In a Muslim context, Achmat Salie could hardly have found anything worse to call Trump and Biden. The Jews in the Qur’an are called the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13). They are disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more. They are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29).
Original video:
“Islamic Center Of Detroit Imam Dr. Achmat Salie: There May Be A Plot To Infect Muslims With COVID-19; Both Presidential Candidates Are Zionist Puppets; Masks Cause Illness; COVID-19 Caused By The Terrain, Not By A Virus,” MEMRI, November 6, 2020:
In an October 30, 2020 sermon at the Islamic Center of Detroit, Michigan, the imam, Dr. Achmat Salie, said that billionaires like George Soros and others create the problems that they claim to solve. In a November 6, 2020 sermon at the same mosque, he said that both U.S. presidential candidates are Zionist puppets, and that all the decision-making in the world is done by tech companies in Silicon Valley and Israel. In addition, Dr. Salie rejected germ theory and argued that face masks cause illnesses. Claiming that Islam’s enemies want to shut down mosques and keep abortion clinics and bars open, Dr. Salie suggested that there may be a plot to infect Muslims with COVID-19 and encouraged his audience to follow social distancing guidelines.
Dr. Achmat Salie, who immigrated to the U.S. from South Africa, is an Islamic scholar who has established Islamic academic programs at Oakland University and the University of Detroit Mercy. In his LinkedIn bio, Dr. Salie identifies as “spiritual and religious director, marriage officiant and counselor, peace ambassador, global citizen, chaplain, philanthropist, halal consultant, entrepreneur, pioneer, academic.”
Dr. Achmat Salie, November 6, 2020: “Unfortunately, when we look at many Muslims, even some of our imams that are popular, when we speak about tragedy, we bring the Holocaust— the Jewish Holocaust — to be the ultimate tragedy, the ultimate pain, and yet there are other communities, that had 600 million [victims], if you look at the global nation of the Muslims, and it is just counting, it is just continuing.
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“It is impossible for me to go with either of these [U.S. presidential] candidates. Both of them are puppets of the Zionists, and they just hope that [saying] inshallah — which one of them said — or getting a few Muslim [supporters]… [They hope this] will fool Muslims.
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“Most of the world, and the things that are happening in the world, are being controlled by the 1%, or what [we] can actually say is the 0.001%. Unfortunately, everyone is just following like sheep. And we have powerful groups, whether it is tech companies in Silicon Valley… There is another Silicon Valley that is twice more cutting edge, and it is in Israel… Most of the decisions are made there, most of the things are happening from there. So we need to be aware of how things are operating in this world, how Google has become sometimes a Gestapo in the way they censor things.
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“So the ‘terrain theory’ by homeopaths — that it is the terrain that is dirty and causes the virus and not the germ theory, where the germ itself causes the virus… That is my opinion, and I don’t want to force my opinion on anyone else. But it is also a hadith of the Messenger that those who frequent the mosques — Allah protects them much more. Unless, of course, other people plan, and they make Muslims targets of these viruses.
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“There are so many enemies of Islam out there. They want to close down the mosques. They want to keep open abortion clinics, they want to keep open the bars — but mosques, they want to close down. Follow the [social distancing] rules just for that — I don’t believe in much of it…
Dude says
These idiots kill, rape, rob, enslave for centuries to this day, and yet complain about their would-be victims.
Only monstrous thugs would believe that their behaviour is divine. Such idiots!
Sam says
A simple questiin:
How many Christians + Jews have the Muslims kill in the last 1oo years?
