Lahore Friday Prayer Leader:‎

New Zealand shootings ‘the beginning of next phase of Islamophobia’‎

Rasa – Hujjat al-Islam ‎Naqvi ‎said that the March 15th Christchurch mosque shootings are a ‎part of an American-Zionist plot against Islam. ‎

News ID: 444002

Date: 24 March 2019 - 09:39

RNA – In his Friday prayer sermon delivered to a large and fervent crowd of believers in ‎‎the‎ ‎‎‎‎Pakistani city of Lahore, Hujjat al-Islam Sayyed Jawad ‎Naqvi ‎referred to the Friday, March ‎‎15th terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand where 50 people were ‎brutally martyred, saying, “The killer [Brenton Tarrant] broadcasted the entire operation live ‎on the internet via a helmet camera. He wrote the reasons as to why he perpetrated his ‎crime on his gun. In his manifesto, he wrote about the Crusades between Muslims and ‎Christians and the names of those who have killed by Muslims as the reasons for why he ‎perpetrated his attack.”‎

The principal of Jami’at Urwat ‎‎al-Wuthqa Islamic ‎Seminary said that Tarrant also stated that ‎he’s very impressed with the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and acted due to ‎his policies and statements and said, “This has been a strange incident, where Muslims are ‎openly killed and then it was propagated also. Although to compensate, the Prime Minister ‎of New Zealand [Jacinda Ardern] took seemingly good steps by putting on a black dress of ‎mourning and issued stern statements but she is an actor and we must take her actions with ‎a grain of salt.”‎

Hujjat al-Islam ‎Naqvi stressed, “What happened in New Zealand must be taken seriously. ‎This is the outcome of what has happened before. The first stage was of Islamophobia. The ‎United States and the West presented Muslims as frightful and beastly terrorists and this was ‎successful. The United States was the director, the producer was the Arabs and the Muslims ‎were the actors in this attack. They started this in Pakistan – these forces were made in ‎Pakistan and they started with the takfir (excommunication) of Muslims.”‎

‎His Eminence continued, “This scenario which has taken place over the past 30 or 40 years ‎started in Afghanistan. This campaign of Islamophobia was started to make the people of ‎the world afraid of Muslims by presenting a distorted face of Islam to the world. They ‎presented all of the teachings of the Quran and the Prophet Muhammad as the teachings of ‎terrorism to the world. They published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in European ‎newspapers, established armed forces in the name of jihad and engaged in mass killings in ‎the several countries and engaged in the takfir of Muslims. This spread to other counties and ‎it kept on growing until it reached its peak in Syria as Daesh.”‎

He said, “The second phase of this has started – the phase of Islamophobia. George W. ‎Bush referred to his war on terrorism as a ‘crusade.’ We must acknowledge that the Zionists ‎and Jews are the most dangerous community in the world. There are Arab Salafis and ‎Christian Salafis, Jewish Zionists and Christian Zionists. All of the satanic plans were made by ‎‎[Evangelical] Christians. For these Christians, Zionism is their actual direction. The Jews are ‎participants in the animosity against Islam, they are not the directors. The Christians are the ‎directors and if you take read their history, you will see the effect that their ideology has had ‎on the world.”‎

Hujjat al-Islam ‎Naqvi ‎stated, “The incident in New Zealand wasn’t just for New Zealand, this ‎was just a spark, the actual event is yet to happen and preparations being made. Three ‎countries are completely ready for aggression against Islam. They have their eyes on ‎Pakistan’s nuclear program and want to attack Iran. The government and rulers must be ‎careful and not be sold off. They must block the borders for such people. Three countries ‎are prepared to kill Muslims – the United States, Israel and India.” ‎

His Eminence said, “The same scenario has been repeated in the West. When the West said ‎that Muslims are terrorists, showed videos of beheadings with a flag on which the ‎shahadatayn is written and they benefit from this hatred. Immediately after the terrorist ‎attack in New Zealand, four mosques were attacked in the United Kingdom. Today is Friday, ‎we don’t know what will happen next. May God have mercy on the mosques in Europe. Until ‎today, only statements have been made. Although, Ms. Ardern has made good statements, ‎we cannot trust her. The most powerful statement came from the President of Turkey ‎‎[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]. He said that if the government of New Zealand doesn’t take ‎revenge, we will take revenge. Although he has only issued such a statement and hasn’t yet ‎done anything. He criticizes Israel but Israel has an embassy in Turkey and Turkey has a ‎trade agreement with Israel. Hence, this is also just a statement.”‎

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