{"id":9860,"date":"2023-12-04T12:20:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T17:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/?p=9860"},"modified":"2023-12-19T23:05:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T04:05:46","slug":"read-disturbing-responses-of-muslim-organizations-across-europe-to-the-october-7th-terrorist-attacks-on-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/2023\/12\/04\/read-disturbing-responses-of-muslim-organizations-across-europe-to-the-october-7th-terrorist-attacks-on-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Read disturbing responses of Muslim organizations across Europe to the October 7th terrorist attacks in Israel [Updated December 5, 2023]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cIslamist flags on display at anti-Israel rally held in Stockholm, Sweden on October 15, 2023.  The protest was organized by Hizb ut-Tahrir, an international pan-Islamist group that seeks to re-establish the Islamic caliphate and implement sharia throughout the world.  At the rally protesters chanted \u2018Israelis are nothing but dogs of the West.\u2019\u201d<\/em>  (Image from Islamism.news<\/a>.<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Most of the major Muslim groups across Europe refused to condemn the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, while some actually celebrated them and many others only condemned Israel\u2019s response instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following is the introductory text from an article on the website \u201cFocus on Western Islamism\u201d entitled \u201cEuropean Islamists Ignore \u2014 or Celebrate \u2014 Hamas\u2019s October 7 Massacre<\/a>,\u201d by Soeren Kern<\/a>.  The article details the public responses of Islamist groups in the EU in general, as well as responses specifically in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Islamists in Europe have overwhelmingly come out in support of Hamas\u2019s October 7 massacre of more than 1,200 Israelis.  That support has been expressed in different ways: explicitly approving of Hamas\u2019s murder, rape and abduction of Israeli civilians; justifying the crimes by blaming Israel; and by remaining silent and refusing to condemn Hamas publicly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some Islamist groups, especially Muslim umbrella groups that benefit from public funding and are official interlocutors between Muslim communities and European governments, have flatly refused to distance themselves from Hamas and resorted to moral equivalency by staking out equidistant positions between the aggressor and the attacked.  Others have spread antisemitic propaganda by attempting to relativize or \u201ccontextualize\u201d Hamas\u2019s murderous rampage as a response to Israel\u2019s existence.  Still others have issued carefully contrived and often anodyne statements that use linguistic gymnastics to claim they have condemned Hamas when they have not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several Islamists have expressed anger that they are being asked to publicly condemn Hamas and the antisemitism that is raging across Europe; they have described such demands as \u201cIslamophobia.\u201d  Many have been incapable of condemning antisemitism without also referring to Muslims as victims of racism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prominent Islamists, especially in France and Germany, have portrayed themselves before European audiences as sympathetic to Jews and Israel, while sending contrary messages to Muslim audiences in Arabic and Turkish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a country-by-country roundup of the responses Islamists have offered since Hamas\u2019s October 7 attack.  FWI will add to this summary in the weeks ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DENMARK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Islamic Society in Denmark (Dansk Islamisk Trossamfund), an Islamist group that was instrumental in inciting worldwide protests during the 2005 Danish Cartoon controversy, called on the estimated 200,000 Muslims in Denmark to protest Israeli military action against Hamas.  Muslims in Denmark should \u201cshow Denmark that we stand with Palestine against oppression.\u201d  In another statement, the group justified the Hamas massacre by blaming \u201cincursions by Israeli security forces, including in the al-Aqsa mosque.\u201d<\/strong>  It called on the \u201cinternational community\u201d to force Israel to \u201cend the violence\u201d and to \u201cstrengthen peacekeepers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The<\/strong> Muslim Joint Council (Muslimernes F\u00e6llesr\u00e5d, MFR), the largest multi-ethnic Muslim umbrella group, with 40,000 members, justified Hamas\u2019s massacre of Israelis as \u201cthe result ongoing harassment, brutality and massacres that the Palestinian people have faced in the past 70 years.