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Tennessee imam who called Jews and Christians “filthy” uses ban on Foley vid to argue for blasphemy laws

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Yasir Qadhi is an imam in Memphis, Tennessee. He is also Dean of Academic Affairs at the Al-Maghrib Institute. He is a hafiz — that is, he has memorized the entire Qur’an. He has an M.A. in the Islamic Creed and a B.A. in Islamic Sciences from Islamic University of Medina, as well as a master’s and a doctorate in Islamic Studies from Yale.

In the video above, he calls Jews and Christians “filthy” (in accord with Qur’an 9:28) and says: “The life and property of a mushrik [one who worships others besides Allah] holds no value in the state of jihad….which means if they don’t say la illaha illa Allah, their lives and property are halal” — that is, permitted to be taken by the Muslims.

Now he has taken to Facebook to argue that the Twitter ban on showing images of the beheading of James Foley shows that every society has restrictions on the freedom of speech, and that “the issue of the cartoons [of Muhammad] had nothing to do with ‘freedom of speech’, but rather with each society’s own views on what is acceptable and unacceptable to show.” That is indeed so, but the idea that anyone should be prohibited from showing cartoons of Muhammad is an attempt to force Sharia blasphemy laws on the West, and to create Islam and Muslims as a privileged class that cannot be criticized — which is exactly the situation in the Muslim societies that Qadhi is here comparing to the West.

That attempt has been remarkably successful due to the cowardice and pusillanimity of most Western authorities and the mainstream media (very few papers would publish the Muhammad cartoons, even when reporting about them). It constitutes a victory for Sharia and a defeat for the very idea of a free society.

Yasir Qadhi
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Twitter recently announced that they would delete any tweets that showed images of the execution of the American journalist James Foley, and ban the account of the user who posted such images. Facebook as well announced a strict policy in this regard. This was done to respect the memory of the deceased and honor his family’s request.

Now, I actually sympathize with this type of censoring, mainly because I don’t feel that such gruesome images should become commonplace and be seen by millions of men, women and children (and I mean ALL gruesome images, not just of this journalist).

However, what was interesting was the fact that this news wasn’t given that much national attention, nor was there any outcry regarding ‘censorship’ or ‘freedom of speech’ or ‘infringing on rights’. In fact, quite the opposite: most people who commented were supportive. People in the Western world, by and large, are sympathetic to such a ban, and appreciate the respect that Twitter and FB are showing to the families of the bereaved.

This proves my point that I made in a lecture many years ago, when the controversy over the blasphemous images of the Prophet (SAW) erupted. I claimed back then that the issue of the cartoons had nothing to do with ‘freedom of speech’, but rather with each society’s own views on what is acceptable and unacceptable to show.

Each society has a self-imposed and ever-changing red-line of taboos that it will not cross, in speech or in images. For this society, respect should be shown to the deceased’s family; for us Muslims, an infinitely more amount of respect should be shown to our religious symbols and especially to our Prophet (SAW).

Here’s the link to the lecture…eight years ago!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSyDliiGI1I

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  1. Following this clown’s line of reasoning to its logical conclusion, most of Al Qur’an should be banned for its misogyny, racist Jew-hatred and command that Muslims should steal from and kill non-Muslims.

    But I bet this clown, Yasir Qadhi, can’t see that. And why doesn’t he memorize the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights? It’d be a darn sight more useful.

    • and what is a BA in “islamic sciences”? An obvious OXYMORON as islam and science are mutually exclusive terms!
      Is it a scientific double blind study of the health benefits a drinking camels urine?

  2. Quite deceitful of this overeducated bastard to engage in legal and moral relativism in order to support the grotesque absolutism that Islam is steeped in.

    • overeducated? overeducated! Where is this guy “educated”, let alone too educated? Because he can presumably read and write? I would call him trained at most. Like a dog is trained.

