Saturday, June 18, 2022

Sweden: Imam Charged With Hate Speech

Hat tip RAIR Foundation, Vlad Tepes, and Gates of Vienna. Translation by Fousesquawk.

Basem Mahmoud


Swedish police have charged Malmo imam Basem Mahmoud with inciting hate towards Jews as a result of a sermon he gave in 2020 referring to Jews and the "offspring of pigs and apes.

The below-written article from Samnytt and accompanying video (Submitted by RAIR Foundation- pending) are translated (from the Swedish sub-titles) by Fousesquawk.

https://samnytt.se/video-imam-om-judarna-grisars-och-apors-avkomma/

Video: Imam on Jews: Offspring of pigs and apes"

In a sermon, Malmo imam Basem Mahmoud called Jews, "offspring of pigs and apes". Now he is charged for incitement against a people. Mahmoud denies the crime and says that he was only reading the Koran.

"When one reads the Koran, one cannot change anything," he says.

In October 2020, Imam Basem Mahmoud gave a sermon in his mosque in Malmo that was hostile to Christians and anti-Semitic. He accused Christians, Jews, Shia Muslims, and police authorities of conspiring with each other in a "snakes' nest"-synagogue- against faithful Muslims.

The imam talks about "the great battle" when all non-Muslims will be forced to submit themselves to Muslims and prays to Allah that the Muslim God will defeat or destroy Christians and Jews.

"Offsring of pigs and apes"

In part of his sermon, the imam calls Jews, "the offspring of pigs and apes".

"In all times, it is the same deceptive villains who stand in the way of the faithful. Everyone knows that the Western countries are run by Jews. Jews are their rulers. Jews are the offspring of pigs and apes. They are hostile to Muslims, but they will stand helpless against Islam," he says.

This is the portion of the sermon, which was also uploaded to YouTube, and for which Mahmoud is now being charged. 

Denies crime

In a police interrogation, Basem Mahmoud denies the crime. He claims that he only cites a passage from the Koran which (states) that Allah transformed people who did not believe in him into apes and pigs.

"When one reads the Koran, one cannot change anything, he says in the interrogation.

He also says that he, "cannot change his religion for the sake of Jews," and points out that he usually doesn't call Jews he meets on the street "apes" or" swine".

Defended murder of French teacher

It is not the first time that Basem Mahmoud has made controversial statements. Earlier he has, among others, defended the brutal murder of the French teacher, Samuel Paty, in 2020. 

"A person who loves his religion gets angry and slaughters the teacher with a knife in the gutter because the teacher is unclean, and the gutter is the only place he deserves," he commented on the brutal murder.

"It is a simple equation. One from their side sinned by insulting the Prophet, and one from our side sinned and killed the teacher who insulted the Prophet."

"Sweden is ours"

In another sermon, he has gone on the attack against social services and schools in Sweden and stated that the country is being taken over by Muslims.

"Sweden is ours. It is ours, whether they want it or not. In 10-15 years, it is ours," he said in a sermon earlier this year.

In December last year, Basem Mahmoud's 17-year-old daughter was taken in by social services. The reason was that the girl herself reported that she "had been abused psychologically and physically in the home for a long time." According to court proceedings, the girl lived in a strongly honor-controlled environment.

Father of 7 from Jordan

Basem Mahmoud originally came from the Jordanian capital of Amman. He immigrated to Sweden in 1989 by having married a Swedish woman who converted to Islam. Since 1983, he is a Swedish citizen.

Together with the Swedish woman, Mahmoud has 7 children, but the pair are now divorced. According to the woman, Mahmoud, over time, "became more religious and controlling". Several times she has asked for a (restraining order) against her former husband, but she has been refused by the court. 

*Update: Here is the aforementioned video from Samnytt.

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