A Texan
cleric has
become the latest American imam to
call for Muslims to kill Jews. Sheikh Raed
Saleh Al-Rousan, founder of the Tajweed Institute of Houston gave the
incendiary speech at his mosque on December 8 that has just emerged.
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) translated
the video,
which was shared and reported on by Algemeiner.
Al-Rousan
was objecting to President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize
Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move America’s embassy
there.
“Judgment
day will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews,” Sheikh Raed
Saleh Al-Rousan thundered, quoting a famous hadith (saying
of the Islamic prophet Mohammed.) “The Muslims will kill the Jews,
and the Jews will hide behind the stones and the trees, and the
stones and the trees will say: Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah,
there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him, except for the
Gharqad tree, which is one of their trees.”
“The
hour [i.e. Judgment Day] will not start until Muslims fight the Jews
there, in Palestine. And they know that fact. And the Muslims will
have the victory.”
Earlier
in the speech he said Jews “killed the prophets and the messengers
of Allah” and altered the Torah. He also accused Jews of having no
connection to the land of Israel.
Al-Rousan
is a Jordanian national who arrived in the United States in 2007. He
founded the Tajweed Institute “to spread the skills of Tajweed
[proper recitation of the Qur’an] to all Muslims, young and old.”
Al-Rousan
declined to clarify his position and whether or not it reflects the
position of the Tajweed Institute when asked to do so by Algemeiner.
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