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Al-Aqsa imam detained on suspicion of incitement, terror support for Haniyeh eulogy |
2024-08-03 |
[IsraelTimes] Interior minister says will revoke residency permit of former grand mufti of Jerusalem with history of antisemitism, past accusations of terror incitement Police detained Al-Aqsa preacher Sheikh Ekrima Sabri on suspicion of incitement and supporting terrorism after he delivered a eulogy for slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh during Friday prayers. In his sermon, the former grand mufti of Jerusalem mourned “the martyr” Haniyeh, saying: “We ask Allah to have mercy on him and place him in paradise.” Footage on social media showed audience members chanting “Allah is great” and “with blood we shall redeem the martyr” during the imam’s sermon. The police said it had begun investigating an “imam suspected of making inciting statements and supporting terrorism during a sermon given today at the midday prayer on the Temple Mount.” Upon securing the state prosecutor’s approval for the probe, officers took Sabri from his East Jerusalem home for questioning at the Jerusalem District Central Investigations Unit, police said. The statement added that another person was detained on the Temple Mount for “shouts of incitement” during the service. Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’s Doha-based political bureau, was killed in Tehran on Wednesday. Israel has not officially commented on the assassination of Haniyeh, but Iran, which hosted Haniyeh for the inauguration of its new president, has vowed to exact revenge on Israel. Interior Minister Moshe Arbel wrote to Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara to inform her he would revoke Sabri’s permanent residency permit. Sabri, 85, does not hold Israeli citizenship. He lives in East Jerusalem, whose Palestinian residents hold Israeli residency permits that are relatively easy for the interior minister to revoke. “Sabri holds a permit to reside permanently in Israel, which for many years now has not stopped him from inciting against the state, promoting antisemitism and terrorism and committing serious security crimes,” wrote Arbel, accusing the sheikh of publishing antisemitic literature, serving as a conduit for Hamas funds, and supporting terrorist acts. The police have investigated Sabri for incitement before. In June, he was charged with inciting terrorism for comments he made that allegedly supported an attacker who shot at guards in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim, killing a soldier, in October 2022. The imam is also accused of praising a second attacker who killed three Israelis and wounded six others in an April 2022 shooting in Tel Aviv. Sabri was appointed mufti of Jerusalem by late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 1994. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas removed him from the post in 2006. He currently heads Jerusalem’s Supreme Muslim Council. In writings and interviews, Sabri has cast doubt on the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust and advocated studying the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an antisemitic tract from the early 20th century. The Al-Aqsa Mosque compound sits on the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism. The flashpoint site is considered the third holiest in Islam and the holiest in Judaism. Related: Ekrima Sabri 06/28/2024 Al-Aqsa imam indicted on charges of incitement to terrorism Ekrima Sabri 01/25/2023 Israel allows Palestinian cleric probed for incitement to fly to Morocco Ekrima Sabri 03/11/2021 Israel arrests Al-Aqsa Mosque preacher Sheikh Ekrima Sabri |
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Al-Aqsa imam indicted on charges of incitement to terrorism |
2024-06-28 |
[IsraelTimes] Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, former mufti of Jerusalem, is accused of praising terror attacks in 2022 in which four Israelis were killed; he says charges are ‘fabricated’ The imam of Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque denounced on Thursday a "fabricated" campaign against him after being charged with inciting terrorism for allegedly praising Paleostinian button men who killed four Israelis, including a soldier. Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, 85, formerly mufti of Jerusalem and now head of the Supreme Islamic Council in the city, preaches at the contested Jerusalem holy site. Sabri was indicted this week for inciting terrorism for comments he made that allegedly supported an attacker who shot at guards in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim, killing a soldier, in October 2022. The imam is also accused of praising a second attacker, Raad Hazam, who killed three Israelis and maimed six others in an April 2022 shooting in Tel Aviv. The 28-year-old was later killed in a shootout with security guards. "The state attorney’s office submitted to the Jerusalem magistrate court an indictment against... the former mufti of the city, after he incited terrorism and praised terrorists," the Justice Ministry said in a statement Wednesday. It said Sabri had "praised and sympathized with terrorists" during a visit to Hazam’s family home. Sabri denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! saying he merely offered condolences to the families of the attackers after their deaths. "This is a false accusation; the indictment is fabricated and malicious," he said. "Offering condolences does not mean that we support what the children did." Sabri’s lawyer Khaled Zabarqa said his client had been targeted for political reasons. "The indictment is the result of political action and not legal action. The sheikh has been persecuted for two years," he told AFP. The al-Aqsa Mosque compound sits on the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism. The flashpoint site is considered the third holiest in Islam and the holiest in Judaism. The site’s status is the emotional epicenter of the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict, and even perceived changes have ignited previous rounds of violence. Jews are officially only allowed to visit, but not pray. Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir this month called for Jews to be allowed to pray at the sensitive site, but higher officials have rebuffed the idea, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly said that the status quo will not change at the site. Related: Sheikh Ekrima Sabri 01/25/2023 Israel allows Palestinian cleric probed for incitement to fly to Morocco Sheikh Ekrima Sabri 12/29/2009 Jerusalem sheikh urges higher social expenditures Sheikh Ekrima Sabri 12/04/2009 Israel bars Sheikh Sabri from Al-Aqsa Mosque |
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Israel allows Palestinian cleric probed for incitement to fly to Morocco |
2023-01-25 |
[IsraelTimes] MKs aim fire at authorities for allowing former grand mufti Ekrima Sabri to take off for conference hosted by arm of Islamic body charged with protecting al-Aqsa Mosque. A controversial Moslem holy man under investigation in Israel for comments praising a Paleostinian terrorist was nonetheless allowed to leave the country to attend a conference in Morocco, according to Hebrew language media, sparking condemnation from conservative politicians. Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, ...born in Qalqilya in the West Bank and resident in East Jerusalem, he is known familiarly by his followers as Sheikh Sabri. Yasser Arafat appointed him Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine in 1994, where he served until Mahmoud Abbas fired him in 2006 for overweening arrogance and a distinct lack of diplomacy. Thereafter he busied himself preaching at the Al Aqsa mosque and organizing anti-Israel activities, periodically earning an arrest by the Israeli authorities... a former grand mufti of Jerusalem, flew to the north African kingdom last week to take part in a conference hosted by the Bayt Mal al-Quds al-Sharif Agency, the Walla news site reported. The Rabat-controlled arm of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation is charged with protecting Moslem holy sites and preserving Paleostinian culture in the holy city.Sabri was allowed to fly despite having been questioned by police earlier this month on suspicion of inciting terror, over comments he made to the family of slain Paleostinian gunman, Udai Tamimi, the report said. Tamimi shot and killed Sgt. Noa Lazar during an attack on a Jerusalem-area checkpoint on October 8, according to police. He was shot to death following a week-long manhunt while trying to attack security guards near the entrance to the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Adumim. No doubt he deserved it. All those Tamimis are troublemakers once they’ve been toilet trained. During the visit, Sabri encouraged other young Paleostinians to join the "family of deaders," and that such a status was "sublime and divine, and to be aspired to."Sheikh Sabri has thus far denied himself that joy, we note. Sabri was grilled by police on January 2 following pressure from right-wing groups to investigate him over the comments. He was released home, and police have yet to transfer the case for charges to be filed, the State Prosecutor’s Office told Walla.Police declined to place a travel ban on Sabri, despite a history of run-ins with the law, mostly over fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... sermons in which he has expressed support for jacket wallahs and Holocaust denial. In December 2021, authorities placed a four-month travel ban on Sabri after right-wing group Im Tirtzu filed a complaint over remarks by the sheikh in