Muslim Cleric Hate in Michigan
Michigan
Imam
Feted at Interfaith Events, Spews Hate
Published October
24,
2019
By Ryan Mauro and Alex
VanNess
Clarion
Project
A
Michigan imam preached
that
the leaders of Saudi Arabia are “agents of the Jews” and should be put
to
death, as seen in a video posted
to
Facebook and found by Clarion Project.
The
video
shows Dearborn Imam Husham al-Hussainy condemning the Saudi royal family
as
“impure,” calling for them to be executed for the Saudi campaign in
Yemen
against the Houthi rebels backed by the Iranian regime, and is filled
with
conspiratorial anti-Semitism.
Speaking
in
Arabic, al-Hussainy said that the Saudi leaders are “agents of the Jews”
and
that the so-called Zionist conspiracy should be blamed for any Saudi
transgression.
Al-Hussainy
even
went so far as to claim that the Saudi airplanes bombing Yemen “are
Israeli airplanes with Israeli policy and Israeli targets.”
He
then urged
Muslims to “stand together” with Christians against the “oppressive
Saudi-Zionist airplanes.”
Al-Husainy,
an
Iraqi-American Michigan imam who founded the of the Karbala Islamic Center in
1995,
has a history of
supporting
the Hezbollah terrorist group, Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamic Revolution
in Iran
and radical Shiite militiamen in Iraq backed by the Iranian regime.
For
example,
last year, al-Hussainy visited Iraq and was a guest speaker for a crowd affiliated with
the Iranian-backed militia Saraya Ashura. Iranian regime operatives
have
directly trained and armed many
of
Saraya Ashura’s fighters and the militia threatened to
attack
U.S. personnel in Iraq.
Yet,
despite
this public record, al-Hussainy is welcomed and participates in interfaith and
civil
rights events nationally and
throughout
the city of
Detroit.
Only
two
months after he gave this sermon (which was posted in 2015 to the
Facebook page
of the Karbala Islamic Center in
Dearborn),
al-Hussainy participated in
a
Detroit-area civil rights award dinner sponsored by the Arab American
Civil
Rights League (ACRL) and the Detroit branch of the NAACP.
In
2017,
Hussainy was
invited to
speak at a memorial service to remember the victims
of 9/11
with Detroit community leaders. In 2018, a judge determined what
many
suspected all along — that Hezbollah and the Iranian regime (both of
which
Imam al-Hussainy supports) are culpable for the 9/11 attacks because of
their
material support for Al-Qaeda and the hijackers, specifically.
Yet,
al-Hussainy is a well-respected imam. In 2007, he gave
the
invocation prayer at the Democratic National
Committee’s Annual
Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Al-Hussainy
and
his mosque are also embraced by other Shiite groups and mosques in the
Detroit area and nationally. The Karbala Islamic Center conducts activities with
the
Islamic Center of America and the Islamic Institute of Knowledge, among
others.
Al-Hussainy’s
preaching
endangers both Saudis and Jews, as the sermon legitimizes violent
retaliation against both. If you believe that the Saudi leaders deserve
death,
then the Jews supposedly commanding the Saudis are likewise deserving of
death.
The
conflict
between Iran and Saudi Arabia has spilled over onto American soil in the
past.
In 2011, Iran hatched a plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. by
blowing up a restaurant in Washington D.C., an attack that would have
killed
perhaps dozens of American civilians.
The
tension
between the two countries is much higher today than it was then, with
Iran
now attacking Saudi
cities
and oil fields.
If
Iran’s
network of supporters in America, like Imam Al-Hussainy, believe that
“the
Jews” and Israel bear responsibility for the Saudis’ actions, then
synagogues,
Jewish-owned businesses, Israeli governmental buildings and similar
sites may
be potential targets for Iranian retaliation.