The sermon used Quranic passages to address the political unrest after two Israeli police officers were killed by Arab gunmen outside the mosque.
The metal detectors were removed amid an escalation of violent protests in the West Bank and of anti-Israel rhetoric across the Muslim world.
A California mosque is defending its imam as being taken out of context after reports said he called for the annihilation of Jews.
On Wednesday, Shahin told The Washington Post that he wasn't speaking of Jews in general but "specifically about this group shutting down the mosque - these soldiers, or settlers, or fighters, or oppressors".
"It's unfair when I have spoken about nonviolence, and here is some two minutes".
Ammar Shahin gave a sermon July 21 following deadly violence in Jerusalem.
At another point, citing the Hadith (a collection of Islamic traditions containing aphorisms of the Prophet Muhammad), Shahin says: "The Prophet Muhammad said: 'Judgment Day will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Jews hide behind stones and trees...'" If the sermon was misconstrued, we sincerely apologize to anyone offended. Oh Allah, count them one by one and annihilate them down to the very last one.
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"The ICD will always stand against anti-semitism similarly to how the Jewish community has always stood against Islamophobia in our close knit community". "We have zero tolerance for anti-Semitism or any other form of bigotry". "Turn them into booty in the hands of the Muslims", Harmoush said according to MEMRI. "And I know that the Muslim community, the Jewish community, the Davis community and beyond will be looking for that and demanding that".
Shahin's sermon focused on the ongoing controversy at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, near the Al-Aqsa Mosque, where a terrorist murdered two Druze Israeli soldiers earlier this month, leading Israel to restrict access to the mosque and to install metal detectors temporarily.
Basim Elkarra, executive director of CAIR Sacramento Valley says he considers it hate speech. "Working together, we'll get through this". "Words matter and have consequences". We reject attempts to cast the conflict in Jerusalem as a religious war between Jews and Muslims. O God, upon you is the handling of those who closed the al-Aqsa mosque. "In the context of the full sermon, it becomes clear that the theme of the sermon was against oppression, and not against Jews or any religion". It also noted the dangers both Jews and Muslims face in what it said was an atmosphere in the United States of increased hostility to minorities.
Shahin's words were roundly criticized by local and national Jewish leaders.
"I'm concerned now because some people come from out of town and have so much anger", El-Nakhal said.
"I hope to grow and develop as a more worthy leader in the community", he said.
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