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Orange County, California-based Imam Sayed Mostafa Qazwini came under fire recently for stating the fact that the roots of ISIS lie in Israel’s foreign policy.

MEMRI TV, an anti-Islamic propaganda wing of the American Zionist lobby founded by former Israeli military intelligence officials, published a video of the Imam’s statements. As is typical in fashion for the Zionist lobby, they engaged in a well-orchestrated smear campaign of the Imam, dismissing his statements using a barrage of ad hominems and other logical fallacies.

Racist, pro-Israel lobby group Anti-Defamation League came out in full swing against Imam Qazwini. Rabbi Peter Levi, regional director for ADL of Orange County and Long Beach, said

“His claim that ‘ISIS is the production of the Israeli intelligence’… promotes anti-Semitic canards and demonizes the State of Israel,” he said. “Jewish and Muslim communities must come together to condemn the use of conspiracy theories and engage in fact-based conversation about Israeli policy so that all faiths can coexist with mutual respect in the Holy Land and around the world.”

Rabbi Levi uses overt and arrogant tokenization of the American Muslim community. The ADL has recently put on a guise of being against Islamophobia and being pro-refugee, but that comes with hefty strings attached including being subject to their pro-Zionist thought police. In reality, they are prejudiced against Muslims: they have put large sums of money down to promote wars against Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East who have done nothing wrong, such as the Islamic Republic of Iran. They only pretend to care about those Muslims whose minds have been fully colonized by fear of the oppressor. The ADL is only supportive of those Muslims who act like good lapdogs and shut up about the issues that matter, such as Israel’s terrorist foreign policy.

In short, the ADL condescendingly pinches the cheek of the American Muslim community as if we are infantile and cannot take any actions unless they give us their tacit approval. They expect us to fall for superficial calls of “peaceful coexistence.”

Other Jewish leaders came out with logical fallacies, using the commonly-used “conspiracy theory” ad hominem derogatory slander label. It essentially employs the general public to not look into the issue, dismiss it without any research to see if the claims are right or unfounded, and to look at the person making such claims as a lunatic and/or a hatemonger. Additionally, they labeled Imam Qazwini as an “anti-Semite,” implying that his statements are motivated by baseless bigotry based on bloodline and ethnicity, rather than an apt critique of the actions of the Israeli government and absolutely having nothing to do with hating anyone’s blood make-up.

Criticism of Zionism and the distortion of the pure religion of Prophet Moses, which Muslims believe in, is not motivated whatsoever by race-hatred. It is motivated by distaste for corruption, evil deeds, bigotry, terrorism, and the distortion of God’s word.

While Muslims believe in the Torah, a majority of Jews follow the Talmud, a man-made document whose compilation began sometime after the death of Prophet Solomon, when the tribes of the Children of Israel split into two factions in historic Palestine: Israel in the north and Judea in the south. Prophet Jeremiah declared that God’s judgment was due since the Children of Israel broke their covenant with God to the point of no repair. The Children of Israel were captured by the Babylonians, and that is where the origins of the Talmud began and the use of the word “Jew” instead of the Children of Israel began to become part of the lexicon.

It is interesting to note that in the Qur’an, wherever God says that the Jews disobeyed and acted ungodly upon the earth, He makes an exception in saying that there were a few among the Jews who stayed true to their covenant with Him and acted righteously and they will not be held to account for the crimes of their fellow tribes members. This makes it clear that the Islamic criticism of the distortion of the pure, merciful religions of the major prophets of history has zero to do with race-hatred, rather it is based on action and ideology, purely and simply. True Muslims are not bigots, but we have the right to intelligently call into question the perversion of religion, both in our own religion as well as in others, so that we may get closer to the original messages of the Prophets which are a mercy from God onto the universe.

God opens the door for all people to make the right decisions in life, no matter what their religion is, except for those whose hearts are sealed due to excessive corruption done consciously, rather than corruption done out of ignorance. I myself come from a Jewish background (non-practicing), yet I sought guidance and Allah guided me away from the racial supremacist ideology of the Talmud and towards the true teachings of Moses. I made the choice to truly follow the path of Prophet Moses, unlike the Zionist Jewish supremacists who make Moses turn in his holy grave. One doesn’t have to become a Muslim to do so, these are universal principles shared by Christians as well as by those among the Jews who reject the distortion of the original Mosaic/Torah religion.

