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Exclusive: CAIR Leader's Consequence-Free Anti-Semitism
by Steven Emerson
IPT News
July 23, 2019
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 He's a public figure
who repeatedly preaches about the evil done by Jews. They're accursed, he said last month, justifying the claim with
scripture. They incurred God's justifiable wrath, he said in 2012, also
citing scripture.
And today, he argues that the Jewish state is partly to blame when
American police officers kill unarmed black people.
It might sound like Louis Farrakhan, but it's not. It's not even someone
generally regarded as a fringe character. These blatantly anti-Semitic
statements come from Dawud Walid, executive director of the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Michigan office.
He's also an assistant imam at Detroit's Masjid Wali Muhammad. In a June
21 khutbah, or sermon, Walid rails against sexual immorality,
particularly adultery, sodomy, and lesbianism, saying that "even us
here in this society that is majority non-Muslim, if we want to protect the
society, to help the society be healthy, then we have to be involved in
promoting that which is just and wholesome and forbid that which is unjust
and not wholesome."
That sounds like a call to prohibit homosexuality. Societies which
"openly promote sin" lose Allah's favor, he said. "Allah
will not change a condition of a people until they change what is inside of
themselves."
Jews provided his historical examples.
"Beni Israel" – the children of Israel – "invoked
a punishment upon themselves for giving this up," he said. He quoted Quran 5:78: "Cursed
were those who disbelieved among the Children of Israel by the tongue of
David and of Jesus, the son of Mary."
"So they were specifically cursed, meaning Allah's mercy was
withheld from them because they saw the injustice, they saw the anti-social
behavior, they saw the lewdness, and they just were complacent," Walid
said. "They were cool with it. They didn't speak out against it. They
allowed it to become part of the status quo."
Muslims risk the same fate if they fail to struggle against immorality.
"It's a hard pill for us to swallow, but brothers and sisters in
Islam, the leadership that's in the Muslim world, in most of the Muslim
countries, the bad leadership, ain't nothing but a reflection of the
spiritual states of the people," he said.
Betrayal of Palestinians is an example of this bad leadership, Walid
claimed, seeming to describe Israelis and their supporters as
"enemies."
"May Allah help our brothers and sisters in Palestine. Their
oppression and occupation is in part an act of betrayal of Muslims against
the Palestinian people," he said. "When some Uncle Toms and some
sellouts collaborated with colonialists against the khilafa [caliphate] and
disobeyed the commandment of Allah and fought with the enemies of the
khilafa so they could get some petty courtesy, some petty care for some
families. And Muslims are suffering for it today, that grand act of
betrayal."
Anti-Semitism is nothing new for Walid. He has gained notoriety for insisting that Hamas, which is dedicated to destroying
the Jewish state, must be included in Middle East peace process talks.
"Now how in the world can there be a realistic discussion about peace
talks when the entity which represents the elected government of the
Palestinian people during a fair election that was monitored by
international inspectors, including former president Jimmy Carter is not at
the peace table?" he asked during a 2010 rally in Dearborn, Mich.
He has even used the Quran to preach against Jews before. "Who are
those who incurred the wrath of Allah?" Walid asked in a May 25, 2012 sermon
at the Islamic Organization of North America mosque in Warren, Mich. Then
he answered himself in Arabic: "They are the Jews, they are the
Jews."
He claimed in 2012 that when the Quran describes a
slaughter of Jews at the hands of Muhammad's army, it isn't an indication
of anti-Semitism. "Did Muhammad order the killing of Jews?" Walid
asked in a Twitter post promoting the video. In response, an Islamist
follower wrote, "Yes he did and I agree with it...Well isn't treason a
sentence to death."
More recently, Walid has been among a group of Islamist activists
pushing a blood libel – blaming Jews for police shootings in the United
States that kill unarmed black people. According to the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, a weeklong police leadership seminar
in Israel sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League that focuses on
preventing and responding to terrorist attacks is actually teaching
American cops how to gun down innocent black people.
"The same militarized police forces that shoot unarmed black people
and do this crowd control like what happened in Ferguson – where do the
police chiefs, these people, get trained at? In Israel," Walid said at
the 2016 American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) conference. "We,
brothers and sisters in Islam, be we black ... or lighter skinned ... we
have a common concern, we have a common struggle."
Walid has a struggle, all right. It's with anti-Semitism that he has
demonstrated repeatedly over the years.
Believing that the children of Israel are accursed poses a massive
obstacle to any mutually satisfactory resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict: to negotiate with people who are accursed of Allah would be to
acquiesce to their evil acts. Walid's sermon, therefore, only served to
harden attitudes and provide a justification for Muslims to harbor hatred
and contempt for Jews.
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