Somehow Wagdi Ghoneim, a Muslim cleric who has dedicated his life to understanding Islam properly, didn’t get the memo that the Islamic State (ISIS) has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam. No doubt Pope Francis is on his way to Egypt now to explain Islam to Ghoneim.

“Egyptian Islamist Wagdi Ghoneim: The Real Holocaust was When Coalition Forces Captured Last ISIS Stronghold of Al-Baghuz,” MEMRI, March 28, 2019:

Turkey-based Egyptian Islamist Wagdi Ghoneim said in a video he uploaded to his YouTube channel on March 28, 2019 that the real holocaust occurred when the SDF and the coalition forces captured that last ISIS stronghold of Al-Baghuz – unlike when the Germans killed “we-don’t-know-how-many” Jews. He said that the American-led coalition were “Crusaders” joined by the “criminals” of the Syrian Democratic Forces and that the coalition treated the people of Al-Baghuz, including women and children, very poorly and attacked them with weapons of all sorts.

Following are excerpts:

Wagdi Ghoneim: Was it a holocaust [in Al-Baghuz]? Yes, it was indeed a holocaust. This was the real holocaust – not when the Germans killed we-don’t-know-how-many Jews. [Al-Baghuz] was the real holocaust.

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It was perpetrated by the American-led international coalition forces. They are all Crusaders that hate Islam and the Muslims, and, unfortunately, they are joined by the criminals of the Syrian Democratic Forces.

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Al-Baghuz was the last stronghold of the Islamic State. They reached an agreement with [ISIS] there. This was the last pocket of Islamic State control. They promised that [ISIS] could leave safely and turn themselves in – especially since there were women and children there.

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So the [coalition] took them to God-knows-where and treated them very, very, very badly. When the people [left in Al-Baghuz] saw this, they decided to stay and see what happens. [The coalition] besieged these people inside an area the size of one square kilometer and attacked them with every type of weapon you can imagine – phosphorus…

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Turkey tried to find peaceful solutions. It tried to find peaceful solutions with America, but Trump refused. He said “No,” and annihilated [those people], brothers.