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

Posted By Daniel Greenfield On May 20, 2014 @ 10:21 am In The Point | 23 Comments

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.


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