\u201d<\/strong> \u00a0The group referred to Israel as an \u201capartheid state\u201d and called for \u201cthe immediate end of all global political support for Israel and for the Israeli army to stop the ongoing brutal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neither the Danish Islamic Council (Dansk Islamisk R\u00e5d), a Muslim Brotherhood-linked umbrella organization that represents Sunni Muslims in Denmark, nor the associated Grand Mosque of Copenhagen (Hamad Bin Khalifa Civilization Center), publicly condemned the Hamas massacre of Israelis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FRANCE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In France, which has Europe\u2019s largest Muslim population, the French Islam Forum (Forum de l\u2019Islam de France, FORIF), a newly launched Muslim \u201cdialogue forum\u201d established by the French government to fight Islamism and promote an Islam \u201cfaithful to the values of the Republic,\u201d has had nothing to say about Hamas\u2019s massacre of Israelis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[The French Council for the Muslim Faith (Conseil fran\u00e7ais du culte musulman, CFCM) issued a statement suggesting] that Israel was responsible for the violence against its citizens because of the security measures it imposed on Gaza.<\/strong>  It declared that \u201cabuses committed by both sides\u201d must be condemned \u201cwith the same force.\u201d  The CFCM also complained about global support for the Jewish state.  \u201cPalestinian civilians do not benefit from this same solidarity and do not have this same security,\u201d it claimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On November 1, the CFCM denounced an alleged \u201chierarchy between civilian victims\u201d that \u201cattempts to justify [Israeli] crimes committed against [Palestinian] civilians, including children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On November 8, the CFCM condemned the \u201cincrease in Islamophobic and antisemitic acts and remarks.\u201d  It complained of an \u201cuninhibited outpouring of hatred of Muslims on social media and in mass media.\u201d  It criticized a nationwide protest against antisemitism \u201cwhich has the exclusive objective of denouncing antisemitism without a word on Islamophobia\u201d and can be \u201cinterpreted by Islamophobes as a sign of impunity.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On November 12, the CFCM asserted that the \u201cFrench far right is doing everything it can to import the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into France, so that the Jews of France, its former target, are torn apart with its new target, the Muslims of France.\u201d  It added, falsely: \u201cWith all due respect to the antisemites of yesterday and today, antisemitism is prohibited by the founding texts of Islam.  The antisemites of yesterday and today do not read the Quran.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On November 16, the CFCM issued a lengthy statement complaining about the \u201chumane media treatment\u201d toward Israeli victims and hostages of Hamas\u2019s October 7 attack, and a \u201ccompletely different media treatment\u201d experienced by Palestinians.  It claimed that Gazans were being \u201cdehumanized\u201d because they are often referred to as \u201chuman shields,\u201d a \u201cmetaphor that carries a scandalous message.\u201d  According to the CFCM, Palestinians \u201care therefore first defined by an object of war before being human,\u201d and the \u201cdehumanization of a people has always been a prerequisite for the justification of the worst atrocities against them.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[The Union of Islamic Organizations in France, which changed its name to Muslims of France (Musulmans de France, MF)], which represents more than 280 mosques in France, claimed that the conflict in Gaza has nothing to do with Islam.  \u201cWe refuse a religious reading of this political conflict,\u201d it said.  In another statement, it repeated that \u201cwe insist that the Israel-Palestinian conflict is not religious in nature.\u201d  In fact, the Hamas Charter, which calls for the complete annihilation of Israel, is based on the Islamic doctrine of jihad and the concept that once land is Muslim, that land is always Muslim.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron failed to attend a large pro-Israel demonstration in Paris on November 12.  More than 100,000 people attended the march, which protested rising antisemitism in France.  He justified his absence by saying that the president\u2019s role is to \u201cpreserve the unity of our country\u201d and that \u201cprotecting French people of Jewish faith\u201d could imply \u201cpillorying those of Muslim faith.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bergeaud-Blackler, the anthropologist, noted, \u201cas far back as I can remember, the fight against antisemitism has never been against Muslims.  This propaganda, a pure product of the Muslim Brotherhood, has reached the top echelons of the French government.  This is very worrying.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On November 14, the French weekly news magazine L\u2019Express revealed that Macron had solicited advice from Yassine Belattar, a controversial Franco-Moroccan comedian who is widely believed to be close to the Muslim Brotherhood.  