MONTREAL — Police are asked for the second time in three weeks to investigate a newly found video showing a hate sermon against Jews coming from the same Montreal mosque.
Only this time the imam is different.
The video, released online Tuesday by the Middle East Media Research Institute, shows Sheikh Wael Al-Ghitawi in November 2014 delivering a sermon at the Al Andalous Islamic Center in the St. Laurent borough against the “people who slayed the prophets, shed their blood, and cursed the Lord…”
Rabbi Reuben Poupko of the Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs, or CIJA, tells the National Post, “This is a bizarre strain of radical propaganda.”
Early last month, a video from August 2014 released on YouTube shows a different imam from the mosque calling on Allah to “destroy the accursed Jews” and that they be killed “one by one.”
In reaction to that video, the mosque characterized the imam’s phrasing as “clumsy” and “unacceptable.”
— JTA
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