Peloni: While Saudi Arabia does not recognize the state of Israel, it certainly wants Israel to recognize its anger with Israel. Beyond the report below, in recent days leading upto this sermon, the Saudis have threatened further distancing from Israel over its actions in Syria, and the rabbi of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Rabbi Jacob Herzog, has been barred from entering Saudi Arabia. These are not coincidences.
Janet Levy: Mecca is the pulpit that transmits messages to the entire Muslim world – global religious signaling. What’s broadcast at the Grand Mosque represents the ideology, politics, and policies of the Saudi rulers.
The mosque in Mecca is run by the Saudi state and its imams are state-appointed. It’s impossible for a sermon to be delivered there that goes against the positions of the Kingdom.
This was part of a December 13th sermon:
“Our children in our beloved and respected Palestine… stood with their stone sticks and bodies against the oppressive, brutal Zionist enemy with its varied, superior, deadly weapons…
Oh Allah, deal with the Jews who have seized and occupied, for they cannot escape Your power. Oh Allah, send upon them Your punishment and misery which is never repelled from the wrongdoing people.”
Ask yourself what the Abraham Accords REALLY mean? Smells like, walks like and talks like taqiyya.
The Grand Mosque of Mecca. Photo by Richard Mortel – Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia
From Islam’s holiest, state-controlled pulpit in Mecca, the sermon praised Palestinian violence and explicitly prayed for divine punishment and misery to be inflicted on Jews, presenting that message as legitimate religious guidance broadcast to the Muslim world.
The Grand Mosque in Mecca, Masjid al-Haram, occupies a unique and unrivaled position in Islam. It is the holiest site in the religion, the location of the Kaaba, and the direction of prayer for Muslims worldwide. While Islam lacks a centralized clerical authority comparable to the Vatican, no religious space carries greater symbolic weight, spiritual gravity, or global influence than the Grand Mosque of Mecca.
In mainstream Sunni Islam, according to widely cited hadith traditions, a prayer performed at Masjid al-Haram is considered worth 100,000 prayers performed elsewhere. In contrast, a prayer at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem is only a multiplier of 500.
Equally important is what cannot happen there.
Sermons delivered from the pulpit of the Grand Mosque do not represent private opinion, local sentiment, or rogue clerical interpretation. The mosque is administered by the Saudi state, its imams are state-appointed, and its religious messaging operates within strict institutional and political constraints. It is effectively impossible for a sermon delivered from Mecca to contradict the official religious or political positions of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. What is preached there reflects not only theology, but politics and policy.
This renders sermons from Mecca more than mere religious exhortation. They function as global religious signaling, heard and often rebroadcast, across the Muslim world with an authority no other pulpit can match.
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