This kind of thinking breeds jihadis. That is because Amira is assuming that Allah is punishing the world because of sin. A hadith depicts Muhammad saying that no deed is greater than jihad. So if one is burdened by one’s sins, a sure way to cleanse one’s soul and get back into Allah’s good graces is to wage jihad.
“COVID-19 Omicron outbreak due to homosexuality and Israel – Al-Aqsa Imam,” Jerusalem Post, December 23, 2021:
The LGBTQ+ community, as well as the Israeli government and media, are to blame for the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, Imam of al-Aqsa Mosque Issam Amira has claimed, according to N12.
The Palestinian Islamic scholar and preacher made the controversial statements in a sermon during Friday prayers at the Islamic holy site in Jerusalem.
According to Amira, the Omicron variant “did not spread until the government and media announced its existence.”
Amira went on to claim that the government and media that “brought the variant” are the same that “allow and encourage homosexuality.”
This is not the first time that the Imam has made controversial and problematic comments.
In 2020, Amira was arrested by Israel Police and received a six-month ban from al-Aqsa Mosque for praising the Muslim who murdered and beheaded French teacher Samuel Paty for using illustrations of the prophet Mohammed….
mike says
the level of education of Muslims dumbfounds me I guess that what you get with the gene pool is a single gen the family trees are just sticks
mortimer says
Many of those mullahs have PhD’s in Islamic studies.
gravenimage says
Only other Muslims find this impressive.
somehistory says
I agree. A phd in islam….knowing putrid…esp to that extent… makes one so.
Peter WF says
Search –
“world map marry first cousins”
“world map average IQ”
“world map muslims”
bill says
It is not just Muslims, though they are in modern times more likely to say such crazy things. Back in the time of the Black Death and other plagues the clergy always said it was ‘god’s’ punishment for people’s evil ways
The Christians have nothing to boast of when it comes to saying stupid and misleading things
gravenimage says
Notable that your citation re Christians here is over 600 years ago…
somehistory says
Thankfully, some people have learned that “Time and unforeseen occurrence befall us all,as King Solomon wrote ,many thousands of years ago.
It was once unknown why diseases came and spread from person to person.
Furthermore, there were times in the Bible when God Almighty sent illness and death on those who were defying Him. But He only punished the evil ones….He didn’t send punishments upon people willy-nilly as this virus attacks. And what is more, He always gave a Warning to those who faced His wrath. He didn’t send things against anyone without giving fair warning so they could change their behavior if they wanted to avoid the punishment.
It’s nice when so many wish to compare…islam’s filth and violence with the Faith of those who do no harm ,nor wish harm, to others.
Evidently, atheists say some really stupid and misleading. stuff too.
somehistory says
And when the “omicron” hits mozlums, then what? Some other “cleric” will proclaim that it was made by the Jews to kill moslums.
Stupid is as stupid does, speaks, writes, yada, yada, yada.
gravenimage says
Somehistory, it’s already turned up in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Malaysia, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Pakistan, and Morocco–and no doubt other parts of Dar-al-Islam. But when have pious Muslims ever cared about logic?.
somehistory says
One of their “clerics’ said some years ago, “there is no logic in islam.” It’s all a load of evil nonsense, destructive to those who cling to it and any with whom they come in contact.
gravenimage says
Agree, Somehistory. And Islam is not just irrational–it is irrational in *such an ugly way*. It’s not as though they just believe in unicorns and pots of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Chessss says
Pious? NO.
Killers seeking a global caliphate? (global dominance.). YES.
No different than the US Progressive party..
Is world dominance not logical.?
Keith O says
If this is the superstitious drivel that is being fed to these saps on a daily basis, then it’s no wonder islam is dragging everything it pollutes back into the stone age.
mortimer says
It is not exactly superstition, but it is TAQIYYA to exploit the ignorance of less educated Muslims. The mullahs who make these sweeping absurd claims are well-educated with advanced degrees. They are dragging Muslims back to the 7th century.
gravenimage says
I doubt this is Taqiyya from Muslims used on other Muslims. Many Islamic clerics are as ignorant as dirt–and as hating of Jews–as their unwashed followers.
