Montreal imam who asked Allah to ‘destroy the Jews’ will not be prosecuted
He said that Allah will kill Jews "one by one."
By JTAUpdated: SEPTEMBER 16, 2017 09:47Members of Montreal's Jewish community demonstrate in support of Israel's right to defend the security of its citizens during a protest in Montreal, February 23, 2004(photo credit: REUTERS/SHAUN BEST)
MONTREAL — Quebec prosecutors will not file hate crimes charges against an imam for saying at a Montreal mosque that he prayed for Allah to “destroy the accursed Jews.”In a November 2014 video seen on YouTube, Sayyed Al-Ghitawi said at the Al-Andalous Islamic Center that Allah will kill Jews “one by one.”B’nai Brith Canada and the Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs filed complaints in February and March against Al-Ghitawi and another imam expressing similar sentiments, but prosecutors said this week that too much time had elapsed since the incidents and there was probably not enough evidence to get a conviction.“We’re obviously very disappointed if what [Ghitawi] said does not cross the threshold for incitement to genocide, it’s not clear what would,” Rabbi Reuben Poupko of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs told CJAD News. “This was explicit, this was repeated, this was unambiguous.”
