Screen shot of Muhammad Al-Saghir giving hate speech in Gaza. Photo: MEMRITV.org.

Egyptian Shura Council member Sheik Muhammad Al-Saghir visited Gaza earlier this month to give a public address. Al-Aqsa TV was there, and caught the Egyptian politician inciting his audience to hatred and violence against Jews. “Take [my] heart, which has become as hard as steel, and use it to stone all the Jews,” he begins before adding, “Turn it into a fuse or a slingshot for a child, because this land constantly begets boys as proud as [Khaled] Ibn Al-Walid.” Ibn Al-Walid was a 6th century military commander and compatriot of the prophet Muhammed.

Following the speech Al-Saghir is joined onstage by Hamas’s leader in the Gaza Strip, Ismail Haniyeh.

The full transcript of Al-Saghir’s remarks are posted below (provided by MEMRI TV):

Muhammad Al-Saghir: Take [my] heart, which has become as hard as steel, and use it to stone all the Jews. Take it and use it to stone all the Jews. Take my eyes. Perhaps a handsome boy who has become blind can use them to see again. Take my skin. Turn it into a fuse or a slingshot for a child, because this land constantly begets boys as proud as [Khaled] Ibn Al-Walid.

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Dear brothers, the Jama’a Islamiyya and the Building and Development Party, with its leader, the Jihadi scholar who is imprisoned unjustly in the U.S., Dr. Omar Abd Al-Rahman…

Applause

America is the patron of Israel the foundling. It is America that plunged a poisonous dagger of hatred into the heart of the Arab and Islamic nation. America holds the remote control, and commands the movements of its apes, its pigs, and its juvenile thugs on the frontier land of glory. America… Let us never forget that when you see a moving puppet, do not pay attention to the puppet itself. Always look for the filthy hands that command this puppet.

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I represent the [Egyptian] people as a preacher in Al-Azhar and as a member of parliament. All the people who wrote posts on [my social media] page asked for the same thing: “Oh sheik, Jerusalem is in our hearts, and Palestine is the apple of our eye. If we are not allowed to visit [Palestine], we will meet them with the beating of the drums of Jihad.” They asked me to kiss the heads of the mothers and fathers of the martyrs, and if I cannot, they asked me to kiss, on behalf of the Egyptian people, the head of the symbol of resistance, Ismail Haniya. So that’s what I will do.

Al-Saghhir walks over to Haniya blesses him and kisses him on the forehead

To the applause and cheers of the crowd

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Watch a video of Al-Saghir below: