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| DATE | 2018-11-11 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] How to hate and do it well
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https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/anti-semitic-imam-uc-davis-annihilate-filthy-jews/
California Imam: ‘Annihilate’ Filthy Jews
By Elliot Kaufman
July 25, 2017 7:48 PM
Not everything needs commentary; sometimes words just speak for
themselves. For example, hear what Imam Ammar Shahin told an audience at
Islamic Center of Davis, located across the street from the University
of California-Davis, in his sermon on Friday:
Oh Allah, liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the filth of the Jews. Oh
Allah, destroy those who closed the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Oh Allah, show us
the black day that you inflict upon them, and the wonders of your
ability. Oh Allah, count them one by one and annihilate them down to the
very last one. Do not spare any of them.
Citing an anti-Semitic verse from the Hadith, Shahin added that “Allah
does not change the situation of people until they change their own
situation. The Prophet Muhammad said: ‘Judgment Day will not come until
the Muslims fight the Jews.’”
Shain then made sure to note that “We don’t say if it is in Palestine or
another place,” making clear that Jews will be fought and killed everywhere.
It is hard to believe that Shahin, who is teaching the Muslim faith to
impressionable students at a public university in America, is spewing
this kind of hate about “the filth of the Jews,” whom Allah should
“annihilate.” But there you have it. The relevant sections of the video,
which was originally posted on the Davis Masjid YouTube channel, is
reproduced below, courtesy of the invaluable Middle East Media Research
Institute.
“Fear and outrage” is how Michael Gofman, a student senator at UC-Davis,
describes the reaction in the local Jewish community. In the last few
years, Davis’ Jewish community has faced a spate of anti-Semitic
incidents, including swastikas drawn on the Jewish fraternity house, and
tires of Jewish students’ cars slashed.
Gofman says that when Islamic Center of Davis was vandalized some months
ago, the Jewish community rallied in its support. “I understand this is
not what most Muslims believe,” he notes, “but now they invite a speaker
to call for the annihilation of Jews?”
Imam Shahin, who is Egyptian-born, is an instructor for the Zidni
Islamic Institute, a California-based organization that provides
“classical Islamic training” in the style of “orthodox Sunni Islam,”
according to its website. I wonder if the institute knows how Shahin
feels about Jews. I wonder if they know that he is adding his voice to
the massive campaign to incite violence against Jews with lies about the
al-Aqsa mosque, lies that have been repeated for almost 100 years now.
In the full video, Shahin even calls on his audience to defend the
al-Aqsa mosque, mocking the Muslims who merely watch from afar. His
models for action, which he praised, are the Palestinians who fight
Israeli soldiers with rocks.
I hope the Zidni Institute and the staff of the Islamic Center of Davis
had no clue, but I fear that they knew exactly what he believed — only
they didn’t find it objectionable. I fear that this sort of preaching,
bringing Middle Eastern anti-Semitism over to American Muslims, happens
more than we know; only American Muslims, who hear these sermons, would
know for sure. After all, if this imam was not stupid enough to put
their own hate on YouTube for everyone to see, we would never have found
out about the extremism being spread in Northern California. Apparently
Shahin has been an imam in mosques all over the United States. Did
anyone ever object when he said things like this?
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Gofman, the student senator, tells me that the response to this incident
at UC-Davis has been “muted,” with many people claiming that the imam
was only expressing his “anti-Zionism,” not anti-Semitism. This, I am
afraid, is the usual cowardice and the usual apologia one hears when a
favored group has wronged a non-favored group.
It goes without saying that Shahin should be fired, and kept away from
students at UC-Davis, if possible. Political indoctrination at American
colleges is bad enough — do we really need Islamic anti-Semitism added
to the mix?
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