Jew-Hating Imams Need to be Removed
From Lebanon to Norway -- now most recently in California -- pulpits at mosques are ripe with raw Jew-hate. This hate is not denounced by the immediate community. When news broke recently that Imam Ammar Shahin of the Islamic Center in Davis, California, delivered a one- hour war-drum sermon against Jews concerning the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, the imam and the members of mosque stood shamelessly behind his bidding to "Liberate the Al Aqsa mosque from the filth of the Jews. Annihilate them down to the very last one."
That is a call for genocide. On the same day, in front of a congregation of Friday worshippers, another imam, Mahmoud Harmoush, in Riverside, California, also gave a Jew-hating sermon. Harmoush openly said: "Oh, Allah, liberate the Al Aqsa Mosque and all the Muslim lands from the unjust tyrants and the occupiers... Oh, Allah, destroy them, they are no match for you. Oh, Allah, disperse them and rend them asunder. Turn them into booty in the hands of the Muslims."
The Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem made headlines recently, when Israeli forces placed necessary metal detectors -- the same as protect many other mosques -- at the entrances to the religious site of Jerusalem's Temple Mount, after a deadly terrorist attack in which three Israeli Arabs shot and killed two Druze Israeli policemen days earlier. Palestinians then launched a protest against the security measures, which had been installed to protect Muslim worshippers as well as to protect the mosque from being destroyed by weapons that were being brought into it. Palestinian protestors claimed that the metal detectors were a violation of their religious freedom, even though no one had forbidden Muslims to go to the Temple Mount other than the Palestinian Authority itself. For Muslims in other parts of the world, inflammatory outrage against Israel -- often based on spurious charges -- has always been given immediate priority, while serious human rights violations by Muslim nations, dictators, and mobs are shrugged off as problems "over there." In the U.S., the reactionary sermons in "liberal" California received negative media coverage. Congressmen John Garamendi and Brad Sherman openly admonished the sermons, and there was welcome pushback from the Muslim community. A week after the sermons were delivered and largely defended by the immediate Muslim community despite public denunciation, Imam Ammar Shahin, after public pressure, offered a public apology; Imam Mahmoud Harmoush also apologized. The war-mongering rhetoric of the imams were not slips of the tongue or off-hand comments. Their rhetoric is the same packaged radical ideology churned out in madrassas, terror camps, and online extremist publications. These are calculated and crafted messages that appear to convey the assumption that their religious "authority" will not be challenged. Their words were not indicative of American Islam or what it means to be a Muslim American who embraces tolerance and religious liberty for all, often putting a religious identity second to a collective national identity. What is even more telling is that in the instance of Imam Shahin of Davis, not only did the mosque's board and larger community stand behind him and his sermon; they also chose to attack the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), which did the hard work of uncovering these stories. Rather than those who attended the mosque voicing their concern in public, it was MEMRI that did the footwork Muslim communities should be doing internally -- which includes acting as watchdogs against hate speech. What the American Muslim community should be doing, (instead of, by their silence, implicitly backing the calls for genocide) is helping to launch the flagship Reform Project, devoted to amplifying voices of liberal Muslims. As a southern California native, and an American Muslim who is part of a larger network of progressive Muslims advocating for desperately-needed self-examination, I would like to say that these apologies are simply not good enough. Within days of the sermons, we launched a petitionagainst Imam Ammar Shahin, calling for his immediate termination on the basis of an inexcusable interpretation of the faith; gross abuse of power; manipulating innocent worshippers; disregarding the unacceptable cruelty that this might be inflicting on others (in this instance, Jews); and for further alienating and endangering American Muslims who will suffer backlash and suspicion for the sermon. Voicing concern about backlash, or fear of backlash, is detrimental to American Muslims. It handicaps our ability to speak freely and publicly denounce calls for war against an entire population. Instead of voicing a deeply passionate resistance to using a mosque pulpit, or any pulpit, for advocating genocide -- a sentiment privately disclosed in multiple conversations with California-based American Muslims -- the public response is silence. This silent refusal by many Muslims to condemn attacks that are openly inspired by Islam does not come from aggression, but from a fear of challenging religious authority or needfully holding our own community accountable. In a post-Trump era, Muslims are not worried about what