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Muhammad al-Qutb

Muhammad al-Qutb was the imam of the al-Madina mosque in Molenbeek, Brussels. While he claimed to promote interfaith dialogue with Jews, his mosque produced the perpetrators of eight terrorist attacks in Brussels and Paris from 2012 to 2016.

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Muhammad al-Qutb was born in Baghdad, Iraq, and he became imam of the al-Madina mosque in Brussels' Molenbeek neighborhood. While not affiliating himself with the Shi'ites, he had no problem accepting donations from Iran and Lebanon. Prior to 2016, most of the major terrorist attacks in Brussels came from his mosque, with a total of eight attacks in Brussels and Paris from 2012 to 2016. In 2023, he was arrested after Mossad and the Belgian police suspected that he may be involved in his congregant Omar Tawalbe's kidnapping of Gabi Ayub, but he was released due to the police's lack of proof. However, the Israeli Mista'arvim was given authority to operate independently, and they kidnapped him from his mosque and took him into the woods for interrogation. He said that one of his congregants, Ibrahim, was seeing a woman, Nassrin Awad, who worked at the pharmacy on La Mer Street; the Israelis then agreed to let him go home.

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