The Talmud, which is the oral tradition of the Pharisees completed sometime after the death of Jesus, marks the beginning of the institutionalization of the distortion of the pure religion of the holy Israelite prophets, such as Moses, David, and Solomon. It transformed it from a religion based on a book which serves as a tool for the spiritual upliftment of mankind to live in alignment with God’s merciful and just will, into a manmade, ethno-supremacist ideology which holds a certain ethnic segment of humanity as superior to the rest of humanity.

“Only Jews are human. Non-Jews are not human.” - Babylonian Jewish Talmud, Bava Metzia 114b

It only makes sense that the Zionist Jewish supremacist leaders who attacked Imam Qazwini would arrogantly suggest that they would only like a Muslim figure if he acts according to their will, rather than thinking, speaking, and acting for themselves with honor and dignity. Because if they do not view us as human beings, then it is easy for them to commandeer us and act like we have to submit to their will.

There are also Talmudic traditions which curse and slander the holy Virgin Mary and the Messiah Jesus, which are too vulgar and offensive for me to quote. While there are fake verses of the Talmud circulating the internet, delegitimizing the real ones that are patently bigoted and offensive, the ones I have mentioned about hatred of Jesus and the bigotry of Jewish supremacism are authentic.

The Zionist movement began in the late 1800s. One of its main founders was Theodor Herzl, who stated that Israel’s true borders lie between the Nile River in Egypt and the Euphrates River in Iraq (source: Complete Diaries by Theodor Herzl, Volume II, page 711).

After the state of Israel was illegally established by means of terrorism, ethnic cleansing, mass murder, and genocide of the Palestinian people, their foreign policy began to reflect this “Greater Israel” dream. The many Arab-Israeli wars in the 60s and 70s were motivated by conquest of land beyond historic Palestine. Israel ended up occupying south Lebanon, parts of Syria, and they attempted to secure parts of Egypt but failed. While many of the oil-rich Gulf kingdoms gullibly fell for Israel’s “peace” talks, Syria and Lebanon continued their resistance against Zionist imperialism, as well as Egypt during the short period of Gamal Abdel Nasser’s rule.

The Qur’an beautifully describes the dilemma of the wolf in sheep’s clothing who says they are for peace but really are for corruption:

“When they are told, ‘Do not cause corruption on the earth,’ they say, ‘We are only reformers!’ Behold! They are themselves the agents of corruption, but they are not aware.” - Qur’an 2:11-12

Since Zionist Jewish supremacists view non-Jews as non-human, killing Arabs is easy for them, and they can call them terrorists when Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese defend their homelands from mass slaughter by Zionist terrorists. Despite the UN charter allowing for those occupied by military occupation to resist such occupation by any means necessary, if Arabs are not human beings then in Israel’s eyes they do not have such a right to armed self-defense. The only right they have is the right to be murdered and subjugated by the Zionist regime.

The Zionist regime also had its influence with the Shah of Iran, gifting him several carpets which depict the Book of Esther, a story which promotes anti-Persian racism, showing how shameless and subservient the Shah truly was. When the Iranian people had the audacity to declare their independence so they can live with dignity by overthrowing puppet rulers like the Shah, it drew the ire of the world as they did the impossible with all odds stacked against them, with large numbers of unarmed Iranians being slain by the Shah’s police force during the years leading up to the success of the Islamic Revolution.

Once established, Imam Khomeini made it clear that the liberation of al-Quds (Jerusalem) is a central focus of the oppressed people of the world, regardless of their religion. Thus, Iran established their commitment to the legal and moral right of occupied peoples to armed resistance against Zionism, extending their hand to Syria and especially Lebanon.

Wanting to continue the tradition of conquest laid out in the Arab-Israeli wars, Ariel Sharon plotted Operation Oranim, which sought to topple the governments of both Lebanon and Syria, and then use those countries as a launching pad against Iran. And as the Qur’an says: they plan, Allah plans, and Allah is the best of planners. Syria and Lebanon had already prepared for an illegal Israeli war of aggression, and brought Sharon’s plan to a halt, although south Lebanon remained occupied until the year 2000, when the Lebanese people successfully liberated their own lands from Zionist occupation, thus defeating Operation Oranim.

In July 2006, the Lebanese resistance was longing to get their brothers trapped in Israeli dungeons back to their families, so they staged a small operation to capture a small number of Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese border with occupied Palestine for the specific purpose of negotiating a prisoner swap. Israel, sadistically foaming at the mouth for any excuse to try to re-occupy south Lebanon and crush the resistance, used this as an excuse for a wholesale slaughter of civilians in south Lebanon. But despite all the innocents killed by the Zionist terrorist forces, the Zionist regime lost and was humiliated as the resistance defended Lebanon valiantly.

