Washington – An imam who has wished for the end of Zionism, called for a third Intifada and likened Israel to Nazi-era Germany delivered the opening prayer for a session of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday.
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Omar Suleiman, the founder and president of the Dallas-based Yaqeen Institute, an organization that describes itself as a resource about Islam, referred to recent attacks on houses of worship — which has included synagogues in the United States — in his opening remarks.
“Let us not be deterred by the hatred that has claimed the lives of innocent worshippers across the world, but emboldened by the love that gathered them together to remember you and gathered us together to remember them,” Suleiman said in a short prayer after being introduced by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
Suleiman has a long record of incendiary social media statements about Israel, as compiled two years ago by Petra Marquardt-Bigman, a researcher, and posted on the Algeimeiner Jewish news site. He has on multiple occasions wished for a third Palestinian Intifada, or violent uprising, likened Israeli troops to Nazis, and has wished for the end of Zionism, calling Zionists “the enemies of God.” He is a backer of the boycott Israel movement.
Pelosi’s office did not reply to multiple requests for comment by publishing time.
Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., who is Jewish, said in a statement that inviting Suleiman to deliver the opening prayer was a “terribly bad call.” Suleiman’s congresswoman, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, reportedly invited him to deliver the prayer.
Suleiman in 2016 was at the scene of an anti-police shooting, in which five policemen were slain. He delivered a prayer at a memorial service a week later appearing on a stage with Texas’ two Republican senators, Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, then-President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush.
“there are very fine people on both sides” The Zionists are “enemies of G-D” Most Trump voting Chareidim will agree with this.
“wished for a third Intifada” Many here wish …..for the Palis. There are many NOT fine People on both sides.
So Teitlebaum was in D.C. Hmm.
Very poor taste. I guess this Texan Democrat has forgotten 9/11!!
This is right in line with how anti Semitic the Democrat party now is….Pelosi refused to call out Ilhan Omar or Rashida Tlaib for their anti semitism, so that clarifies how she feels about Jews.,.so why should this Jew hating imam be a problem? Any Jew who votes dem or identifies with them in any way should hang their head in shame!!! FEH ON YOU!
Most people who post here are opposed to “Zionism,” although I admit I do not quite understand why. Would an Anti-Zionist Rabbi be OK?
The beginning of the end , of jewish life in america.The growth of the muslim community and the self destruction of the jewish community is the future of america.
Sickening. The democratic party has turned into the laughingstock of politics.
He’s not anti Zionist he’s an anti Israel Jew hater like the rest of the democrats
Well if that’s the case,maybe next year the house will invite one of the Satmar Teitelbum brothers for the opening prayers,no bigger anti-zionists than these characters
The so-called Jewish Democrats in the House, are useless and worthless; not one of them appeared at the opening ceremony of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. I guarantee that if Obama was President, and had moved the Embassy, that they all would have gone. Lee Zeldin was the only Jewish Congressman, who was there. Where was Schumer, Nadler, and the other wimps, who stay silent, vis-a-vis, this radical Imam, A.O.S., Talib, etc. They should all be voted out of office in 2020!