In a video from February that has been circulating on social media platforms in recent days (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77bqzT5n5Vs), Jordanian cleric Ali Hassan Al-Halabi said that killing Jews is not permissible, adding that the Jews "don't attack you if you don't attack them." On November 3, Sheikh Al-Halabi posted two lengthy videos in which he rebutted criticism by political rivals, especially from the Muslim Brotherhood. In the new videos, Sheikh Al-Halabi referred to Jews as "the ...
Calling to wage Jihad against "the brothers of apes and pigs" in the streets and alleys of Jerusalem, Sheikh Muhammad Abu Sa'da, in a sermon delivered at the Abdallah Azzam Mosque, Gaza, said that they were awaiting their leader to proclaim: "You will all be praying your afternoon prayer in Tel Aviv, Allah willing." The sermon was posted on the Internet on October 3, 2015. Following are excerpts: Muhammad Abu Sa'da: The Al-Aqsa Mosque is expecting our mujahideen and martyrdom-seekers. The ...
This month, MEMRI TV celebrated an important milestone: the release of its Clip No. 5,000. The MEMRI TV Project: * Launched in 2004 * The only project in the world translating Arab, Iranian, and South Asian television. * Monitoring the 100 most important TV channels (including online) around the clock * Providing open-source broadcast content to Western governments, military, law enforcement, media, and academia, as well as to the public at large . * Maintaining the world's largest archives of ...
In a blog post in the blog section of the well-known and popular liberal Arabic website Elaph, Sudanese journalist Mus'ab Al-Mosharraf wrote that macaque monkeys are descended from the Jews. In it, Al-Mosharraf, whose personal blog posts, also on the Elaph website, 1 often have antisemitic motifs, argues that some monkeys are clearly descended from the Jews whom Allah punished by transforming them into monkeys for desecrating the Sabbath, as is told in the Koran. He included numerous photos of ...
The month of Ramadan, the month of fasting, has a special status as the month of religious spirituality and devotion. However, in Muslim tradition it is also perceived as a month of jihad and martyrdom, a month in which Allah grants military victories to His believers. It was during Ramadan that Muslims triumphed in many of their battles, among them the battle of Badr in 624 between supporters of Muhammad and a merchant caravan of the Quraysh tribe; the conquest of Mecca in 630 and of Andalusia ...
In a lesson delivered at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Palestinian cleric Sheik Khaled Al-Maghrabi said that "the Quran exposes the true nature [of the Jews] and that Allah "cursed them and transformed them into apes and pigs." Al-Maghrabi advised the "Israelites" to get out of the Holy Land, citing the antisemitic hadith of the stones and the trees. Following are excerpts from the lesson, which was posted on the Internet on June 16, 2015. Khaled Al-Maghrabi: Brothers, when the Quran talks to the people ...
On Capitol Hill on April 14, 2015, The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) held its sixth annual commemoration of the establishment of the Tom Lantos Archives on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial, and presented the sixth report of its findings. The Tom Lantos Archives are the world's largest resource on this subject, featuring materials from Arabic, Farsi, Urdu/Pashtu, and Dari media (click here to visit the Archives). Speakers At The Event The event, held in the Speaker's Dining Room ...
On April 14, 2015, MEMRI and the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice, in conjunction with International Holocaust Remembrance Day, will hold the sixth annual Tom Lantos Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial Archives Commemoration at the U.S. Capitol, sponsored by Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner. At the event, MEMRI will present, and release, its annual report on antisemitism and Holocaust denial in the Arab and Muslim world, covering both the proponents of these ...
Following are excerpts from an address by Algerian cleric Chemseddine el Djazairi, which aired on Ennahar TV on February 8, 2015: Chemseddine el Djazairi: A viewer asks: What is your position about the prevalent belief that contemporary Jews are of the seed of those who were transformed into apes and pigs? This belief is not true. Contemporary Jews are of the seed of Adam, not of the apes and pigs, because the line of those transformed into apes and pigs was severed. […] A Jew who rebelled so ...
