Media Outlet Affiliated With Radical Dearborn Preacher Calls on Muslims to Celebrate and Repeat Charlie Kirk’s Assassination

A media shop affiliated with a radical preacher in Dearborn, Mich., recently published a 39-minute video celebrating Charlie Kirk’s assassination as a “praiseworthy action” that Muslims across the United States should celebrate and repeat. The call to violence has raised red flags with Trump administration officials as they seek to deport foreign terrorist sympathizers and combat radicalism across the nation.

“The Fate of Charlie Kirk: The Insulter of the Messenger [Prophet Muhammad] and His Ruling According to Islam” was published on Oct. 10 by the English-language media outlet Project Guiding Light, a radical content mill affiliated with “pro-Islamic State” preacher Ahmad Musa Jibril, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

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Jibril—who “served six and a half years in prison for conspiracy, fraud, money laundering, and possession of firearms and ammunition”—has fomented radicalism for the better part of a decade, according to MEMRI. Born in Michigan, Jibril has established himself as the “most popular cleric amongst Western jihadis,” influencing “ISIS supporters and militants” as far as Africa, as detailed in research materials MEMRI provided to the Washington Free Beacon.

Project Guiding Light’s video—which MEMRI says is “conveying Jibril’s views”—opens with a montage of Muslims in the United States condemning Kirk’s alleged assassin, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson. It then goes on to dub these moderate Muslims “clowns” and “sellouts.”

“To see these clowns rush to condemn such an act in the name of Islam that had nothing to do with Islam or the Muslims to begin with begs a question: What is their motive for such a swift and unsolicited condemnation? Who are they trying to appease?” a narrator asks before saying that “Muslims should be rejoicing and thanking Allah” for Kirk’s death.

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“Whoever insults the Prophet or disparages him, whether Muslim or disbeliever, then he is to be killed,” the narrator states. “What greater enemy to the Sharia [Islamic law] is there than someone who insults the Messenger and by extension Allah?”

The narrator says the Quran endorses vigilante justice before asking, “How can you clowns then condemn an action the Prophet praised?”

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