Sheikh Riad Fataar, president of South Africa’s Muslim Judicial Council (MJC), expressed blatant support for Hamas in a speech in Capetown.

Fataar said, “I am Hamas, Cape Town is Hamas. Viva Hamas Viva! …We support Hamas because Hamas follows the Aayah [verse] in the holy Quran…: ‘Fight those who fight you.’

He then referred to the Christian concept of “turn the other cheek” and said, “You slap me – I slap you back!”