Eretz Israel is our unforgettable historic homeland...The Jews who will it shall achieve their State...And whatever we attempt there for our own benefit will redound mightily and beneficially to the good of all mankind. (Theodor Herzl, DerJudenstaat, 1896)

We offer peace and amity to all the neighbouring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Jewish nation for the common good of all. The State of Israel is ready to contribute its full share to the peaceful progress and development of the Middle East.
(From Proclamation of the State of Israel, 5 Iyar 5708; 14 May 1948)

With a liberal democratic political system operating under the rule of law, a flourishing market economy producing technological innovation to the benefit of the wider world, and a population as educated and cultured as anywhere in Europe or North America, Israel is a normal Western country with a right to be treated as such in the community of nations.... For the global jihad, Israel may be the first objective. But it will not be the last. (Friends of Israel Initiative)

Sunday 12 January 2020

In America, Interfaith "Bridge Building" Imam Praises Soleimani, Slams Israel

According to a 2014 post on his apparently now discontinued blog here, Shi'ite Imam Ibrahim Kazerooni, born in 1958 in the city of Al-Najaf in southern Iraq, completed his theological studies in Iran and his secular studies in England.

He afterwards went to live in the United States, where he was
"the former Director of the Abrahamic Initiative Program at St. John Cathedral in Denver. Currently he serves as a member of the Board of Religious advisers to the Denver Police.
He has received a number of awards for his bridge building and peace initiative, including, Faith to Faith Award for interfaith works. (2007), Martin Luther King Award for services in peace building (2007), the “Iliff/D.U Joint Ph.D. Award for Community Service(2007), and Honored with Congressional Record for working to end the war in Iraq. (2004) ...."
Fast foreward to 2020, and this paragon of interfaith harmony has been caught on video by Memri.org (whose YouTube site has, I believe, yet again been taken down by YouTube) in a speech on 3 Janiary at the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan eulogising Qasem Soleimani and deploring his death, along with that of PMU Deputy Chairman Abu Mahdi] Al-Muhandis:
'... He led a prayer for the souls of Soleimani and Al-Muhandis  and told the congregation that Soleimani had "brought hope to the marginalized [and] hatred and fear to the enemies of Islam." He explained that Soleimani had been instrumental in keeping the Syrian regime in power despite American and Zionist attempts to destabilize it, in defending Iraq against ISIS alongside the PMU, and in ultimately defeating ISIS in Iraq, which Sheikh Kazerooni described as the "extended arm of American foreign policy." He cited several examples from Islamic literature that speak of martyrdom as a virtuous act and added: "Let's wait and see what happens next."'
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2 comments:

  1. Qassem Soleimani:
    The terrorist who targeted Jews worldwide

    by Yehudit Barsky


    https://www.jns.org/opinion/qassem-soleimani-the-terrorist-who-targeted-jews-worldwide/

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    The perverse Western mourning for Qassem Soleimani
    by Melanie Phillips


    https://www.jns.org/opinion/the-perverse-western-mourning-for-qassem-soleimani/

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  2. The perverse Western mourning for Qassem Soleimani
    by Melanie Phillips

    https://www.jns.org/opinion/the-perverse-western-mourning-for-qassem-soleimani/

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    Qassem Soleimani: The terrorist who targeted Jews worldwide
    by Yehudit Barsky

    https://www.jns.org/opinion/qassem-soleimani-the-terrorist-who-targeted-jews-worldwide/

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    Not All Palestinians Were Sad to See the Last of Qassem Soleimani (Part 1)
    by Hugh Fitzgerald
    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/01/not-all-palestinians-were-sad-to-see-the-last-of-qassem-soleimani-part-1

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    Not All Palestinians Were Sad to See the Last of Qassem Soleimani (Part 2)
    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/01/not-all-palestinians-were-sad-to-see-the-last-of-qassem-soleimani-part-2

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    Melanie Phillips (a columnist for
    The Times of London) said:


    Major General Qassem Soleimani — the man responsible for a vast infrastructure of global slaughter and oppression, and with blood on his hands from American and British soldiers, as well as Iranians, Iraqis, Syrians, Yemenis, Jews and others — was described in The New York Times after being annihilated by an American drone as “universally admired.”

    SOURCE: The perverse Western mourning for
    Qassem Soleimani
    by, 2020 January 9
    https://www.jns.org/opinion/the-perverse-western-mourning-for-qassem-soleimani/

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    Melanie Phillips (a columnist for
    The Times of London) said:


    “Democrats who had hailed the extra-judicial killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011 as a personal triumph for President Barack Obama, now claimed absurdly that killing Soleimani was unconstitutional.”

    SOURCE: The perverse Western mourning for
    Qassem Soleimani
    by, 2020 January 9
    https://www.jns.org/opinion/the-perverse-western-mourning-for-qassem-soleimani/

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