Salafi Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir condemned on Thursday the release of an amateur anti-Islam film that insulted Prophet Mohammed and sparked angry protests in number of Arab countries.The English translation edited out his statement that "Jews" made the film "from the intensity of their anger and hatred against Islam and Muslims."
Assir, who was speaking during a sit-in held outside Bilal bin Rabah Mosque in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, said that the film and other previous anti-Islam actions “do not represent Christians, but are the work of the bitter Zionists who are seeking to sow strife between Muslims and Christians,” according to a press statement.
He also called on the United Nations to take a “unified stance” against “this insult.”
“We will not allow anyone, neither the Zionists nor the Syrian regime to [create] schism between us and Christians especially in this country.”
Then again, an Arab member of Knesset said the same thing:
"Zionist elements" are to blame for increasing hatred and fear of Islam, MK Taleb a-Sanaa (UAL-Ta'al) said on Thursday, in reaction to rioting over the anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims.
"This is an abomination and a desecration of God's name," a-Sanaa stated. "Whoever made this is playing with fire."
He added that "Zionist elements" are trying increase Islamophobia "out of political considerations."