Canadian imam Younus Kathrada spoke about the situation in Gaza in his February 26 and March 1, 2024 Friday sermons at Dar Al-Ihsan Islamic Center in Victoria, BC. He said that the Zionist Jews had "horrible predecessors," but today they are worse than their predecessors whom Allah has cursed and made some of them into apes and pigs. Kathrada continued to say that the "propaganda machine, which speaks for the Zionists" wants to silence criticism, but he doesn't care because they are less than nothing, they are "vermin." He added that the people of Gaza are giving their life for their religion, and he too is "more than willing" to give his life for his religion. Kathrada said that on October 7, the "battalions of the resistance" delivered a humiliation to the Zionists the "likes of which has not been seen" since the medieval battle against the Jewish oasis of Khaybar. The sermons were posted on the YouTube channel of Muslim Youth of Victoria.
Younus Kathrada: "Look at Gaza today, and you will know clearly that the Zionist Jews had horrible predecessors. Today, they are even worse than their predecessors – those about whom Allah said [in the Quran] what means: 'They are those whom Allah has cursed, and with whom He became angry.' And He made some of them into apes and pigs.
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"The recent news reports about the Nazi terrorists is that the occupying entity had challenged the world.
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"They are threatening to escalate, the hostilities will continue. The genocide will continue, when? IN the blessed month of Ramadhan. The month in which the devils are chained up – except for these devils, the Zionist Jews and their allies.
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"The propaganda machines, which speaks for the Zionists, who are complicit in that genocide – they want to silence us? I'm here to say to them: It is not going to happen.
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"Who do you think you are? You are nothing... No... no... You are less than nothing. You are less than nothing. You are vermin. You are useless, you are pathetic, you do not scare us. You do not intimidate us. The people of Gaza are willing to give their lives for their religion to exist. Let me tell you, I am more willing to give my life, for my religion. Do what you want, I don't care! Go to hell! I hope you rot in Hell! I hope you rot in Hell! That is what you deserve for the lies that you spread.
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"Oh Allah, bring annihilation upon the plundering aggressor Jews. Oh Allah, whose deeds cannot be repelled, whose promises cannot be broken and whose soldiers cannot be defeated. Oh Allah, vanquish the criminal Jews, along with their allies who support them, the Crusaders and hypocrites. Oh Allah, demonstrate the wonders of Your power on all of them. Oh Allah, instill fear in their hearts and bring tragedy upon them.
"Oh Allah, make the enmity among themselves intense. Oh Allah, annihilate the criminal Jews with their own weapons, and destroy them own equipment. Oh Allah, destroy their capabilities. Oh Allah, turn the Jews' security to fear, their happiness to sadness, their arrogance to humiliation, and their power to weakness. Oh Allah, disperse them and fend them asunder. Oh Allah, bring down upon them Your wrath, punishment, and torment.
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"In all that darkness, the [people of Gaza] are going to find a breath of fresh air. They are going to find that a historian has written: 'On the seventh of October, the battalions of the resistance humiliated the Zionists, such a humiliation, the likes of which has not been seen since the battle of Khaybar'.
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"This occupied land will be liberated, and it will be freed from the clutches of the Zionists. It will happen soon, Inshallah."