Last month, we had a post about the new Imam of the Islamic Center of Cleveland, who replaced deported jihadist Fawaz Damra: Meet the New Imam of the Islamic Center of Cleveland.

Today comes word that Imam Ahmed Alzaree has quit before he ever started—and guess who he’s blaming? Bloggers.

Imam Ahmed Alzaree announced Monday, three days before he was to start work as the spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of Cleveland, that he was resigning.

Alzaree said allegations by bloggers that he was anti-Semitic and was associated with individuals suspected of having terrorist ties so poisoned the atmosphere in Northeast Ohio that he and his wife, Marwa, decided to look elsewhere.

“Cleveland now is a nightmare for her,” Alzaree said. “It will never be a good start for me and the Jewish community.

He’s being persecuted, you see. By intolerant people who just can’t understand why he would say something like this when the Americans weren’t watching:

Dear brothers and sisters, the talk about the Day of Judgment is long and full of things that will confuse the human mind and put fear in the hearts of the faithful. Every day that comes is much more Worse than the day before it as we get closer to the hour. Among the signs of the approach of Day of Judgment is what the messenger of Allah PBUH said: “The hour of judgment shall not happen until the Muslims fight the Jews. The Muslims shall kill the Jews to the point that the Jew shall hide behind a big rock or a tree and the rock or tree shall call on the Muslim saying: hey, O Muslim there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him, except the Gharqad tree which will not say, for it is the tree of Jews.” Agreed upon. This is seemed to be very soon and close now. We ask Allah SWT not to test us so hardly if we live till this horrible moment insha’allah.

(Hat tip: rk260395.)

UPDATE at 10/29/07 1:15:27 pm:

Giving credit where it’s due, the bloggers who exposed Alzaree are Tom Blumer and Patrick Poole.