Klaus Holetschek clearly does not realize that hatred of Jews is baked into the Qur’an and Sunnah, and cannot be extracted. He is not going to be able to devise a certification system that eliminates Islamic antisemitism, because to do so would require the prospective imams essentially to renounce Islam.
The Jews in the Qur’an are called the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13). They are disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more. They are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29).
That ain’t gonna change if imams have to get certified.
“German Lawmakers, Jewish Leaders Push for Mandatory Imam Certification Amid Rising Antisemitism,” by Ailin Vilches Arguello, Algemeiner, February 5, 2026:
German lawmakers and the country’s Jewish community are calling for a mandatory certification process for all imams amid a surging wave of antisemitism, including multiple cases of religious leaders promoting anti-Jewish violence.
“Mosques must not be places where hatred against Jews is spread. It is our responsibility to ensure that Jews in Germany can study, work, celebrate, and pray in safety,” Klaus Holetschek, a member of the Bavarian State Parliament in southern Germany, told the German newspaper Bild.
With more than five million Muslims in Germany, many turn to imams for spiritual guidance.
Most of these religious leaders are trained abroad — especially in Turkey — and brought to local mosques by large Muslim organizations on multi‑year contracts, shaping the religious education and messaging that reaches the community.
“We must ensure that imams are trained in Germany without the influence of Islamist associations, or that they complete an integration course before assuming their duties,” Holetschek said.
Amid Germany’s push to train more imams domestically and curb the import of foreign clergy, Holetschek emphasized that the effort is not an attack on Muslims, but “a key measure for effective prevention.”…
࿗Infidel࿘ says
If non muslim entities start certifying imams, are such imams ever going to be accepted by the muslim populace of that area? Particularly when they know that their teachings run afoul of qur’an and sunnah?
Also, the hatred is by no means restricted to Jews: it covers every non-believer in islam, be it Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Daoists, Atheists and even Agnostics. Herr Holetschek is assuming too much about islam if he thinks its problems are merely restricted to die Juden
Billy says
Yes. Instead of legitimizing Islam, Non-Muslims should be making laws and legal standards to make Islam, its Mosques, its Schools, etc. ILLEGAL under Western Laws. Otherwise, the Islamization of their territories will continue. Allah in Qur’an 5:51 says, “O you who have believed[Muslims], DO NOT TAKE the Jews and the Nasara(Christians) AS FRIENDS. They are friends to one another. And whoever among you takes them as friends, so surely he is of them. Surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.” See also Qur’an 2:63-65; 3:115; 4:144; 5:59-60, 82; 7:18; 11:119; 32:13,166; 48:29; 98:6-7, etc.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
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Westman says
That headline is a coffee-up-your-nose snorter for anyone who has read the Quran. Not quite a ROTFLMAO but rather close.
It’s just difficult to determine if Herr Holetschek is really that ignorant of the Quranic (Allah’s) hatred of Jews, a hatred which must be adopted by believing Muslims, or, he knows the public is so ignorant that he can push a strawman issue of “certification”, a certification which could only select Jew-hating clerics, and they would be none the wiser.
“German lawmakers and the country’s Jewish community….” Seriously? Is there a Jew on the earth who isn’t aware of the impossibility of finding an Imam without bias against Jews?
Billy says
Our incompetent Western Leaders keep digging our graves by legitimizing and legalizing Islam and Islamic Law instead of making legal standards to qualify as a religion under Western Law where Islam fails due to its incitement to discrimination, violence, terrorism, etc.(Qur’an 9:5, 29, 111; 49:15; 98:6-7, etc.).
Islam, Allah’s genocidal ideology and Terrorist-Criminal-Gang Enterprise, in Qur’an 8:39 continuously commands Muslims to fight Non-Muslims until Non-Muslims surrender to Muslim rule and become Muslims when Allah says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” Demonic Allah in Qur’an 5:51 says, “O you who have believed[Muslims], DO NOT TAKE the Jews and the Nasara(Christians) as FRIENDS. They are friends to one another. And whoever among you takes them as friends, so surely he is of them. Surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.” Islam and its Muslims, enemies of Non-Muslims, are a Muslim Terrorist Organization(MTO).