Chessss says
And we are following them there. We are so enamored with our “diversity”, we can’t see straight. WE ARE FOOLS.
gravenimage says
Muslim cleric at Al-Aqsa Mosque: Allah sent omicron variant because of homosexuality and Israel
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Uh huh. Never mind that Islamic countries like Turkey and Iran have had *many* more Covid deaths than has Israel.
More:
According to Amira, the Omicron variant “did not spread until the government and media announced its existence.”
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Like so many Muslims, this fool has no understanding of cause and effect, nor of logic in general. Announcing that something is a growing threat does not cause it to be so.
mortimer says
To eduardo: HERE IS the topic we previously discussed, namely, CANONICAL HATRED TOWARDS KAFIRS. The quote in the caption is what I was pointing out to you … AL WALAA WAL BARAA is an ABSOLUTE, CANONICAL REQUIREMENT for all Muslims to HATE KAFIRS and to SHOW HOSTILITY towards them … ‘for the sake of Allah’.
The mullah preaches from the THIRD MOST IMPORTANT MOSQUE IN ISLAM, so it cannot be said that his sermon doesn’t represent authentic teaching.
“The strategy in Islam is HOSTILITY TOWARD NON-MUSLIMS”
… (the original Arabic for ‘non-Muslims’ is KUFAAR).
-Imam Abdul-Latif ibn Abdur-Rahman Rahimullah said, “It is not possible for someone to realize Tawheed (Islamic faith) and act upon it, and yet not be HOSTILE against the mushrikeen (i.e. wrong worshippers). So anyone who isn’t HOSTILE against the mushrikeen, then it cannot be said that he acts upon Tawheed nor that he realizes it.” [ad-Durar as-Saniyyah 8/167]
(ad-Durar as-Saniyyah 8/167 … the above quote is from one of the most important scholarly volumes used by Wahhabist SAUDI CLERICS)
AL WALAA WAL BARAA is required by SUNNITE and SHI’ITE Muslims alike.
gravenimage says
Yep.
Kenneth J Johnson says
I doubt very much if the so called PHD’s the Mullahs have are equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree from an American University. Some of the remarks atrtributrd to Mujhslem Clerics on Jihad Watcch are so inane one wonders where they come from. Not from the mouith of an “educated ” individujal, that’s for sure. Ken
jewdog says
Listen to this idiot and you may conclude that humanity is devolving, probably due to the more educated classes using birth control, while the sub-humans breed freely. Pretty soon they’ll be growing more body hair and sporting prehensile tails. It’s reverse Darwinism.
tim gallagher says
These Muslim clergy are beyond stupid. If a person was to believe the rubbish that creatures like this idiot espouse, then I’d say that it makes just as much sense to say that this Covid virus has been caused by all those murderous Muslim terrorist attacks which have killed so many innocent people, or it has been caused by all those Muslim rape gangs, or by all those Muslim pedophiles marrying and having sex with very young girls. Maybe that is what has pissed God off so much that he has sent the Covid plague down on mankind. Maybe it is all the evil behaviour from Muslims that has enraged God so much. Maybe the Muslims had better stop doing all the evil they do. Of course, it is all a load of superstitious crap this Muslim clergyman is putting forward and, of course, it is always israel, Israel, Israel according to these brain dead Muslim clowns.
VICTOR COWEN says
Just another sick old man with a beard. Who cares?
gravenimage says
Sadly we have to care, because these thugs are out to murder us.
Chessss says
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OLD GUY says
Funny this cleric is anti LGBTQ+ and he/she wares a dress, or has a flock of female sheep. Wow what a power trip islamic leaders are on, they have the right to enact Gods judgement on mankind, I’am an equal to god, now that’s a POWER TRIP.
James Lincoln says
OLD GUY,
To your point about a man in a dress, I saw The Who in Boston right after “Endless Wire” had just come out.
They closed with an interesting acoustic version of “A Man in a Purple Dress”:
Interesting lyrics…
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858634620/
Alfredo says
The table cloth these old coots wear on their head and their ideology given to them by their seventh century so-called prophet who promises them “beautiful boys with bare buttocks wearing women’s jewelry and perfume will be there to serve them in their prophet’s Paradise” is what’s making them as crazy as an old goat.
Yet, delusional fools like this one wearing table cloth on their heads imagine that homosexuals are the cause of Omicron. Why not the Delta variant? Why only the Omicron?