About Abdul-Hadi Palazzi ...

Those of you who visit my website often will have noticed a link to an article about "Shaikh" Abdul-Hadi Palazzi, an impostor from Italy who is the leader, or one of the leaders, of the so-called "Cultural Institute of the Italian Islamic Community". Today I received an email from their webmaster telling me I should take the article down, that the article is published by a neo-Nazi named Guillermo Martinez-Ball and written under a false name, and that I should make tawbah (repent) for helping to circulate slander about a "Muslim" written by non-Muslims. I will not publish the email in full, but I feel compelled to point out that Abdul-Hadi Palazzi's opinions are at considerable variance with those of the Muslim community's, not in the theology proclaimed on his website, but in terms of his attitude to the state of Israel. Quite simply, no Muslim would take the positions he and his organisation take, and he is too knowledgeable to take these positions out of ignorance. (By the way, the email I received made no attempt to refute the accusations made in the article. Some of them are about plain facts, such as whether a university exists in Velletri where Palazzi claims a professorship.)