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Next month Obama will travel to Cairo and he has been invited to speak at Egypt’s Al Azhar mosque. The Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa has invited him to speak at the mosque where no other “non-Muslim” has ever spoken before. The Al Azhar University, Sunni Islam’s foremost seat of learning, houses the mosque and was founded by a descendant of Muhammad’s daughter in 975 A.D.

The Grand Mufti is touted as being very “liberal” and modern, having proclaimed that men and women are equal and that the so-called the book introduction to the anti-semitic “Protocols of the Elders of Zion (attributed to him) is a forgery.” There is some disagreement as to whether he is anti-semitic, but he flatly denies it on his website.

He furthermore states “for Muslims, jihad is much more than armed struggle against an enemy from the outside for it includes constant struggles within both oneself and one’s own society…Once, upon returning from a battle, the Prophet Muhammad said to his companions, “We have returned from the lesser jihad to the greater jihad; the jihad of the soul.” Once, upon returning from a battle, the Prophet Muhammad said to his companions, “We have returned from the lesser jihad to the greater jihad; the jihad of the soul.” So, he sees it as a spiritual war between the higher and the lower self.

So, his publicists say, beware of making a comparison between the Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa and Hitler’s close associate and ally, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammad Amin al-Husseini. That doesn’t mean that I believe Obama is pro-Israel, nor do I believe he is a Christian. According to Times Online UK, Dr. Gomaa stated that “extremists declaiming in mosques and via the internet that the only legitimate Islamic form of government is a restored “Caliphate”, such as that which stretched from Fez to Samarkand 500 years ago, are simply wrong.”

However, some critics have stated that because he was appointed by a secular dictatorship, his remarks are tainted; he is not really free to speak. Others have remarked that his Wiki profile is heavily doctored. It is obvious that there will be questions. According to Gulf News, he did state that Muslims who change their faith should be punished. According to United States Action, the Grand Mufti “supports the terrorist group Hezbollah, thinks that Sharia law is the answer to “extremism,” views that “social violence is the result of the secularists’ attempt to impose their principles upon society,” is quoted as calling Israeli Jews “blood-suckers,” is quoted as calling for the denial of freedom of religion, calls for the death penalty for adultery, and takes a relativistic view towards wife-beating.”

The video below documents Hitler and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.