Will Pope Francis Meet with Palestinian Authority Muslim Sheikh Who Called for Exterminating Jews?

All sorts of claims are being made about Pope Francis’ upcoming visit to Israel. But meeting with a Muslim religious leader who called for exterminating Jews would only reward hate. This isn’t mere bigotry, it’s raw genocidal rhetoric on par with anything that came out of Nazi Germany. And it shouldn’t be rewarded.

In the course of his visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority next week, as a matter of protocol, Pope Francis, the most senior figure in the Catholic Church, is scheduled to meet with Israel’s two chief rabbis as well as the most senior religious figure in the PA, the Mufti Sheikh Muhammad Hussein.

What Pope Francis may not be aware of is that the Mufti has an ongoing record of vicious Antisemitic hate speech, which has been condemned internationally. In 2012, the Mufti preached that it is Muslim destiny to kill the Jews.

On a different occasion, in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, he taught that Jews were “enemies of Allah,” and in another speech he said that the souls of suicide bombers “tell us to follow in their path.”

Palestinian Authority Mufti Muhammad Hussein: “47 years ago the [Fatah] revolution started. Which revolution? The modern revolution of the Palestinian people’s history.

In fact, Palestine in its entirety is a revolution, since [Caliph] Umar came [to conquer Jerusalem, 637 CE], and continuing today, and until the End of Days. The reliable Hadith (tradition attributed to Muhammad), in the two reliable collections, Bukhari and Muslim, says:

‘The Hour [of Resurrection] will not come until you fight the Jews. The Jew will hide behind stones or trees. Then the stones or trees will call: “Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.” Except the Gharqad tree [which will keep silent].’

“Therefore, it is no wonder that you see Gharqad [trees] surrounding the [Israeli] settlements and colonies. [Gharqad trees] surrounding, surrounding and surrounding. That’s the Palestine we are talking about, with the beginning of the Jihad and the continuation of the Jihad, with the struggle and the procession of the Martyrs.”

Islam began with the ethnic cleansing of the Jews and its clerics envision an apocalypse that will end with the extermination of the Jews.

Racism and genocide are fundamental components of Islam. The following Hadith has been quoted by all sorts of figures, including US Anti-Islamophobia campaigner Hatem Bazian. It has appeared on the websites of Muslim student organizations.

Since there are reports that Pope Francis will endorse a Palestinian state on his visit, perhaps he will also make a statement by refusing to meet with religious leaders who call for another Holocaust and who promote genocide as a political and religious solution.

Certainly being photographed with a Muslim religious leader who uttered the words, “Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him” would be an unfortunate legacy.

  • Ban Liberals

    You JEST, right?

    Did the pope meet with Yasser Arafat (yes!)?

    This pope, like all the rest, is blind to violence and Islam’s dark side (all four!).

    • Dan Mesa/AZ

      Pope St. Pius V at least stood up to Islam (Battle of Lepanto, 1571).

      We need Pope Francis to channel Pope St. Pius V right about now.

      • bob smith

        thank you for the link and reminder of The Battle of Lepanto, 1571…(very apt in application today)

      • DefiantJewess

        Pope Pius the latest one was a miserable Jew hater, he was responsible for the deaths of innocent Jewish children, and their parents. He was evil incarnate.

    • carpe diem 36

      this sheikh is not the head of his religion, if there is one. why meet one of the little men in the hierarchy, he maybe a loud mouth but not the leader.

    • DefiantJewess

      not true, he knows what this man represents. EL PAPA is no fool, and he is making a huge mistake, one that will raise tensions not alleviate them. He is condoning the DEVIL

      • http://www.banliberals.com/ Ban Liberals

        Okay, then of course, this is even worse than I suspected.

  • Martin Edwin Andersen

    “Common Lands, Common Ground: The indigenous agenda, Israel, Palestine and breaking the post-Oslo Peace Accords logjam” @ http://goo.gl/XZIKoa encapsulates many ideas similar to those expressed repeatedly by Pope Francis, underscoring his powerful message of interfaith respect.

  • pupsncats

    First, Francis isn’t pope of the Catholic Church. He is the leader of the heretical, false, man-invented church created during the 1960′s Vatican II Council. No true leader of the Catholic Church would speak and act as he does.
    Secondly, as leader of the Vatican II church, he must defend all of its heresies and must espouse its true ideology and mission which is to create a world order in which the Marxist/Communist economic principles and human interaction run the world. Francis is a true Marxist who, like Obama, has no qualms about publicly revealing who and what he really is.

    • Calvinius

      How cute, a heretic accusing others of heresy.

