Pennsylvania – Philadelphia Officials Probing ‘Disturbing’ Video Of Muslim Kids Singing About Chopping Off Heads

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    Pennsylvania – A Philadelphia city commission said Monday it’s investigating an event last month at which Muslim children were captured on video speaking in Arabic about beheadings and the liberation of Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site.

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    The Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations launched a probe into the April 17 gathering at the Muslim American Society’s Philadelphia chapter. A video uploaded to the chapter’s Facebook page shows children moving to a revolutionary anthem often used by Islamist groups, and two young girls reading from a prepared text. One says, “We will chop off their heads, and we will liberate the sorrowful and exalted Al-Aqsa Mosque.”

    The contested site, revered by Jews as the Temple Mount and by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, is at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The compound is the third holiest site in Islam and the holiest site for Jews. It has been a flashpoint of violence in the past.

    The Muslim American Society took the video down — calling the video “disturbing” and condemning the words used in it — and said a school that rented space in the building was responsible for the program. It said the person in charge of the event had been dismissed.

    The society also called the school, which it did not name, a “separate entity.” But old Facebook posts that have since been taken down show that a school called MAS Leaders Academy operates at the Muslim American Society’s Philadelphia location. Muslim American Society officials did not return phone calls and email messages seeking comment Monday on the relationship between the Philadelphia chapter and the school.

    “Unfortunately, the video from the school was uploaded to the chapter’s Facebook page without verifying the content of the video for appropriateness and making sure it conforms to our hate-free policy and values. The chapter will take further steps in assuring strict adherence to publishing and posting policies,” according to a weekend statement from the society’s national headquarters.
    The main entrance of the Muslim American Society (MAS) Islamic Center is seen Monday May 6, 2019 in Philadelphia. AP
    The Muslim American Society also shares space with the Al-Hidaya mosque, which serves a large number of Palestinian immigrants, according to Jacob Bender, executive director of the Council on Islamic American Relations’ Philadelphia chapter.

    He said Monday that the mosque has asked the council to hold a “workshop on diversity and religious tolerance” to help “members of the immigrant Muslim community have a better understanding of Jewish sensitivities and anti-Semitism, so that events like this don’t repeat themselves.”

    Bender, who is Jewish, also said the incident “was not an example of radicalization,” noting the mosque has good relations with Philadelphia city officials.

    “This was a stupid decision by an untrained pedagogue and volunteer teacher,” he said.

    The city’s human relations commission, meanwhile, said it is gathering information about the April 17 “Ummah Day” event at the center of the controversy. The commission works to mediate conflict among groups, among other things.

    “The city of Philadelphia condemns bigotry in all its forms,” Democratic Mayor Jim Kenney said in a statement Monday. “Philadelphia is the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection. For this moniker to ring true, all our brothers and sisters — regardless of their background — must feel safe and welcome. We are committed to working together with partners representing all our communities to make this happen.”


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    puppydogs
    puppydogs
    4 years ago

    Sickening display of Anti Semitisim , this place should be shutdown.

    Talib, Omar and AOC should be ashamed of their people.

    puppydogs
    puppydogs
    4 years ago

    Omar is a liar, Gaza isn’t occupied. Israel withdrew in 2005. Yet instead of trading land for peace, Gaza became an enclave run by Hamas terrorists. While Palestinians there may yearn for freedom, their oppressors are their Islamist rulers, not the Israelis who allow convoys of food, medicine and fuel into Gaza every day — even when the rockets are flying. The blockade that both Egypt and Israel maintain on Gaza is quarantine on a terrorist entity that threatens the region.

    The “protesters” they claim are being shot are Hamas operatives who seek to infiltrate the border into Israel to commit mayhem. The kids who are killed are either human shields cynically deployed by the terrorists or, as happened this past weekend, unlucky victims who are slain by Islamist rockets that fall short of their Israeli targets.

    The conflict would end if the Palestinians were finally willing to live in peace alongside Israel. But they can’t, because the avowed goal of Hamas is destroying Israel. The “justice” Omar and Tlaib demand is a world without Israel.

    grandbear
    grandbear
    4 years ago

    Unfortunate that they got caught.

    Speaksoftly
    Speaksoftly
    4 years ago

    No one has to “dehumanize ” Palestinians, they do it themselves.

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    4 years ago

    Seems it needs to be looked into.

    lazy-boy
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    lazy-boy
    4 years ago

    instead of blaming the kids, the mosque and the leaders, why doesn’t some one read the Koran? That is what the Koran says! They are just repeating it….

    as ONE example:
    “Now when ye meet those who disbelieve, smite their necks until when ye have slain them greatly…He (Allah) ordained fighting in order that He may prove you one by the other…” [Sura 47, Verse 4]

    Cricket
    Cricket
    4 years ago

    Peace plan: build 2 shuls on top of top two holiest sites of Islam. Make peace- we’ll concede your top two sites to you and remove the shuls, you concede your 3rd site to us and remove your mosque that you rudely interposed over our pre-existing holy site.

    Aron1
    Active Member
    Aron1
    4 years ago

    Tread carefully. “V’Lamalshinim”

    Normal
    Normal
    4 years ago

    #2 sums it up nicely. Just wanted to add that no-one should be surprised by any of this as extreme Muslims don’t make their intentions a secret, not only taking over in Israel but the whole world. And there won’t be anything to stop Sharia law being instituted in 100 years when the Muslims will be a majority in all the countries that took them in.

    4 years ago

    Send Ilhan Omar TO JAIL!

    To All Members of Congress:

    I demand an immediate investigation of the allegations of immigration fraud levied against Rep. Ilhan Omar related to the immigration of her brother, Ahmed Elmi.

    Documents clearly show that Omar was already married when another marriage certificate was filed proclaiming matrimony with her brother.

    THEN, her “divorce” by default was funded with taxpayer dollars!

    We cannot allow blatant felons infiltrating our US Congress.

    We the People deserve answers. NOW!

    Sincerely,

    Phineas
    Phineas
    4 years ago

    Whoever taught these kids should be prosecuted for contributing to the delinquency of a minor.