a Muslim’s soul and body. Sheikh Al-Shahrouri adds that being saved from coronavirus serves to give one the honor of liberating the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Al-Shahrouri is no lone lunatic; he’s a professor of shari’a at Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan, and serves as the imam of the university’s mosque. In short, a distinguished theologian, well-versed in Islamic law.

Here are excerpts from his broadcast on Yarmouk TV:

Ahmad Al-Shahrouri:

Brothers, we are talking about epidemics and diseases that afflict the body, but what about epidemics that afflict the soul and the mind? An epidemic that afflicts the mind… Let me ask you a question: Is it okay for us to talk about the coronavirus because it is ‘hot news’ and forget about the Jews, who are more dangerous than AIDS, coronavirus, cholera, and all the diseases of this world?

Coronavirus is “hot news,” but it will not last, according to Al-Shahrouri. For him, it’s the insect of an hour. Meanwhile, the Jews are the worst illness of all, for they “afflict the soul and the mind” of Muslims, and are far more dangerous than coronavirus or any other disease or condition that afflicts only the body.

If you want to be saved from these deadly diseases, we should all remember Jihad. Jihad is a means of purification. We should all remember Al-Aqsa Mosque. If we attach our souls to Al-Aqsa, they will be purified. Our bodies will be purified. Anyone who remembers Al-Aqsa loves life. He is saved from the coronavirus, but not in order to get married, build, or study – rather, he is saved so that he can have the honor of liberating the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Jihad – the violent Jihad conducted against the Infidels – is the best way for a Muslim to purify himself. It’s a sacred duty. Do not forget the duty of Jihad, Ahmad Al-Shahrouri says, and remember, too, the Al-Aqsa Mosque. If you remember Al-Aqsa, if it is constantly in your heart and mind, you will be saved from coronavirus. How exactly this happens Al-Shahrouri does not divulge, but Allah works in mysterious ways. And the Muslim who is thereby rendered impervious to coronavirus has been saved for one particular purpose: to help liberate Al-Aqsa from the Jews. That becomes their reason for being.

Don’t put all your faith just yet in Ahmad Al-Shahrouri. He’s one more semi-demented Muslim cleric, using the coronavirus pandemic for his own ends, in order to remind Muslims yet again that it is important to fight the Jews, who are “more dangerous” than coronavirus or any other illness, or than all illnesses put together. Let’s see just how impervious to coronavirus the world’s devout Muslims, such as those in Iran, turn out to be. So far, judging by the latest official figures from Teheran, Iran has a total of 12,800 cases and 620 dead – and that number is widely believed to be far below the real totals, thinking about Jihad and Al-Aqsa has not been providing the protection to Believers that Sheikh Ahmad Al-Shahrouri predicted it would. Perhaps it’s time for us to put him and his noxious nostrums aside and listen, instead, to the sane advice of Dr. Anthony Fauci. And keep washing those hands.

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  1. Buraq says

    Mar 18, 2020 at 10:04 am

    Islam ……. Covid 20! Clowns.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 18, 2020 at 11:10 am

      The Koranovirus has killed over 270 million and still counting.

      There are about 50 killed due to the Koranovirus every single day.

      • commonsense says

        Mar 18, 2020 at 11:37 am

        Yes. And I will argue that while this pandemic necessitates widespread and difficult measures to contain its spread, a far greater – and largely unrecognized – threat to our very existence is the unchecked flow of Muslims into Western countries, including our own. As the Muslim presence increases, the rest of us will experience the consequences – no-go Sharia zones, increased attacks on non-Muslims, increased pressure to accommodate and cowtow to Muslim practices, even those that inconvenience or disrupt everyday life and commerce or result, due to threats of reprisal – veiled or overt – in censorship or historical revisionism in the mass media and the educational system, etc.
        We are still asleep, nineteen years after 9-11.
        Ban Muslim immigration, using the McCarren Act as justification.

        • mortimer says

          Mar 18, 2020 at 12:01 pm

          Most Muslims in the US are very integrated and pursue the American dream.

        • James Lincoln says

          Mar 18, 2020 at 5:21 pm

          mortimer,

          What about Minneapolis and Dearborn?

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 18, 2020 at 5:50 pm

          Mortimer wrote:

          Most Muslims in the US are very integrated and pursue the American dream.
          ……………….

          Mortimer. over half of Muslim in the United States openly say they want to see the imposition of Shari’ah law here. How does this have *anything* to do with the American dream?

