This acquittal will have reverberations for generations to come. There is nothing this imam says that is “extremist”; it is all mainstream Islam. The genocidal hadith he quotes, about the rocks and trees calling on Muslims to kill Jews, is at Sahih Muslim 6985 and elsewhere. Will some “moderate Muslim” spokesman explain exactly how Mohamed Tatai is “hijacking” Islam? Don’t hold your breath. And what will the future of France, and the West in general, be like as a result of inviting in such people, and never confronting them on their beliefs and activities that are at variance with Western social norms and principles?
“French court acquits imam who quoted text commanding Muslims to kill Jews,” by Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA, September 17, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
JTA — A senior imam in France who in a sermon recited a religious text commanding Muslims to kill Jews has been acquitted of incitement to antisemitic hate charges.
Mohamed Tatai, the rector of the Great Mosque of Toulouse, had no desire to incite hatred in his sermon from 2017, the Correctional Tribunal of Toulouse ruled Tuesday. The sermon came days after news broke that the United States would recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Jewish community leaders, who broke relations with Tatai and his mosque following the discovery of his sermon, protested the ruling. Tatai leads an interfaith dialogue group called the Circle for Civil Dialogue.
Franck Teboul, the president of the Toulouse chapter of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities, said it was reminiscent of a recent decision in France not to try the killer of a Paris Jewish woman who during the 2017 slaying of Sarah Halimi spewed antisemitic slurs and shouted about Allah. A court ruled that Kabili Traore was too high on marijuana to make him responsible for his actions.
“Even when you kill a Jew you’re not convicted but considered crazy,” Teboul told France Bleu. “So you tell thousands at a mosque to kill Jews and hide behind a centuries-old text to avoid conviction.”…
Abdallah Zekri, the president of the Observatory for the Fight Against Islamophobia, and a community leader appointed by the Great Mosque of Paris, said the verdict “cuts against radical fundamentalists who expected Tatai would be convicted to tell their followers: ‘Look how they’re treating a moderate Muslim,’” France Bleu quoted him as saying.
Zekri defended Tatai, saying “he’s always maintained good relations with the Jewish and Catholic communities.”
Tatai, who has not resigned his communal posts, has received some backing from prominent members of the Muslim community.
In the sermon, which was filmed, he said that the Prophet Muhammad “told us about the final and decisive battle: ‘Judgement Day will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews. The Jews will hide behind the stones and the trees, and the stones and the trees will say: Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him – except for the Gharqad tree, which is one of the trees of the Jews’.”…
Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Great Mosque of Paris and the president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith, protested the controversy over Tatai’s sermon rather than the sermon itself.
Acting as Tatai’s spokesperson, Boubaker said Tatasi “apologizes to anyone who was accidentally offended by the pulling out of context” of the sermon. Neither imam explained what they believe to be the correct context.
Bob C says
“Courts” ?
I wouldn’t call them a court.
maria says
No that court isnot a court.they are murderers, liars, neo nazis and racists
Westman says
Islam – A religious philosophy and eschatology(end times prophesies) designed to justify the economic and geographical advance of a society through warfare.
No matter what CAIR, OIC, and others say and do, there are independent historical records as well as the Quran and Hadith, which cannot be erased; all testifying to to the true theology and history of Islam. Claims might be made that, “We no longer do that”, yet the records still exist as do the “sacred” works which justified the conquests. The theology has not been changed, allowing, “We do what Islam commands”, to happen at anytime by any believer.
The reading of the theological justifications for condemning 80% of humanity will always be disparaged by modern society, particularly condemning Islam’s eternal animus toward Jews. Neither Islamic leaders or the political leaders of free nations understand that Islam’s theology will only increase their respective problems.
Johnny B says
So let me get this straight. An Imam quotes Muhammad commanding his followers to kill Jews and is acquitted by a court of law because it’s all in the Quran and Hadiths. However, when a non-Muslim quotes Muhammad commanding his followers to kill Jews they’re immediately labelled a racist, Islamophobe etc. Not only that, they’re also censored on social medias and risk getting trialled in court, lose their jobs, injured and what not. Are we still living in the West I wonder?
Westman says
You, “got it straight”.