which he appeared to warn of violence in response to Jewish visits to the Temple Mount. May Golan, a low-level minister in premier Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet, accused of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara for "dealing with nonsense, instead of doing her job." "Once a terrorist, always a terrorist! It is our duty to prosecute this despicable inciter and initiate a process of denying citizenship to a supporter of terrorism of the lowest kind," Golan said in a statement. Members of Netanyahu’s coalition have clashed repeatedly with Baharav-Miara as they seek to unravel and reconfigure parts of Israel’s judiciary. Across the aisle, National Unity MK Sharren Haskel described Sabri being allowed to leave as a "blunder." "While an investigation against him for incitement and calls to murder is ongoing in Israel, he slips abroad and continues to incite against Israel," she tweeted. Related: Ekrima Sabri: 2021-03-11 Israel arrests Al-Aqsa Mosque preacher Sheikh Ekrima Sabri Ekrima Sabri: 2019-08-10 Waqf calls for mass prayers at Temple Mount to stop Jews visiting on Tisha B’av Ekrima Sabri: 2018-11-22 PA court sentences Palestinians to 15 years hard labor for selling land to Jews Related: Sheikh Sabri: 2021-03-11 Israel arrests Al-Aqsa Mosque preacher Sheikh Ekrima Sabri Sheikh Sabri: 2009-12-04 Israel bars Sheikh Sabri from Al-Aqsa Mosque Sheikh Sabri: 2002-01-21 Jerusalem mufti doesn't want any Jews in his mosque Related: Udai Tamimi: 2022-11-10 Israel to raze Jerusalem home of Palestinian gunman behind deadly checkpoint attack Udai Tamimi: 2022-10-26 At least six Palestinians murdered by Zionist forces in Nablus, Lion’s Den bomb workshop kaboomed Udai Tamimi: 2022-10-21 West Bank Palestinians go on strike to protest Udai Tamimi killing |
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Waqf calls for mass prayers at Temple Mount to stop Jews visiting on Tisha B’av |
2019-08-10 |
[IsraelTimes] Islamic body wants other Jerusalem mosques to shut Sunday in bid to boost attendance at al-Aqsa; Jewish day of mourning this year coincides with Moslem Eid al-Adha holiday. The Moslem religious body that manages the al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City has called for all other mosques in the area to shut Sunday to boost attendance at the flash point holy site in order to block Jewish visitors from going there on Tisha B’Av. Sunday marks the start of Eid al-Adha, an Islamic holiday commemorating the end of the annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, as well as the Koranic story of Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son Ishmael. This year, the start of Eid al-Adha coincides with the Jewish fast day of Tisha B’Av, when Jews mourn the destruction of the temples and other disasters in Jewish history. In a letter Friday, the Moslem Waqf trust, which oversees the site, called for the closure of all mosques in Jerusalem on Sunday except for the al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount, where it said all prayers should be held. In a statement, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Mohammed Hussein, former grand mufti of Jerusalem Ekrima Sabri and senior Waqf official Abdel Azeem Sahlab announced that "all mosques in Jerusalem will be closed and that blessed Eid al-Adha prayers will take place in the blessed al-Aqsa Mosque." They said the move comes in response to the Israel Police’s decision to "evaluate" whether to allow Jews on the Temple Mount on Sunday. "The people of Jerusalem and its surroundings will stand together in the face of the ambitions of the settlers," they added. Police were set to discuss over the weekend whether to allow Jews to visit the Temple Mount on Sunday. A police front man confirmed that security forces would assess whether to all permit "visitors," including Jews, on the Temple Mount, without providing further details. Bassem Abu Labda, a Waqf official, said in a phone call that Israel would be "wise" to bar Jews from the Temple Mount on Sunday. Israeli authorities traditionally close the Temple Mount to non-Moslems during Islamic holidays, though in June police allowed Jewish visitors onto the site on Jerusalem Day, which fell this year during the final 10 days of Ramadan. Hundreds of Paleostinians clashed with police at the holy site to protest the entry of Jews on Jerusalem Day, which marks Israel’s unification of the city after capturing East Jerusalem and the Old City from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War. |
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PA stops Islamist group from performing holiday prayers in Hebron mosque | |
2019-06-05 | |
[IsraelTimes] Crackdown comes as Hizb al-Tahrir supporters mark Eid al-Fitr on Monday, contradicting PA-appointed grand mufti of Jerusalem; social media pictures appear to show use of force.
