An Israeli court on Tuesday sentenced firebrand Islamic preacher Sheikh Raed Salah to eight months in prison for inciting Muslims to violence over Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque. Salah, leader of the radical **rthern wing of the Islamic Movement in Israel, was convicted in **vember of inciting "all Muslims and Arabs" in 2007 to "start an intifada (uprising) to support holy Jerusalem and the blessed Al-Aqsa mosque." In addition to the eight-month sentence, Salah will serve a further eight months if he repeats the same felony within three years, according to a court document. In 2011, he was arrested at the Allenby border crossing between the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Jordan after allegedly striking a member of the security forces who wanted to question his wife. The previous year, he spent five months behind bars for spitting at an Israeli policeman.
03-25-2014, 01:07 AM
Arab-Israeli Islamist jailed for Jerusalem 'incitement'
An Israeli court on Tuesday sentenced firebrand Islamic preacher Sheikh Raed Salah to eight months in prison for inciting Muslims to violence over Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque. Salah, leader of the radical **rthern wing of the Islamic Movement in Israel, was convicted in **vember of inciting "all Muslims and Arabs" in 2007 to "start an intifada (uprising) to support holy Jerusalem and the blessed Al-Aqsa mosque." In addition to the eight-month sentence, Salah will serve a further eight months if he repeats the same felony within three years, according to a court document. In 2011, he was arrested at the Allenby border crossing between the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Jordan after allegedly striking a member of the security forces who wanted to question his wife. The previous year, he spent five months behind bars for spitting at an Israeli policeman.
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