Via IPT:
Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie used anti-Semitic language in a statement commemorating Israel’s independence – what Palestinian’s call the Nakba (catastrophe).
Muslims must liberate Palestine from Israeli control and purge the “holy places of the filth and pollution of the Zionists,” Brotherhood General Guide Mohamed Badie said Thursday in a statement posted on the Brotherhood’s website, Ikhwan Online.
Badie, regarded by many in Egypt as the power behind Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, has a long history of inflammatory anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric. He notably called for jihad against Israel during the November Gaza conflict, saying that “jihad is obligatory for Muslims” and has repeatedly referred to Jews as “pigs.”
“It is the land of jihad and linked to the Day of Judgment … The Messenger of God … said: ‘A group of my ummah [nation] will not cease to fight at the gates of Damascus and its surroundings and at the gates of Jerusalem and its surroundings,'” Badie said in the new statement. “Because of this, Palestine is the spirit of the Islamic ummah, and liberating it and preserving it is the responsibility of every Muslim.