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| May 29, 2013
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Switzerland refuses entry to Saudi cleric for anti-Semitic rhetoric

‘Gulfnews’ wrote that the Swiss gov’t refused radical Saudi cleric Muhammad al-Arefe because of his misogynist & antisemitic ideologies.

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT

 

 

BERLIN – The Swiss government extended its ban of the radical Saudi Islamist scholar Muhammad al-Arefe because of his anti-Semitic and misogynist ideologies.

Mohammed Al-Arefe - Photo Courtesy Wikimedia Commons

Mohammed Al-Arefe – Photo Courtesy Wikimedia Commons

The website GulfNews.com reported on his denial of entry into Switzerland on Monday.

The Swiss government initially barred al-Arefe from entering the country in December to attend the second annual conference of the Swiss Central Islamic Council.

Germany permitted al-Arefe to deliver talks in April and last year at an Islamic center that houses a kindergarten in the city of Mainz.

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| May 19, 2013
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14 Muslim Clerics from 10 counties including the PA, to visit Auschwitz

Islamic clerics will visit Nazi’s Auschwitz death camp as part of an anti-genocide, Holocaust awareness program.

By Arutz Sheva staff

 

Fourteen Muslim clerics from around the world will visit the former Nazi German Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland next week as part of a Holocaust awareness and anti-genocide program, organizers said Friday.

Auschwitz

Auschwitz – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

“This is an opportunity for imams who are influential in their communities to look at the Holocaust first hand and to go to Auschwitz, to see what that kind of hatred led to,” Poland’s Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich told AFP on Friday. Continue Reading »

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