Imam who called Jews ‘apes and pigs’ to receive ‘retraining’
Muslim community to 'consult and retrain' preacher in New Jersey who delivered anti-Semitic sermon
The imam of a New Jersey mosque will be sent for “retraining” after delivering anti-Semitic sermons.
Sheikh Aymen Elkasaby, imam of the Islamic centre of Jersey City, in a sermon earlier this month, called Jews “apes and pigs,” and urged his followers to: “Count them one by one, and kill them down to the very last one. Do not leave a single one on the face of the Earth.” A translated transcript of his sermon was published by the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI.
He also said of Jews: “They are the most cowardly of nations. They are the weakest of all peoples.”
The speech was a rallying cry for the Al-Aqsa Mosque located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The imam said that the mosque remains “a humiliated prisoner under the oppression of the Jews,” and called on Allah to “bring Al-Aqsa back into the fold of Islam and the Muslims.”
The president of the Islamic centre of Jersey City, Ahmed Shedeed, told the Algemeiner that Elkasaby will meet with interfaith scholars who will “consult with and retrain him.” He compared the retraining to “rehab.”
In a sermon on November 24, also transcribed and translated by MEMRI, Elkasaby invoked a conspiracy theory that Israel planned the terrorist attack on the Al-Rawda mosque in Sinai which took place the same day in which more than 300 worshippers were killed.
Shedeed said he was not present in the mosque for either of the speeches.
He noted that the Islamic centre in Jersey City had been located there for forty years. Shedeed also has served as a member of the New Jersey Homeland Security Interfaith Advisory Council.
الشيخ أيمن القصبي، إمام المركز الاسلامي في نيو جيرسي، عن مجزرة سيناء: داعش؟ كفاكم سخرية! هذا فعل اليهود و الحكام العرب. #نيو_جيرسي #أمريكا #مصر pic.twitter.com/xJR8G8L1pi
— MEMRI Arabic ميمري بالعربي (@MemriArabic) December 14, 2017
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