By Debbie Schlussel

WTF?! The imam of the second largest mosque in America is comparing Martin Luther King, Jr. to Iranian ayatollah Ali Sistani and former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami. He called these Hezbollah founders and financiers and human rights abusers “the Martin Luther King [sic] of our time.”

The Islamo-pandering fools and idiots in the Detroit and national media have taken to portraying imam Mohammed Ali Elahi, cleric of the second largest mosque in America, the Islamic House of Wisdom, as a “moderate” and “man of peace” in discussing ISIS. But, as I’ve noted repeatedly on this site, Elahi was tight with ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who chose Elahi as spiritual leader of the Iranian Navy. And Elahi is a proud open supporter of Hezbollah and HAMAS. He was tight with sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the late spiritual leader of Hezbollah who issued the fatwa to blow up the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, murdering over 300 Americans in cold blood.

Elahi wrote columns in The Detroit Newsistan proudly praising the mass murder of Jews in various terrorist acts, and many members of his own mosque have been arrested and/or indicted by the FBI for Hezbollah terrorism, terrorism-related crimes, and immigration fraud. The youth leader of his mosque is in prison for murdering a Detroit-area Christian Arab who dared become engaged to a Muslim woman. Members of Elahi’s mosque sent me death, rape, and torture threats. But Elahi stands by all of these dangerous criminals and their acts of hate and refuses to condemn any of them. He also accosted me in federal court and Federal Marshals had to block him. That was after he sent me e-mails demanding I remove what I wrote about him, all of it true and documented. It’s well known to the feds that the guy is an agent of Iran and Hezbollah (even though he apparently committed immigration fraud and never declared those facts on his immigration application). “Man of peace,” indeed.

Now, Elahi is telling the world that the extremist, hate-filled, Holocaust-denying, Islamic leaders of Iran are “the Martin Luther King [sic] of our time.” That’s funny, given that Martin Luther King, Jr. was a proud, pro-Israel Christian minister who proclaimed that those who are anti-Israel are Jew-haters. The Iranian government and its ayatollahs don’t even pretend to hide behind the “we don’t hate Jews, just Israel” mantra. They admit they hate Jews. I highly doubt MLK would like being compared to Iranian leaders who finance HAMAS and Hezbollah mass murder. I definitely know he wouldn’t appreciate being compared to Iranian leaders who’ve executed countless Iranians for the sole crime of practicing Christianity and hanged Muslim Iranians for speaking out against Iran’s oppressive regime. That’s the exact opposite of what the march on Selma and MLK’s whole movement was about: civil rights for all humanity.

Elahi, in his online newsletter, proclaimed, “People like Ayatollah Sistani and former Iraninan President, Khatami are the Martin Luther King examples of our time. Reminding that President Rouhani brought an anti-violence and anti-terrorism push to the UN.” Hilarious. The very Iranian leaders who are executing Christians and financing HAMAS and Hezbollah mass murder stand for “anti-violence” and “anti-terrorism.” Uh-huh. Sure they do. And Elahi is on the warpath over the latest Charlie Hebdo Mohammed cartoons and says they should be outlawed. He also won’t condemn violence over the cartoons, just the ISIS and Al-Qaeda terrorists because they are Sunnis, not Shi’ites. Yup, sounds very Martin Luther King-esque to me.

Not that it’s news that Muslims like hijackings. They like to hijack planes AND they like to hijack the names of others whom they actually detest, like King and other Blacks. Elahi’s congregants refer to Blacks as “abed” and “abeed,” singular and plural for slave/slaves. But the words are the Arabic and Muslim equivalent of the N-word.

CNN’s clueless Carol Costello had this extremist and terrorism supporter, Elahi, on last week, to condemn ISIS, which he’s also done on Detroit’s FOX News-run affiliate to the gushing of its ignorant boob of an anchor, Huel Perkins. Perkins and fellow ignoramus, Detroit Newsistan cartoonist Henry Payne, declared the extremist Elahi, a “moderate” because he condemned ISIS. But here’s a tip, you idiots”: Elahi is a Shi’ite cleric, and ISIS is a Sunni operation which murders Shi’ites, so of course he will condemn ISIS. But he won’t condemn Hezbollah or HAMAS. So, he’s a moderate how? I’m not surprised that the twins of vapidity, Perkins and Payne, would gush over this guy as they also both have shameless mancrushes on convicted criminal and open Jew-hater, CAIR-Michigan leader Delano Anthony Willis, Jr. a/k/a Dawud Walid. Ditto for Michigan Tea Party hack Andre Andrew “Rocky” Raczkowski (about whom I’ve written here before), who also drooled over imam Elahi and praised him as a “moderate.” What is Carol Costello’s excuse . . . other than being employed by the Crescent (or is that, Coran) News Network?

So, instead of celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day today, maybe you should celebrate the “Martin Luther King [sic] of our time,” Iranian ayatollahs and mullahs.

Free at last? Not if you’re under their rule.