{"id":390601,"date":"2018-12-26T15:03:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T14:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-canadian-imam-claims-saying-merry-christmas-worse-than-murder\/"},"modified":"2018-12-26T15:03:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T14:03:34","slug":"prison-planet-com-canadian-imam-claims-saying-merry-christmas-worse-than-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-canadian-imam-claims-saying-merry-christmas-worse-than-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Canadian Imam Claims Saying \u2018Merry Christmas\u2019 Worse Than Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/world\/201812261071002840-canada-sheikh-sermon-christmas\/\">Sputnik<\/a><br \/>December 26, 2018 <!-- NO_ADS_IN_ARTICLE --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/261218imam1.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A video of Imam Younus Kathrada\u2019s sermon for the Muslim Youth of Victoria in the Canadian province of British Columbia was provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute and came ahead of Christmas celebrations around the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Those Muslims who congratulate Christians on the Christmas holiday are committing crimes which are even worse than murder, according to Sheikh Younus Kathrada from the Canadian province of British Columbia.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Extremist Islamic Cleric Younus Kathrada from Canada: Congratulating Christians for Christmas is Worse than Murder. <\/p>\n<p>This is his Facebook page, go and wish him a Merry Christmas: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rAcBpJA2Vi\">https:\/\/t.co\/rAcBpJA2Vi<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wFGKym1g9Y\">pic.twitter.com\/wFGKym1g9Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Imam Mohammad Tawhidi (@Imamofpeace) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Imamofpeace\/status\/1077477615445848064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 25, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During his sermon at the Muslim Youth of Victoria, which came ahead of Christmas celebrations across the globe, Kathrada expressed regret over Muslims\u2019 perception of what he described as a \u201cfalse holiday\u201d, claiming that they \u201cmust be offended\u201d by the beliefs of Christians.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere are those who will say to them \u2018Merry Christmas\u2019. What are you congratulating them on? Congratulations on the birth of your Lord? Is that acceptable to a Muslim? Are you now approving of their beliefs? By saying that you are approving of it\u201d, he noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Kathrada went further by arguing that if a person commits such major sins as adultery, lying or murder, \u201cthey are nothing compared to the sin of congratulating and greeting the non-Muslims on their false festivals\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, he made it clear that he does not call for Muslims to crackdown on non-Muslims as far as his Christmas-related comments are concerned.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not saying, and I\u2019ve never said, go out and just kill them, and do this to them [\u2026] Because Allah tells us not to allow the enmity that may exist between you and a people to cause you to be unjust towards them. Rather,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/canadian-imam-claims-saying-merry-christmas-worse-than-murder.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SputnikDecember 26, 2018 A video of Imam Younus Kathrada\u2019s sermon for the Muslim Youth of Victoria in the Canadian province of British Columbia was provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute and came ahead of Christmas celebrations around the world. Those Muslims who congratulate Christians on the Christmas holiday are committing crimes which are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}