Broadcaster DR spent six months inside the controversial Aarhus mosque. Photo: DR1
Published: 06 Jan 2015 20:59 GMT+01:00
Updated: 06 Jan 2015 21:05 GMT+01:00
In a
newly-aired documentary, leaders of the Grimhøj Mosque said that they
want to see Isis win, that a Danish suicide bomber is a hero and that
they do not believe in democracy.
In a documentary from broadcaster DR that aired on Tuesday night,
leaders of the Grimhøj Mosque said that they want to see an Islamic
caliphate established, that they don’t believe in democracy and that a
Danish convert who carried out a suicide bomb attack in Iraq is a hero.
“We want the Islamic State come out on top. We want an Islamic state in
the world,” the mosque’s chairman, Oussama El-Saadi, said in the DR
programme.
El-Saadi also said that he views Denmark’s participation in the US-led
battle against Syria as a direct affront not only to his mosque but to
all Muslims.
“The war is against Islam,” he said.
Another mosque leader also makes his disdain for democracy clear in the documentary.
“I can be integrated without being a fan of democracy. That’s my
choice. You can certainly live here as a Muslim without going out and
voting and participating things that don’t benefit the Muslims in
Denmark,” Youssef Loubani, the chairman of the mosque’s board, said.
In the documentary, El-Saadi also lends his support to Victor
Kristensen, a Danish man who converted to Islam and is suspected of
having carried out a suicide bomb attack in Iraq that killed numerous
people.
“I am expressing my right to free speech in order to give my opinion.
And I think that if he did it for his beliefs and for Allah’s sake then
he is a martyr and a hero,” El-Saadi said.
Grimhøj Mosque has long been accused of promoting an extremist interpretation of Islam. In July,
a video emerged of Abu Bilal Ismail, an imam at the mosque, calling on God to “destroy the Zionist Jews”.
In the DR programme, the mosque leaders denied that its members were radicalized.
A clip from the documentary, in which Middle East expert Naser Khader
confronts the leadership of Grimhøj Mosque, can be seen below.
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