Rhode Island Mosque exhorts Muslims to ‘fight disbelievers’ two days after murderous jihad attack in New Orleans
Only two days after Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s vehicular jihad carnage in New Orleans, New Year’s day, killing 14, and injuring at least 30, the Arabic supplication at the end of last Friday’s 1/3/25 khutbah (see Qur’an 62:9) or “sermon,” at the Islamic Center of Rhode Island (ICRI) in Providence, included this statement (key video extracts, and full sermon [here; here]; also linked below):
“O Allah, FIGHT the disbelievers and the polytheists who fight against Your saints, and hinder You from Your path, and defame Your messengers.”
At no point during the full ICRI sermon was Jabbar’s mass murderous attack, a mere two days earlier, even acknowledged, let alone condemned. Moreover, consistent with the baleful closing supplication in Arabic, the body of the “sermon,” in English, was a toxic amalgam of Islamic supremacism—touting the global Muslim umma as a single, united entity (Q 21:92; Q 3:110), in opposition to all nationalisms (even Arab Egyptian Muslim and Saudi Muslim nationalism!)—and contempt for non-Muslims, citing, Qur’an 48:29, which calls upon Muslims to be “severe against disbelievers and merciful among themselves.”
Simply examining social media (chiefly Facebook, but other open sources as well) confirms (see here; here; here; here) the rampant Anti-Americanism, Islamic supremacism, and non-Muslim derogation, or hatred—the latter, especially of ”Zionists”/Jews, being promulgated in my own Rhode Island community. For example, Mufti Ikram ul-Haq, is the most prominent cleric at Rhode Island’s largest mosque, Masjid al-Islam, in North Smithfield.
Less than 2-weeks after Hamas unilaterally broke a ceasefire, and in a coordinated jihad terror attack slaughtered (including raping, and mutilating) some 1200 overwhelmingly (70-90%) non-combatant Israelis, and took hundred of others hostage, the good Mufti ul-Haq ignored these events, and posted this libelous diatribe on Facebook:
“May Allah crush the hands of oppressors, killers and murderers who have killed thousands of children, women and men in Gaza. How sad and pathetic is the state of hypocrisy of world leaders who are unwilling/incabale [sic] to exert their power to stop the massacre and genocide unfolding for the last 10 days. Human blood is very sacred in the sight of Allah and He is certainly watching all the actions. ‘Do not ever think that Allah is unaware of what the oppressors are doing’.”