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Protesters hold a banner reading 'Free Shahin' during a protest in support of the jailed imam Mohamed Shahin, who has been ordered deported for defending Hamas's onslaught of October 7, 2023, in Turin, Italy on November 28, 2025. (MARCO BERTORELLO / AFP)
December 16, 2025, 5:52 pm
Italian PM Meloni fumes after court frees imam arrested for defending October 7
Appeals court rules Mohamed Shahin free to go despite interior minister ordering him deported; Turin Islamic leader said Hamas onslaught was not violent; government likely to appeal
By ToI Staff
A delegation of imams and Muslim community leaders from France, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK meet with President Isaac Herzog at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem on July 7, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
July 7, 2025, 10:26 pm
Group of Europe-based imams visits Israel, bearing ‘message of peace’
Delegation meets President Herzog; will spend a week touring the country, and meeting military, political and religious authorities, victims of October 7
By Rossella Tercatin
Muhsin Hendricks, 'the world's first openly gay imam,' speaks in a 2023 interview. (Screen capture via YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 16, 2025, 3:13 pm
‘First openly gay imam’ shot dead in South Africa, cops say motive unknown
Muhsin Hendricks, subject of 2022 documentary ‘The Radical,’ ran a mosque intended as a safe haven for gay and other marginalized Muslims near his birth place of Cape Town
By AFP
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (right) says he has no 'personal relationship' with Imam Asad Zaman (left) who praised Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and shared a link to a pro-Hitler video. (Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via Getty Images. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images via JTA)
August 15, 2024, 7:55 am
Walz says he has no personal ties to imam who praised Oct. 7, shared pro-Hitler video
Democrat VP candidate and Imam Asad Zaman appeared at a number of public events together between 2018 and May 2023, but both say they don’t know each other beyond that
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Sheikh Yusuf Albaz appears for a hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court, on October 28, 2021. (Flash90)
April 30, 2022, 5:26 pm
Lod imam arrested for suspected incitement after Temple Mount clashes
Sheikh Yusuf Albaz questioned by police over comments on Al-Aqsa Mosque, his lawyer says; he was charged last year with incitement over online posts following May conflict
By ToI Staff
Mohamed Toujgani. (Screenshot)
January 13, 2022, 8:41 pm
Belgium expels imam who called for burning of Jews
Mohamed Toujgani’s remarks from 2009 recently resurfaced, leading government to withdraw his residency permit for 10 years, citing national security threat
By AFP
Security camera footage shows suspects carrying out firebomb attack on Gintazi family home in Jaffa, May 14, 2021 (Screen grab)
June 17, 2021, 2:14 pm
3 Arab men charged over Jaffa firebombing that seriously hurt boy during riots
2 accused of attempted murder, 3rd indicted as accomplice to multiple attacks including mistaken assault on Arab home
By ToI Staff
Lod imam Yusuf Elbaz (screen capture: YouTube)
June 17, 2021, 9:18 am
Lod imam arrested on suspicion of encouraging violence against cops
Sheikh Yusuf Albaz later sent to house arrest; authorities reportedly preparing for possible renewed clashes in mixed Jewish-Arab city following detention
By ToI Staff
Dr. Fadi Yousef Kablawi adresses the North Miami Islamic Center in a Friday sermon on March 12, 2021 (screenshot: MEMRI)
March 20, 2021, 6:05 pm
Miami imam slams normalization with ‘descendants of pigs and apes’
Fadi Yousef Kablawi in sermon tells mosque-goers peace with Jews is for ‘losers’ and ‘criminal’ Jews behind all corruption worldwide
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Shiite Muslim women march toward the French Consulate during a rally against French President Emmanuel Macron and the republishing of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad they deem blasphemous, in Karachi, Pakistan, Nov. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
November 25, 2020, 8:02 pm
French court backs closure of Muslim group for ‘inciting hatred’
BarakaCity denies allegations; judge also upholds shuttering of mosque north of Paris over imam’s comments, as France cracks down on Islamic extremism
By AFP
Sheikh Ibrahim Kazerooni (Screen capture: YouTube)
January 9, 2020, 11:16 pm
Michigan imam eulogizes Soleimani for backing Syria against US, ‘Zionists’
Sheikh Ibrahim Kazerooni of Dearborn calls airstrike on Iranian general a ‘cowardly and heinous act’; meanwhile Afghani MP says Soleimani responsible for thousands of Afghan deaths
By ToI Staff
A view of central Helsingborg, Sweden. (CC BY Lars Lundqvist, Flickr)
September 4, 2019, 1:05 am
Swedish imam fined for calling Jews the ‘offspring of apes and pigs’
Samir el Rifai of Helsingborg to pay $305 for hate speech after making comment following Israel’s 2017 closure of Temple Mount due to terror attack
By JTA and ToI Staff
Screenshots of British Imam Abdullah Patel being interviewed on BBC on June 19, 2019 (L) and his post calling for the relocation of Israel to the United States. (via UK Jewish News)
From the WebJune 19, 2019, 1:54 pm
BBC hosts British imam who has called for relocation of Israel to US
TV presenter apologizes for interviewing Abdullah Patel, who has also accused politicians of being on ‘Zionist’s payroll,’ UK Jewish News reports
Imam Baker Assaf speaks at the Islamic Center of Passaic County in Paterson, New Jersey, February 22, 2019 (MEMRI screenshot)
March 30, 2019, 7:56 pm
NJ imam claims IDF chief rabbi condoned rape of Palestinian women
Baker Assaf calls on Muslims to hate ‘Zionism’ rather than Jews, says Islam won’t accept gays but won’t ‘kick anybody off the Empire State Building’
By ToI Staff
Mohamed Toujgani (Screen capture: YouTube)
January 9, 2019, 6:58 pm
Video emerges of senior Belgian imam praying for Allah to ‘burn Zionists’
Head of anti-Semitism watchdog flags clip of 2009 sermon by Mohamed Toujgani, who is set to be the next leader of Belgium’s conference of imams
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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