Sheikh Salah jailed for Jerusalem 'incitement'
JERUSALEM (AFP) -- An Israeli court on Tuesday sentenced firebrand Islamic preacher Sheikh Raed Salah to eight months in prison for inciting Muslims to violence over Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque.
Salah, leader of the radical northern wing of the Islamic Movement in Israel, was convicted in November of inciting "all Muslims and Arabs" in 2007 to "start an intifada (uprising) to support holy Jerusalem and the blessed Al-Aqsa mosque."
In addition to the eight-month sentence, Salah will serve a further eight months if he repeats the same felony within three years, according to a court document.
Salah, who was born in the predominantly Palestinian northern Israeli city Umm al-Fahm in 1958, is no stranger to run-ins with the authorities.
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