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Colorado Imam Teaches Children At Mosque: Jews Cannot Be Trusted; 

Allah Turned Jewish Fishermen Into Monkeys; 

The Jews Killed Their Prophets, Tried To Kill Jesus

MEMRI, October 22, 2023:

An imam delivered an Islamic lesson to children at the Colorado Muslims Community Center (CMCC) on October 22, 2023, describing the “characteristics” of the Jews. Although the imam was not identified, comparison with other videos suggests it is Umar Mitchell, the imam of Masjid Umar Ibn Al-Khattab in Aurora, Colorado. 

The imam said that the Jews lie and break their contracts and covenants, and that they killed their prophets and even tried to kill Jesus. He recounted the story of Jewish fishermen who were turned by Allah into “literal physical monkeys” for fishing on Saturday. He said that Israel keeps defeating the Palestinians because the Jews trick them into trusting them. 

Those monkeys can be really tricky, or those Muslims must be really stupid.

The imam added: “It is not hate speech for you to be aware of these things.” He said that not every single Jew is like this – but that “a couple of them” are not. 

The lesson was livestreamed on various social media platforms, including that of the Colorado Muslims Community Center, SAFA USA, Al-Minhaal Academy, Authentic Ilm Mission, and Karim AbuZaid, who delivered a Friday sermon at the Colorado Muslims Community Center. The lesson was presumably delivered as part of the Taqwa Academy weekend school located at the CMCC.

Umar Mitchell: “[Descending] from the Israelites is what group that we know today? Israel – who do you call today? The Yahud. Who are the Yahud in English terms? Jews.

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“They were given covenants, promises, and agreements that they were supposed to follow. What did they do every single time? They don’t obey. They break their covenant. They lie and break their contract.

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“So I’m going to ask you: If this is the group of people who broke their rules with Allah, should you trust these people today?”

Children: “No!”

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Mitchell: “The Israelites were sent many, many messengers and prophets. They killed some of them. They even tried to kill Jesus.

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“If that wasn’t all bad enough, Allah had given them one day that they don’t do any business. What day was that? For the Jews, what is their day they don’t do anything – just devote it to worship? What day is it? Saturday. So the people were prevented from doing business. So there’s a group of fishermen… Who knows this story? You guys don’t know the story about the fishermen who were not supposed to fish on Saturday? In the Baqara Chapter of the Quran, they are told not to fish, so they say: ‘You know what, we’ll cast our nets on Friday, we’ll leave the nets out there all Saturday, we’ll do our worship – everything is good – then come Sunday, we’re going to eat.’ Does this sound like good worshippers?”

Children: “No.”

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Mitchell: “So what did they do? They went fishing and cast their nets. And they said: ‘We’re not fishing. Our nets are fishing, but we’re not fishing.’ What did Allah do to them as a punishment? Yes? Yes. He made them into monkeys. Literal physical monkeys. Monkeys. Does this sound like a people you want to do business with?”

Children: “No!”

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Mitchell: “What is one of the most major reasons why we keep losing in Palestine?

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“Why do they keep destroying them? No… Because they keep tricking us to trust them.

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“Allah reminds you about nations that came before [Islam], and He reminds you about some nations that still are, and He tells you about their characteristics for two things: One, so that you don’t be like them, and two, so that you be aware of them. It’s important for you guys to know this.”

“Who has been watching the news? Who has been watching what Israelis are saying about you?

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“They are calling anybody who disagrees with Israel a terrorist.

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“They are calling what’s happened to them [on October 7] a ‘holocaust.’ They are comparing our brothers and sisters [who are] being murdered to Nazis, to Adolf Hitler.”

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“We Have To Know And Understand Who These People Are”; “It’s Not Hate Speech For You To Be Aware Of These Things”

“We have to know and understand who these people are, so that we stop falling victim to them time and time again.

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“It’s not hate speech for you to be aware of these things. Allah says: ‘Except for a small [group] about them.’ Are we saying every single one of them is like this? No. Except for a little bit from them. Except for a couple of them.”

Students can get extra credit for attending Palestinian march

says UC Berkeley

by Ben Clerkin, The JC, October 25, 2023:

UC Berkeley has endorsed an academic’s plan to offer extra credits to students who attend an anti-Israel protest or watch an anti-Israel documentary.

Outrage engulfed the Ivy League college after graduate student Victoria Huynh emailed students on her course, Asian American Communities and Race Relations, about the scheme.

The email contained a poster for the “National walkout against genocide, settler-colonialism and the siege of Gaza”. It showed a young man holding a slingshot and a Palestinian flag in the ruins of Gaza.

Huynh wrote: “Hi everyone, we’re offering a field trip and/or extra credit opportunity.

“Students can attend the national student walkout tomorrow against the settler-colonial occupation of Gaza OR

“Students can watch a short documentary on Palestine and call/email your local California representative.

“Doing so will either count as a field trip or an extra 5 points on the field trip category of your grade.”…

Someone needs to be fired!

Hateful teen shouts ‘I will kill you, Jew’ at 9-y/o boy at NYC playground

by Joe Marino and David Propper, New York Post, October 26, 2023:

A hateful teen threatened a young boy with a knife and yelled “I will kill you, Jew” in the latest antisemitic attack in the Big Apple, police and law enforcement sources said.

The sickening scene unfolded at a playground at KIPP AMP Middle School and MS 354 Monday evening in Crown Heights, according to the NYPD and the victim’s mother, who said her daughter was also targeted in the attack.

“My kids were shaking, they were crying,” Chaya Sundroy, who came to the US from Israel 10 years ago, said. “They asked why – we didn’t do nothing to him, why they say that, why they want to killed us. They were really, really scared about it.”