Many years later, Wikileaks revealed cables from 2006, where Tel Aviv and Washington D.C. began plotting the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad due to his steadfast support of the moral and legal right of Palestine and Lebanon to engage in armed resistance against military occupation.

This harkens back to the 1980s, when Operation Oranim was stopped and the lesser prize of occupying south Lebanon instead of taking over the whole Levant region paved the way for Israeli adviser Oded Yinon to come up with a strategy to divide and conquer neighboring Arab nations along ethnic and sectarian lines, with Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, and northern Saudi Arabia in their crosshairs.

Additionally, in the 90s, former Israeli official Richard Perle along with Douglas Feith wrote the “Clean Break” strategy. Perle also was part of the Project for the New American Century which wrote the infamous “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” white paper in the year 2000 which called for America to be attacked with “a new Pearl Harbor” so that they could justify taking out the governments of Iraq, Syria, Iran, and North Korea, among others.

Because direct military confrontation failed so miserably, they used covert means. After NATO raped Libya by funding al-Qaeda rebels to kill Qaddafi, many of the West’s al-Qaeda mercenaries went to Jordan and Turkey to receive training.

So-called “grassroots” protests erupted in Syria, with chants of “Shias/Alawites to the grave, Christians to Beirut” being heard throughout the streets of Syria. Such bloodthirsty slogans were deemed by the corporate media in the West to be “peaceful” and “moderate” protesters who just love democracy.

Additionally, the Wahabbist/Salafist governments of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and others, who are close allies of Israel, began spewing sectarian propaganda against Shias and Alawites, which they have always done but not at this level. Because in order to safeguard the Zionist regime, Muslims must fight each other rather than be united against Zionism.

The “humanitarian” propaganda machine began to pull at the heartstrings of Westerners so that they could back new organizations like the Friends of Syria, started by Islamophobic former French President Nikolas Sarkozy, along with other European and American leaders, and members of the Syrian opposition. They helped to form the Free Syrian Army.

U.S. politicians like John McCain paid a visit to the FSA and took a photo op with people who were later identified to have been involved with the kidnapping of many Shiite pilgrims.

One FSA general admitted that they want to form a coalition government, which will include Syria’s al-Qaeda branch known as the al-Nusra Front.

*(Image credit: Syrian rebels holding the flags of Jabhat al-Islam (Saudi-backed), Free Syrian Army (Western-backed), and al-Qaeda (Israeli-backed). Image: courtesy of Reuters)

The FSA were aligned with sectarian Salafist terrorists who would intentionally target Shi’a Muslims (along with their holy sites), Christians (along with their holy sites), as well as non-Salafi Sunni Muslims.

Iran is well aware of Israel’s Yinon Plan and America’s plan to take out 7 countries in 5 years (as revealed by General Wesley Clark), which includes Syria and Iran. Iran knows that if Syria goes, Iran is next on the bombing list. Hezbollah entered Syria quite late in the game for similar reasons, they saw the takfiris as a creation of the Zionist regime in order to weaken the resistance axis by creating an enemy within the gates of the Islamic world.

By this time, members of the FSA and al-Nusra broke off to merge with ISI in Iraq, to form ISIS/ISIL. TheU.S. government knew that the rebels they were funding had the goal to establish a Salafist principality in Iraq and Syria, but they didn’t care and kept arming these psychopaths, and lo and behold, ISIS emerged shortly after that.

Wikileaks also revealed that Saudi Arabia directly funds and arms ISIS, in addition to other groups like Jaysh al-Islam, the FSA, and others.

ISIS is an intentional creation by the Anglo-Zionist empire in order to destabilize Middle Eastern countries the U.S. and Israel want control over as well as to create a horrific image of Islam for the Western world to see and increase in their Islamophobic sentiments.

The U.S. even “accidentally” airdropped weapons to ISIS fighters in bothIraq and Syria.

This policy of supporting terrorists continued from the Obama administration to the Trump administration, with the U.S. and Israel constantly bombing the Syrian Arab Army while they are making advances against ISIS and other terrorist groups. They even recently bombed an Iraqi anti-ISIS militia known as the Popular Mobilization Units, also while they were making gains against ISIS. However, in the U.S. coalition’s fight against ISIS, they never manage to make any significant progress and mostly just kill innocent civilians.

While ISIS carried out a terrorist attack in Iran, ISIS has never laid a finger on the Zionist regime, except once accidentally, for which they apologized for and Israel forgave them. The al-Nusra Front has a direct relationship with the Zionist entity.

