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Oct 03, 2014
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Syrian Minister of Culture Issam Khalil: Jehovah and ISIS Use the Same Terrorist Methods

#4546 | 01:13
Source: NBN TV (Lebanon)

In a recent TV interview, Syrian Minister of Culture Issam Khalil drew a parallel between ISIS and the Jews, saying: "Jehovah, the god of the Jews, does exactly what the leaders of ISIS are doing everywhere... ISIS relies upon the same source that the god of the Jews relied upon in His killing, destruction, torching, and so on."


Following are excerpts from the interview, aired by the Lebanese NBN TV channel on October 3, 2014.


Issam Khalil: If we examine the culture propagated by the Torah – that distorted and forged Torah, underlying the political theory of the Zionist entity – we see that Jehovah, the god of the Jews, does exactly what the leaders of ISIS are doing everywhere.


The cultures of [ISIS and the Jews] stem from a joint root. ISIS relies upon the same source that the god of the Jew relied upon in His killing, destruction, torching, and so on.


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The Zionist entity has citizens from over 90 countries. What binds them together? What binds the Poles with the Germans, the French, the Syrians, the Yemenis, and the Iraqis? They are joined by their religion, which is based on these terrorist notions. Any scripture that calls for killing and slaughtering cannot be holy and divine.


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