Police and sources said the man also screamed “Heil Hitler” at the boy, but Sundroy, who was at the park with her six children, said that was actually directed at her daughter.

During the attack, several people also shouted “Allah Akbar” in front of the children, according to Sundroy and police sources.

The initial attack occurred shortly after the family arrived at the park around 6 p.m., according to Sundroy.

The mother tried looking for the unknown man who spewed the hatred, but couldn’t find him. Soon after, a group of people showed up and directed another antisemitic comment at her daughter, she said.

One of the suspects flashed a knife during the attack, according to police and the mother.

“When the guy took out the knife I saw it,” she said. “It was very close to me. I saw it and heard it.”

The group fled after police were called to the scene. No one was injured, police said.

Cops said they are seeking one suspect and looking into the case as a “possible biased incident.”…

Just a remote possibility, I guess. Good grief!

Rex Murphy: There are Fascists on Campus. Protesters don’t Realize it’s Them, Not Milo Yiannopoulos

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I suggest, as a corollary to Orwell’s prescient observation that (I’m paraphrasing) some things are so stupid that only an intellectual could believe them, that should you seek stupidity in depth and a full lock on all mental development, enroll in a prestige high-fee North American liberal university. Further, I hold that whatever debates may be underway about the targets of Orwell’s dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four, the modern university is the only institution that has taken that noble work for use as a manual.

For where else are words turned quite upside down, flipped over to stand on their bruised heads and told to dance to the rigorous tunes of fanatics? For it is only on a university campus that simple, basic words are made by violence to take on their exact and opposite meanings: up is down, right is wrong, day is night, and anti-fascism is fascism.

Jeremy Papasso/Daily Camera via AP, FileIn this Jan. 25, 2017 file photo, Milo Yiannopoulos speaks on campus in the Mathematics building at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo. Sales are soaring for, "Dangerous," the upcoming book by the right-wing commentator.

A couple of nights ago the Twitter-banished, Trump supporter, Internet gadfly and author Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to give a talk at the (hilariously regarded) home of the Free Speech movement of the 1960s, Berkeley campus in Oceania, sorry, in California. If I were to characterize Yiannopoulos I’d put him down as a right-wing, more sophisticated version of Jon Stewart. He is certainly more clever. There is a relaxed quality to his goading of the politically correct hordes that Stewart’s more determined sneering never really achieved.

Milo doesn’t have a TV show (yet) but he gives talks and is on a campus tour. Naturally when he showed up at Berkeley a riot broke out. A little flavour of the evening may be gleaned from any number of sources: “Protesters armed with bricks and fireworks mounted an assault on the building hosting a speech by … Milo Yiannopoulos.”  Another: “Several injuries have been reported and at least four banks have been vandalized after demonstrators marched away from the scene of a violent protest at the cancelled speaking event by … speaker Yiannopoulos.” 

Elijah Nouvelage/Getty ImagesSmashed windows at a bank are seen following a protest on February 1, 2017 in Berkeley, California.

And just one more:  “As the gathered crowd got more agitated, masked ‘black bloc’ activists began hurling projectiles including bricks, lit fireworks and rocks at the building and police. Some used police barriers as battering rams to attack the doors of the venue, breaching at least one of the doors and entering the venue on the first floor.”

Now what do we call it when people in black uniforms and face masks storm a speaking venue, assault attendees, light fires and throw bricks at police with the express purpose of shutting down a speech? Would “fascist” work for you? In this context, and remembering it is a university campus where this outrage was perpetrated, I think fascist will serve quite nicely. And then we may advance to giving the name of the group that sponsored this giddy fit of intolerance and mayhem. They call themselves “AntiFa” which is the cute way campus blackshirts like to spell anti-fascist these days.

AP Photo/Ben MargotProtestors watch a fire on Sproul Plaza during a rally against the scheduled speaking appearance by Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos on the University of California at Berkeley campus on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, in Berkeley, Calif.

You see thereby what I mean by saying it is only in a university setting that words and descriptions are not only torn from their roots, mauled and variously abused, but put to service in the exact opposite of all their meaning.  For those who are little too fond of invoking an analogy with the Weimar Republic in these Trumpian days, it might be worth looking in a reverse direction at Trump’s more fanatic opponents for a more faithful deployment of the comparison. As between the well-coiffed, mild-mannered Yiannopoulos and a mob of black-clad mask-wearing brick-tossing rioters, I’d go with nominating the latter as the fascist crowd.

Righteousness staggers the angry mind. The rioters presented the “argument” that Yiannopoulos’s (aborted) talk was an act of violence, while ever so superciliously they maintained that their acts of violence were free speech.  One pureblood nitwit at the event whined that it wasn’t Milo’s talk, per se, that triggered her, but that she feared that in some future class she might unwittingly be sitting next to someone who had attended it. (Does Berkeley have an entrance exam? Does it require baying at the moon?)

More and more those who are, as it were, genetically opposed to the results of the presidential election, make the assumption that the Republican victory handed them a licence to violate all the codes of civil society and the understandings of democratic practice. That because their fellow citizens make a choice they find unpalatable they are thereby released to riot and violence and plaster their actions as heroic and noble. And of course the cringing authorities of the universities, instead of clarion denunciations of such actions, and absolute dissociation from all such charades, dance mildly down some imagined middle. Milo is a “provocateur” or he is “extreme” right wing, or that most feeble of all standbys, claiming the protest was “infiltrated” by “outsiders.” 

The moral courage of some universities is at a low low ebb and their long and ancient reputation as havens of thought and intellectual regard is being travestied. There is only one real protest I would really like to see on a university campus these days: one that marched for more rigorous courses and more time in the libraries, reading. Meantime, I expect we’ll see a run on Mussolini bios.