State Prosecutor orders police to investigate Salah for sedition
Islamic Movement leader also to be investigated for incitement for calling for 'intifada' to save Al-Aqsa Mosque.
By Jonathan Lis, Yoav Stern and Yuval YoazState Prosecutor Eran Shendar told police Thursday to open a criminal investigation into Sheikh Ra'ad Salah, head of the Islamic Movement northern branch, for incitement to violence, incitement to racism and sedition.
Salah called last Friday for an "intifada" to protect the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Meanwhile, Public Security Minister Avi Dichter asked Attorney General Menachem Mazuz to investigate whether Salah's comments constitute incitement and sedition. Mazuz then asked Shendar to determine whether there were grounds for an investigation.
In a fiery speech at his protest tent in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Wadi Joz, Salah accused Israel of attempting to build the Temple on the Temple Mount while drenched in Arab blood.
"Israeli history is drenched in blood," Salah said. "They want to build their Temple while our blood is on their clothing, on their doorposts, in their food and in their water."
Police Commissioner Moshe Karadi said Thursday that police will investigate Salah's comments, and should they be found to be seditious in nature, steps will be taken against him. Police are also weighing whether to ask for a court order prohibiting Salah from entering Jerusalem altogether.
Also Thursday, Salah dismissed a court ruling to extend by another month the order to keep him 150 meters away from the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem because he is accused of organizing demonstrations against Israeli renovations near the Temple Mount, spitting at police officers and calling them murderers, occupiers and cowards.
"They have no right to make decisions on anything connected to the Al-Aqsa Mosque," he said. "I emphasize that I will enter the mosque at any time I think is right."
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Islamic Movement leader Ra'ad Salah taking part in a protest outside Jerusalem's Old City on Wednesday. (Reuters) |
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I agree that he should be jailed. But won't that also make him into a sort of "martyr" anyway? How about forcing him listen to a really boring Israeli judge (and maybe some Tzvika Pik records) for half a day or so, and then deporting him, instead?
"Is the one who expects other people-- preferably, young men without full cranial development-- to do your dirty death fight for you." Hey Tex, that's no way to talk about you fellow Texan - George W. Bush. Please show your president some respect!
He just falls in line with all the other angry musilems. Would'nt it be great for a man of such influence to only preach peace and not ask of young men and women to risk their lives for what would amount to nothing
I wouldn't want to see him in jail and made a hero. Israel must pass a law that allows the government to revoke citizenship and expel anyone found guilty of treason, sedition, and/or inciting violence. Knowing he could never step foot in Israel and Jerusalem would be a much worse punishment than jail. Kick out all traitors - enemies from within are an existential threat to Israel.
He wants Jerusalem to be the capital of the Islamic nation, as he told a crowd in September last year.
I would like to know if the Islamic movement is legal in Israel. If this group is not legal, isn?t it a crime to be a member of it? If the group is not illegal, I wonder why not.
Salah is actino against Israel. You should not let him get away with it.
Dear Vittorio SEDITION, should indeed result in imprisonment. SEDUCTION, can result in impassionment.
Brilliant idea! Poetica Stercus est!
Is the one who expects other people-- preferably, young men without full cranial development-- to do your dirty death fight for you.
Good this country is not a Roman province anymore, otherwise Selah would be hanging in a cross now for sedition...
"They have no right to make decisions on anything connected to the Al-Aqsa Mosque," he said. "I emphasize that I will enter the mosque at any time I think is right." Do you have diplomatic immunity? are you above the law? Be quite and crawl to the hole where you came form young satan!
Look at the mayhem he caused.
Deport this evil bastard to Saudia Arabia or another moslem country, so he can spew his venom against Jews with the rest of his faniatic brothers.
Seduction should result in imprisonment.
Seduction should result in imprisonment.