Moustafa Kamel, imam and director of the Alansar Mosque in Anaheim, California, said: “We pray for Allah to humiliate them in this world, and the Hereafter, to kindle zeal in the hearts of the Muslims to support their religion, and to humiliate those [Jews] soon. Amen, oh Allah….Those Jews will be annihilated in that war, and they will never rise again….What [the Prophet] meant is that when [the enemy] gets within range of the [Muslims’] arrows, then [the Muslims] must shoot their arrows. This hadith encourages shooting, using any available means – be it using arrows, like in ancient times, or bullets, rockets, grenades, like in modern times, or any other means, because shooting is one of the elements of force that Allah ordered. [Allah] said: ‘Prepare for them whatever force and steeds of war you can.’”
As Gary Fouse explains below, so far the Orange County Register has demonstrated no interest in this story. Now, why is that? If a Christian preacher in Orange County had prayed that God would humiliate Muslims and annihilate them in war, which would of course never happen in real life, and shouldn’t, would the Orange County Register appear similarly indifferent? What do you think?
“Is the Orange Country Register Hiding From a Major Story?,” Gary Fouse, February 23, 2023:
Recently, we cross-posted a report and video clip from MEMRI TV exposing an Anaheim imam who had recently posted a “sermon” (in Arabic) on YouTube in which, according to the MEMRI translation, he recited the infamous “hadith of hate” that describes how Muslims will kill Jews on the Day of Judgment. In addition, Imam Moustafa Kamel made other hate-filled references to Jews. Kamel is head imam at the Al Ansar Mosque in Anaheim.
I am leaving out individual names, but below is an account of how I attempted, apparently, unsuccessfully, to get the Orange County Register, Orange County’s largest newspaper, to cover the story.
On February 12, 2023, I sent an email to a reporter at the Orange County Register whom I had previously met with a link to the Moustafa Kamel video posted by MEMRI TV.
That same date, I received an automated email back from this reporter who was on vacation until February 16. I then sent a copy of my original email with the video to another reporter at OCR who was listed as an alternate. On the same date, I received a second email from the first reporter stating that we should talk when the reporter returned from vacation. On February 17, I started calling the reporter but was unable to get through or leave a message because the “mailbox was full”. I have continued to call this number over the past few days, as recently as February 22, with the same result. Also on February 17, I sent a follow-up email to the reporter asking if the Register was going to follow up with the story. No response. On February 21, I left a message on the OCR News Room answering machine. No response.
To date, nobody from the Register has gotten back to me. In addition, I have been checking the online edition of the Register to see if the story has been reported. I have seen nothing. (If I have simply missed it, I would be happy to retract that last sentence.) The OCR online search box engine comes back negative for either Moustafa Kamel or the Al Ansar Mosque in Anaheim….
Barry Goldberg says
Of course they’re ignoring the story…and you. * The story doesn’t fit their narrative, and you don’t fit their profile of a “trusted source.” Both the story and you are non-existent. Whodda thunk???
Gary Fouse says
I thunk it too, but the onus is on them not me.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Don’t worry about the Orange County Register: just focus on the story itself, and making it known on multiple outlets across the nation. This, or other jihadist attacks on anyone, ain’t just an Orange Country story: it’s a part of that anti-Kafir mosaic that’s a part of islam
Gary Fouse says
Yes, it is of national interest, but there are two stories here; The First is what the imam said. Second is the fact that the newspaper of record in Orange Country, where it occurred, doesn’t want to cover the story. That needs to be pointed out. At the same time, the Register is reporting (rightfully) a news item about a Northern California teacher and pastor who is giving Nazi salutes in the classroom and preaching anti-Semitic tropes.
In fact, I have sent this story regarding the OC Register to multiple conservative and Jewish sites.
OLD GUY says
Muslims have Islamophobia to protect negative speech or reporting on Islamic hate crimes. Christians and Jews are not provided that protection. What B.S.