Miami – A local Muslim leader
in Miami, Florida, has been exposed for posting virulently antisemitic
material online, including Holocaust-denial and support for the KKK.
Sofian
Abdelaziz Zakkout, the Director of the Miami, Florida-based American
Muslim Association of North America (AMANA), posted his rantings on his
Facebook page, which were then picked up by Frontpage Magazine.
In one post last February, Zakkout posted an article from the
White Supremacist Realist Report website entitled “How the Holocaust
was faked,” which begins: “The alleged ‘Holocaust’ of ‘6 million
Jews’ at the hands of Adolf Hitler and National Socialist Germany during WWII
is the biggest lie ever foisted upon humanity.”
As is common with most Holocaust denial sites, the same website
has in the past celebrated Adolf Hitler as “the greatest leader in modern
Western history, and offer unparalleled inspiration and guidance to us
all,” while simultaneously claiming the Holocaust never happened.
Later in February Zakkout took to Facebook to praise notorious
antisemitic polemicist and former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke, hailing him as
“David Duke, a man to believe in!”
More recent posts seen by Arutz Sheva have also included anti-Jewish
conspiracy theories, including that Jews were behind the 9/11 attacks.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Zakkout has also repeatedly voiced praise
and support for Hamas, celebrating Hamas leaders as heroes and posting pictures
of armed Hamas terrorists to his Facebook page.
He has previously arranged anti-Israel demonstrations during which
protesters chanted “we are all Hamas!”
According to Frontpage Magazine, in August
2015 he posted an Arabic Facebook status reading: “Hamas is in my heart
and on my head.”
Later, in December, he described Israel’s
Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot as “a Jew, the grandson of a monkey and a
pig.”
His hatred isn’t purely reserved for Jews
either. In February of that same year he called to murder ex-Muslims, writing:
“It is an obligation to kill those who left our religion. It is an
obligation to kill those who fight our religion and to intimidate our enemies
and the enemies of the religion. Everything is from the Quran, not from
me.”
Despite his extremist position, Zakkout – who
is an immigrant to the United States from Gaza – is a member of the boards of
Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers and Miami-Dade Citizens’ Crime Watch.
