Collage of two photos: Police, ATF, and FBI agents appear outside of a house where a fire took place on Mandeville Street that is connected to the mass casualty Bourbon Street terrorist attack in New Orleans on Jan. 2, 2025. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu/Getty Images) FBI photo shows deceased New Orleans attack suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar. (FBI/AFP/Getty Images
THE DAILY SIGNAL | Published January 4, 2025
Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, the man who drove a car into New Year’s Eve revelers on Bourbon Street after praising the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, had been a member of a Houston mosque where an imam claimed that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler massacred Jews because they controlled the economy.
Jabbar’s terrorist attack claimed the lives of 14 people, and he died in a shootout with police during the attack. His attack injured more than 30 people.
Masjid Bilal in Northern Houston, where Jabbar had been a member, sent a message to the community about the attack. The mosque urged the community, “It is crucial that we stay united at this time as we condemn these terrible acts.”
Yet the mosque faces more scrutiny in the attack’s aftermath. The Middle East Media Research Institute unearthed a video showing Imam Eiad Soudan discussing the Jews and Hitler on Nov. 17, 2023. MEMRI also released a video showing Imam Mohammed ElFarooqui discussing the Quranic story of the People of Saturday—a group of Jews who violated Allah’s command not to fish on Saturday, whom Allah turned into monkeys, pigs, and rats.
“Our initial review of sermons at the Texas mosque where Shamsud-Din Jabbar reportedly worshipped, the Islamic Center of Greater Houston (ICHG)-Masjid Bilal, shows some disturbing antisemitic tropes,” Steven Stalinsky, MEMRI’s executive director, told The Daily Signal.
“Since October 7, 2023, the MEMRI project on extremist mosques and Islamist organizations in the West has published 220 clips from 27 states,” Stalinsky added. “We have found dozens of examples of outright support for Hamas, Hizbullah, and Iran, and for designated Iranian terrorists—all of whom are anti-U.S. We have also found explicit support for jihad and martyrdom, and many sermons and lectures inciting to violence and jihad.”
Hitler Comments
“Imagine, in Europe, what was happening to the Israelites there?” Soudan asks at a youth committee program recorded on video. He asks why Jews were “destroyed, persecuted.”
He says Jews face antisemitism because “they like to take control of the economy.”
He cites the Quran, quoting, “‘And they spread corruption across the land, and Allah does not like corrupters.’ They seek corruption in the land.”
He goes on to claim of the Jews that “the whole world want[s] them to stay in Palestine” to keep them out of their own countries.
“In the First World War—Germany won or lost? Lost,” the imam adds. “Until this guy, Hitler, with the nice mustache, came to power, and we all know what he did.”
“By the way, Hitler hated the Israelites so bad because of the economy thing, they were in control of the economy, but not only that, they used to consider them a lower level of citizens,” Soudan says. “They used to believe that German blood is above every other blood. Hitler did not only kill many of the Israelites, by the way.”
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