Only two days after Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s vehicular jihad carnage in New Orleans, New Year’s day, killing 14, and injuring at least 30, the Arabic supplication at the end of last Friday’s 1/3/25 khutbah (see Qur’an 62:9) or “sermon,” at the Islamic Center of Rhode Island (ICRI) in Providence, included this statement:  “O Allah, FIGHT the disbelievers and the polytheists who fight against Your saints, and hinder You from Your path, and defame Your messengers.”

Mufti Ikram ul-Haq is the most prominent cleric at Rhode Island’s largest mosque, Masjid al-Islam, in North Smithfield.  Less than 2-weeks after Hamas unilaterally broke a ceasefire, and in a coordinated jihad terror attack slaughtered (including raping, and mutilating) some 1200 overwhelmingly (70-90%) non-combatant Israelis, and took hundreds of others hostage, the good Mufti ul-Haq ignored these events, and posted this libelous diatribe on Facebook:  “May Allah crush the hands of oppressors, killers and murderers who have killed thousands of children, women and men in Gaza. How sad and pathetic is the state of hypocrisy of world leaders who are unwilling/incabale [sic] to exert their power to stop the massacre and genocide unfolding for the last 10 days. Human blood is very sacred in the sight of Allah and He is certainly watching all the actions. ‘Do not ever think that Allah is unaware of what the oppressors are doing’.”

This dangerous messaging is posted on social media for all Islamists to be inspired by. 

This sermon and posting is most likely not the only message of hate against unbelievers, non-Muslims, Jews and infidels spewed out at this mosque or by this cleric.

Advocating such hate is a clear warning sign that hostility may follow.

Please put the Islamic Center of Rhode Island in Providence and cleric Mufti Ikram ul-Haq on the highest level of terror watch.