        • commonsense says

          Mar 18, 2020 at 8:31 pm

          Mortimer, I must disagree. The video I have seen showing hundreds, perhaps thousands of Muslims praying in the streets and roads of Brooklyn, NY, deliberately creating an impasse spanning many city blocks, and a similar one of massed Muslims praying in the road and on the sidewalks of midtown Manhattan during the busiest part of the workday, creating havoc, is proof enough. Some of those participating in the latter video were NYC policemen, wearing their uniforms, sporting Muslim beards, and making obeisance to Allah along with the rest of the scowling, defiant, belligerents. In addition, nearly all the Muslimas participating were hijabbed, and some were in niqabs.
          At frontpagemag.com, one finds articles by Florida-based researcher Joe Kaufman, who reports on the activities of local imams and members of Muslim advocacy groups. All the mosques within his geographic area promote Sharia, hostility to Jews and Israel (despite eagerly participating, even hosting, interfaith events), and, yes, jihad. I live in Kaufman’s part of the state and can tell you that my own research (studying local mosques’ social media posts, watching recorded qutbas delivered by their imams or surrogates, etc.) confirms all of this, and more. While I’m sure that peaceful Muslims do exist, they do so because they are either indifferent to or unaware of what their religion actually teaches. The problem is that any one of these individuals may one day get serious about their religion, and this peaceful Muslim no longer exists.

        • Giacomo Latta says

          Mar 19, 2020 at 9:57 am

          Mortimer: anybody home?

      • Paul J says

        Mar 19, 2020 at 2:56 am

        Mortimer, considering your knowledge of islam is expansive, your continued naivety is astounding. Sorry to say but people like you are a big problem too and you only aid the spread of islam with your double think.

    • Lydia Church says

      Mar 19, 2020 at 12:54 am

      Manufactured chaos… which leads to order out of chaos… artificial solutions to the crisis that has been orchestrated. And in rolls the NWO. Ready or not. Layer by layer, section by section, society is shut down. Whole regions are on lockdown. Like a siege. The takeover has begun. It will all be dismantled. The lights are going out all over the world. Their ‘dream’ will finally emerge out of the smoke. Revelation 13. In reality, it will be the nightmare.
      The darkest hour comes before the dawn, the true dawn is the return of Jesus, only He has the real solutions. Don’t follow the imposter with artificial ones into a counterfeit dawn.
      One world government.
      One world economy.
      One world religion.
      All under the antichrist.
      It must happen before the apocalypse, God’s wrath and judgment upon the world for sin, the persecution of true Christians by the world, and the return of Jesus to judge the earth and restore paradise. So…. here we are.

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 19, 2020 at 1:01 am

        So you’re good with our doing nothing to stop the spread of the disease?

  2. commonsense says

    Mar 18, 2020 at 10:27 am

    Although the Jordanian ruler maintains an icy peace with Israel, ordinary Jordanians seethe with Jew-hatred, as most, after all, are Allah’s servants, and understand that, as per their Koran, the Jews are those who harbor the greatest enmity to the Believers. Added to the mix are the Arabized dhimmi Christians, who are, for the most part, little better.

  3. Jaladhi says

    Mar 18, 2020 at 11:04 am

    “Islamic Scholar” = an oxymoron! The two words don’t go together!

  4. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Mar 18, 2020 at 11:22 am

    Until the face of Adolf Hitler becomes synonymous with the face of Islam there will be no stopping this unending dichotomy between what we are told about Islam and what keeps showing up. Our former moronic puppet president and subsequent war criminal, George W. Bush, is the poster child for this ongoing level of cognitive dissonance. When he stood in front of a small group of muslims, of which at least one was later convicted of terrorist activities, soon after the mass slaughter of Americans on 9/11, and declared Ialam a religion of peace, it was off to the races for false beliefs and false narratives. You may say my solution is cruel and harsh, but I can only assume many of the fools who were duped into joining ISIS and subsequently killed amidst ceaseless bombings might have agreed with me moments before their horrendous and untimely deaths.

    • James Lincoln says

      Mar 18, 2020 at 5:27 pm

      Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says,

      “George W. Bush, when he stood in front of a small group of muslims… soon after the mass slaughter of Americans on 9/11, and declared Islam a religion of peace, it was off to the races for false beliefs and false narratives.”

      That is correct.

      A tragic missed opportunity to take on the islamization of the United States of America head-on…

      • E T says

        Mar 20, 2020 at 6:02 pm

        Thank you James. George Bush did many maniac Muslims a giant favour with his comments after 9/11. People need to study what Jimmy Carter did and said to advance the
        Islamic cause in Iran.

  5. PRCS says

    Mar 18, 2020 at 12:04 pm

    But wait!
    There’s more!

