Fadi Abu Shahidam, who shot dead one Israeli and wounded four others in the Old City of Jerusalem on Nov. 21 before being shot and killed by Israeli security forces, was a well-known Hamas preacher in east Jerusalem.
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In 2020, Abu Shahidam delivered a Friday sermon in which he railed against "the Jewish and Christian masters of heresy," calling them "the leaders of injustice in our days."
"One of the fiercest forms of injustice are the repeated attacks against the Shariah [Islamic law], the opposition to the rule of the Shariah and replacing it with man-made [legal] systems," he said.
In the 2020 sermon, Abu Shahidam said "evil atheism" and "spiteful communism" were behind these so-called attacks, along with "the Jewish and Christian masters of heresy" and their "despicable followers," who he said were "the tyrannical sultans and the evil ulama [scholars], those who sold their conscience."
Abu Shahidam also claimed that women had declared war on Shariah, in particular those who had "abandoned modesty, chastity and honor and jumped on the bandwagon of CEDAW [the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women]."
All of these, he said, were "the masters and leaders of injustice in our days."
"They are led by the devil, and they are funded by filthy money from those Bedouins in the United Arab Emirates," he said.
"Zionism devises sins for them, and they get their instructions from the prostitute Arab regimes and rulers," he added.
Reprinted with permission from JNS.org.
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