An imam in Sweden “has been sentenced to fines and a conditional prison sentence after labelling Jews ‘the progeny of monkey’s [sic] and pigs.’ The Imam made the remarks during a demonstration organised by the Swedish-Palestinian centre in July of 2017 after he was called on by organisers to speak.”

The seriousness of Islamic anti-Semitism is being largely ignored, to the peril of Jews everywhere.

Last year, the Besa Center (Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies) observed of Sweden:

The deep presence of anti-Semitism in Sweden reveals that the country’s image as a near perfect liberal democracy is false. So serious is the problem that the country is in dire need of a national anti-Semitism commissioner who can point out the threats coming from neo-Nazis and Muslims, the flaws of the police and the justice system, and other failures of the authorities to deal with anti-Semitism.

Neo-Nazi antisemitism has long been recognized, given the history of the Holocaust; however, the alliance between Arab nationalists and Nazis during the Holocaust is too often ignored. A surge of Islamic anti-Semitism can now be observed in areas of Europe where Muslim migration is high. For example, in France, the President of the Confederation of Jews in France of warned that “in a few decades, there will be no Jews in France”; meanwhile, Germany’s Angela Merkel admitted that anti-Semitism is coming to the country from “refugees or people of Arab origin.” The New York Post also recently published an article “Radical imams are spewing anti-Semitism in the US with impunity.” And you can access plenty of incidents that Jihad Watch has reported on HERE.

Islamic anti-Semitism is not a random phenomenon, as the attitude of Islam toward Jews is explicit in the Quran. The imam in Sweden did not say anything that is unique; such hateful and disparaging speech is in the Qur’an, as we have often noted here at Jihad Watch, and is often preached in mosques.

What is surprising about the case of the imam in Sweden who was sentenced to fines and a conditional prison sentence for referring to Jews as “monkeys and pigs” is that he faced any punitive measures at all, especially in a country such as Sweden, which has welcomed the hijrah to the peril of its citizens.

“Sweden: Imam Who Labelled Jews ‘Monkeys and Pigs’ Sentenced,” by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, September 3, 2019: