Imam of mosque attended by Bourbon Street terrorist said Hitler killed Jews over the economy

The imam of the Houston mosque that the butcher of Bourbon Street in New Orleans Shamsud Din Jabbar reportedly attended, had sermons filled with antisemitic tropes, including claiming that Jews seek to control the economy wherever they go and that’s why Hitler killed them. He also claimed Europeans support Israel because they don't want Jews back in their countries.

Eiad Soudan is the imam at the Islamic Center of Greater Houston (ICHG) – Masjid Bilal, where reportedly New Orleans attack Shamsud Din Jabbar was a member. Soudan, according to The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), during a November 17, 2023 youth committee program at the center, while discussing the history of Palestine, said that the Jews, whom he referred to as the “Israelites,” seek to take control of the economy wherever they go, and this is the reason that Hitler, whom he said had a “nice moustache,” killed them.

Soudan said in the video, that was uploaded to YouTube on November 25, 2023: "Imagine, in Europe, what was happening to the Israelites there? As we said, [Jews were] killed, destroyed, persecuted, the question is why? Why were they treated this way? And why does the whole world today support them? Why does the whole world want them to stay in Palestine?”

Soudan claimed that Hitler had not only killed Jews, but also thousands of Muslims. “Those who say that only the Israelites paid the price [in WWII] – everybody paid the price, they say thousands of Muslims were killed."

The imam alleged that Europeans only support Israel due to fear that Jews will return to their countries. He added a verse from the Quran according to which the Israelites seek to spread corruption. “Because if they don’t stay in Palestine, they will go back to their countries, and those people, unfortunately, have one problem – well, they have many problems, but that’s one of the main problems – they like to take control of the economy. Everywhere they go, whatever is the rule, as long as they get to the goal, the means don't matter. Interest, usuary is prohibited for them.”

"Still they use it to get control of the economy. That is why the other countries don't want them back. So when they support them, they are not supporting them because they love them. It’s like: 'Please stay there, we’ll do whatever [it takes], stay there, don’t come back.'”

Soudan added, "Allah told that in the Quran: 'And they (Jews) spread corruption across the land, and Allah does not like corrupters.' They seek corruption in the land."

The mosque has been linked to Jabbar, who had an ISIS flag with him in the rented Ford F-150 Lightning EV truck he used in a ramming attack. Once he crashed the vehicle, he got out and opened fire, killing 15 and injuring dozens more. The mosque is located only blocks away from what the New York Post described as “a squalid trailer park on the outskirts of Houston that is home to mostly Muslim immigrants” where Jabbar lived and allowed geese, chickens, and sheep to roam freely in his yard.

Following Jabbar’s attack on New Year’s that killed 15 people and injured dozens more in a terror attack on New Orlean’s Bourbon St., the mosque told its members to refer any questions from law enforcement or media to the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) a non-profit group that has been linked to terrorism, specifically Hamas.

A September 2013 Justice Department Office of Inspector General’s report singled out CAIR from evidence obtained during the 2008 federal case against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development—the largest terror trial in US history—that linked the non-profit’s leaders “to Hamas, a specially designated terrorist organization." During the trial, "CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the case," and was revealed to have funneled millions of dollars to Hamas.