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August 4, 2017

The American Press Is Afraid to Report on Anti-Semitism When It Comes from Muslims

Imagine if a priest, minister, or rabbi were to call for Muslims to be annihilated.

Responding to Israel’s installation of metal detectors on the Temple Mount, the California imam Ammar Shahin gave a sermon in which he explained the duty of Muslims everywhere—“not only in Palestine”—to exterminate the Jews, and then prayed for Allah to make this possible. While reports of the sermon soon appeared in Jewish and Israeli publications, as well as in right-leaning American ones, the imam’s words were first ignored, and then downplayed, by the mainstream media. Clifford May writes:

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