Israel got backing from a pro-Israel Imam Mohamad Tawhidi on Jerusalem Day.
“We build a Mosque on top of their Solomon’s Temple, yet they’re the invaders. Explain how that makes any sense,” he tweeted.
Mohamad Tawhidi is an Iranian-Australian Muslim religious leader and self-declared Islamic reformer. He was born in Iran, and immigrated to Australia when he was 12.
Tawhidi visited the Five Towns and Brooklyn last month with former NYS Assemblyman Dov Hikind. On that visit, he insisted that Muslims had no claim to Jerusalem. “A verse in the Koran that refers to a journey by Muhammad from Mecca to ‘Al-Aqsa Mosque’ cannot mean the mosque by that name now in Jerusalem because today’s Al-Aqsa was built after Muhammad’s death, during the second Caliphate of Umar,” he said.
“The Koran couldn’t have referred to this place – it didn’t exist.”
Al-Aqsa Mosque means “the farthest mosque.”
https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/1135322707258728449
Tawhidi said that when he challenged his teachers regarding the Al-Aqsa Mosque, he was told not to pursue the matter.
While terrorists in Gaza rained down hundreds of rockets on Israeli civilians recently, freshmen congresswomen Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) spoke out in defense of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. In response, Tawhidi accused Tlaib of being a spokesperson for terrorists.
“Are you an American Congresswoman or the Hamas Ambassador to the US? Your agenda is getting really stinky,” he wrote on Twitter.
SimchasSpot.com has previously published a video of Tawhidi, where he describes what occurred in his life that made him stop hating Jews.
I’m proud to call @Imamofpeace Imam Tawhidi a personal friend as well as a friend of the Jewish people and an advocate for a peaceful humanity. He’s someone who has well internalized the lessons of #neveragain and has much to teach people from all faiths and backgrounds. #mensch https://t.co/WeyIK65o7h
— Dov Hikind (@HikindDov) May 1, 2019
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Is he respected in the wider Muslim world, or is he their version of Neturei Karta?
Before moshiach comes the descendants of yishmael will do teshuva מעשה אבות סימן לבנים
Reform exists in Islam, also?
This is great yet like the rabbi that sits with the bishop in a church at a unity breakfast….
Anyway thank you for the 411
Hopefully he will gain mainstream support and the Koran will be found to have more peaceful interpretations and meanings
Are the Muslims the priests of earth rewarded with oil dollars to protect earth and life ?
I believe go-d created the world for the weekend
Ideally the three day weekend
In a place where people don’t have differences of beliefs and law
If I forget thee oh Jerusalem……
YaY Jerusalem
Happy Rosh Chodesh
Coffee addict- i remember thinking that too, but my rebbe could not find a source. Do you know of one?
coffee,chareidi
meshech chochma, end of chayei sara
“Is he respected in the wider Muslim world”
Not really. Even the Leftists have called him Islamophobia for stating his views, though they won’t debate him.. But his message is slowly going out.
He wrote a book as well and he is amassing a following on Twitter etc.
Silly article. Imagine Muslim YWN postung Neturei Karta videos of Orthodox Jews being anti Israel etc. Aha! They say. The Jews agree… LOL. Its foolish. One dumb former muslim. Hes a sheygetz to them. Have you seen the videos of ex-skverer boys and girls trashing Judaism? Thats this guy exactly.