Imam Shaban has apparently removed this video from his YouTube channel, possibly because MEMRI noticed it. It’s easy to see why. He is praising someone who was so steeped in hatred that he murdered two random people and thought himself righteous in doing so. Shine a light on such open bloodlust, and very often the dissembling and concealment begin.
“Puerto Rican Imam Ben Shaban Praises Perpetrator Of Tel Aviv Terrorist Attack: This Was A Man Who Was Worth 1,000 Men; He Single-Handedly Made Tel Aviv Stand Still; Men Like This Will Liberate Palestine, Restore The Muslims’ Honor,” MEMRI, April 8, 2022:
In a video that was uploaded to his YouTube channel on April 8, 2022, Palestinian-Puerto Rican imam Ben Shaban praised Raad Hazem, the Palestinian terrorist who killed three Israelis and injured several others in a shooting in a Tel Aviv bar the previous day….Imam Shaban is originally from East Jerusalem and lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico, according to his Facebook account.
Ben Shaban: “Have you heard the hadith by the Prophet Muhammad where he described some of his companions, saying: ‘One of them is worth 1,000 men’? And in another case, he said: ‘One of them is worth 4,000 men.’ We have seen this in our own time. There are many examples of men who are real heroes, and one of whom is worth 1,000 men.
“The most recent man who is worth 1,000 men that we have come to know is Raad Hazem. Who is Raad Hazem? Raad Hazem is the man who caused Tel Aviv to stand still for a whole night. He is the man who was pursued by 1,000 Zionist soldiers who were armed to the teeth. For a whole night, they were chasing the man who carried out the attack in Tel Aviv.
“The streets were empty. 350,000 settlers were hiding in their homes. This was reported in the news of the Zionists themselves. This was Raad Hazem. He ascended [to heaven] as a martyr, after praying the fajr prayer.
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“There are men who will liberate this land and restore the honor of all the Arabs and the Muslims. These are men like Raad Hazem.”
CogitoErgoSum says
I fail to see how it is honorable to kill unsuspecting, unarmed people through a surprise attack. Seems more like a despicable and cowardly thing to do. If this terrorist had announced his presence in the bar by holding up a sword and challenging everyone else to pick up a sword and to come at him at once, well, I could see some honor in that if he killed a few opponents before he went down himself. But what he actually did was sneaky and shameful … and then he ran away. He did nothing honorable at all. It’s really screwed up to think of him as a hero.
Black Sabbath says
How many men was Bin Larsen worth? Puerto Rico is US territory. Maybe FBI should take this “imam” for a boat ride to Guantanamo Bay.
somehistory says
“He ascended [to heaven] as a martyr, after praying the fajr prayer.”
I hope they read this site in PR and this guy gets to know the Truth about his new hero.
This mozlum murderer has not. ascended to anywhere…no “heaven” and not even on a cloud or in the near heavens where birds fly. Your hero, mozlum fool, is rotting and will continue to rot. Like the murderer who thought he was a great man, but was evil personified, herod of old times, living in Jerusalem, your hero will be eaten by worms…if they can possibly stomach the filth of his dead body.
Not only that, idiot for satan, your fake ‘prophet’ that you worship, also rotted and there is no “paradise” for such as you worship and praise as a hero that is worth…well, he’s not worth one man, much less a thousand. there is no paradise or heaven for murderers of innocent people.
You should pack up and leave that beautiful island and go live in the desert so you can know your fake ‘prophet’ even better. You know, the mass murderer who raped a little girl and called it marriage…sack of scum that he was, you can learn to live in a dirty tent and ride camels. there is no paradise waiting for murderers or those who praise murderers…and no heaven, either.
Melc says
There is a story that Mohamed’s visitations by an angel in a cave were nothing but bouts of hallucinations caused by syphilis given he had so many sex slaves that he could well have contracted this disease with no cure then. One Hadith mentions that Md. had 11 sex episodes a night and some with young boys!!
And he is the highest moral example….lol
OLD GUY says
Shaban, here is another nut case teaching in a mosque how wonderful it is for islamic followers to kill others. When in the HELL are we going to get the message? These IMAM’s keep screaming hate and violence and promote the terrorism around the world and we still allow them to build mosques in our communities. I sure hope the FBI and the CIA have been the contractors and built in listening devices throughout these mosques. If they haven’t they should be, this is a foreign threat to our citizens.
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