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Jul 16, 2009
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Egyptian Cleric Wagdi Ghoneim Calls President Sarkozy "a Fornicator" and President Obama "an Owl"

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Source: Al-Jazeera Network (Qatar)

Following are excerpts from a public address by Egyptian cleric Wagdi Ghoneim, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on July 16, 2009.

Wagdi Ghoneim: The Jews had nowhere to settle. They were scattered throughout Europe and America. Even now, most of the [Jews] living in our beloved Palestine are not Palestine nationals. Even [Gilad] Shalit, who has been captured by our brothers in Hamas, is a French national. This is why Sarkozy – that criminal fornicator, who has a forbidden relationship with a woman and a bastard daughter from her, yet says that a woman's veil contradicts her liberty... What business is it of yours, you fornicator? He went to visit Saudi Arabia with this woman, and they wouldn't let him in. They asked him: "Who's this?" He said: "She's my girlfriend." So they said: "Girlfriend? You expect us to welcome you with 'horns'?! Get lost. Next time, come with your wife, and we will respect you and let you in, but when you come with a girlfriend, and say that a woman must not wear the veil to school..."

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"Buma" [an owl] came to Egypt and declared: "Al-Salam Alaykum."

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All the people in the front row applauded him. They applauded 25 times. I don't know what for. You animals – he is killing your sons in Iraq, he is killing your Muslim mothers and sisters in Afghanistan, and he sent a ship loaded with weapons to the Jews, in order to replace the three million kg of weapons that they used against your brothers in Gaza for 23 days.

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You come and tell me we should recognize Israel? If you love them so much, take them [to the U.S.]. Give them half a state of the United States. Take them. They won't take up even half a state. Not even one quarter of a state. America is a large continent. But no, they planted [Israel] in our midst.

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