City council candidate doubles down on saying Holocaust was Israel's 'advance punishment'

A Michigan candidate for city council is doubling down on comments he made about Jews and the Holocaust as well as child marriage and homosexuality, the Detroit Metro Times reported.

Nasr Hussain, who is running for a seat on the Hamtramck City Council, made posts on Facebook where he said the Holocaust was “advance punishment” for Israel’s “savagery” against Palestinians in the wake of the Oct. 7 terror attacks by Hamas.

“A heinous act proving that they're as savage and cruel as the Nazis themselves who tormented them, or maybe even worse,” Hussain posted in a Facebook group.

He also defended child marriage.

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“She was betrothed at six, marriage consummated at nine after reaching puberty and giving her consent,” Hussain wrote in response to a news story about a child getting married to an adult man. “Women reach puberty between 8 and 12. If she was ok with it and her parents were ok with it why does it bother you.”

Speaking to the Metro Times, Hussain defended his comments about the Holocaust and Israelis, saying they were “a hypothetical and thought-generating question to make the Zionists think about what they’re doing to the innocent Palestinians hopefully making them think and ponder about the level of depravity they have reached.”

“It’s definitely not being taken seriously,” he says. “Imagine if what’s happening was happening to the Israeli civilians daily and thousands of them were killed collaterally, how much of an outcry would that generate!!”

He also said he believes homosexuality is destroying society and that child marriage would help prevent abortion.

Read the full story at the Detroit Metro Times.