[IsraelTimes] Younus Kathrada tells youths in British Columbia they should be offended by tenets of Christianity, with which there is ’enmity,’ adds: ’I’m not saying go out and just kill them’.A Canadia holy man has said Moslems who congratulate Christians for the Christmas holiday are committing crimes worse than adultery and murder.
During a sermon at the Moslem Youth of Victoria in British Columbia, Sheikh Younus Kathrada said he viewed with "great sadness" his fellow Moslems’ casual treatment of the "false holiday."
And he asserted that Moslems "must be offended" by Christians’ beliefs, in a video of his sermon provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
"There are those who will say to them "Merry Christmas." What are you congratulating them on?" he asked. "Congratulations on the birth of your Lord? Is that acceptable to a Moslem? Are you now approving of their beliefs? By saying that you are approving of it."
He then claimed that "If a person were to commit every major sin ‐ committing adultery, dealing with interest, lying, murder... If a person were to do all of those major sins, they are nothing compared to the sin of congratulating and greeting the non-Moslems on their false festivals."
Kathrada was quick to note that he did not mean Moslems should "treat the non-Moslems in a bad way or that we deal with them unjustly.
"I’m not saying, and I’ve never said, go out and just kill them, and do this to them... No! Because Allah tells us not to allow the enmity that may exist between you and a people to cause you to be unjust towards them. Rather, be just."
Well, as long as he’s being reasonable about it.