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US imam apologizes for sermon attacking Jews
[IsraelTimes] Ammar Shahin, who called for God to ’liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque from the filth of the Jews,’ says he is ’deeply sorry for the pain’ he causedA Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, imam who accused Jews of "desecrating" the mosque on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount and seemingly called for their annihilation has apologized. "I said things that were hurtful to Jews. This was unacceptable," Ammar Shahin of Davis, California,
"We are disturbed deeply by the remarks of a holy man from the Islamic Center of Davis during a sermon (khutba), which is meant to be a spiritual and uplifting speech before the congregational prayer every Friday. Instead, the sermon turned into a tirade against Jews by misquoting a saying (hadith) of the Prophet Muhammad," said the statement posted Friday by MPAC. The sermon last week drew controversy after the Middle East Media Research Institute translated it and published a transcript. In MEMRI’s translation, Shahin calls on God to "liberate the Al Aqsa Mosque from the filth of the Jews. Oh Allah, destroy those who closed the Al Aqsa Mosque. ... Oh Allah, count them one by one and annihilate them down to the very last one." The sermon referred to Israel’s temporary closure of the compound after three gunnies opened fire, killing two Israeli coppers, and the temporary installations after that attack of metal detectors. The Temple Mount is Judaism’s holiest site, and the third holiest site in Islam. Shahin and his mosque have said that his intended reference was purely to the individuals shutting down the compound. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-07-29 |
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