MARCH 1, 20167:55 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER

Denmark: Imam says adulterous women should be stoned to death, mosque openly supports the Islamic State

“There have been numerous unsuccessful political attempts to close Grimhøj Mosque down…” Why were they unsuccessful? It should have been shut down long ago. As for the support for stoning, however, Danish authorities should not be surprised. Did they really expect that Muslims in Europe would voluntarily discard the elements of Islam that contradict European values? It’s more likely that they had no idea what the elements of Islam actually were, and assumed them to be entirely benign; after all, only “Islamophobes” think otherwise.

There are renewed calls to shut down the controversial Grimhøj Mosque in Aarhus after a TV2 programme revealed that an imam has advocated stoning adulterers to death.

A hidden camera showed Abu Bilal Ismail, an imam at the mosque, teaching a class about what he says is the appropriate punishment for adultery.

“If a married or divorced women engages in fornication, and she is not a virgin, she should be stoned to death,” Ismail says in the video clip.

“If someone violates their marriage, either man or woman, they commit adultery and their blood is thus halal [acceptable under Muslim law, ed.] and they should be killed by stoning. If the woman is a virgin, the punishment is whipping,” he says.

The clip also shows the imam advocating an “eye for an eye” policy.

“If someone kills a Muslim, then they should be killed,” he says, before adding that anyone who abandons their religion should also be killed.

This is not the first time that inflammatory remarks by Ismail have been caught on camera. In July 2014, a video emerged of him calling on God to “destroy the Zionist Jews”.

The mosque itself is also not stranger to controversy. In September 2014, Grimhøj Mosque made international headlines after declaring its support for the terrorist group Isis. In January 2015, the mosques’s chairman, Oussama El-Saadi, doubled down on the comments in a DR documentary, saying “we want the Islamic State to come out on top. We want an Islamic state in the world.”

The mosque also has ties to the now-deceased Abdessamad Fateh, the first Danish citizen to ever be added to the United States’ terror list, and East Jutland Police believe that around two dozen foreign fighters who have left Denmark for Syria or Iraq have worshipped at the mosque.

There have been numerous unsuccessful political attempts to close Grimhøj Mosque down and following the new TV2 programme, politicians of all stripes once again came out swinging against the mosque.

“It is completely unheard of that there are people in Denmark preaching this sort of thing. It clearly does not belong here. He [Abu Bilal Ismail, ed.] doesn’t belong in Denmark either,” Integration Minister Inger Støjberg told Ritzau, adding that there are limits to what the government can do about the mosque….

Denmark: Imam says adulterous women should be stoned to death, mosque openly supports the Islamic State