In a December 1, 2024 lecture at Masjid William Salaam in Norfolk, Virginia, Imam Ismael Saleem argued that to truly support Palestine, Jews and Christians must reject the Bible and accept Islam as the ultimate truth. He claimed that belief in the Bible prevents them from fully supporting Palestinians, adding that America is the "last stronghold of Christianity," while the British are increasingly abandoning Christianity and adopting Islam. Saleem called on Muslims to "cure the ills of the Jews" by teaching them the "ultimate truth is Islam." The lecture was streamed live on Saleem's Facebook page.
Ismael Saleem: "America is still in the throes of this. Still supporting this. Like I said, I don't know to what degree it is. It is because, however, Christianity. It is because of Judaism.
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"A Western nation. America is the last stronghold of Christianity. In Great Britain, people are becoming irreligious in droves, and ultimately, they are becoming Muslim.
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"They, in America, still believe in Christianity. In the Bible, explicitly, it says that God promised the land of Canaan to Abraham and his descendants.
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"Jewish people and Christian people believe that God inspired these words. As long as they believe it, they can never truly be on the side of the Palestinians.
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"So our means of helping the Palestinians is dawa [inviting to Islam].
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"We can cure the ills of the Jewish people, to have a superiority complex.
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"We can cure their ills, and then tell them the actual truth. The ultimate truth is Al-Islam."