Allah commands Muslims to conquer and subjugate every territory for Islam using every tool available with their MONEY and with their LIVES wielding the power of the Government or the State. Hence, Islam and Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Westerners via Governments, Tax Exempt Organizations, the Media and Hollywood, Foreign Funding, etc. because Islam violates and is incompatible with Western Laws(Qur’an 8:60; 9:5,29, 111; 45:18; 47:4; 49:15; 65:4 etc.).
Allah describes Muslim women in Jenna, Allah’s Paradise, as whores of Allah in Qur’an 56:37. Also, Allah stirs hatred, cursing, and punishment against Christians until the resurrection day when Qur’an 5:14 instructs, “And some of those who say, ‘Surely we are Nasara (Christians),’ we took their covenant. So they have forgotten a part of what they were reminded of, so we have stirred up ENMITY and HATRED among them until the resurrection day. And Allah will inform them of what they were doing.” See also Qur’an 2:225; 60:4; 8:55.
Islam must be banned as illegal, and we have the legal right to defend ourselves from Muslim violence. Allah in Qur’an 9:29 commands, “Engage in war with those who do not believe in Allah nor in the last day. Nor forbid what Allah and his messenger forbid, nor believe in the religion of the truth among those who have given the book until they pay the jizyah out of hand and they are subdued.”
Muslims are supremacist terrorists for Allah with their MONEY and with their LIVES while undermining a society from within using the man-made book of lies and deceit, the Qur’an. Allah in Qur’an 49:15 says, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed jihad with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.” Allah in Qur’an 4:101 says, “…Surely the infidels(Non-Muslims) were your clear enemies.”
MUSLIM BELIEVERS are a greater TERROR than Allah. Allah in Qur’an 59:13 says, “You[Muslims] are a greater terror in their chests than Allah. This is because they[Jews & Christians] are people who do not understand.” As a result, Non-Muslims are marked for death by Islam and its Muslims.
somehistory says
Not only do the muzzie barracks have clerics who preach and screech the hatred, especially of Jews and Christians, but are places where weapons are stored as well as written material for encouragement to use the weapons.
In the U.S. some years back, it was discovered that nearly 100% of them had terror materials. My guess is that the few which didn’t have any, were simply fresh out.
I read a news report out of Australia, Queensland to be exact, which some may find encouraging.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15539741/Australia-free-speech-laws-Israel-Palestine.html,
rick says
For Muslims, mosques are exactly the place to demonize and spew hate upon Jews. They can leave the mosque feeling refreshed and whole.
Luchtpint says
‘Mosques must not be places where hatred of Jews is spread,’
“Must not…” Sounds very normative, like most things going on in a secluded mind and Cloud Cuckoo Land.
How is certification supposed to stop all of that ?
James Lincoln says
Does Klaus Holetschek, the Germany State MP, have even an elementary / foundational knowledge of islam?
Shockingly, the average bread-and-butter Jihad Watch reader / poster knows much more.
Tim gallagher says
Islam is nothing but hatred, evil hatred, for all non Muslims. If you took the hate away there would be nothing, no Islam.. this German has not a chance in the world of getting the evil hate out of islam. Islam needs to be banned.
Mike GA says
7% of Mein Kampf’s content is antisemitic. The Quaran? 11%.
OLD GUY says
What simpleton came up with this idea? Would an Imam deceive you to get certified or slip you a large sum of money to look the other way? The answer is YES.
Winston 101 says
How silly and unserious.
Good luck with regulating the invading Government of Islam in your country.
They have Birthrate Jihad, Martyrdom, lone wolves and suicide bombers.
You have – regulations!
What could possibly go wrong?