Back in July, Kedar used an interview on Israeli radio to claim that the rape of female relatives is the "only thing" that could deter "terrorists". He added: "It sounds very bad, but that's the Middle East." After his remarks were publicised, Kedar said that his comments were "hyperbole."

No such justification, however, for comments Kedar made to Israeli news siteYnetin May 2013, when he claimed that without "an end to immigration, we will soon be hearing the death throes of the [European] continent as we know it."

Kedar decried what he called "a European softening" that "the Muslims see as a weakness", adding:

Every year more Muslims than non-Muslims are born in France. Japan has no Muslims because they don't allow them in. Racism? Maybe. Superiority? Maybe. They don't care. They want to sustain Japan and are looking down on everyone.

On Sunday, Kedar will speak alongside evangelical Christian and former adviser to the British army Patrick Sookhdeo, at a ZF-organised event called "Christians in Crisis: Violence & Persecution in the Middle East".

(copyright of this text goes to Middle East Monitor)

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