(Fox) A Michigan Islamic scholar posted a video on social media calling on Muslims in the West and U.S. to embrace jihad, continuing a trend that threatens to spread extremism in the United States.
“You have pretty radicalizing, extreme content happening,” Alberto Fernandez, vice president of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), told Fox News Digital. “This is stuff they uploaded on social media. It’s there for everybody to see.”
Fernandez’s comments come after MEMRI uploaded a video featuring Ahmad Musa Jibril, an Islamic scholar from Michigan who encouraged Muslims in America to celebrate and aspire to jihad.
“Yes, there is holy war in Islam. It is jihad,” Jibril says in the video, which was uploaded to X.
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