In Bronx Friday Sermon, Abdelwahab Abdelghany reacts to arrest of GMU Student for plotting mass casualty attack on Israeli Consulate: The FBI must stop targeting our mosques, we are the most peaceful nation to ever be sowed on these lands.
During his Friday December 20, 2024 sermon at the Muslim American Society (MAS) center in the Bronx, Abdelwahab Abdelghany warned congregants to be vigilant about dealing with law enforcement and the FBI in particular.
He gave the example of a George Mason University student who was recently arrested for plans to carry out a mass casualty attack against the Israeli consulate in New York.
He said: “Stop targeting our mosques, our mosques are not places where we preach harm, but rather, we preach peace.” Abdelghany added that the Muslims are “the most peaceful nation to ever be sowed on these lands, but we also must know our rights.”
In his sermon, Abdelghany suggested that an FBI informant approached the student, “putting ideas [in his head].”
However, according to news reports of the arrest, it was the student, Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan, an Egyptian student, who attempted to recruit the FBI operative to participate in the attack on the Israeli consulate.
Source: Online Platforms - "Bronx Muslim Center on Facebook"