Bay Ridge Iman Goes Negative – We Need Him To Lead and Stay Positive
A video from August 12th shows an iman calling on Allah to liberate Palestine from the occupiers and plunderers. The iman was speaking at the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge on 5th Avenue and 68th Street in Bay Ridge. (NY Post)
It’s sad to see a religious leader like imam Sheikh Muhammad Al-Barr, go negative. He is human and he’s angry that people from his country have been at war for ten months. He’s angry that so many people (and children!) have been killed.
But as a leader, this imam can’t go negative because other people are absorbing that message and it will hurt his community.
The video can be (seen here) and you can use Google Translate to translate from Arabic to English. (See here)
Hugs,
marlene
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