Belattar reportedly warned Macron that if he makes the \u201cirreparable\u201d error of attending the antisemitism protest, he would \u201cgive the neighborhoods reason to burst into flames.\u201d  He was referring to the Muslim riots that engulfed France in June and July 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GERMANY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the most influential Islamist groups in Germany is the Islamic Community Mill\u00ee G\u00f6r\u00fc\u015f (Islamische Gemeinschaft Milli G\u00f6r\u00fc\u015f, IGMG), a neo-Ottoman political and religious movement that is close to both the Muslim Brotherhood and the Turkish government.  Mill\u00ee G\u00f6r\u00fc\u015f (National Vision), which rejects secular Western values, has been outspoken in its support for Hamas.  The chairman of Mill\u00ee G\u00f6r\u00fc\u015f, Kemal Erg\u00fcn, justified the terrorist group\u2019s actions by blaming Israeli \u201cinterventions\u201d on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On November 13, Erg\u00fcn, in an interview with Camia Haber, a Cologne-based Turkish-language media outlet for Turks living in Germany, complained about the \u201cconstant expectation of a statement from Islamic organizations\u201d condemning Hamas and antisemitism, and the \u201cconstant expectation of Muslims, from workplaces to schools, to declare a pure stance\u201d vis-\u00e0-vis Jews.  \u201cIt is almost like a manifesto is expected.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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German-Turkish Islam expert Murat Kayman noted that \u201ceven on November 9\u201d Islamist groups \u201cfailed to stand up for Jews in Germany without addressing anti-Muslim racism.\u201d  He said that Islamists do not see antisemitism as a \u201cproblem in itself,\u201d but only as a \u201cbackdrop for self-referential communication.\u201d  They are interested in \u201cportraying themselves as victims\u201d and \u201cdrawing attention to their own concerns.\u201d  This is \u201cnot an expression of genuine concern for the security of Jewish life in Germany\u201d but rather the \u201cinstrumentalization of antisemitism as a communicative crutch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Muslim Coordination Council (Koordinationsrat der Muslime, KRM), an umbrella group that represents six Islamist groups, issued a statement that blamed both Israel and Hamas for the violence.  Reinhard B\u00fctikofer, a German lawmaker and Member of the European Parliament, criticized the KRM: \u201cHow can you trust people who are unwilling to call a spade a spade?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Germany (Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Deutschland), which claims to promote a \u201cpeaceful and compassionate\u201d version of Islam, issued a statement in which it failed to mention Hamas by name and instead claimed that Israel\u2019s blockade of Gaza \u201cis disproportionate and violates international law.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not one of Germany\u2019s main Muslim umbrella groups agreed to attend a special hearing at the German Parliament on October 17, when lawmakers asked them to issue a joint statement condemning Hamas.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turkish influence is clearly at play.  German-Turkish Islam expert Eren G\u00fcvercin noted that many Muslim associations in Germany are reluctant to publicly criticize Hamas because of fear of retribution from the Turkish government.  \u201cAs a critical German-Muslim voice, you end up in the crosshairs of AKP [T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s ruling party] if you describe Hamas as a terrorist organization,\u201d he wrote.<\/strong>  \u201cThe anti-Jewish agitation and unconditional solidarity with Hamas terrorists has reached such an extent that not even a single critical Muslim voice is tolerated.\u201d  G\u00fcvercin added that spies for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan in Germany are \u201creporting the commentary in Germany to Ankara in \u2018press reviews.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

T\u00fcrkiye is undoubtedly fomenting hostility toward Israel in German society.  The Turkish government\u2019s Directorate for Religious Affairs (known in Turkish as Diyanet) controls nearly 1,000 mosques in Germany.  In an October 20 speech, Diyanet chief Ali Erba\u015f asked \u201cAllah\u201d to \u201chave mercy on our Palestinian martyrs who died under the oppression of Israel.\u201d<\/strong>  He accused Israel of \u201cperpetrating the greatest atrocities witnessed in human history in Palestine, Gaza\u201d and alleged that the Jewish state was committing a \u201cgreat crime against humanity in front of the eyes of the whole world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diyanet controls the Cologne-based Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB), one of the largest Islamist organizations in Germany.  It is frequently referred to as an \u201carm\u201d of the Turkish state.  Every week, Diyanet circulates sermons that are recommended to be delivered in DITIB mosques during Friday prayer services.