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<\/p>\nPennsylvania imam Mohammad Elshinawy said in a sermon at the Islamic Society of Allentown, PA that the May 18 San Diego mosque shooting was the result of Islamophobic rhetoric and lies “crafted” by Zionists who hate Muslims and want to occupy the Muslim world. He said that the same rhetoric has been peddled by white nationalists who also dislike Muslims. He added that this is the time to invest in Muslim institutions and voices, so that 50 years from now people can say that the Muslims’ opponents tried to bring them down and failed. He also prayed for Allah to ensure the liberation of the Al-Aqsa Mosque during our lifetime.<\/p>\n
Elshinawy is the Religious Director of the Islamic Society of Allentown, which is also known as the Jesus Son of Mary Mosque. \u00a0The sermon was posted to the mosque\u2019s YouTube channel on May 23, 2026.<\/p>\n
Mohammad Elshinawy:\u00a0“The San Diego shooting was the result of Islamophobic rhetoric. Lies that are brought about, that cause people to vilify Islam and Muslims, hate them, this is crafted by Zionist to help them [in] wanting to occupy the Muslim world. That’s what it’s for. And it just so happens that locally it is being pedaled by these white nationalists, who don’t want us here either.<\/p>\n
“So this is actually our moment, brothers and sisters. We will invest in institutions, invest in our voice, invest in reasons for people to take us seriously. So 50 years from now we can say, ‘they tried their final attempts like rabid dogs and it failed miserably.’<\/p>\n
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“May Allah make us Generation Aqsa. May Allah allow us and everything that is happening to us be a reason for us to see its liberation within our lifetime.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania imam Mohammad Elshinawy said in a sermon at the Islamic Society of Allentown, PA that the May…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-202628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}