Hizb al-Tahrir, which supports the establishment of a caliphate ruled by Islamic law, declared on Monday that Eid al-Fitr, the holiday marking the conclusion of Ramadan, would start that evening, contradicting Mohammed Hussein, the PA-appointed grand mufti of Jerusalem who had announced that the festival would commence Tuesday night. "Supporters and members of Hizb al-Tahrir tried to carry out holiday prayers in the al-Abrar Mosque in Hebron, but our security forces stopped them from doing so," the bigwig, who works at PA headquarters in Hebron, said. "While they can do what they want in their homes, they do not have the right to use a mosque to revolt against the official Paleostinian position on when Eid al-Fitr starts." According to Islamic tradition, Eid al-Fitr starts upon the first sighting of the new moon following the month of Ramadan. Hizb al-Tahrir declared that Eid al-Fitr would start Monday evening after a number of Moslem-majority countries, including Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , the United Arab Emirates and Qatar ![]() , announced that it would begin at that time. The Islamist group maintains that even if one Moslem-majority country declares it has seen the new moon, all Moslems should begin celebrating Eid al-Fitr. Baher Saleh, an official in Hizb al-Tahrir’s media office, declined to comment on Tuesday’s incident, noting that his group does not communicate with Israeli news outlets. However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... he told Rooters that PA security forces placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! 13 persons in the area surrounding the mosque. The Hebron-based official accused Hizb al-Tahrir of declaring the start of the holiday Monday evening to undermine the PA. "What they did was a political move," he said. "They did that to undermine the PA’s illusory sovereignty, which is something we cannot tolerate." Jihad Harb, a Ramallah-based researcher, said that the PA sometimes cracks down on Hizb al-Tahrir’s activities. "There have been occasions when the PA did not allow Hizb al-Tahrir to hold public gatherings, but there have been many other occasions when it permitted it to do so," he said, adding that PA security forces do not have major concerns about Hizb al-Tahrir because its members have not used violence to achieve their goals. Hizb al-Tahrir was established in 1953 by Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani, a Moslem scholar and Islamic court judge who was born in the Haifa area. Omran Risheq, a Paleostinian analyst, described the group’s ideology in a 2008 article published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: "Hizb al-Tahrir made the idea of resurrecting the caliphate a permanent watchword of its political activity and a religious duty, in addition to being a panacea for the political, economic, and social problems of the world’s Moslems." Harb also said that Hizb al-Tahrir does not have many members compared to other Paleostinian groups, such as Fatah. "Most of their members live in Hebron and Jerusalem," he said, estimating that some 5,000-7,000 Paleostinians actively support it. | |
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Police arrest Palestinian Authority 'Governor of Jerusalem' Adnan Gheith |
2018-11-26 |
[Jpost] Last Thursday, the IDF issued an order banning Geith from contacting or meeting with a number of Paleostinian activists and officials. For the second time in the past month, the Israel Police jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! the Paleostinian Authority Governor of Jerusalem, Adnan Geith, and the Jerusalem Magistrates Court ordered him remanded into custody for five days. Geith, a resident of the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan who holds an Israeli identification card, was arrested by the police in his home early Sunday. Geith, a prominent Fatah official, was appointed last August by PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ![]() as PA Governor of Jerusalem. His arrest comes in the context of Israel’s effort to prevent the PA from carrying out political and security-related activities within the area of Israel, including east Jerusalem. A 1995 law passed by the Knesset bans the PA from carrying out such activities within the area of Israel. Paleostinian sources said on Sunday that Geith's arrest was apparently linked to the PA's crackdown on east Jerusalem residents suspected of involvement in real estate transactions with Israeli Jews. Last month, The Jerusalem Post revealed that the PA security forces had arrested a US citizen from east Jerusalem on suspicion he was involved in the sale of a house in the Old City to an Israeli Jewish organization. The man's family has notified the US State Department of the arrest. After the report, the Israel Police arrested Geith for four days on suspicion he was involved in the arrest of the US citizen. The commander of the PA General Intelligence Service in the Jerusalem area, Jihad Faqeeh, was arrested by the IDF, also for his role in the case. On Sunday, the Post, quoting Israeli security sources, said that Israeli authorities have stepped up their measures against PA officials who were operating in east Jerusalem in violation of the law. Last week, Geith was served with an IDF order banning him from meeting with or contacting a number of Paleostinian officials and activists. The move came after another order that banned him from entering the West Bank for six months. Also last week, the Israel Police summoned PA Minister for Jerusalem Affairs, Adnan Husseini, and handed him an order prohibiting him from leaving the country for six months. Husseini, who is also a resident of east Jerusalem, was requested to deposit his passport wit the police. In recent weeks, the PA and its security forcers have been waging a campaign against east Jerusalem residents suspected of involvement in the sale of houses to Israeli Jews. The PA government has formed a commission of inquiry into the recent sale of a house belonging to the Joudeh family in the Old City's Moslem Quarter to an Israeli Jewish organization. The Paleostinian religious authorities in the city have also renewed a fatwa (Islamic religious decree) prohibiting the sale of Arab-owned properties to Israeli Jews. The PA mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein, on Sunday condemned the arrest of Geith and the measures taken against PA officials in the city as "unfair." The Israeli measures, he said, are a "flagrant violation of international and humanitarian laws." The Fatah Revolutionary Council, of which Geith is a member, also issued a strong condemnation over his arrest and appealed to the international community to denounce the Israeli measures. |
