Pakistani imam Muhammed Ashraf Jalali has been sentenced in absentia to 14 years in prison for issuing a fatwa calling for the death of Dutch politician Geert Wilders (PVV), a critic of Islam who has been living under police guard for over 20 years due to all the threats against him.
Wilders has posted a video of a sermon by Jalali in which he again calls for his death. I assume the sermon is in Pakistan. Dutch subtitles have been added. We are posting the video here with English subtitles. Hat tip to RAIR Foundation USA, Vlad Tepes, and Gates of Vienna for the subtitling. Translation to English is by Fousesquawk.
I want to note here that upon the conclusion of the video of the imam's sermon, there is written messaging on the screen in Dutch making negative statements about Prophet Mohamed. After giving it some thought, I went ahead and translated the words, but with misgivings. As I have often said, I think that kind of language is counter-productive and hurtful to every single Muslim on the planet. Maybe it was Wilders' way of showing defiance to the imam. I do think that a serious discussion of Mohamed's life and his actions is relevant, but I don't agree with the manner in which the video goes about it. That said, I support Wilders, and I condemn every effort to kill him. To me, the imam's words are disgusting. Even if Wilders' words are sometimes intemperate, that is no justification for murder.
The words in Dutch that appear above the video are translated as follows (I have added their first names and full positions):
"Tell me, Minister President (Dick) Schoof, (Justice and Security) Minister (Foort)Van Oosten, and (Foreign Affairs, Migration and Asylum) Minister (David) Van Weel, what have you done to get this imam, who last year was sentenced to 14 years in prison because of the fatwas against me, arrested and extradited?"
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