Imam who refused to name Hezbollah a terrorist group scheduled to ship a benediction at Trump’s inauguration

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Imam who refused to name Hezbollah a terrorist group scheduled to ship a benediction at Trump’s inauguration


A Muslim cleric who refused to name Hezbollah a terrorist group and has a “vital historical past of extremism” has been tapped to ship a benediction at President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration subsequent week. 

Husham Al-Husainy, the imam of the Karbalaa Islamic Instructional Middle in Dearborn, Mich., is amongst 4 spiritual leaders listed in an Inauguration Day program, obtained by the Washington Reporter on Monday, who’re scheduled to talk instantly after Trump’s Jan. 20 handle

The Center East Discussion board, a conservative nonprofit centered on Islamic points, has described Al-Husainy as “a radical anti-Semitic, pro-Hezbollah Shia imam” with “a major historical past of extremism.” 

Al-Husainy has been described as “pro-Hezbollah” and a “radical” by Center East watchdog. AP

The group claims that Al-Husainy hosted a 2015 rally on the Karbalaa Islamic Instructional Middle the place he “wished dying upon Saudi Arabia” for its army intervention in Yemen. 

Al-Husainy additionally attended a 2006 “pro-Hezbollah rally” in Dearborn, throughout which he allegedly held a photograph of then-Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on stage, in response to the Islam watchdog. 

Nasrallah was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon final September. 

A yr later – after Al-Husainy delivered a controversial invocation on the Democratic Nationwide Committee’s 2007 winter assembly – Fox Information host Sean Hannity blasted the imam for suggesting US forces had been “oppressors and occupiers.”

Al-Husainy denied he was making a veiled reference to the USA or the Iraq Conflict when he requested God to “assist us to cease the struggle and violence, and oppression and occupation” on the DNC occasion. 

When requested by Hannity to “admit that Hezbollah is a terrorist group,” Al-Husainy refused. 

“That’s your clarification,” he responded throughout his 2007 “Hannity and Colmes” look.

“Hezbollah is a Lebanese group. And I’ve bought nothing to do with that,” Al-Husainy added.

“However there’s a biblical that means of Hezbollah. It’s in Judaism and Christianity and Islam that means individuals of God and which means sure,” he defined – dodging Hannity’s repeated makes an attempt to pin him down on answering whether or not the group was a terrorist group. 

The US State Division designated Hezbollah as a overseas terrorist group in October 1997.

Al-Husainy is amongst 4 spiritual leaders anticipated to present benedictions at Trump’s Jan. twentieth inauguration. SHAWN THEW/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Al-Husainy expressed help for Trump’s candidacy final October. AP

Al-Husainy, who’s Iraqi American, voiced his help for Trump, 78, final October throughout a Republican media name, in response to the Detroit Free Press

“I’m supporting Donald Trump as a result of he opposes homosexual marriage and he’s essentially the most Christian particular person within the election,” Al-Husainy mentioned of his help for the forty fifth president. “He’ll return us to conservative values, and I’m a Muslim and I’ll stand with whoever opposes homosexual marriage.” 

Trump has not known as for a federal ban on homosexual marriage. 

The Submit tried to achieve out to Al-Husainy for remark. 

The Trump transition group didn’t instantly reply to The Submit’s request for remark. 


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