Israeli police will recommend indicting Sheikh Khaled al-Mughrabi, a prominent preacher who regularly speaks from the pulpit at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, for inciting violence, Ynet reports.
Mughrabi was arrested on Wednesday, and has been questioned by police earlier this year after being videotaped telling worshipers that Jews kidnap non-Jewish children in order to extract their blood. He has claimed Jews control the world’s wealth and use their control of the pharmaceutical industry to spread disease.
Sheikh Khaled al-Mughrabi at the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court after being arrested for inciting against Israelis and Jews, on November 4, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
Two weeks ago Channel 10 reported that Mughrabi said in a speech that “Allah can erase every memory of the Jews from every place on the planet, but he wants us to act in order to fulfill his commandment.”
“The most important thing that it’s possible to do is to protect the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and every one of its guardians will receive 70 virgins,” he said.
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