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PA court sentences Palestinians to 15 years hard labor for selling land to Jews |
2018-11-22 |
[IsraelTimes] Separately, a Paleostinian who died in a car accident was barred from burial in Jerusalem over allegations he sold property to Jews, official says A Paleostinian Authority court in Qalqilya on Wednesday sentenced two Paleostinians convicted of selling land to Israeli Jews to 15 years of hard labor. "The court sentenced F.A.E. and A. Kh. M. from Kafr Thulth in the Qalqilya Governorate for the crime of leaking land to the enemy," a memo on the PA High Judicial Council’s website said, referring to the two convicts by their initials and using the Arabic term to allude to selling land to Israeli Jews. "The court...sentenced the convicts to 15 years of hard labor." Qalqilya is in the northern West Bank. Paleostinian law considers attempting to sell or selling land to Israeli Jews a punishable offense. According to the law, possible punishments for trying to sell or selling land to Israeli Jews include different degrees of hard labor and execution. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the law requires that PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ![]() approve any death sentence, and he has not signed off on any executions since 2006. "The president does not approve execution sentences," Hassan al-Aouri, Abbas’s former legal adviser, said in a phone call. The memo did not provide details on where, when and how the two Paleostinians had sold land to Israeli Jews. Separately, in early November, the body of Ala’a Qirsh, one of six Paleostinians who died in a major road accident in the Jordan Valley, was barred from being buried in a Moslem cemetery in Jerusalem over allegations that he had sold property to Israeli Jews, an official in the Jerusalem Waqf told The Times of Israel. "He was not permitted to be buried in Jerusalem’s cemeteries," the official, who asked to remain unnamed, said on Wednesday. "A number of young men in Jerusalem prevented his body from being buried in the cemeteries because they suspected him of selling land to Jews." Paleostinian officials and religious leaders have long opposed selling land to Israeli Jews. In a sermon last week at the al-Aqsa Mosque, Ekrima Sabri, former grand mufti of Jerusalem, said that any Paleostinian who sells land to Israeli Jews is a "traitor" and "a perpetrator of a crime that cannot be forgiven." In late April, a PA court in Ramallah sentenced a Paleostinian convicted of selling land to Israeli Jews to 15 years of hard labor. |
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Jerusalem mufti bans selling land in ‘Palestine’ or Jerusalem |
2018-04-13 |
[IsraelTimes] Ahead of Arab summit, fatwa is seen as warning to Arab leaders against supporting Trump's decisions and peace plan Jerusalem's Mufti Mohammed Hussein posing in front of the Dome of the Rock at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP) The Paleostinian mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein, on Thursday published a fatwa, or Islamic religious decree, banning anyone "from giving up, or selling Jerusalem and the land of Paleostine to the enemy" ‐ a reference to Israelis. The fatwa was issued on the eve of the Arab summit that is scheduled to convene in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... next week to discuss a number of issues, including US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s yet-to-be-announced peace plan and his decision, announced in December, to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the embassy there from Tel Aviv. The fatwa is seen as a warning to the heads of Arab states against supporting Trump’s decisions and peace plan, which the Paleostinians have denounced as a "conspiracy aimed at liquidating the Paleostinian cause and national rights." On Wednesday, Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ![]() reiterated his rejection of the Trump plan, calling it a "big conspiracy." "Paleostine, which includes Jerusalem, is Waqf (Islamic trust) land, and it is religiously forbidden to give it up or facilitate the transfer of its ownership to the enemy," Hussein said in his fatwa. "Paleostine is part of the Islamic public properties." It was the second fatwa of its kind since 2014, when Hussein reminded Moslems that it was forbidden to sell their property to Israelis after it transpired that Jewish families had purchased homes from Arabs in Silwan, outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. Several Paleostinians suspected of selling property to Israelis have been killed, while others have been sentenced to prison by Paleostinian Authority courts. Hussein said the transfer of ownership of Moslem-owned property to the "enemy" was illegal and "considered treason." Any Paleostinian who sells his land to his enemy is a sinner," the mufti ruled. He also ruled that it was forbidden for a Paleostinian to accept compensation for his or her property from the "enemy" because this would mean assisting in the "eviction" of Moslems from their homes. The fatwa said that Jerusalem was the "eternal capital of Paleostine." Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was illegitimate and null, it added. Hussein said in his fatwa: "Jerusalem and Al Aqsa Mosque are Islamic waqf until doomsday. They can’t be sold or given as gifts or passed on by inheritance. No one is entitled to give them up, or to give up Jerusalem or any part of it, or any part of Al Aqsa Mosque, to the enemy." Israel, he charged in his decree, "usurped Paleostine, expelled its people, stole their money and committed the most horrific crimes against houses of worship, all this with the help of the colonialist countries that continue to help it with its wicked aggression." |
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Western Wall train station to be named after Donald Trump |
2017-12-28 |
[IsraelTimes] Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz decides to thank US president for recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital by honoring him with a planned railway station located near holy site, which is part of a NIS-2.5-billion project. Former mufti of Jerusalem rails at plan for Trump train stop at Western Wall [IsraelTimes] Palestinian cleric Ikrema Sabri says adding US president's name does not give scheme legitimacy |
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Israel has begun dividing Al-Aqsa: Islamic organization | ||
2017-03-02 | ||
[AA.TR] Israel has begun partitioning East Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque complex with a view to creating a prayer space for Jewish worshippers, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) warned Wednesday.
