A distinguished cleric linked to the Muslim Brotherhood boasted that the rise of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Michigan US Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed are the “the blessings” of the Oct. 7, 2023 bloodbath.
Ali al-Qaradaghi, the secretary common of the Qatar-based Worldwide Union for Muslim Students, made the remarks at an August convention in Turkey, in line with a report launched by MEMRI TV.
“If not for the Al-Aqsa Flood and if the Zionists weren’t put to disgrace, what is going on in Europe and America wouldn’t be occurring,” Qaradaghi reportedly stated.
“Al-Aqsa Flood” is the official army code identify given by Hamas to the Oct. 7 terrorist assault that slaughtered 1,200 Israeli civilians.
The Worldwide Union for Muslim Students is linked to the unconventional Muslim Brotherhood, in line with the nonprofit Counter Extremism Challenge.
The IUMS was based by Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, who was “broadly considered the religious chief of the Muslim Brotherhood for many years,” in line with George Washington College’s Program on Extremism.
It was accused by the governments of Egypt, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates of utilizing “Islamic rhetoric as a canopy to facilitate terrorist actions,” in 2017.
The group has denied the allegations.
The distinguished Islamic scholar stated Mamdani’s and El-Sayed’s rise would by no means have occurred had Hamas not invaded Israel.
“Mamdani wouldn’t have turn into governor of New York State [sic] and Abdulraham El-Sayed wouldn’t have defeated a marketing campaign price $73 million,” he stated. “These are the blessings of the Al Aqsa flood.”
Mamdani rode a wave of anti-Israel sentiment to Gracie Mansion final January and campaigned on a promise to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He later acknowledged he didn’t have the facility to take action. He additionally defended the mantra “Globalize the Intifada,” which refers back to the waves of Palestinian terrorism that killed over 1,000 Israelis in suicide bombings and different assaults on civilians.
El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate, equally campaigned as an opponent of Israel and has vowed to withdraw US army support for the nation.
