{"id":23563,"date":"2017-03-31T05:46:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T12:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=23563"},"modified":"2017-03-31T10:26:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T17:26:23","slug":"anti-jewish-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2017\/03\/31\/anti-jewish-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Jewish remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sheikh Muhammad bin Musa Al Nasr is captured in a YouTube video dated Dec. 23, 2016, addressing a prayer meeting at Dar Al-Arqam in Montreal East. (screenshot from cjnews.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

More videos of anti-Jewish sermons being delivered in mosques in Canada have come to light, the latest from the Dar Al-Arqam mosque in Montreal and the Al-Hikmah mosque in Toronto.<\/p>\n

Sheikh Muhammad bin Musa Al Nasr is captured in a 20-minute YouTube video dated Dec. 23, 2016, addressing a prayer meeting at Dar Al-Arqam in Montreal East.<\/p>\n

According to a translation of the Arabic by the Toronto-based online publication CIJNews<\/em>, he says Jews are \u201cthe most evil of mankind\u201d and that Allah has ordained that they be killed by Muslims.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of time when the Muslims will triumph over the most evil of mankind [and] the human demons, the stone and the tree will say: O Muslim, O servant of Allah, O Muslim, O servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews,\u201d the translation says.<\/p>\n

Musa Al Nasr is identified as a visiting Jordanian cleric.<\/p>\n

Similar messages have been delivered by Sheikh Abdulqani Mursal, an imam at Al-Hikmah in North York, reports CIJNews<\/em> editor Jonathan Halevi, who is described as a reserve lieutenant-colonel in the Israel Defence Forces and a senior researcher of radical Islam at the Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs.<\/p>\n

Apparently drawing from Islamic scripture, Mursal taught that \u201cthe fate of the Jews is \u2026 to be killed by Muslims,\u201d Halevi writes.<\/p>\n

He read a hadith<\/em>, or saying of Muhammad, that: \u201cYou will fight against the Jews and you will kill them until even a stone would say: Come here, Muslim, there is a Jew [hiding himself behind me], kill him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whatever the source of these sentiments, Jewish groups decry them as hateful, incitement, possibly hate crimes.<\/p>\n

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) said the published excerpt of Musa Al Nasr\u2019s talk \u201cmirrors, word for word, a similar genocidal declaration\u201d in the charter of Hamas, which is designated as a terrorist organization by Canada.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are deeply troubled and angered that yet another imam has dehumanized Jews and glorified violence against them,\u201d stated CIJA Quebec co-chair Rabbi Reuben Poupko.<\/p>\n

Even more disturbing, he said, is that the mosque would disseminate Musa Al Nasr\u2019s \u201cincitement to violence and hatred\u201d on the internet.<\/p>\n

CIJA has submitted the latest material to police to determine if it violates Canada\u2019s Criminal Code.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe condemn these appalling sermons which \u2026 are a dangerous rejection of Canada\u2019s core values of tolerance, pluralism and non-violence,\u201d he said. \u201cIn light of similar incidents recently exposed in Montreal and Toronto, there is a real concern that the airing of hateful rhetoric \u2013 including antisemitism \u2013 has become routine at some mosques.\u201d<\/p>\n

B\u2019nai Brith Canada has filed a formal complaint with police because it believes that this is hate speech. Musa Al Nasr is a \u201cprominent member of the hardline Salafist movement in Jordan, where he lectures at the al-Ahliyya University in Amman,\u201d it asserts.<\/p>\n

According to B\u2019nai Brith\u2019s research, he delivered lectures more than a dozen times at Al-Arqam, which were recorded and uploaded on YouTube.<\/p>\n

B\u2019nai Brith chief executive officer Michael Mostyn expressed frustration that police have yet to lay charges in connection with a complaint it made in February when a video was exposed of another imam at another Montreal mosque pleading for the death of Jews.<\/p>\n

The 2014 sermon by Sayed AlGhitawi, a guest imam at the Al-Andalous Islamic Centre, called on Allah \u201cto destroy the accursed Jews\u201d and \u201ckill them one by one.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen will Canada finally recognize that we are not immune to racism and antisemitism, and that it is this type of rhetoric that directly leads to radicalization all over the world?\u201d Mostyn asked. \u201cWhat will it take before charges are laid for criminal incitement in Canada?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 For more national Jewish news, visit cjnews.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sheikh Muhammad bin Musa Al Nasr is captured in a YouTube video dated Dec. 23, 2016, addressing a prayer meeting at Dar Al-Arqam in Montreal East. (screenshot from cjnews.com) More videos of anti-Jewish sermons being delivered in mosques in Canada have come to light, the latest from the Dar Al-Arqam mosque in Montreal and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[801,6894],"class_list":["post-23563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-antisemitism","tag-mosques"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}