Brussels
(AFP) - Teaching manuals in Gulf Arab-financed mosques in Belgium promote
anti-semitic stereotypes of Jews and call for the persecution of homosexuals,
according to a leaked Belgian intelligence report.
The texts
used in mosques including the Brussels Grand Mosque call for gays to be stoned
to death or thrown off buildings and describe Jews as "evil", the
report by the OCAM national terrorism monitoring centre said.
The
writings, which are used to train preachers and theology professors, were
"inspired mainly by classical Islamic law from the Middle Ages," OCAM
said in a copy of the report obtained by AFP on Friday.
They have
"problematic content in terms of radicalism, xenophobia and
anti-Semitism," the OCAM report said.
Belgian
lawmakers say they will discuss the report next week.
The report
singled out Arabic-language religious training manuals in the Grand Mosque,
which is near EU headquarters in Brussels.
The Belgian
government said in March that it would terminate Saudi Arabia's half-century
old lease of the Grand Mosque over concerns it was promoting radicalism. It had
been run by the Muslim World League.
The manuals
call Jews a "corrupt, evil and treacherous people" and call for
"war" on all people who do not follow Sunni Islam.
They also
recommend "stoning" and "fire" as methods of killing gays,
along with throwing them off "the highest building in the village".
One manual
says "the most important principle of jihad is to fight unbelievers and
aggressors," according to the report. "Armed jihad becomes an
individual duty for every Muslim."
OCAM said
such manuals are widely available "thanks to the unlimited financial and
technological means of the proselytising apparatus of Saudi Arabia and other
Gulf states."
The
manuals, it added, were found not only in Belgium but also in neighbouring
countries, both in hard copy and online.
The report
comes from the work of the Belgian parliamentary committee investigating the
suicide bombings that killed 32 people at Brussels airport and a metro station
in March 2016, which were claimed by the Islamic State group.
OCAM
director Paul Van Tigchelt will next Wednesday discuss the report with
committee members behind closed doors, members of parliament told AFP.
"There
is an urgency to be firmer and much clearer and close this scholarly
institution," centrist opposition lawmaker Georges Dallemagne said,
referring to the Grand Mosque.
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