      • Master’s and Doctorate at Yale; B.A. and M.A. from Islamic University of Medina. Spencer’s introduction is in a way more important than the main story, for it’s one more piece of evidence (among thousands we have by now) that mainstream ordinary Islam is not only fanatical and extremist, but poses a clear and present danger to our society.

        • I keep hoping to find some evidence that these people are simply misunderstanding Islam somehow, but the harder I look, the more obvious it becomes that they (the ones calling for killing non-Muslims, taking our stuff, etc) are the ones who understand Islam the best.

          No wonder I can’t sleep at night.
          — — —

          I gave up hoping that by 2004. I had become used to my new disturbing reality and then Abu Bakr al Baghdadi had to go on a genocidal rampage with his new caliphate. Almost all the western analysts totally misunderstood the importance of his claim to be caliph, the sectarian divisions of his neighborhood, and its prospects for success as a result.

          I am not sure why that surprised me. Anyway, see you at 3 AM.

        • Zaaphod,

          “and still believes that anything belonging to someone who is not a Muslim is fair game for Muslims to take ”

          Not only property: our property and lives.

        • BA in Lies, MA in Deceit, Doctorate in BS

          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

          Spot on …

          BTW, I feel like I’ve earned a Doctorate in the Truth about islam and company from Jihad Watch …which happens to be the *Ugly Truth* about this evil so-called “religion of peace”. Uh, no it isn’t!

        • Guess what? I just found out that the Panty Bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutalla, who tried to blow up a jet plane in the skies over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009, was a student of his:

          …on Christmas Day 2009, a young Nigerian tried to blow up a jet headed for Detroit with a bomb sewn into his underwear. The suspect had been a student of Qadhi’s at the AlMaghrib Institute, which teaches Salafi theology in 21 American cities.

          http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/magazine/mag-20Salafis-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

          The only actual criticism Qadhi has of the plot is—tellingly—that there were Muslims on the plane.

          Not surprisingly, the NYT journalist does not appear to notice—in fact, she seems to be disturbingly sympathetic to the idea that Qadhi can’t—for some reason—really condemn Islamic savagery out of hand.

          Qadhi, actually, has had other Jihadists as students, as well.

          He says “the root cause of this terrorism is terrorism perpetrated at the state level”—this, *referring to the United States*. In other words, the cause of Jihad is any resistance to it—talk about circular “reasoning”.

          The only basis on which he urged his students to be careful about waging violent Jihad is because of the repercussions it might have *for them*—the health and safety of American or other Infidels not being a consideration.

          Then, ludicrously, Qadhi dismisses the *Tea Party* as violent and trying to overthrow the government.

          But then he goes on to describe democracy as Kufr. And yes—he does want to see America under Islamic law.

          He’s also—no surprise—a Holocaust denier. Ludicrously, he describes Most Islamic Studies professors as “Jews” who “want to destroy us”—in other words, that even these Jihad sympathizers are *not Islamic enough*.

          Along those same lines, he describes Sufis and Shia as “heretics”.

          It would also be instructive to know whether Qadhi considers the new Caliphate to be legitimate—since one of the few reasons he has given in the past that violent Jihad cannot be ordered is because there is no Caliph.

          Despite the disgustingly sympathetic and at times laudatory nature of this article, it is well worth reading.

      • This SOB, RichardI, is quite well educated, as both Robert Spencer and voegelinian have noted. He has a doctorate from Yale in Islamic Studies. Joseph Goebbels also had a PhD. What this proves (and one could find thousands upon thousands of more examples) is that no amount of education can thwart moral idiocy and letting the built-in crap detector we are all born with from getting terribly rusty because of improper maintenance. I might add that virtually all of the 19 Arab Muslim monsters who perpetrated 9/11 were also well educated.

        • we are NOT the same as the Barbarian Islamists and do not advocate killing! I want to stop the politically correct govt BS that ‘s hiding from the public the TRUTH about the truly evil and venomous islam and publically proclaim from the house tops of the world, how vile and wicked is sharia law !
          Islam must be ridiculed and parodied until the world understands the danger posed by it!

