March 16, 2021
Special Dispatch No. 9235
Statements By Yahya Sinwar, Reelected As Head Of Hamas In Gaza, Demonstrate His Support For Armed Resistance Against Israel, Close Ties With Iran
March 16, 2021
On March 10, 2021 Yahya Sinwar was re-elected as the head of Hamas’s political bureau in Gaza. Over the years MEMRI has published statements by him expressing support for armed resistance against Israel and threatening further deadly attacks on it, as well as statements describing Hamas s ties with and loyalty to Iran.
The following are links to these MEMRI TV clips of Sinwar:
Threats And Support For Armed O
perations Against Israel
An armed group identified with the pro-Iranian Shi'ite militias in Iraq published on March 15, 2021, a statement in which it harshly attacks Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi for his alleged efforts to reorganize the security apparatus so as to ensure that it will be subordinate to the will of the United States, Britain, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
March 15, 2021
Special Dispatch No. 9234
Michigan Imam Mustapha Elturk: Most Jews Disobey Allah; Some Jews And Christians Do Our Work For Us; The Muslims Will Eventually Take Jerusalem Back
March 15, 2021
Michigan imam Mustapha Elturk, Ameer of the Islamic Organization of North America (IONA) said that Muslims should not avoid joining hands with likeminded people, even if they are Jews, because not all of them are bad. He made these remarks in a Friday sermon delivered at the IONA in Warren, Michigan on March 5, 2021. The sermon was posted on IONA s official YouTube account on March 8, 2021. Elturk said that while most of the Jews are disobedient to Allah, some Jews and Christians are in fact, doing the work for us. The version of the sermon posted on IONA’s YouTube account seems as though it has been edited. Elturk immigrated to the United States from Lebanon during the Lebanese civil war, and he is active in interfaith initiatives in Detroit area. On March 8, 2020, U
A religious official from Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) published on March 15, 2021, a post on his Telegram channel commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Syrian revolution, praising the Syrian people for their bravery and sacrifice and stressing the plight of prisoners who are languishing in regime prisons.