Former Bosnian Grand Mufti Mustafa Ceric Shows True Colors; Calls Notorious Anti-Semite Salah Sultan “Pride Of Humanity” HT: GMBR.
In two recent Twitter postings, former
Bosnian Grand Mufti Mustafa Ceric has revealed to the world that his
frequent characterization as a moderate Islamic voice is not deserved.
At the beginning of April, Dr. Ceric tweeted that the notorious
anti-Semite and Muslim Brotherhood figure Salah Sultan is a “pride of
humanity.” The tweet in question was as follows:
April 7, 2015 6:04 am” #EgyptianCourt is a shame for Egypt & Islam, a shame for humanity, dr Salih Sultan is pride of humanity
Dr. Sultan (aka Salah Sultan), who Dr.
Ceric believes is a “pride of humanity”, is in fact an individual
deeply tied to the both the Egyptian and Global Muslim Brotherhood who
was recently sentenced
to death by an Egyptian court along with other senior Brotherhood
leaders for inciting chaos and violence during the events following the
deposition of former President Mohamed Morsi.
Dr. Sultan was formerly
resident in the US but left following media reports about his extremist
statements which led the authorities there to suspend his application
for American citizenship.
Dr. Sultan has a long history of making
extremist and antisemitic statements.
In perhaps the most egregious
example, during an April 2010 interview on a Hamas TV station he accused Jews
of using Christian blood for Matzoh (substitute for bread used during
the Jewish holiday of Passover) in an example of what is called “blood
libel”, the accusations that Jews use human blood in religious rituals.
Other of Dr. Sultan’s extremist statements
include accusations that the US planned 911 as a pretext for
terrorizing the world and asserting that Jews have entered Egypt in
order to commit crimes including deliberately infecting Egyptian girls
with AIDS.
Dr. Ceric’s lionization of such a
virulent anti-Semite would appear to be at odds with
his participation in Holocaust remembrance events but consistent with
his long-time association with Global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi who has his own history of virulent anti-Semitism.
Although he has made recent statements that would seem to put him at odds with Qaradawi and some of his religious rulings, Dr. Ceric remains a member of the European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR), headed by Qaradawi.
As recently as November 2012, Dr. Ceric was part of a Gaza delegation sponsored by Qaradawi’s International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) which has hate preachers of its own on its board including Safwat Hegazi and which also includes Salah Sultan.
It is not only on the subject of Jews where Dr. Ceric has revealed his sympathies. On May 28, another of his tweets
suggested that Dr. Ceric had allied with Qaradawi by declaring that the
Armenian genocide at the hands of the Turks to be “controversial” and
resigning from the board of an organization that issued a statement
commemorating the events:
May 28, 2015 8:41 AM – I am resigning Elijah Board & ask #RabbiAlone to erase my name on the list regarding controversial ArmenianGenocide
On May 25, the Elijah Board had issued a statement
titled “Statement on the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the
Armenian Genocide” that was said to have been signed by 65 world
religious leaders. As the GMBDW reported
in late April, Youssef Qaradawi had joined the US Muslim Brotherhood in
declaring his support for Turkey on the occasion of the 100th
anniversary of the genocide. The GMBDW judges that support for the
Turkish position on the Armenian genocide by these Global Muslim
Brotherhood leaders was a recognition of the significant role that
Turkey has played in recent years a a Brotherhood patron.
However, as we have long reported Dr. Ceric is known to have had extensive Islamist ties since
the time of the 1992-1995 Bosnian War. Dr. Ceric headed the Zagreb
office of the Third World Relief Agency that sent funds and financed
arms shipments to the Bosnian mujahedeen and which had extensive ties to
a variety of Islamist groups and individuals including Osama Bin
Laden and Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the radical Egyptian cleric who was
convicted of planning several terrorist bombings in New York.
Recent US
State Department cables characterize Dr. Ceric as deeply ambitious and known for
“shady business dealings” including accepting substantial sums of money
from wealthy supporters for the building of his private residence. The
cables also say that Dr. Ceric is among those who were heavily criticized “for
past efforts to placate both extremist elements and silence their more
moderate, secular critics.” The cables also indicate that ironically,he adopted the
language of the Muslim Brotherhood in describing the 2008 events in
Gaza by describing the Israeli military action there as “genocide.” Read the full story here.
For our profile on Mustafa Ceric, go here.
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