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October 22, 2012 0

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi Attends Friday Sermon Marked By Anti-Semitism

In a nation­ally broad­cast Fri­day ser­mon attended by Egypt­ian Pres­i­dent Mohamed Morsi and other high rank­ing gov­ern­ment offi­cials at the Al-Tanaeem Mosque in Mersa Matruh, Imam Fatouh Abdul Nabi called on God to “deal harshly with the Jews and those who are allied with them.”

Dur­ing the Octo­ber 19 ser­mon, Imam Abdul Nabi, who heads the Islamic Endow­ment in Matruh Gov­er­norate, said:

“Our God, grant us vic­tory over the infi­dels… Our God, deal harshly with the Jews and those who are allied with them… Our God, our God, deal harshly with the Jews and those who are allied with them… Our God, frighten their masses… Our God, dis­perse their union… Our God, show us your strength over them, your great­ness over them… Our God, reveal to us your wrath over them, you are the Lord of creatures.”

Dur­ing this part of the ser­mon, Pres­i­dent Morsi was shown on tele­vi­sion mouthing “amen.”

In a press release issued after the ser­mon, the Anti-Defamation League expressed deep­en­ing con­cern over the anti-Semitic rhetoric com­ing from the high­est ech­e­lons of Egypt­ian society. Earlier last week, ADL sent a let­ter to pres­i­dent Morsi, urg­ing him to reject anti-Semitic state­ments included in the weekly mes­sage of Egypt Mus­lim Brotherhood’s supreme leader.

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October 18, 2012 2

Egypt-Based Group Shows Children Preparing To Fight Zionists And Jews

An Egypt-based group affil­i­ated with rad­i­cal Mus­lim Broth­er­hood ide­o­logue, Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, has released a new video show­ing chil­dren being taught to fight and kill Israelis.

The video, released yes­ter­day by Al-Aqsa Trustees Move­ment, an orga­ni­za­tion that describes its mis­sion as “rais­ing new gen­er­a­tions to lib­er­ate Jerusalem,” was cre­ated to show the types of activ­i­ties orga­nized by the group’s Aqsa Child Committee.

The video depicts what appear to be kindergarten-aged chil­dren in Egypt angrily curs­ing, attack­ing and behead­ing card­board cutouts of Israeli sol­diers with Stars of David on their heads.

The Al-Aqsa Trustees Move­ment is headed by anti-Semite Salah Sul­tan, the head the of the Jerusalem com­mit­tee of the Inter­na­tional Union of Mus­lim Schol­ars, which was founded by al-Qaradawi. The Trustees Move­ment was founded, accord­ing Sul­tan, “to cre­ate a new gen­er­a­tion who will carry the trust of Al-Aqsa in the face of Jews…We hope that the young men and young women of this Ummah will join us.”

The video starts with a writ­ten intro­duc­tion stat­ing: “After the chil­dren learned about Al-Aqsa Mosque and what the Jews did to it, they went to kill the Zion­ists and lib­er­ate the Mosque.” The chil­dren are then shown engag­ing in a game where they attack human shaped card­board cutouts of Israeli sol­diers with Stars of David on their heads.

At the end of the video, one child is shown car­ry­ing the head of one of the card­board Israeli sol­dier and say­ing, “Look how the Zion­ist sol­dier ended.” A teacher then tells the chil­dren, “play kids, play,” and says “look how he tram­ples him,” refer­ring to one child who steps on one of the card­board sol­diers. Another teacher is heard say­ing “hit him, hit.”

Those inter­ested in join­ing the Al-Aqsa Trustees Move­ment are required to fill out an appli­ca­tion form and pledge alle­giance to the group’s pro­grams, accord­ing to its Face­book page. 200 appli­cants have appar­ently already been accepted, accord­ing to the page.

Accord­ing to Hager Al-Oshary, a mem­ber of the group’s Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee, the group has pre­vi­ously orga­nized activ­i­ties at Cairo University, including a rally to “remind the Arab Youth about their duty towards the Pales­tin­ian cause.”

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October 16, 2012 1

Muslim Brotherhood Leader Expresses Anti-Semitism In Weekly Message

The Mus­lim Brotherhood’s supreme leader has come under inter­na­tional con­dem­na­tion for his lat­est vit­ri­olic mes­sages of anti-Semitism and intense hatred of Israel in the group’s weekly newslet­ter to its mem­bers and the broader Egypt­ian public.Badie's column

In his weekly col­umn, Mohammed Badie, the supreme author­ity of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, accused Israel and Jews of “shed­ding the blood of the peo­ple, tram­pling sanc­tu­ar­ies and holy places” and des­e­crat­ing Mus­lim, Chris­t­ian and Jew­ish holy places in the hotly con­tested city.

Badie called for the Islamic com­mu­nity to rise up against the “Zion­ists” and to com­mit to jihad to recover Jerusalem and lib­er­ate all of Pales­tine. “The time has come,” Badie said, “for the Islamic ummah to band together for Jerusalem and Pales­tine since it has been dom­i­nated by the Jews…” He added that Israel can only be defeated through “holy jihad and high sac­ri­fices and all forms of resis­tance,” terms that have his­tor­i­cally been used to advo­cate ter­ror­ism, includ­ing sui­cide bombings.

In a let­ter to Pres­i­dent Morsi, the Anti-Defamation League urged the Pres­i­dent, a long-time senior offi­cial of the Broth­er­hood, to reject Badie’s anti-Semitism, incite­ment and calls for vio­lence against Jews and Israel. ADL has doc­u­mented the Mus­lim Brotherhood’s con­tin­u­ing hatred of Jews and Israel since the down­fall of the Mubarak regime.

While the Mus­lim Brotherhood’s offi­cial media spokesper­son denied Badie made the com­ments, the col­umn is still avail­able on the Brotherhood’s offi­cial website.

Badie has a long record of state­ments call­ing for bel­liger­ent actions against Israel. In his hol­i­day greet­ings mark­ing the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in July 2012, for exam­ple, Badie wrote that the cen­tral goal of “Mus­lim lead­ers was the recov­ery of the Al Aqsa mosque and its lib­er­a­tion from Zion­ist filth…” Badie also urged the world’s Mus­lims, Chris­tians and Jews to “stand up against the crimes of the Zion­ist gangs in the raped lands,” and the only solu­tion is for Islamic rule to be imposed “through­out all of beloved Palestine.”

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