The move, he asserted, "follows the imposition of a temporal division [by Israel] in the form of daily incursions [into al-Aqsa] by Jewish settlers". What’s more, the move reveals "Israel’s intention to dedicate a place for Talmudic rituals inside the al-Haram al-Sharif," al-Ruwaidhi said, using the Arabic term for the al-Aqsa Mosque.
In light of these excavations, al-Ruwaidhi said, "we fear the al-Aqsa Mosque could collapse in the event of a natural -- or artificial -- earthquake". Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, for his part, reiterated the Islamic identity of Jerusalem and the al-Aqsa Mosque. "Claims put forward this week by the Israeli magistrate's court -- that al-Aqsa is a holy place for Jews -- is completely false and not supported by evidence," he said. For Moslems, al-Aqsa represents the world's third holiest site. Jews, for their part, refer to the area as the "Temple Mount," claiming it was the site of two Jewish temples in ancient times. | ||
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After Holocaust remark, White House warns Netanyahu against incitement |
2015-10-22 |
Comments made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier in the week, which implicated the former grand mufti of Jerusalem in the decision to proceed with the Holocaust, amount to inflammatory rhetoric stoking tensions on the ground between Israel and the Palestinians, the White House said on Thursday. |
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Inflammatory bus ads link Muslim anti-Semitism to Hitler | |
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[Ynet] American Freedom Defense Initiative campaign seeks to pressure US to cut aid to Islamic countries by recalling Nazi-era alliance.
...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... are out on the streets of Washington, and the US capital's transit authority says it is legally powerless to ban them. The elongated broadsides on 20 Metro buses feature a photo of the Nazi German dictator in conversation with "his staunch ally" Haj Amin al-Husseini, grand mufti of Jerusalem during World War II. "Islamic Jew-hatred: It's in the Koran. Two-thirds of all US aid goes to Islamic countries. Stop racism. End all aid to Islamic countries," the ad states, over a fine-print disclaimer from the Metro Transit Authority. The ads, which are to run until mid-June, were placed by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), which aims to "raise awareness of the depredations of Islamic supremacism", according to its website. It hopes the campaign will raise $20,000 by Friday via an online crowd-funding campaign that, as of Tuesday, had yielded about $7,500. "We're not able to refuse ads on the basis of content," a spokeswoman for Metro told AFP, citing a 2012 court case that allowed another AFDI bus ad on the grounds that it was free speech. On its website, AFDI co-founder Pamela Geller called the campaign a direct response to like-sized Washington bus ads placed in April by American Moslems for Paleostine which read: "Stop US aid to Israel's occupation." As Moslem leader in then British-ruled Paleostine, Husseini sought Hitler's support for an Arab and Moslem homeland that would be free of Jews. Council on American-Islamic Relations ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... (CAIR) front man Ibrahim Hooper said that such "inflammatory" ads were clearly intended "to promote hatred of Islam and Moslems". He told AFP that CAIR is developing on its own bus ads "to promote mutual understanding as a response to Geller's hate ad". In the meantime, he added, it's giving away free Korans. | |
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