Mick Hartley

From the Sun:

Synagogue terrorist Jihad Al-Shamie was a warped follower of an extremist hate preacher who described Jews as “animals” before visiting Manchester.

Firebrand cleric Sheikh Mishary Alafasy has made a string of racist and violence-stirring comments, including celebrating the October 7 2023 atrocity by Hamas in Israel.

Fury erupted when the Kuwaiti religious leader was welcomed to the UK earlier this year for a speaking tour across London, Birmingham and Manchester.

And cops investigating how Al-Shamie became radicalised are expected to look into whether he was inspired by Alafasy’s rantings.

The Jewish Leadership Council responds:

Alafasy should have never been allowed into the UK, let alone speak at a council owned venue. We warned at the time that this posed a real danger to the safety of people in this country. Sadly, the events on Yom Kippur must now act as a stark reminder that allowing extremism to go unchecked has deadly consequences.

Though it’s not as if we don’t have our own hate preachers…

Added: see also, Jacob Jaffa at the JC:

Muhammad Abdullah Shakir, imam at the Greenwich Islamic centre, called on his audience to “protect Al-Aqsa Mosque [in Jerusalem] from the usurping Jews”. Police said they had examined the footage and determined that “no offences were committed”.

Similarly, as the JC reported at the time, imams in Bradford and Manchester used their pulpits to openly attack Jews and lead prayers for a Hamas victory in the wake of October 7, with one asking Allah to “purify” the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem from “the filth of the Jews”. No action was taken against him.

On October 20, 2023, Abu Ibraheem Hussnayn at the Mohammadi Masijd Alum Rock in Birmingham openly quoted a hadith during his sermon which describes a war between Muslims and Jews.

He said: “This is not antisemitic, this is part of our tradition, we simply relay the hadiths.

“The prophet…told us that the trees and the stones will speak and say ‘Oh Muslim, behind me is a Jew, come and kill him’.”

No investigation resulted after the clip was shared online.

In July 2025, Asrar Rashid at Lozells Central Mosque quoted the same hadith and said: “We shouldn’t be frightened of the term antisemitism or being labelled antisemitic.”

No action has yet been taken against him.

The list goes on….