USA: Islamic Website Instructs Muslims To Target Jewish Groups

An Islamic website has posted videos identifying Jewish organisations in the U.S. - and instructed viewers to 'give the Islamic message' to American Jews.

A U.S. Islamic website has posted videos of the New York headquarters of Chabad, a Jewish outreach movement. This comes just eight weeks after a Chabad Rabbi and his wife were tortured to death in Mumbai, India - in front of their son. The website instructs viewers to 'give the Islamic message' to Chabad, along with Yeshiva University, a Manhattan Jewish college, and several other Jewish groups across the U.S. Security outside Chabad in New York has been tightened as a result of this new terrorist threat. One video shows an image of a blood-stained Jewish prayer book. It was taken from a Jerusalem seminary where terrorists shot dead eight Jews, last March. The clip ends with the sound of gunshots. Asked whether the video montage was implying Chabad's headquarters should be targeted by Islamic violence,Yousef Al-Khattab, the website owner, stated: "It is what it is." And when asked to explain the intended meaning of the blood-soaked prayer book interspersed with images of Chabad's headquarters, Khattab replied, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." He told WND he supports Hamas' suicide bombings against Israelis, including attacks targeting cafes, restaurants and nightclubs. "There is no such thing as Israeli civilian," he said. "I pray to Allah for the complete destruction of Israel." Chabad spokesman Motti Seligson said that all threats are being taken seriously: 'Safety is of paramount concern.' NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelley called Chanina Sperlin, vice president of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council, to assure him the police were looking into the situation and were taking any threats seriously. Khattab said he was questioned by NYPD investigators. U.S. terrorism expert Steve Emerson said videos like those posted on RevolutionMuslim.com should be taken seriously. "Any site that advocates violence or provides incitement to violence has to be taken seriously," he told WND. Realizing his statement may attract the attention of U.S. law enforcement agencies, Khattab delivered a direct message to the NYPD, CIA and FBI: "You can put me in jail for the rest of my life. As long as I got that information out there for people, I did something. I didn't sit on my behind." Khattab also lashed out against any website that may pick up on his statement. "It just attracts Drudge, the JAWA report, Atlas Shrugs (blog), and Robert Spencer (Jihad Watch blog) and just other whining little queers and stuff like that." Khattab says his main goal is to establish worldwide Islamic dominance. He runs the site from his home in Queens, N.Y.. Faisal, the website's spiritual adviser, was convicted in the UK in 2003 for urging his followers to kill Jews, Hindus and Westerners. In videotaped recordings, Faisal was taped delivering sermons calling on Muslims to use chemical weapons to "exterminate unbelievers" and "cut the throat of the Kaffars (nonbelievers) with (a) machete." FoxNews.com previously reported Faisal's sermons may have influenced "shoe bomber" Richard Reid, who attended mosques where Faisal preached.