Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey went off to sex rehab after being accused of sexual assault. The Islamic Center of Jersey City is embracing that same philosophy by sending their Imam who called for killing the Jews for 'rehab'.
Sheikh Aymen Elkasaby, imam of the Islamic Center of Jersey City, dedicated his Friday sermon on December 8 to U.S. President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
You'll never believe this, but the sheikh didn't have good things to say about the Jews. Here's some of his interfaith outreach, courtesy of Memri.
"So long as the Al-Aqsa Mosque remains prisoner in the hands of the Jews, this nation will remain humiliated. So long as the Al-Aqsa Mosque remains under the feet of the apes and pigs, this nation will remain humiliated... So long as the Al-Aqsa Mosque remains a humiliated prisoner under the oppression of the Jews, this nation will never prevail... "Allah, we ask You to grant us martyrdom on the threshold of Al-Aqsa Mosque."... "Allah, wreak vengeance upon the plundering oppressors!"... "Count them one by one, and kill them down to the very last one. Do not leave a single one on the face of the Earth."
It's anti-Zionism. That's why he keeps talking about the Jews. Just ask JVP or If Not Now or any of the other human shields of Islamic anti-Semitism.
Shedeed has also served as a member of the New Jersey Homeland Security Interfaith Advisory Council.
That's only appropriate considering...
"There is no separation of religion and state in Islam. Islam is justice, mercy, liberty, shura, jihad, and ideology. Islam is a message. Islam is an all-inclusive religion.
But the Islamic Center of Jersey City is politically significant. Plenty of politicians have come there to solicit Islamic support. So the mosque had to do something. Not fire him, obviously. Because they agree with him.
But send him to the Islamic equivalent of sex rehab.
Ahmed Shedeed said that Sheikh Aymen Elkasaby, imam of the Islamic Center of Jersey City, would be meeting with “interfaith scholars” who would “consult with and retrain him,” following sermons in which Elkasaby called for the murder of Jews and attacked the west for having made Muslims the “tail-end of all nations.”
Retraining? Was Aymen unaware that calling for the murder of the Jews is against corporate policy? And why is he getting retrained by interfaith scholars rather than those supposed moderate Islamic clerics we keep hearing about?
“This is like sending someone to rehab,” Shedeed, the Islamic Center’s president, told The Algemeiner when asked whether Elkasaby would be dismissed from the imam’s position.
Yes, it's just like Kevin Spacey and Harvey Weinstein's rehab where their enablers try to get them back to raping as soon as possible.
The mosque won't fire Elkasaby, so it will stage a farce before getting back to his old job of "Death to the Jews".
“The scholars will help him to learn to deal with these issues,” Shedeed said — adding that Elkasaby had spoken “in the heat of the moment”
We've heard the same defense for other Imams who were caught calling for Death to the Jews. "He was just upset." I'm not aware that an American member of the clergy who called for killing all Muslims would get that kind of pass. Certainly not from the media.
“Any Muslim who uses that phrase, he misunderstands the Qu’ran, he is not knowledgeable, and I told this to the imam,” Shedeed said. At the same time, he added, the imam was talking to an audience from a variety of backgrounds, “and everyone can receive what he says in different ways.”
So his own Imam isn't knowledgeable?
But yes, everyone can view a description of Jews as apes and pigs in different ways.
“There are extremists in the Jewish, Christian and Buddhist religions and everything can be taken in the wrong way,” Shedeed said.
Except this "extremist" will go on working at the mosque after his Jihad rehab. So that makes the mosque 'extremist'. Even while Shedeed plays at disavowing his Imam's comments, he also tries to defend them by claiming that they can be taken in different ways.
There's only one way to take the fact that an Islamic cleric who called for murdering Jews will remain at a major Islamic mosque in New Jersey.
Only one way.