Israel has never once fought against al-Qaeda or ISIS. Their involvement in the war against Syria has been to offer cover for said terrorist groups.

The entire policy of regime change in Syria originated in Tel Aviv. ISIS emerged from the psychopathic rebels the West was backing, on Israel’s behalf, breaking off to form an even more psychopathic group.

It is not a conspiracy “theory” to say that ISIS is a product of Israel’s expansionist foreign policy. It has zero basis in race-hatred to say so either, so it is definitely not “anti-Semitic.” Are the Zionist Jewish supremacist leaders who slandered Imam Qazwini implying that it is inherent to the Jewish race to arm and fund al-Qaeda terrorists to overthrow the Syrian government? I hope they’re not implying that, because that is the only way such comments would be “anti-Semitic.”

So let’s throw the obvious slander and intimidation tactics out the window as they only serve as a means of discrediting and misdirecting the public eye from tangible facts and evidence that the Zionist regime is indeed responsible for the rise of ISIS.

*(Photo of ISIS terrorists altered to depict reality of their Zionist-Western-GCC backers.)

Additionally, Zionist Jews are the primary funders of the lucrative Islamophobia industry. Breitbart News was started by two Zionist Jewish supremacists, Larry Solov and the late Andrew Breitbart, in Israel in 2007. Additionally, most of the mainstream media networks which push pro-war propaganda and false flag narratives against the Islamic world are owned by Zionist Jewish supremacists, such as Aviv Nevo of Time Warner, the Ochs-Sulzberger Family of New York Times, Murray Rothstein (aka Sumner Redstone) of CBS, Brian Roberts of NBC, Jeff Zucker of CNN, and Rupert Murdoch of Fox News. The blood of over 1 million Iraqis alone in the illegal Zionist-backed war on Iraq was sold to the vulnerable American public through these “news” outlets.

So now that the facts have been laid out and Imam Qazwini’s statements have been vindicated, why did he retract his statements?

Do we fear Allah alone, or do we fear the criticism of racist Zionist Jewish supremacists?

Do we seek to please Allah alone, or do we seek the pleasure of racist Zionist Jewish supremacists?

Do we seek to live lives of dignity, honor, and self-respect, or can we not even blink an eye unless we get approval from racist Zionist Jewish supremacists?

As Americans, do we pledge allegiance to America, or do we pledge allegiance to Israel?

All so-called “Islamic” terrorists are Salafis and Wahabbis. None of them are Shi’a Muslims nor are they authentic Sunni Muslims (non-Salafi). Why are American-based Salafist terrorist training camps like Islamberg, who have ties to the CIA, allowed to operate in the USA with the blessings of their masters in the intelligence community, yet peaceful Muslim Imams who dare to exercise their patriotic American duty and criticize corrupt government policies which cause immense death and suffering to humanity the only ones who get targeted?

In the instances of Sheikhs Farrokh Sekaleshfar and Hamza Sodagar, they stood by the truth and paid the price. The media distorted their words heavily in order to paint them as monsters, yet actual monsters like the cannibalistic Syrian rebels who eat the hearts of their victims are deemed “moderate” rebels.

I don’t mean any disrespect to Imam Qazwini, but sometimes it is the duty of the people to offer constructive criticism of the clerical class like Imam Khomeini and Dr. Ali Shariati did.

“Do not call those who were slain in Allah’s way ‘dead.’ No, they are living, but you are not aware.” - Qur’an 2:154

It cannot be disputed in Islamic theology that the progeny of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (also known as the Ahlul Bayt, or People of the Household [of the Prophet]) all died as martyrs, and thus they are indeed still alive.

Every year, during the month of Muharram, Muslims mourn the martyrdom of the grandson of the Prophet, Abu Abdullah al-Hussain. We cry and cry on how we would not be like the people of Kufa, Iraq, who betrayed the Imam and instead chose to stand with the tyrannical ruler of the day, Yazid. Yet, as is the case with most religions and not just Islam, there is a large percentage of people who follow their religion superficially, as just a series of empty, exoteric rituals, devoid of the deep, esoteric spirituality associated with the meaning of doing such exoteric practices.

How many of us cry for Hussain, but then rush towards the Yazids of our day, knowingly or unknowingly? How many of us say that if we were to be able to time travel 1,400 years in the past to the Day of Ashura, we would fearlessly defend Hussain and his sister Zainab in the face of threats on our reputations, wealth, and even our lives by the dictator of the time?