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On October 13, a Diyanet sermon described Israel as a \u201crusty dagger stuck in the heart of Islamic geography\u201d and justified Hamas\u2019s massacre by accusing Israel of \u201cdamaging the reputation of Jerusalem\u201d and \u201cviolating the sanctity\u201d of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another Diyanet sermon, recommended for delivery in German mosques on Friday, October 20, claimed that \u201cone of the greatest atrocities in human history is taking place today in Palestine, Gaza.\u201d  It added that Israel was \u201cbrutally murdering innocent people, including babies, children, women and the elderly.\u201d  Apparently alluding to Palestinians in Gaza, Diyanet called on \u201call of humanity to stand with the oppressed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GREECE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Muslim Association of Greece, which claims to represent 300,000 Muslims in the country, has not issued a public condemnation of Hamas, but its leader, Naim El Ghandour, has posted copious amounts of Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood propaganda on social media.  In a Facebook post, he \u201csalutes the Palestinian uprising against the terrorist state of Israel.\u201d  He has organized anti-Israel events in Athens, which is home to a large Palestinian community.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IRELAND<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Islamic Foundation of Ireland, the official representative of the estimated 85,000 Muslims in Ireland, failed to condemn Hamas\u2019s massacre of Israelis, but in an October 18 statement, issued together with more than two dozen Islamic associations in the country, it \u201cstrongly and unequivocally\u201d condemned \u201cthe Israeli onslaught against the people of Palestine and the heinous assault carried out on the Al-Ahly Arab Hospital in Gaza.\u201d The deadly explosion at the hospital was caused by a Gazan \u2014 not Israeli \u2014 missile.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Islamic Foundation of Ireland also criticized the \u201cunconditional support\u201d the United States has given Israel and the \u201csupport or silence of many European countries\u201d which allows \u201cthe occupying forces in Palestine to perpetrate such atrocities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Union of Islamic Communities and Organizations in Italy (L\u2019Unione delle Comunit\u00e0 Islamiche in Italia, UCOII), one of the largest Muslim umbrella groups in Italy and one that has been accused of being tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, has not condemned Hamas.  In a television interview, UCOII president Yassine Lafram did criticize Hamas, but he blamed Israel for provoking the massacre.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On October 31, UCOII called for Israel to end its \u201cgenocide\u201d of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and asked Allah to \u201cgive the Palestinian people strength to continue existing.\u201d  On November 15, it condemned the \u201cIslamophobic drift\u201d on Italian television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The main Islamic organizations in Spain have been silent about Hamas\u2019 massacre of Jews and its call for global jihad.  Neither the Islamic Commission of Spain (Comisi\u00f3n Isl\u00e1mica de Espa\u00f1a, CIE), the sole interlocutor between Muslims and the Spanish government, nor its two constituent organizations, the Union of Islamic Communities of Spain (Uni\u00f3n de Comunidades Isl\u00e1micas de Espa\u00f1a, UCIDE), the Spanish Federation of Islamic Religious Entities (Federaci\u00f3n Espa\u00f1ola de Entidades Religiosas Isl\u00e1micas, FEERI), have condemned Hamas<\/strong>.  \u201cTheir silence is complicit,\u201d said Spanish lawmaker Alberto Tarradas Paneque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On November 7, UCIDE, which represents more than 800 mosques in Spain, accused Israel of \u201capartheid,\u201d \u201cstate terrorism\u201d and \u201catrocious oppression.\u201d<\/strong>  The statement \u2014 \u201cSolidarity with Gaza\u201d \u2014 falsely blamed Israel for violating \u201cinternational legality\u201d and \u201cinternational humanitarian law\u201d and called on the \u201cinternational community\u201d to force the Jewish state to declare \u201can immediate, lasting and sustained humanitarian truce leading to the cessation of hostilities.\u201d  UCIDE\u2019s statement asserted that \u201cany fair and upright person would position themselves in defense of the oppressed and compliance with international legality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UCIDE\u2019s statement was signed by its Islamist president, 75-year-old Syria-born Aiman \u200b\u200bAdlbi, who was arrested in March 2021 for allegedly financing al-Qaeda militias in Syria through donations to a Turkish NGO called Al Bashaer Humanitarian Organization<\/strong>.  A classified police report leaked to the Spanish newspaper El Pa\u00eds noted that Adlbi \u201crecommends Salafi and Wahhabi authors, of the most radical currents of Islam, to his students at the Central Mosque of Madrid.