Canadian Imam likens Trudeau to a king who helped Muslims and then converted to Islam

Jonathan D. HaleviRebel Blogger

(This article originally appeared in CIJNews.com
and is reprinted with permission.) Canadian Sheikh Shaban Sherif Mady
(شعبان شريف ماضي), was a scholar at al-Azhar theological school in Egypt
and served at the Ministry of Endowment and Ministry of Education of
the Egyptian government.

Today, he is the Imam of a Muslim
congregation in Edmonton, Alberta which holds its Friday prayers at
Glengarry Hall in Edmonton.

Shaban Sherif Mady dedicated his
Friday sermon on December 18, 2015 to Canada’s Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau, whom he sees as the greatest ally of the Muslims. Trudeau was
likened to “the Najashi”, the Christian King of Abyssinia in the 7th
century AD, who is honoured in the Islamic history for the support and
protection he provided to the Muslim emigrants who fled pagan Mecca and
his persistent refusal to expel them while fending off the pressure and
lure offered by Muhammad’s Meccan rival leadership. Later, according to
the Islamic tradition, the Najashi King accepted Muhammad’s invitation
to embrace Islam and became a Muslim.

The following is an excerpt of Shaban Sherif Mady’s sermon (originally in Arabic):

“Justin Trudeau – I call him today the Najashi of the current era. He
hosted Muslims, honoured them, visited their mosques, greeted them for
their holidays, and removed the suspicion that terrorism is related to
Islam, honoured the Muslims, hosted the refugees.

    “He is the
Najashi of the current era. This is the title of my sermon that will
appear on YouTube – Justin Trudeau Najashi of the current era…

   
“In Islam there are men, in the world there are men who helped the
world with their wisdom, such as [Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan [President of
Turkey] and Justin Trudeau.

    “Salute to Justin Trudeau, O the
Najashi of the current era. Thank you… This man is affable. This amiable
man we call him the Najashi of the current era.

    “Thank you
for hosting our Muslims on behalf of this Canadian country which you run
in the same way the Najashi ruled in ancient era our Muslims, who were
oppressed and tortured [in Mecca].

    “Thank you. Thanks you, O
the Najashi of the current era… The world is happy to see people like
Erdoğan and Trudeau. With people such as those the compassion is spread,
the friendship is spread, the love is spread…”

In his Friday sermons in Edmonton during the years 2013-14, Shaban Sherif Mady said the following:

“O the courageous Palestinian people! Al-Quds (Jerusalem) will become
the capital of the Islamic State, not of Palestine… Had it not been
betrayal, all the territory of Europe was almost conquered from Andalus
(Spain). This is the promise of the Prophet Mohammad. The victory will
come… Then the Rightly-Guided Caliphate (Islamic State) will be
established and it will follow the path of the Prophet (Mohammad). We
will welcome it.”

“Why (the Muslim Brotherhood movement was
designated as) a terrorist organization? Because it calls for the return
of the Caliphate (Islamic State). If so, I’m an operative of the Muslim
Brotherhood, I’m a terrorist… (O Allah) to those who want to harm Islam
and the Muslims, make their animosity annihilate themselves, make them
kill themselves, destroy them completely, annihilate them all, like you
did to the peoples of A’d and Thamoud… O Allah, support all mujahideen
in any place around the globe.”

“O Allah, support any mujaheed (jihadist) who raises the flag of Islam.”

“The secularism is always in a war against Islam and this conflict between the two still exists.”

“The
[unmarried] adulterer and the [unmarried] adulteress will be flogged
100 times and their testimony will never be accepted by court.”