Well, given the Islamic theological position that martyrs are not dead, but alive, we don’t need to time travel in order to see if we will pass God’s test or not. That test is here, right now.

That test is not just in opposition to Wahabbism and terrorism, as that is easy to criticize. The real test is not just going after the branches of terrorism, which is Wahabbism, but its roots, which is Zionism. The same powers that created the state of Israel with the help of the British empire, also helped to empower and install the al-Saud family into power over the region of Hijaz.

The Israeli-Saudi alliance has only come into public view recently, but as was stated above, the pushing of sectarian propaganda into overdrive in regards to Syria on Saudi/Qatari media channels was certainly done at the behest of their Zionist allies.

If the Saudi lobby came after Imam Qazwini, a public apology would have never happened. Why is it that only the Zionist lobby strikes such fear into the hearts of the people?

Lady Zainab is alive. Takfiri terrorists have been trying to blow up her grave since the beginnings of the covert war against Syria - they specifically made a point to have an insurgency on the Zainabiya district of Damascus.

I would like for Imam Qazwini and all respected scholars out there to think deeply on this concept: Israel is well documented to be giving hospital care to al-Qaeda terrorists on the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights. After being wounded by resistance fighters, the Zionist regime stitches the takfiris up so that they are in full force to return to the battlefield. I have no doubt that some of these terrorists go to join terrorist forces in the Zainabiya district in Damascus, or the district where the graves of Hussain’s daughters Sukina and Roqayah are as well, and proceed to commit suicide bombings near the graves of the martyred members of the Prophet’s family. Do we fearlessly stand for Zainab, or do we cower in fear when those who are enabling the modern-day killers of the very-much-alive members of the Prophet’s family come and try to slander us for telling the truth about who the enemies of Ahlul Bayt are? Are our tears in Muharram meaningful, or are they just crocodile tears?

And in the immortal words of Imam Hussain, do we wish to die on our feet with our dignity, or live on our knees in humiliation? To that I say, hayhaat minna dhillah - away with humiliation! I hope our respected scholars not only say the same, but show the same with their actions.

“Surely You will find the most hostile of all people towards the faithful to be the Jews and the polytheists, and surely you will find the nearest of them in affection to the faithful to be those who say ‘We are Christians.’ That is because there are priests and monks among them, and because they are not arrogant.” - Qur’an 5:82

Unfortunately, the retraction statement by Imam Qazwini and IECOC are not in line with the principles of Ashura. Though I know our faith encourages us to make 70+ excuses for our brothers and sisters, the thought of Zainab, daughter of Ali & Fatima, being surrounded by suicide bombers who are supported by the Zionist regime is vivid in my mind and compels me to offer such constructive criticism in hopes that they will have a spiritual realization of where they need to stand.

The thing to keep in mind is that scholars have a certain level of wisdom that we laypeople do not have. I cannot fathom why Imam Qazwini and IECOC didn’t use such wisdom to still stand on principle and defend the truth, while at the same time affirming that their position on the truth is not based on “theories” nor is it motivated by race-hatred against Jews. It is about actions which are causing nothing but bloodshed and human misery on earth and affects the welfare of all humanity. As Imam Ali said, people are of two types: brothers/sisters in faith or equals in humanity. However, such a statement is not a form of superficial tolerance as is pushed by groups like the ADL where we ignore the truth about the tyrants of present day.

May the memory of Hussain and Zainab compel them to take back their retraction statement and stand on principle. The Prophet along with his Ahlul Bayt always stood on principle: their tactics may have differed given each situation in which they were keenly pragmatic, but their pragmatism never resulted in a sacrifice of principle. They used their wisdom in order to do the most principled thing so that Islam and the welfare of humanity was not endangered. In this case with the ISIS-Israel connection, it is more dangerous to sit on the sidelines. Not only that, more and more Americans are waking up to the truth about these various issues. It is not unpatriotic or anti-American to tell the truth on this issue. In fact, if the Imam stood on principle, Americans of all faiths and backgrounds would come to Imam Qazwini’s side in solidarity in far greater numbers than the people who are engaged in a slander campaign against him and the issue of Israel’s support of terrorists against its Arab neighbors.

May Allah guide us all and bring all of humanity closer to a world of peace, justice, dignity, prosperity, mutual respect, and truth.

*The views expressed in this article reflect solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect upon the editorial views/policies of American Herald Tribune.

*(Sayed Mostafa Qazwini. Image credit: Joshua Sudock, the Orange County Register).