Rights Group Slams Israeli 'War on Islam' after West Bank Mosque Arson Attack
A group of illegal settlers reportedly entered a neighborhood near Salfit and set fire to the mosque while also spray-painting racist slogans on its walls.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the United States’ largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, on Friday condemned the attack.
In a statement, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said:
“The arson attack that racist Israeli settlers launched on a mosque in the West Bank of Palestine is just the latest example of the Israeli government’s ongoing war on Islam, as well as on the cultural and religious heritage of both Palestinian Muslims and Christians. Through its ethnic cleansing in the West Bank and genocide in Gaza, the far-right government of indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu has made it clear that its ultimate goal is the permanent subjugation of the Palestinian people on their native land.”
He added that earlier this month, CAIR condemned a new ban on the Islamic call to prayer, or adhan, at mosques and repeated it call for Muslim-majority nations to take concrete action to end the Israeli regime’s genocide.
Last month, CAIR condemned an Israeli soldier’s obscene desecration of a copy of the Holy Quran.
Awad noted that Israeli authorities recently demolished a mosque in occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds.
He said that in August, CAIR said the Biden administration must speak out strongly to condemn the videotaped burning of copies of the Quran and destruction of mosques by Israeli soldiers in Gaza and end weapons transfers to the Israeli government to force an end to the genocide.
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In June, CAIR called on the Biden administration to investigate reports that an American soldier taking part in the genocide in Gaza posted an image of herself and a destroyed mosque defaced with insults targeting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
In May and March of this year, CAIR said video of Israeli soldiers burning and tearing Qurans in Gaza is further proof of Israel’s ongoing genocide in targeting the Palestinian people and “shows the true face of the genocide.”
In December of last year, CAIR condemned the Israeli government’s celebration of Israeli troops who took over and desecrated a mosque in the West Bank as an “attack on Islam.”
Source: Cair.com
