October 25, 2001

If Islam is a peaceful

If Islam is a peaceful faith that many Muslims claim, then they should loudly denounce Sheik Muhammad Al-Gamei'a's statements made in a recent interview. Here's what Sheik Al-Gamei'a thinks about Jews:

The Jewish element is as Allah described it when he said: 'They disseminate corruption in the land.' We know that they have always broken agreements, unjustly murdered the prophets, and betrayed the faith. Can they be expected to live up to their contracts with us? These people murdered the prophets; do you think they will stop spilling our blood? No.

You see these people (i.e. the Jews) all the time, everywhere, disseminating corruption, heresy, homosexuality, alcoholism, and drugs. [Because of them] there are strip clubs, homosexuals, and lesbians everywhere. They do this to impose their hegemony and colonialism on the world.

Now, they are riding on the back of the world powers. These people always seek out the superpower of the generation and develop coexistence with it. Before this, they rode on the back of England and on the back of the French empire. After that, they rode on the back of Germany. But Hitler annihilated them because they betrayed him and violated their contract with him.

We saw these Zionists, just one hour after the event, broadcasting on the BBC, the biggest media channel, that the Arabs, and particularly the Palestinians, were celebrating and rejoicing over the American deaths. [To do this] they broadcast a video from 1991, [filmed] during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. But Allah thwarted them when a professor from a Brazilian university stated that the video was a forgery, because she had a copy of it. These people have a script prepared in advance, and they have the ability to fabricate events in their favor.

According to Gamei'a, the U.S. was attacked because "the Jews have the most to gain from an explosion like that." The U.S. is just a sop to "Zionist" interests.

Why should the rantings of this anti-semite be taken seriously? Because he was the Imam of the Islamic Cultural Center and Mosque of New York City. This wasn't the hateful venom from some angry poster to a web bulletin board. Gamei'a is a man of inflence and authority.

"A Fair Sheik?"

Here's the interview in the original arabic.