Jews, Americans or a new administration will do. Many of us fear first and foremost our own community for the ostracism and harassment we risk if we rise as a dissenting voice. For this reason, it is critical to underscore that these imams not only antagonize fragile relationships and stir chaos in an already tense time; they do much more than that. Their actions alarm the local Jewish community, who must live with the fact that one block from their homes is someone who wants their family dead. These imams deliberately harm the ability of their own Muslim communities to evolve and embrace pluralism. The petition was supported by outstanding American Muslims and their organizations -- those that value tolerance, respect for the religious values of others, and pluralism. Organizations that signed the petition include the Muslim Reform Movement, Muslims for Progressive Values, as well a handful of other strong southern California Muslim American activists, such as Anila Ali and Soraya Deen. Within days, the petition received literally thousands of signatures. All it demanded was that those imams be fired. The truth is that the entire mosque board that defended and allowed these imams to speak at length, without interruption, should step down. Members of the interfaith community (best described by the Islamic scholar Tarek Fatah as an "interfaith harem") also need to take a hard look at their own complicity. Partnering with Jew-haters is of no service to anyone -- not Jews, not Christians, and not the Muslim community. There is also the larger issue of the ineffectiveness of many interfaith groups and their tendency to be used as props during public-relations disasters such as this one. Apologies do not change an ideology. The imams' apologies will not dissolve their open bias against Jews or anyone else. Extremist ideology will only change once we remove the imamsand the mosque leadership who are complicit and who have unfettered access to a powerful platform. These are not people of faith; they are not spiritual leaders. They are dangerous propagandists and they need to be removed. Shireen Qudosi is the Director of Muslim Matters, with America Matters.
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The “Good” Muslim Immigrants
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The cliché that there is only a “small fringe” of Islamic “extremists” is really getting old. Blame it on a supposed naiveté of the liberal media and politicians like Secretary of State John Kerry, who recently told Catholic Church officials that poverty, “in many cases is the root cause of terrorism or even the root cause of the disenfranchisement of millions of people on this planet.” Poverty, as Michelle Malkin points out in her article, “John Kerry, Jihad Coddler,” has nothing to do with terrorism. Many terrorists are at least middle class while others are affluent and highly educated. Can liberals really be so naive, or is something else going on?Why can’t anyone in the mainstream media be honest and simply explain that the Islamic doctrine itself is to blame? If the answer is political correctness, or fear, why is it that our ancestors did not have this fear and had no trouble at all telling the truth about the violent nature of Islam? (See my article “Islam Hasn’t Changed: We Have” for quotes from dignitaries from the past and present.)
We have various articles with examples of violent Quranic verses calling for the rape, subjugation and murder of non-Muslims and apostates, but to get an overview, The Religion of Peace website has many summaries like “Ten Obvious Reasons Why Islam is NOT a Religion of Peace” and categories like Women’s Rights, Human Rights, Islamic Terror, etc. for anyone in the dark about the violent teachings of a political system ironically named the “religion of peace.” Instead of condemning websites like these as “hate speech”, it would be highly beneficial for these politicians and journalists to actually read them. They might learn something.
Y.K. Cherson’s article, “The Goal of Muslim Immigration According to Muhammad’s Teachings,” is another eye-opener, as well as “Islam: Against All Mankind.” If anyone is still hanging onto the idea that Islam is just another religion, believing that everyone should have the right to freedom of religion, it would serve them well to read the truth instead of buying the politically correct sound bites brainwashing our society today.
“Oh, but it’s not right to stereotype, and there are many good people everywhere.” Well, this is true, but it brings me to something that recently happened in November 2013, when a terrible tragedy occurred in Afghanistan. Trusted Afghan policemen posed for pictures with British soldiers, who were there to help, before gunning them down in cold blood. The British soldiers were there to train them, so after getting trained, the Afghans turned the guns around on their trainers. The very same thing kept happening to American soldiers. There was a program in place to train police officers in Afghanistan, but the US was forced to temporarily shut down that program in 2012, after too many insurgent attacks left American and other soldiers dead. In fact, there were 34 insider attacks throughout that year, which killed a total of 45 international troops.
