Mick Hartley

There've been a few like this already. London imam claims ‘Zionists’ were behind far-right riots:

An imam at a London mosque led by an extremist preacher has claimed that Zionists were behind the recent hard-right riots.

Ashraf Dabous, of the Lewisham Islamic Centre, said that riot participants were being “manipulated and misguided” so that supporters of the state of Israel could cast aspersions on Muslims.

Similar claims have been made since by Press TV, Iran’s state-funded channel, which reported on the hard-right agitators’ “multiple connections to the Zionist entity”.

Dabous has been deputy imam at Lewisham since 2017. The mosque attracted controversy a year earlier when its head imam, Shakeel Begg, was found by a High Court judge to have espoused extremist positions and “encouraged religious violence”….

He told the congregation that the rioters were prejudiced but had also been misled and manipulated by “individuals who do not have their best interests at heart”.

He went on: “It’s quite well known now publicly, due to information that has been released online, that their manipulators are Zionists and they are supporters of the state of Israel.

“With ground that has been lost over the past few months, something had to take place that would try to win some ground back for the Zionist agenda. What a better way than to paint the Muslims being savages and killers and barbaric, which in reality is a projection of the Zionist state itself.”

Reverse Zionist and Muslim here and you'd be nearer the truth.