The imam of the Houston mosque that the butcher of Bourbon Street in New Orleans Shamsud Din Jabbar reportedly attended, had sermons filled with antisemitic tropes, including claiming that Jews seek to control the economy wherever they go and that’s why Hitler killed them. He also claimed Europeans support Israel because they don’t want Jews back in their countries.
Eiad Soudan is the imam at the Islamic Center of Greater Houston (ICHG) – Masjid Bilal, where reportedly New Orleans attack Shamsud Din Jabbar was a member. Soudan, according to The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), during a November 17, 2023 youth committee program at the center, while discussing the history of Palestine, said that the Jews, whom he referred to as the “Israelites,” seek to take control of the economy wherever they go, and this is the reason that Hitler, whom he said had a “nice moustache,” killed them.
Soudan said in the video, that was uploaded to YouTube on November 25, 2023: “Imagine, in Europe, what was happening to the Israelites there? As we said, [Jews were] killed, destroyed, persecuted, the question is why? Why were they treated this way? And why does the whole world today support them? Why does the whole world want them to stay in Palestine?”
Soudan claimed that Hitler had not only killed Jews, but also thousands of Muslims. “Those who say that only the Israelites paid the price [in WWII] – everybody paid the price, they say thousands of Muslims were killed.”
The imam alleged that Europeans only support Israel due to fear that Jews will return to their countries. He added a verse from the Quran according to which the Israelites seek to spread corruption. “Because if they don’t stay in Palestine, they will go back to their countries, and those people, unfortunately, have one problem – well, they have many problems, but that’s one of the main problems – they like to take control of the economy. Everywhere they go, whatever is the rule, as long as they get to the goal, the means don’t matter. Interest, usuary is prohibited for them.”
“Still they use it to get control of the economy. That is why the other countries don’t want them back. So when they support them, they are not supporting them because they love them. It’s like: ‘Please stay there, we’ll do whatever [it takes], stay there, don’t come back.’”
Soudan added, “Allah told that in the Quran: ‘And they (Jews) spread corruption across the land, and Allah does not like corrupters.’ They seek corruption in the land.”
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