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  • mackykam

    When it comes to Jews neither Catholics nor Muslims are shrinking violets in their level of Jew hatred. Actually, the competition to outdo each other has been quite stiff. At the moment the Christian world is ahead but muslims are planning to catch up real soon.
    Neither accept Jewish rejection of their religion, nor can they validly claim God’s rejected His People in favor of others when they witness the rebirth and rejuvenation of the Jewish nation against all odds.

    • the truth

      The anti-Catholic bigotry in the comments section to many articles on this site is astonishing mostly by clueless leftists who don’t know a thing about their own history. the victim card has long been warned out. get over it.

      • mackykam

        I’m not a lefty, thanks for the gratis slur. There is no anti-Catholic bigotry in my statement, just the historical facts. Perhaps you should read some history books. It might very well be efficacious, to counter your lack of knowledge.

        • DefiantJewess

          I have very few family members thanks to Pope Pious who did almost nothing to save the Jews from their fate. The truth is, that for much of the war, he maintained a public front of indifference and remained silent while German atrocities were committed. He refused pleas for help on the grounds of neutrality, while making statements condemning injustices in general. Privately, he sheltered a small number of Jews and spoke to a few select officials, encouraging them to help the Jews. What a guy.

      • DefiantJewess

        I am no leftist, I am the grand daughter of shoah victims- thanks to Pope Pious who did nothing to save the Jews from their fate. As a Pope he was a criminal, and should have been executed.

  • mackykam

    What’s your point? A handful of Jews with ghetto mentalities thanking a pontiff for the few crumbs he scattered? Had the See gotten in front of a broadcast camera and stated that Christians who do nothing to protect Jews imperil their everlasting souls, well, that would have shocked Europe and saved countless of Jewish lives. no such broadcast ever came. Because the Church was a silent partner in the holocaust. Silence is a form of consent. The few good Christians and catholic priests and nuns that extended a saving hand were few and far between. And virtually silent in Germany. They feared martyrdom and exposed themselves as godless and immoral. Instead, the church was conveniently helping Nazis escape Europe after the war, helping them on their way to South America and the middle east.

    • MukeNecca

      I have replied to you a few hours ago at considerable lenghts and with reasonably well backed up refutation of your allegations, but for reason known only to the administrators of the site my comment was prevented from appearing. Strange, considering it in no way deviated from the norms accepted in this website. Even more strange that it has happened to me a few times before. Well, it seems someone “there” who agrees with you, but doesn’t believe you can manage yourself to convincingly defend your claim is doing you a favour by silencing me. Well, goodbye then. I won’t come here again.

      • MukeNecca

        One last thing: one should read the “Anti-Catholicism in America: The Last Acceptable Prejudice” by

        Mark S. Massa S.J. Wonderfully written and very enlightening.

  • DefiantJewess

    Pope Pious redux? Any good will that ” El Papa ” has for the Jews is now erased. A meeting with this Jew hating Islamic leader is equivalent to colluding with and condoning the Arab anti Jewish doctrine/goals to murder every last one of us.

    The destruction of our people and the Jewish state are still at the front of the Arab nations policy agenda for 2014.

    This is not appeasement either. Oh no, it is much worse and insidious that appeasement. NO, the Pope knows what he is doing. It is the worst form of hatred, this cowardice, and it is a stab in our Jewish backs!!!!!!

    But am I surprised? Are you Jews out there surprised??? We know what the Church really thinks of us blasphemous dirty Jews. We will always be the people who killed their Lord, even though Pope John “forgave us” (Didn’t you feel better?)
    and pardoned us long ago.

    That was then and now is now.

  • DefiantJewess

    thanks to Pope Pious who did almost nothing to save the Jews from their fate I lost most of my family. The truth is, that for much of the war, he maintained a public front of indifference and remained silent while German atrocities were committed. He refused pleas for help on the grounds of neutrality, while making statements condemning injustices in general. Privately, he sheltered a small number of Jews and spoke to a few select officials, encouraging them to help the Jews. What a guy.

  • http://littlenotesfromparis.blogspot.fr/ Rita

    A “trendy” pope like this one, darling of the media, whose first very public act was to kiss the feet of a young muslima, whose “Hero” is Che Guevara, and who has accepted a koran from South American Muslims will not shy away from defacto joining the BDS brown-shirts. I’m Katholic, but I despise the show-ponyness of this media darling pope.

    http://littlenotesfromparis.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/pope-snogs-young-muslimas-feet.html

    PS: Oh, and I forgot, while he is schmusing the islamists – their ilk is massacring his real flock, Christians, all over the place. But then, Christians are nearly as “unfashionable” as are Jews, among some people.

  • Geezer

    This pope and every other pope knows exactly what their doing. The Roman Catholic Church has hated Jews and real Christians since its inception.