Montreal police are on the lookout for a Palestinian-Jordanian Imam after issuing an arrest warrant for the crime of willful promotion of hatred following a sermon in which he called for the murder of Jews.
According to the Montreal Gazette, Sheikh Muhammad ibn Musa Al Nasr is wanted after giving a sermon in a local mosque late last year in which he called Jews “the worst of mankind.”
In that speech, Al Nasr, also called Jews "human demons” and said that he looked forward to the end of days when they would be destroyed.
He quoted a Hadith which states that at the end of time " the stone and the tree will say: ‘Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me – come and kill him!”
Speaking with the Gazette, Michael Mostyn of B’nai B’rith Canada, which lodged a criminal complaint against Al Nasr, said that “the Jewish community of Montreal can sleep safer, knowing that there is a price to pay for inciting violence against our community.”
After the speech first came to light in March, the Muslim Council of Montreal called on the Dar Al-Arqam Mosque to apologize for hosting Al Nasr, telling the CBC that “to use the themes of the Prophet to spread hatred is actually something that is disrespectful towards the Prophet himself."
