One imam down, another apparent hatemonger – this one a rapper – to go.

B’nai Brith CEO Michael Mostyn said Monday it was “good” to see the Hate Crimes Unit of the Montreal police finally charge Sheikh Muhammad Musa Al Nasr with the wilful promotion of hatred following his sermon of more than six months ago.

Al Nasr, while a guest of Montreal’s Dar-Al-Arqam mosque last Dec. 23, delivered a sermon in which he contends that Jews are “the most evil of mankind” and quoted from a religious text (associated with the Qur’an) that at the end of time...the stone and tree will say: “Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me – come and kill him!”

Mostyn said their understanding is that Al Nasr is back in Jordan but they’re “still awaiting an apology” from the mosque in question – especially since his hateful sermon is still posted on their website.

Efforts to reach the mosque were unsuccessful Monday.

Mostyn said the Montreal police is now also investigating a rapper by the name of Jonathan Azaziah, aka “Madd Cold,” who calls himself the “Iraqi destroyer of Jewish lies” even though he was born in the United States and spends much of his time in Montreal.

The B’nai Brith reports that the goal of Azaziah’s music is to “liberate the current discourse in Western circles that centres around appeasing Zionist Jews, who constitute the greatest threat to the survival of human beings on Earth.”

Much of Azaziah’s music and even his social media content was no longer online Monday – following complaints to all of his music distributors by B’nai Brith.

However this You Tube interview was still available:

Mostyn said it is “very heartening” to find out that the content had been removed as it is simply “inciting hate.”

It’s been a busy week for Jewish advocacy groups fighting hate speech and anti-Semitism in Canada.

There was the Ontario Grade 6 textbook published by Nelson Canada--Canada and the Global Community – which claimed children are being used as soldiers in “armed conflict” in 20 countries, including Israel.

Later in the week – following tremendous pressure from Jewish politicians and advocacy groups – the Canadian government and the LCBO announced its intention to reverse its ban on two Israeli wines produced in the West Bank.

In a style very much reminiscent of the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement (a pro-Palestinian movement that calls for boycotts of Israeli products and pressures celebrities not to perform in Israel), the Canadian Food and Inspection Agency issued a July 6 directive that wines imported from the Shiloh and Psagot wineries are labelled wrong as they are not a “product of Israel.”

According to that CFIA directive, the wine products have been made from grapes that are “grown, fermented, processed, blended and finished” in the West Bank “occupied territory.”

The LCBO notified its vendors of the edict in a July 12 letter.

The uproar was swift and intense and late Thursday afternoon, the CFIA backtracked, indicating in a statement that they had not considered the fact that two wines adhered to the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement.

No apologies have so far been given either by the CFIA or the LCBO.

SLevy@postmedia.com