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Exactly one hundred days after the October 7 massacre, Pakistani imam Muhammad Ansar Butt approached the podium in the hall of the Brussels Regional Parliament and chanted verses from the Qur’an’s 33rd chapter that celebrate the massacre and enslavement of Jews from Banu Quraza tribe after the Battle of the Trench in 627 CE. Imam Butt offered his apparent endorsement of the October 7 massacre at a January 13, 2024 gathering organized by “Friends of Brussels Association” which gave the imam an award for the “‘quality of his integration’ into Belgian society.” Such incitement is not unique. Imams preaching jihad, sharia, violence, and hatred towards non-Muslims have in recent years constituted an alarming problem throughout Western democracies, with little effective pushback. But excitement at the October 7 massacre appears to be driving pro-jihad Muslim clerics across the Western world to new heights of rhetorical fury. ~ @bulutuzay_