{"id":1158655,"date":"2021-12-26T20:34:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T01:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1158655"},"modified":"2021-12-26T20:34:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T01:34:46","slug":"leading-palestinian-cleric-omicron-due-to-tolerance-of-homosexuality-deadly-bigotry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leading-palestinian-cleric-omicron-due-to-tolerance-of-homosexuality-deadly-bigotry\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading Palestinian Cleric: Omicron Due to Tolerance of Homosexuality \u2014 \u2018Deadly Bigotry\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleading-palestinian-cleric-omicron-due-to-tolerance-of-homosexuality-deadly-bigotry%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1158655&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-454492114-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>Palestinian Islamic Scholar Sheikh Issam Amira in a recent address blamed the toleration of homosexuality on the part of governments and media for the recent Omicron wave which threatens to sweep countries globally<\/span><b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>In a sermon delivered earlier this month at Jerusalem\u2019s al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount complex \u2014 Judaism\u2019s holiest site which marks the site where the Jewish temples stood \u2014 radical Islamic scholar Issam Amira addressed the emergence of the recent Omicron variant of the coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cWhy has this abomination spread? Why has coronavirus \u2013 with its Indian variant and its Omicron variant \u2013 spread?\u201d he asked his audience. \u201cWhat are these names, these diseases, that were not known to our forefathers?\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Deeming the cause for the variant unambiguous, Amira blamed the \u201cinfidel\u201d and \u201clicentious media\u201d for the current pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cThe reason is clear: \u2018Immorality never appears among people to such an extent that they make it known to all,\u2019\u201d he said, quoting an Islamic teaching. \u201cWho would make this known to all? The common people?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cNo,\u201d he replied. \u201cIt is the infidel and licentious media that makes it known to all.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He continued by castigating those rulers who tolerate homosexuality and follow in the ways of \u201cfeminist\u201d groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c[Those] rulers who permit and promote homosexuality; it is the rulers who follow the feminist organizations with their CEDAW (Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women), gender issues, and whatever,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThese are all the precursors of the spread of diseases which did not exist among our forefathers,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>He then urged Muslims to unite and fight against such rulers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt is necessary to unite the efforts of all Muslims, individually and collectively, against these ruthless rulers, who have brought these catastrophes upon us,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>In response, conservative commentator David Horowitz deemed the remarks, \u201cDeadly bigotry.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Deadly bigotry. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9yCNxTj5II\">https:\/\/t.co\/9yCNxTj5II<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Horowitz (@horowitz39) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/horowitz39\/status\/1474854756862492673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cWell that is about as hateful and ignorant as all his other pronouncements LOL. But it\u2019s Israel that gets resolutions against it in the UN?\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nevergi95414627\/status\/1474080067781283853?s=20\"><span>wrote<\/span><\/a><span> one Twitter user.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cStill the ol\u2019 fashioned way: when something isn\u2019t going well, blame the #Jews and the #gays\u2026,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/richardmarceau\/status\/1474088137928421386?s=20\"><span>wrote<\/span><\/a><span> another.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDidn\u2019t BDS claim they were a LGBTQ movement?\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OGAride\/status\/1474891478237257729?s=20\"><span>asked<\/span><\/a><span> another.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAttention Code Pink! You\u2019re on the wrong side!\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garybkatz\/status\/1474422301005426688?s=20\"><span>quipped<\/span><\/a><span> yet another user.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This is not the first time Amira\u2019s expressions have stirred controversy.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last year, Amira was temporarily <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/sheikh-banned-from-temple-mount-for-lauding-decapitation-of-teacher-in-france\/\"><span>banned<\/span><\/a><span> from the Temple Mount for lauding the terrorist decapitation of history teacher Samuel Paty in France after showing cartoons of the Islamic prophet Mohammed to pupils during a class on freedom of expression.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In an address delivered in 2018, he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.memri.org\/tv\/palestinian-cleric-issam-amira-al-aqsa-encourage-men-ready-kill-women-honor\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> Muslims were \u201cundergoing a major crisis regarding the honor of their womenfolk,\u201d encouraging men to tell their female relatives: \u201cWe are ready to die defending your honor, but at the same time, we are ready to kill you if you take your honor lightly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In 2017, he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.memri.org\/tv\/palestinian-cleric-only-thing-we-have-for-trump-is-the-sword\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> Arab leaders should have received then-President Donald Trump on his Middle East trip with the words: \u201cGet lost! The only thing we have for you is our swords!\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In 2015, he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.memri.org\/tv\/palestinian-cleric-issam-amira-al-aqsa-mosque-our-main-war-us-and-europe-russia-and-china-will\"><span>called<\/span><\/a><span> for the establishment of an Islamic Caliphate and claimed the main war of Islam was with America and Europe, \u201cbut we are ready for them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He said the Chinese were \u201creasonable people\u201d who would convert to Islam, while the Russians \u201care stubborn, but once Moscow is liberated from the shackles of the USSR, of Bolshevism, of the Czar and even of Putin, they will join Islam, and that will be that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Earlier this month, Canadian cleric Younus Kathrada was accused of divisive speech after he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/23\/canadian-imam-compares-wishing-merry-christmas-to-congratulating-murderers-pedophiles\/\"><span>compared<\/span><\/a><span> wishing people a Merry Christmas to congratulating murderers and pedophiles, as he called on Allah (God) to \u201chumiliate the infidels\u201d and \u201cannihilate the heretics and atheists.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Human rights groups and leftist activists have a history of routinely ignoring Palestinian oppression against their own \u2014 especially women and those in the LGBTQ community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/12\/progressive-democrat-blasts-bds-lgbtq-activists-who-defend-hamas-terror-group-that-murders-lgbtq-people\/\"><span>blasted<\/span><\/a><span> the \u201cantisemitic double standard\u201d Israel is held to by the left as LGBTQ activists defend the Palestinian Hamas terrorist organization \u201cthat systematically murders LGBTQ people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><em>Follow Joshua Klein on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshuaklein_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JoshuaKlein<\/a><\/em><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian Islamic Scholar Sheikh Issam Amira in a recent address blamed the toleration of homosexuality on the part of governments and media for the recent Omicron wave which threatens to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}