Michigan imam's praise for jihad latest example of rising danger of extremism
Islamic scholar Ahmad Musa Jibril blamed the US for the 'genocide in Palestine'
A Michigan Islamic scholar posted a video on social media calling on Muslims in the West and U.S. to embrace jihad, continuing a trend that threatens to spread extremism in the United States.
"You have pretty radicalizing, extreme content happening," Alberto Fernandez, vice president of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), told Fox News Digital. "This is stuff they uploaded on social media. It's there for everybody to see."
Fernandez's comments come after MEMRI uploaded a video featuring Ahmad Musa Jibril, an Islamic scholar from Michigan who encouraged Muslims in America to celebrate and aspire to jihad.
"Yes, there is holy war in Islam. It is jihad," Jibril says in the video, which was uploaded to X. "This may be a surprise to many who grew up in the West, especially those who were born or grew up post 9/11, because of the growing number of hypocrites who are spreading the American-Zionist Islam. And it has nothing to do with Islam, that version of Islam is and Islam that suits the enemies."
"The Muslims in the West, especially the youth in the West, especially the youth in America, need to wake up," Jibril said. "The current events are a wake-up call for Muslims to start normalizing mentioning jihad's proper meaning and putting it back into their vocabulary. Jihad must be a common, normal term on your tongues, on your social media and in the mosques and elsewhere."
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Islamic scholar Ahmad Musa Jibril blamed the US for the 'genocide in Palestine'
A Michigan Islamic scholar posted a video on social media calling on Muslims in the West and U.S. to embrace jihad, continuing a trend that threatens to spread extremism in the United States.
"You have pretty radicalizing, extreme content happening," Alberto Fernandez, vice president of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), told Fox News Digital. "This is stuff they uploaded on social media. It's there for everybody to see."
Fernandez's comments come after MEMRI uploaded a video featuring Ahmad Musa Jibril, an Islamic scholar from Michigan who encouraged Muslims in America to celebrate and aspire to jihad.
"Yes, there is holy war in Islam. It is jihad," Jibril says in the video, which was uploaded to X. "This may be a surprise to many who grew up in the West, especially those who were born or grew up post 9/11, because of the growing number of hypocrites who are spreading the American-Zionist Islam. And it has nothing to do with Islam, that version of Islam is and Islam that suits the enemies."
"The Muslims in the West, especially the youth in the West, especially the youth in America, need to wake up," Jibril said. "The current events are a wake-up call for Muslims to start normalizing mentioning jihad's proper meaning and putting it back into their vocabulary. Jihad must be a common, normal term on your tongues, on your social media and in the mosques and elsewhere."
Michigan imam's praise for jihad latest example of rising danger of extremism: expert
A Michigan Islamic scholar's video celebrating and encouraging jihad was the latest example of dangerous extremism spreading across the internet and United States.