One serious problem in our society today is the unrealistic belief among many Westerners that Muslims behave one way in their own countries but are different once they come over here. That could possibly be true if only Islam were not so central to these people’s lives and if assimilation were a part of Muslim immigration. It is not. Muslim imams actually preach that they are not to assimilate and should live in their own communities, following their own laws in order to not be “corrupted” by the infidel natives who have been compared to cattle, pigs, apes, and so on. They in turn create their own little world, their own Somalia, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq, etc., in our countries, bringing the same culture they “supposedly” wanted to escape with them. And they do not abandon their “religion” which calls for our demise.
The West has been bringing over many refugees from these war-torn nations, which are often pitting Muslim against Muslim, Sunni against Shia, or are tribal conflicts, rather than any liberal delusion that it is a fight for a Western-style democracy. Now these refugees arrive with a mentality no different than what it was back home.
Not long ago, after the US military brought over five “good Iraqis” who helped America in the war, these five men brutally raped a Colorado woman so badly, it was almost fatal. They brought a violence and cruelty to a part of the US which is generally a nice place where the streets are clean, and you see people out riding their bikes and walking their dogs. In fact, it’s a military town- the Air Force Academy is located there.
But this is what the government does; it brings refugees over to resettle them in nice parts of the country which are later transformed into “little Somalia” or “little Iraq” once more refugees come along with their families. Then the Middle East or Africa are no longer “over there” but are right at home with us.
In this case of the rape, one of the offenders was even featured in the memoir of an American soldier. And after helping the US, he resettled in a land completely foreign to him, a land where Islam does not mix with our traditional Judeo-Christian values.
There have been countless cases of Muslim refugees committing rapes, murders and other crimes and involved in terror plots. One of the most astonishing cases was one I wrote about before. Two Iraqi refugees, Waad Alwan and Mohanad Hammadi, were already terrorists who fought against the US before being accepted into the refugee program and resettling in Kentucky. They pleaded guilty to terrorism charges after getting caught attempting to help Al Qaeda from their cozy new home in America.
The most bizarre part of the story is that they were being monitored by the FBI almost immediately upon arrival. So the government decides to bring over thousands of refugees, and then the FBI has to watch them? Wouldn’t it be easier to not bring them over in the first place?
Now as Christian immigration has decreased,Muslim immigration has doubled over the past decade. As I pointed out in “America Is Going Muslim,” the 2010 US Religion Census found that Islam is now the largest non-Christian religion in America. That means that the demographics of the country are changing dramatically, and so are our values.
Under Obama, these demographic changes are getting worse in a hurry. The Wall Street Journal reported that Obama is looking to “waive terror prevention laws in order to import thousands of Syrian Muslims to the US“, as Creeping Sharia puts it.
What is Obama’s hurry to Islamize the country and bring in more potential terrorists? Perhaps he wants the US to look like the photos here? France now has around 750 no-go zones, where the Muslim population does not allow the police, firefighters or EMTs in and where crime is rampant. The UK, with already around 85 Sharia courts operating in order to handle disputes between Muslims, is moving in the same direction. Murders and rapes in these areas are going unreported.
According to the Daily Mail, “Chief Inspector of Constabulary Tom Winsor said police officers were simply never called to some neighborhoods, where law-abiding people rather than criminals administer their own form of justice.
“He said: ‘There are some communities born under other skies who will not involve the police at all. I am reluctant to name the communities in question, but there are communities from other cultures who would prefer to police themselves.’” (He is reluctant to name the communities due to political correctness of course. The way the world is now, he would probably get fired if he dared to say just what communities he’s talking about.)
“Honor killings, domestic violence, sexual abuse of children and female genital mutilations are some of the offences that are believed to be unreported in some cities.”
These same crimes take place in the US and all over the West in Muslim communities. The problem is not distinguishing between “good Muslims” and “bad Muslims” or “the extremists.” The problem is the doctrine of Islam itself. The adherents of the “religion of peace” are only following what their “holy” books command, and the sooner the West gets off its soapbox of politically correct pledges and attempting to save a world that does not want to be saved, the sooner we can get back to normality.
By: Rachel Molschky
Read about another Iraqi refugee who was a known terrorist before bombing a social security office in Arizona.
See the Rape Jihad website for more examples of Muslim rapists in the West.

