A Montreal imam who asked Allah to ‘destroy the Jews’ will not be prosecuted for his inciteful words by Quebec prosecutors.
B’nai Brith Canada and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs filed complaints in February and March 2017 against Said Al-Ghitawi and another imam who expressed similar sentiments, but prosecutors said this week that too much time had elapsed since the incidents and there was probably not enough evidence to get a conviction.
“We’re obviously very disappointed if what [Ghitawi] said does not cross the threshold for incitement to genocide, it’s not clear what would,” Rabbi Reuben Poupko of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs told CJADNews. “This was explicit, this was repeated, this was unambiguous.”