How many Muslims have your people kill in the past 50 years? Give the readers the numbers please.
gravenimage says
I see that “Sam” here is fretting that Muslims haven’t murdered *even more people*. I guess over 40,000 Jihad terror attacks just since 9/11 are not enough for him…
Sam says
Well, your ilk killed 2 million Iraqis after 911 despite the very well known fact that Saddam was against the al-Qaida, also, despite the fact that more than 80% of the world knows that the 911 attacks were carried by dirty elements of the CIA, M16, and the mossad
The question is, how many Christians did the Muslim kill after 911? Your ilk killed 11 million Muslims, what is their response?how many of your ilk did they kill?Give the readers some numbers, forget about 40,000 “terror” attacks which are called “terror” as part of your ilk false propaganda… most of these so called terror attacks were criminal acts, not political or religious backed attacks …
gravenimage says
Of course, these figures from “Sam” are ludicrous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
Moreover, most of these deaths were Jihad terrorists–the United States goes out of its way to protect noncombatants.
And where did he get these figures, including that of 11 million? Citations, please–although I will of course not be holding my breath.
Then, the claim that Jihad terror, including 9/11, is actually carried out by Jews and American Infidels is simply grotesque. Can he then explain why Muslims were dancing in the streets over an attack supposedly carried out by non-Muslims to make Islam look bad? And is “Sam” also claiming that all 40,000+ Jihad terror attacks are also carried out by the ‘filthy Kuffar’? Does he realize how ridiculous these claims make him look?
wth009 says
These mosques need to be thoroughly INVESTIGATED NOW! We did not fight and die for IslamoNazis to be allowed to propagate their hate in America! This MUST STOP NOW!
gravenimage says
+1
Orville P. Phisnarus says
I can see the audience sitting there with their mouths open, absorbing all these lies from a Imam who does not seem to read the history of Muslims. He neglects to point out the brutality of his own culture. Always the victim….
gravenimage says
Detroit: Imam calls Trump and Biden ‘puppets of the Zionists’ and says Muslims are ‘targets of these viruses’
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All of Biden’s kowtowing to Islam has apparenty not helped.
As for the rest, just more stupid Islamic conspiracy theories.
Jayell says
‘Dr. Salie rejected germ theory and argued that face masks cause illnesses. Claiming that Islam’s enemies want to shut down mosques and keep abortion clinics and bars open, Dr. Salie suggested that there may be a plot to infect Muslims with COVID-19 and encouraged his audience to follow social distancing guidelines.’
Interesting. So if you reject germ theory, germs (including viruses) must be either irrelevant or non-existent in this situation. In which case, how does one become infected by something that’s either irrelevant or doesn’t exist? Ah, it’s the masks that make people ill! So why have muslims been demanding for centuries that their devout women wear face masks if they’re apparently supposed to make them ill? Let’s ignore that. But if muslims maybe don’t wear the evil masks but then become ill, and it can’t possibly be because of a (non-existent/irrelevant?) germ or a virus (because a muslim scholar says so)……… it’s got to be a plot to shut down mosques and infect muslims!! But wasn’t a muslim scholar saying some time ago that the covid virus was sent by Allah to kill unbelievers and muslims were immune? Then it appeared that maybe muslims weren’t quite as immune as they thought, so either Allah screwed up or…..yes, it’s a kuffar plot to shut down mosques and infect muslims! One little problem – unbelievers (including church goers) are also being infected, but maybe not so much where they’ve been seen to be wearing face masks. But a muslim scholar clearly discounts germs (and viruses?) and says that face masks make you ill (except for devout muslim females, of course. we know all that) so………(here we go again) it’s all a plot to shut down mosques and infert muslims!! I can’t take much more of this profound logic.
But what’s all this self-righteous objecting to ‘keeping abortion clinics open’ whilst closing mosques? This from an advocate of a religion that prescribes ‘post-natal abortion’ on those who oppose it or fall out of favour!
And we haven’t even got the vaccine yet, so let’s anticipate these scientific geniuses and tell them now what these infidel injections are really going to be.
mortimer says
I wonder if mullah Achmat Salie also does ‘halal’ remarriages in which the mullah has sex with a divorced woman before she returns to her previously divorced husband.
Norman Gardner says
Looks like the Iman is a candidate for the FBI to look into. Perhaps he should be sent back to South Africa where he comes from.