Via MEMRI: Latest News:
In a sermon at the Sheikh Ijlin Mosque in Gaza on January 7, 2005, Sheikh Mudeiris said:
“The Jews are a cancer spreading in the body of the Arab nation and the Islamic nation, a cancer that has spread and reached the Arab institutions, the villages and the refugee camps. It has reached Arab and Islamic cities, where [they] make investments. This is an economic invasion. [They] are investing in South-East Asian countries which were destroyed as a result of corruption and defacement by the Jews and the Americans…
“The U.S. calls for liberty and democracy so much that we hate the word ‘democracy.’ We hate the word ‘democracy’ because it provides legitimacy to our torture and abuse… The honor of our brothers and sisters is being violated, the honor of women and youth is being violated, they are being tortured with electrical shocks and dogs. Entire villages have been destroyed, with all their residents, in the name of democracy and liberty. What the people of the Jahiliyya [the pre-Islamic era] did was much less severe than what is being done in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other Muslim countries…” [PA TV, January 7, 2005.]