\u201d  It warned of \u201cpossible acts linked to religious fanaticism.\u201d UCIDE\u2019s treasurer, 61-year-old Syria-born Mohamed Hatem Rohaibani, has also been investigated for allegedly belonging to jihadist networks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On November 15, UCIDE\u2019s delegate to the western Spanish region of Extremadura, 60-year-old Gaza-born Adel Najjar, who is the imam of the Mosque of Badajoz (Mezquita de Badajoz), was arrested for \u201ccrimes related to jihadism\u201d after Spanish anti-terrorism police raided his house and mosque<\/strong>.  Since Hamas\u2019s October 7 massacre, Najjar has repeatedly accused Israel of committing \u201cgenocide\u201d and \u201ccarnage against a civilian population.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Vision Party (Visionpartiet), another Islamist party that was created by disaffected former members of the Nuance Party, is equally anti-Israel.  Party Secretary Adel Sadat justified Hamas\u2019s massacre of Israelis because of the Israeli occupation.  \u201cEven a cat forced into a corner will start scratching and fighting for its life,\u201d he wrote.  Sadat described as a \u201cterrorist state\u201d that is committing \u201cgenerational genocide\u201d of the Palestinians.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On November 9, the Vision Party called for international sanctions against Israel \u201cfor their violence and war crimes against Palestinian civilians.\u201d  It claimed that \u201cwhat Israel is doing in Gaza is not self-defense but a genocide!\u201d  The party proposed the interdiction of \u201call military deliveries to Israel from the USA that passes via EU countries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On October 24, Vision Party Chairman Sead Busuladzic, a Swede of Bosnian origin, complained about \u201can intensive campaign going on to paint black the entire Palestinian freedom movement and link all its aspects\/slogans\/frames with antisemitism.\u201d  In response, the party launched its own campaign for Palestine: \u201cSupporting Palestine is NOT antisemitism!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On October 28, Vision Party Secretary Adel Sadat, angry about the Swedish government\u2019s support for Israel, complained about \u201cthe Zionist lobby that is raging in Sweden\u201d and added: \u201cYou talk about the takeover of Sweden and Swedish values by Muslims and Islam but completely ignore the Zionist infection in Sweden on all levels.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the center of Stockholm, representatives of Hizb ut-Tahrir, an international pan-Islamist group that seeks to re-establish the Islamic caliphate and implement sharia globally, called for jihad against Israel and the West.  During an October 15 rally at Odenplan, a large plaza in central Stockholm, Islamists repeated chants, including: \u201cThis fight is between Muslims and the rest of the world;\u201d  \u201cLiberation from Western domination, liberation from the Western ruler;\u201d and \u201cIsraelis are nothing but dogs of the West.\u201d  On October 10, Hizb ut-Tahrir held a rally at Medborgarplatsen in Stockholm during which Islamists called for death to the Jews and for full support for Hamas.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SWITZERLAND<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[A board member of the The Federation of Islamic Umbrella Organizations in Switzerland (F\u00f6deration islamischer Dachorganisationen der Schweiz, FIDS) Fathima Ifthikar] complained that Muslims were being asked to condemn Hamas and the rising tide of antisemitism in Switzerland.  \u201cThis leaves a bad taste in our mouths: Why do we have to justify ourselves?  When Christians cause mischief, I do not expect my fellow Christians to distance themselves.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Islamic Central Council of Switzerland (Islamische Zentralrat Schweiz, IZRS), a Qatari-funded Salafist group whose leaders have been surveilled by Swiss intelligence agencies, has organized pro-Hamas demonstrations in Bern.  The group\u2019s leader, Nicolas Blancho, a Swiss convert to Islam, continues to incite hatred and violence against Jews and the Jewish state.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIslamist flags on display at anti-Israel rally held in Stockholm, Sweden on October 15, 2023.  The protest was organized by Hizb ut-Tahrir, an international pan-Islamist group that seeks to re-establish the Islamic caliphate and implement sharia throughout the world.  At the rally protesters chanted \u2018Israelis are nothing but dogs of the West.\u2019\u201d  (Image from Islamism.news.) … Continue reading “Read disturbing responses of Muslim organizations across Europe to the October 7th terrorist attacks in Israel [Updated December 5, 2023]”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9860"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10212,"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860\/revisions\/10212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openmindedrealism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}