    Iranian Sunni Scholar Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi: COVID-19 Came to Iran through Chinese Students at the State-Funded Al-Mustafa University in Qom, Which Brainwashes Sunnis

    https://www.memri.org/tv/iranian-sunni-scholar-abdolhamid-ismaeelzahi-mustafa-university-brainwash-coronavirus

    • Giacomo Latta says

      Mar 19, 2020 at 9:59 am

      Finally, a Chinese export which isn’t a piece of crap that does not ever last as long as its guaranteed life.

  6. Rarely says

    Mar 18, 2020 at 12:43 pm

    As anyone with a measurable IQ knows COVID-19 has an incredibly devastating potential. By distracting or discouraging others from taking protective measures against it is, at best, irresponsible in the extreme. In the months to come COVID-19 almost certainly will grab more of his attention.

  7. ELI says

    Mar 18, 2020 at 3:54 pm

    What is selective reporting? what is extrapolation from isolated events?

    does anyone care about this rabbi? “Another hardline leader of the religious right, Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, wrote on Sunday that the coronavirus is a rectification for humankind’s arrogance and haughtiness, and a rebuke to moral relativism. On Twitter, Aviner said however that there was one good thing the coronavirus outbreak in Israel had caused.“Almost all the non-Jewish culture has stopped. Academia, the Education Ministry, leisure culture, travel abroad,” the rabbi wrote on the 21st century micro-blogging site.”
    source: https://www.jpost.com/International/Religious-leaders-Coronavirus-is-punishment-sign-of-the-messiahs-coming-621339

    Not a peep from Fitzgerald ?

    Why does Hugh Fitzgerald ignore non-Muslims who behave like idiots? because he can and he does not care about the behavior itself, it;s about whether a Muslim engages in that behavior and how that can be extrapolated to the entirety of the Muslim world. In this case, jihadwatch is attempting to create a link between the coronavirus and Islam in the minds of jihadwatchers. It’s working

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 18, 2020 at 5:56 pm

      Yes, this is ugly and stupid stuff. But nowhere is the Rabbi calling for harm to be done to Gentiles, as ELI falsely implies.

      And no–no one is blaming Muslims for the coronavirus. The idea that they should not then be taken to task over virulent hatred of Jews and other Infidels does not follow.

      And ELI is also ranting on other threads that we should ignore the savagery of Islam if we know what is good for us.

  8. RichardL says

    Mar 18, 2020 at 4:56 pm

    i agree with him: the covid-idiocy is getting on my nerves and I do worry about Jewish my brothers and sisters every day.

    look up Wolfgang Wodarg.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 18, 2020 at 5:59 pm

      Wolfgang Wodarg’s claim that the coronavirus is essentially fake does not seem to be backed up by reality. How would you get every health-care professional all over the world to get in on the hoax?

      • RichardL says

        Mar 19, 2020 at 7:41 am

        He not only is a former health care official, he was a member of parliament responsible for infectious diseases for a long time. He says, I cannot be fired any longer and that is how the professor from the University of Zurich starts her interview. All in German. Read the Glasgow study. Gateway Pundit also has some info.

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 21, 2020 at 1:13 am

          So everyone in all but ten or so nations in the world is in on this hoax, and are just pretending that people are getting sick and dying? Or are governments all over the world whacking their own citizens and just pretending they are dying from the Coronavirus?

          And yet not a single doctor or nurse has come forward to say that this is all just a scam?

  9. gravenimage says

    Mar 18, 2020 at 5:37 pm

    Jordanian Islamic Scholar: Don’t Worry About the Coronavirus, Worry About the Jews
    ………………..

    Muslims are not just irrational, they are irrational in the ugliest ways possible.

    • keith says

      Mar 18, 2020 at 7:40 pm

      GI, This mind set of “the corona virus is not dangerous”, no precautions need to be taken etc is possibly a good thing.
      Two things will possibly occur, first the body count among Muslims will go through the roof and second, the Muslim population will see that they are being fed false information and outright lied to by their religion.
      This may well lead to more converts.
      But either way, corona virus =less chance of terrorist attacks.

  10. Giacomo Latta says

    Mar 19, 2020 at 10:09 am

    Given the Covid-19 pathogen incubation period of a week and the fact that it appears to belong in its own category, a two-week period of a forced vacation for a large proportion of us is not out of the question. Furthermore, the utmost of discipline should be applied where individual discipline is wanting. Nevertheless, life is for the living and we must return to what was our normal. Tuberculosis, various flu viruses, ebola and other diseases inflict us. We haven’t stopped the world for them.

  11. OLD GUY says

    Mar 19, 2020 at 10:52 am

    Sounds like a good plan for the islamics idiot.

  12. David says

    Mar 19, 2020 at 1:04 pm

    These clerics talk an absolute load of nonsense and garbage which appeals to the muslim mentality. What a lot of twisted sad people!
    Thanks MEMRI TV for another eye-opener.

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