An Imam Blows the Whistle on Muslim Antisemitism

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

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🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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As a boy growing up in Turkey, Abdullah Antepli thought hating Jews was normal. He read Mein Kampf before he was 15. His parents gave him a children's version of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. He burned Israeli flags. Today, he is an imam, a professor at Duke University, and, as he puts it, a recovering antisemite. Imam Adbullah has been fearless about blowing the whistle about rising antisemitism in the Muslim community. In the wake of the recent hostage-taking at the synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, he tweeted: “Houston, we have a problem!” He wrote, “we need to honestly discuss the increasing anti-semitism within various Muslim communities.” Today, on Holocaust Remembrace Day, a conversation with a man who has paid a heavy personal price for working to eradicate Jew-hate and to promote peace between Muslims and Jews. Learn more about Imam Abdullah’s work here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Barry Weiss and this is honestly.
0:03.0	This is the scene at the congregation, Beth Israel and Colliville.
0:08.0	I understand that the police, law enforcement, several law enforcement agencies do have a situation where right now a
0:15.0	hostage situation that they're monitoring they're calling it a SWAT situation.
0:18.2	On January 15th police officers and FBI SWAT teams circled around a small synagogue in Colleville, Texas for more than 11 hours.
0:27.0	Law enforcement from several agencies from locally here in Colleville, the police department, to the feds, many of them in some tactical gear
0:36.4	and preparing for however this situation is going to play out.
0:40.0	Inside, a British-born Muslim man named Malik Akram had taken the rabbi and three other Jews who had been praying at Chabat services that morning hostage.
0:48.7	This all took place during the Sabbath, the Shabas service here this morning in Texas. This man walked in. There was some
0:57.4	communication and then took four people.
1:00.3	Akram told the congregation that he had two guns, two bombs, and that he was not afraid to pull the strings.
1:08.0	You're not going to get a guy that he spoke into your country and caught, most of it is more people
1:13.6	is bigger than something to stop you are living.
1:16.6	So I don't think that's what that happens, yeah?
1:18.2	And the whole thing was happening live on Facebook
1:20.6	because the service had been streaming for people at home.
1:23.0	I don't know the fucking name before a fucking guy body.
1:25.0	Yes, I don't know.
1:27.0	Throughout that day and into the night,
1:29.0	Akram would not stop ranting.
1:31.0	Either I don't know about something wrong with me,
1:34.4	or there is something wrong in America.
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