Clerical Errors

Shocking quotes from Islamic clerics

A clerical error is a harmless slip: a typo, a wrong date, a misplaced decimal point. The errors collected here are of another kind. They come from imams, muftis, ayatollahs and preachers, and they call for the death of apostates, the stoning of adulterous women, the sale of captives and the killing of Jews.

These are not words from the fringe. Alongside a few small-time preachers, you will find two Grand Muftis of Saudi Arabia, a Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, the imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the head of Turkey’s state religious authority and two Supreme Leaders of Iran. Each quote comes with its source. Check them: that is what they are for.

We do not target believers, who are often the first victims of these sermons. We target the men who speak in God’s name from a pulpit, a ministry or a television studio. Most of them are not misreading their scriptures: they quote them chapter and verse. Clerical errors usually get corrected. These ones get applause. Their critics have the floor in Unforgivable Sentences.

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The Germans know how to get rid of the Jews. That which brings us close to the Germans and sets us in their camp is that up to today, the Germans have never harmed any Moslem [...]. But most of all they have definitely solved the Jewish problem.

Haj Amin al-Husseini Grand Mufti of Jerusalem · Berlin Speech, November 2, 1943 Source
Arabs! Rise as one and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history and religion. This serves your honor. God is with you.

Haj Amin al-Husseini Grand Mufti of Jerusalem · Radio Berlin broadcast, March 1, 1944, March 1, 1944 Source
Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon [the Jews] people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by Hitler. Thanks to everything he did to them — even though they have exaggerated this issue — he succeeded in putting them in their place. It was a divine punishment for them. If Allah wills it, next time it will be at the hands of the believers.

Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi World-renowned Egyptian Islamic theologian and preacher · January 30, 2009 Source
Nothing’s changed. And as we said and as we proved from the very first lesson, these are a people who used to kill their own prophets. A treacherous people. A vile people.”

Wissam Haddad, also known as Abu Ousayd Preacher of the Al Madina Dawah Center (Sydney, Australia) · November 2023 Source
Israel is a cancer spreading through the body of the Islamic nation, and […] the Jews are a virus resembling AIDS, from which the entire world suffers. […] The day will come when we will rule America. The day will come when we will rule Britain and the entire world, except for the Jews.

Ibrahim Mudeiris Preacher on the Palestinian Authority payroll (Gaza) · Friday sermon on Palestinian Authority TV, May 13, 2005 Source
If they [Jews] all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.

Hassan Nasrallah Secretary-General of Hezbollah (Lebanon) · Quoted by the Daily Star (Beirut), October 2002 Source
[The Jews are] the scum of the human race, the rats of the world, the violators of pacts and agreements, the murderers of the prophets, and the offspring of apes and pigs.

Abdul Rahman al-Sudais Imam of the Grand Mosque of Mecca (Saudi Arabia) · Sermon at the Grand Mosque, 2002 Source

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