by Ben Ariel
B’nai Brith Canada reaches out to police following revelation of incitement by imam in the province of British Columbia.
B’nai Brith Canada said on Tuesday it has reached out to police following the revelation of an act of incitement by a firebrand religious figure in the province of British Columbia.
In a Facebook post flagged Monday by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Younus Kathrada calls Jews “Brothers of monkeys and khanzeer” (pigs in Arabic), and calls on Allah to “Tear them apart.”
The post in question was made in 2014, but remains online as of today, noted B’nai Brith Canada. Kathrada, who preaches for the “Muslim Youth of Victoria,” made the same allegation in 2004, prompting a police complaint by B’nai Brith at that time.
In his 2014 post, Kathrada also prayed for the success of the Chechen jihadists. Notably, one of his congregants travelled to Chechnya to fight Russia and was killed there in 2004.
In October 2019, Kathrada advised his followers not to vote in that year’s federal election, arguing that all Jewish and Christian candidates were “filthy” and “evil.” In January of that year, Kathrada suggested that wishing Christians a merry Christmas was a sin worse than murder.
In April, B’nai Brith warned the B.C. Hate Crimes Unit of YouTube sermons by Kathrada calling on Allah to “humiliate the unbelievers and polytheists” and “destroy the enemies of Islam, the heretics and the atheists.”
Kathrada also beseeches divine aid to “grant victory to those waging jihad on your path in every place” and “grant them victory over their enemies and your enemies.” In October, he called French terrorism victim Samuel Paty “a cursed, evil-spirited, filthy excuse for a human being.”
“There must be consequences for years of relentless hate and incitement against Jews and others,” said Michael Mostyn, Chief Executive Officer of B’nai Brith Canada. “The law enforcement and legal system in B.C. showed last week that it can act effectively against hate – but consistency is paramount.”
Last Friday, B.C. man Arthur Topham received a 30-day conditional sentence and three years of probation after posting antisemitic content online. This in turn was a breach of Topham’s previous probation terms, imposed after he was convicted of willfully promoting hatred against Jews in 2015.
Last year, B’nai Brith Canada launched a campaign which led a Toronto church to cancel an event that would have honored a Palestinian Arab terrorist.
Later that year, an imam from the Canadian city of Edmonton was prevented from leading prayers at a local community center after B’nai Brith Canada drew attention to his hateful rhetoric from the pulpit and online.
In 2017, B’nai Brith Canada called on the Ontario College of Teachers (OCT) to remove a teacher from a classroom because of her continued support for two Middle Eastern terrorists.
In 2016, the organization exposed an anti-Semitic Facebook post in the city of Calgary, resulting in a police investigation.
Ben Ariel
Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/291924
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