Fort Lauderdale Imam Explains Why Jews Are So Evil: It’s In The Talmud

One recent and incredible outpouring of antisemitic hate, fortunately recorded by MEMRI, that you may have missed in all the excitement came not from the Middle East, but from Fort Lauderdale, where an unnamed imam at Masjid Al-Iman explained in his Friday sermon to members of the mosque why Jews consider all non-Jews to be “animals” who were created to serve them, why they murder Gazan babies in their incubators, and why they steal and from non-Jews. For those unable to hear him in person, his sermon was livestreamed on Facebook for viewers across the world. More on this lunatic and antisemitic April khutba can be found here.

In a Friday April 19, 2024 sermon at Masjid Al-Iman of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which was streamed live on the mosque’s Facebook page, the imam claimed that the actions of the “breed of humans” who are the Jews can be explained by studying the Talmud. Quoting from an Arabic source purported to be a translation of the Talmud, he said that the Jews believe that non-Jews are animals in human form that were created by God to serve them. He said that according to the Talmudic creed, it is an honor for the Jews to shoot Gazan babies while they are still in their incubators and it is permissible for them to steal land from non-Jews.

He joked that the Jews have a secret underground airline in the tunnels that were discovered under the Chabad-Lubavitch synagogue in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood, and that they fly from there to Palestine to steal Palestinian land. In addition, he asserted that throughout history, it was the Jews who “orchestrated everything against the Muslims” and it was the Christians who implemented these plans. The name of the imam was not provided by Masjid Al-Iman.

It should be noted that in a February 19, 2024 at the same mosque, a presenter claimed that the Talmud was worse than Hitler’s Mein Kampf and that it instructs Jews to kill non-Jewish children, and he referred to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion [an antisemitic forgery created by the Tsarist police]. 

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Here is a transcript of the most important parts of the sermon:

Imam: “We will mention what the Jews believe, because you wonder: How come? Why are they such a breed of human beings? It is simply because they are indoctrinated that way. That is their creed.

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“I will give you the proof from two passages from the Talmud, which is one of the books that the Zionists refer to.

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“‘Allah created the foreigner, the non-Jew…’ – listen to this – ‘in human form so that they would be suitable to serve the Jews.’

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“This message goes to those who bow – from amongst this Islamic nation – to the Zionists, to the Jews.[a reference to Muslims willing to normalize ties with Israel] This is how they look at you. This is how they see you, as an animal that is in the form of a human being, [created] just to serve them.

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“We are talking about babies in the incubators in the [Gaza] hospitals – [the Jews] shooting everybody. That’s why, because in their creed, we’re all animals, and we are worthless. It is an honor for them, and they will be raised in the ranks if they do that….

This is projection, of course. It is the Muslims who are taught in their Qur’an that they are “the best of peoples” (3:110) and that non-Muslims are “the most vile of created beings” (98:6). It is the Qur’an that says: “Indeed, the worst of animals in Allah’s sight are the ungrateful who will not believe.” (8:55). It is the Qur’an that in dozens of verses instructs Muslims to make war on all non-Muslims, so that ultimately Islam will everywhere prevail, and Muslims dominate, everywhere (see, for example, 8:39).

It is Hamas that murdered Jewish babies in their beds on October 7. The soldiers of the IDF do not deliberately “murder babies in their incubators.” Instead, they make every effort to warn civilians away from places about to be targeted. In the Gaza war, the IDF has already dropped 14 million leaflets, sent six million messages, and made four million phone calls, all to warn civilians away from those areas. The IDF never targets civilians, of any age. But in the conditions of urban warfare, in one of the most densely-populated areas on earth, where Hamas has deliberately embedded its operatives and weapons inside civilian buildings, including schools, mosques, apartment buildings, and hospitals, it is inevitable that there will be civilian casualties. Nothing is too crazy or evil for this imam to ascribe it to “the Jews,” and he is believed not only by the members of the Masjid Al-Iman in Fort Lauderdale, but by millions of others who livestreamed his hate-filled and lunatic khutba on Facebook.