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Muslim cleric preaches that selling land to Jews is betrayal of Islam and ‘exit from the entire Muslim group’

The Israel National News article title is Radical cleric: Selling land to Jews is a betrayal of Islam. While Westerners often choose to call such clerics “radical,” Sheikh Ikrima Sabri is in fact a mainstream, highly influential Islamic leader. He is head of the Supreme Islamic Council and former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (from 1994 – 2006). He has condemned what he referred to as the “Judaization” of Jerusalem.

Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, attended by 50,000 people, served this week as a platform to encourage the public to mobilize for the “resistance” against Israel.

50,000 people is a significant number, and suggests that Sabri is more mainstream than radical. Westerners frequently dub the likes of Sheikh Sabri “radical” to fit a popular template of Islam as a “religion of peace.”

Islamic antisemitism is engrained in Islam, and the Palestinian “resistance” is a jihad against Israel.

“Radical cleric: Selling land to Jews is a betrayal of Islam,” Israel National News, January 2, 2022:

Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, attended by 50,000 people, served this week as a platform to encourage the public to mobilize for the “resistance” against Israel.

Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, head of the Supreme Islamic Council, spoke in his sermon about the importance of holding on to the land and protecting it by praising the course of action of the residents of Wadi Joz, Silwan, Burkin, Beita, Jenin and Palestinian Arab residents in the rest of Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem.

Sabri called the Palestinians the “keepers of the faith and the lands” and stressed the ban on selling land to Jews or giving it up.

“The mediation and transfer of land and real estate (to the Jews) are a betrayal and an exit from the entire Muslim group and an exit from the entire community,” he stated.

Harun Nasser, a member of Hamas’ political bureau, called on Muslims to mobilize to defend the Al-Aqsa Mosque and take action against the “desecration” of the site by the settlers in order to keep the place of the Prophet Muhammad’s ascent to heaven “pure from all impurity.”

Sabri regularly accuses Israel of trying to “Judaize” the Temple Mount area. Several years ago, he accused “extremist” Jewish organizations of waging a legal battle aimed at achieving Israeli sovereignty in the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

In 2014, he declared that Al-Aqsa was a “red line” for Arabs, adding, “We will not give up even one grain of earth (at the Al-Aqsa Mosque), since the Jews have no connection to it whatsoever.”

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[Anonymous] 18:07 08.01.2022
I used to sit and talk after work with my Muslim friend and his view of reality was so skewed by these crazy “Muslim scholars” he had a hard time deciding whether to believe what he could see or nonse
Henry Mailhot 16:46 07.01.2022
Someday Jesus Christ will split the mount of olives, and Walk through the eastern Gate. Setting up His kingdom of 1000 years.
Karolina De 16:01 07.01.2022
THE AL AQSA MOSQUE IS AN ABOMINATION TO THE GOD OF ISREAL. IT WILL BE DESTROYED.
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