Time to Stop Anti-Semitic Incitement in American Mosques
Last Friday, the Egyptian-born American Imam Ammar Shahin took the pulpit at the Islamic Center of Davis, California, to deliver some words to the faithful.
“The prophet Muhammad,” the young Imam said in a calm voice, alternating between English and Arabic, “said ‘Judgment Day will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Jews hide behind stones and trees, and the stones and the trees say: Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah…’ They will not say: Oh Egyptian, oh Palestinian, oh Jordanian, oh Syrian, of Afghan, oh Pakistani… The Prophet Muhammad says that the time will come, the last hour will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews. We don’t say if it is in Palestine or another place. Until they fight.”
Shahin went on like this for a while longer. Then, he closed his eyes and addressed the Creator directly.
“Oh Allah,” he prayed, “support the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the rest of the Muslim lands. Oh Allah, liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the filth of the Jews. Oh Allah, destroy those who close 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 one.”
Finding his groove, the Imam raised his voice in a plaintive cry: “Oh Allah, make this happen by our hand. Let us play a part in this.”
At more or less the same time, another Imam, Sheikh Mahmoud Harmoush, was preaching at another Islamic Center, in Riverside, 451 miles to the south. Born in Syria, Harmoush is an American citizen who had studied in West Virginia and California. And he had another tale of immigration to share with his flock: that of the Jews coming from Europe to Palestine.
The Muslims living in the Holy Land, the Imam said, were welcoming and wonderful, not knowing that the Jews had a plan to take over, “with killing and crimes and massacres.”
How low can these Jews sink? A fellow Muslim, the Imam said, his voice breaking, had sent him a video “showing a naked woman walking into the holy mosque under the occupation forces, just to insult more and more the psyche, honor, and dignity of the Muslims.”
The incident in question, of course, never happened. A naked woman did indeed appear, but at the Western Wall, not the mosque, and because no one present thought that female nudity posed a particular threat to the psyche, honor, and dignity of anyone, she was covered up and escorted out. Also, if you know anything at all about Al-Aqsa, you know that the incident in question could not have happened as described, because the mosque is governed not by the occupation forces but by the Muslim Waqf.
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