ALLAH, YOU’VE REALLY CONFUSED ME ….. AM I AN APE OR A PIG?

Imam Mohamad Joban Of Redmond, WA: Allah Transformed Jews Into Despicable Apes And Pigs For Disobeying Him

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)
December 23, 2019

Indonesian-American Imam Mohamad Joban of Masjid Ar-Rahmah in Redmond, WA delivered a lecture focusing on a Quranic story of a town of Jews who were transformed into apes by Allah for having rebelled against Him by setting fishing nets on Friday, before the Sabbath, and collecting the fish on Sunday. He said that this story was never exposed because the Jews cover up bad stories about themselves and always pretend to be pious. Laughing, he told how the Jews who had been transformed into apes cried because they couldn't recognize one another as apes.

Then Imam Joban said that in another verse, the violators were transformed into pigs. He discussed the question whether the transformed Jews had offspring and said that there are two views about this. However, he mentioned two cases, from Egypt and Malaysia, where newborns looked like descendants of apes and pigs. Imam Joban and his congregation chanted from the Quran responsively: "When [the Jews] rebelled against the commands to refrain, [Allah] said to them, 'Be despicable apes'..." Imam Joban is a full-time Imam at Masjid Ar-Rahmah, which belongs to the Muslim Association of Puget Sound (MAPS). The lecture was uploaded to the MAPS Redmond YouTube channel on December 17, 2019.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Here is just one of the disparaging remarks Imam Joban made about Jews in his lecture:

“And then in Malaysia there was a baby born in the state of Johor, and he had a tail. Everybody was surprised. Then they tried to match the tail. (It was) not like that of a horse. Not like that of any animal … It was like that of a pig. Because Allah said in another verse: “apes.” Allah turned … Some of them became, what? A pig.”

So, Blessed Allah, which am I … a despicable ape or pig?