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“Jordanian MP hails Egyptian who killed three IDF soldiers,” JNS, June 11, 2023:
Jordanian lawmaker Khalil Atieh on Saturday praised the Egyptian “martyr” who killed three IDF soldiers in a terrorist attack on June 3, Israeli media reported.
Speaking at the Arab Parliament in Cairo, Atieh requested that a Sura from the Koran be read in honor of Mohamed Salah Ibrahim, who last week shot dead Sgt. Lia Ben-Nun, 19, Staff Sgt. Uri Iluz, 20 and Staff Sgt. Ohad Dahan, 20, along the Sinai border.
“We congratulate Egypt, and its martyr Mohamed Salah,” said Atieh. “I request from this honorable council that we stand for a reading of al-fatiha, for the souls of the martyrs from the Arab and Muslim people who died a holy death for the sake of Palestine.”…
Israel’s Army Radio reported that the Egyptian policeman had in his possession six magazines for his rifle, a Koran and a knife. The IDF believes that the presence of the Koran suggests that Ibrahim was motivated by Islamic religious extremism, the report said….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Shouldn’t he wanna read 5:32 – the one about he who kills one person… blah blah blah? Or will it be something about Jews becoming apes & rats? ?
That Jordanian parliament could send a signal simply by their choice of verse they pick on whether they’re on the path of jihad, or whether they’d be the next candidate for the Abraham Accords