Sue Surkes is The Times of Israel's environment reporter
Imam Abdul Alim Musa (Youtube screenshot)
Zionists brought Donald Trump to the White House, and did so in order to “maintain their global power,” a Muslim hate cleric charged in a speech at a Washington, DC, mosque.
“They [the Zionists] will bring a fool to power any time they can to do their bidding,” said Arkansas-born Imam Abdul Alim Musa in a sermon last week at the Al Islam Mosque, documented on Wednesday by the watchdog Middle East Media Research Institute (Memri).
It was up to Islam to “rescue the poor, dumb American people,” he said.
White Americans “don’t think too much,” he said. “And I don’t mean to be sounding racist – negroes ain’t no better, just so you know.”
The imam — an African American convert to Islam — accused Zionists of creating “a Hitlerian” environment “exactly like the one that existed in Germany before World War II.”
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They treat Palestinians “word for word, minute for minute, letter for letter – exactly like the Nazis treated the Europeans.”
He went on to declare that Zionists were behind the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and then framed the Muslims.
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The imam is the director and founder of As-Sabiqun, defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group, with branches in Oakland, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Diego and Sacramento. He is also founder and director of the Islamic Institute of Counter-Zionist American Psychological Warfare, and is a member of the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought.
Republican president-elect Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with his running mate Mike Pence at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York on November 9, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/JIM WATSON)
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