Islam is like a demanding, gold-digging wife. Islam is, “always right”, likewise, what is Islam’s, belongs to Islam, and what belongs to the unbelievers, belongs to Islam.
mortimer says
Reply to Johnny: “Bukhari:Vol.1/Book.1/No.6 “Just issue orders to kill every Jew in the country.”
Any other religion wouldn’t get away with that quote.
Doomer says
More proof to me as a doomer that the West will collapse. What is really stupid is that my zoomer friends can’t see
how the 1%, who have 43% of the world’s money, are manipulating them. The 1% was scared to death of the movie “Joker”.
In the movie,the zoomers and millenials are all the time in protests with “Kill the rich,kill the rich!”.
Bezos, Zuckerberg,Google,youtube,Silicon Valley,Twitter,etc, were worried to death because of “Joker”.If zoomers are real Leftists then they should force the 1% to redistribute minimum 50% of their wealth to the poor. But those zoomers won’t ever try, they are too mentally-challenged to have such a strategy and program.
The only 1% members to be spared are Trump and a few others.They have helped us the poor.I have my total respect for Trump.
gravenimage says
Doomer, your idea that you are “mentally challenged” if your don’t want to murder people who have made more money than you have is just appalling. I actually prefer living in a democracy with civilized laws. I imagine most people here do.
But then, I notice you have not a word of criticism for this disgusting ruling. I am not surprised…
Doomer says
Hello,I only said to redistribute some of the wealth of the 1%,not to kill them. Which can be done with non-stop protests,lasting months,even years, something like that almost happened when the Occupy Wall Street movement took place. But zoomers only obey anything the 1% says to protest about,being manipulated. They can’t see the 1% is laughing at them. It won’t ever happen.
gravenimage says
Uh huh. “Occupy” mostly violently smashed up local shops here in Oakland–not something I’d want to point to as a model for emulation. Much of the violence was not far from where I live. They are also big fans of “Palestinian” violence against democratic Israel. The threat of violence is a constant element of this “movement”. There was graffiti reading “Kill the Rich” and “Eat the Rich”.
By the way, Muslims demand that Infidels fork over their wealth in the form of Jizya, tribute, booty, ransom, foreign aid, welfare benefits, etc. Now that’s real “redistribution”…
Adam says
what belongs to the unbelievers, belongs to Islam ”
And unbelievers, atheists of the west and the west, happily and stupidly facilitate that.
The west is responsible for every muslim who is grieved, hungry, sad, oppressed by other muslims, install Muslim Brotherhood in authority in Egypt and elsewhere. If they can’t, then bring them here and help them establish their salafist caliphate her : in Britain, Sweden, France, Holland, New Zealand. Aussie …
Adam says
Acquitting a criminal muslim by cowards is systematically done. This is a prevailing pattern.
In the west there is another pattern: Whenever Gaza hurtles rockets at Israel kids, the west never mentions that. Once Israel retaliates presto they have some breaking news .
They never blame Gaza even if they slaughter 3 year-old child.
Did you notice that? No.
Kepha says
If France has provisions to protect freedom of speech and the free exercise of religion, the court can make no other decision.
HOWEVER, the Jewish communities of France should also have the right to publicize that someone wants to kill them, and to defend themselves. I should also hope that such sermons as this let all and sundry know that Islam is no religion of peace, and that physical violence is part and parcel of the textual and doctrinal foundations of Islam.
The greatest disseminator of Islamophobia is Muslims themselves.
gravenimage says
Kepha, you have said before that you believe that incitement to violence is just freedom of speech and freedom of religion–but the fact is that the First Amendment *does* nake exceptions for inciting murder.
gravenimage says
France: Court acquits imam who quoted Muhammad commanding Muslims to kill Jews
………………..
Just sickening–utter madness.
mortimer says
Bukhari:Vol.1/Book.1/No.6 “Just issue orders to kill every Jew in the country.”
Tabari 7:97. “The morning after the murder of Ashraf, the Prophet declared, “Kill any Jew who falls under your power.”
(Explanation: Ashraf was a poet, killed by Muhammad’s men because he insulted Islam. Here, Muhammad widens the scope of his orders to kill.
An innocent Jewish businessman was then slain by his Muslim partner, merely for being non-Muslim.)
Islamic anti-Semitism is rampant in the Koran and hadiths. Don’t the French know that?
David m says
Islam is evil and disgusting
mortimer says
And Islam is NORMATIVELY anti-Semitic.