        • John Spielman: If you are responding to me you go on and proclaim, ridicule, and parody!

          I have killed and I will kill. My son and daughter will kill.

          I will slaughter the enemies of the U.S.C. until my sons and daughters are not threatened by totalitarianism.

          I will cut throats until my last breath if that’s what it takes to preserve freedom for my sons and daughters.

    • TO MARKEN:

      Spell it out, Brother… doctorate in BULLSHIT.

      The Infidel Savage waits for the PCMC sad-sack to stop bullshitting and playing fucking Golf long enough that he may fulfill his mission of ensuring the mission is completed.

      Infidel women of the ME are threatened enough yet, but the Western women don’t understand yet, the infidel women of Syria & Iraq will ask Akua for the Infidel Savage to defend against the men who will wrap them in the black tent, rape their daughters and bury their sons alive.

      The Muslim is sympathetic to this oppression, and only the Infidel Savage is ready to defend women who wish to keep their clitoris and paint their face.

      Western women are to enamored by their bullshit to put themselves into the moccasins of the sex slaves of the Levant’s position, if only in their imagination.

      The sprinter that waits for the whistle…

      It’s like that..

      The mountain men of America cut the throat of a jihadist as easily as they cut the throat of a deer.

      But the men of leadership don’t arise because their dicks are limp.

      Limp & flaccid cocks. So much bluster, and no swollenness, no firmness of muscle and mind and COCK.

      It’s for the men in the hole, in the trench, the raw and improper: Our sons will pull the West thru. Anyone with any grasp of history knows this.

      Just now , TRUE STORY:

      *A young girl named Emma just came to my door selling donuts for her cheerleading uniform.*

      I made her do 10 Pull-ups to get the money… I don’t need fucking doughnuts.

      I need to know she has the strength to mother the NEXT GENERATION OF PROTECTORS OF THE CONSTITUTION. The next generation of American Badasses.

      Pull EMMA, Pull WILLIAM!!! HOLD FAST!!!!!!!!!!!!

      The few that can understand this: OO-RAH..

      The rest: Die… you’re no use whatsoever.

      For the record, I’m MacUalraig, and I’m ready to behead jihadists in America, overseas, wherever.

      Out savage the savage! Preserve liberty! Say to yourself: I AM MY OWN MAN, I WILL NOT BE A SLAVE!!

      • Emma and William, going door to door in America looking to sell doughnuts, coming across a combat vet who gives them money for pull-ups instead.

        10 Year Old Emma did 10 legitimate Pull-Ups. American men & women, I want 10 pull-ups before you put ANYTHING in your cake hole. Understand? 10 squared away pull-ups, none of that Cross-Fit kipping BULLSHIT.

        Is there not hope for America? Everyone needs to start grabbing their balls and breathing deep and feeling the chi.

        PROTECT THIS HOUSE!! ::

        Semper Fortis
        Semper Fidelis
        Semper Paratus

        DTOM & MOLON LABE.

      • I’m not sure whether Robert Spencer can do ten pull-ups or not. Not sure about Dr. Daniel Pipes, either. Mark Steyn? Maybe—although probably not all at once. How about Bat Ye’or? She’s eighty-one.

        Pam Geller probably can, though.

        I’m sure some posters here could do ten pull-ups no sweat—Undaunted and Davegreybeard come to mind.

        But there are others who probably wouldn’t even be able to grasp the bar in the first place.

        Should all these staunch Anti-Jihadists “just die”?

        Being willing and able to take on Jihadists is of paramount importance—but there are more ways to fight Jihad than just physically.

        • Indeed, indeed, I was feeling especially aggressive when I wrote that! I was just proud of Emma, the ten year old cheerleader with more MANA than most men I know.

          My apologies!

          The men I was raised under, I blame them, I was always told that if you cannot pull your weight you don’t deserve to breathe.

          Different breed those fellows.

        • And no, The Ye-ors and Spencers shouldn’t die. I’m very thankful for them, for their work.

          My post was meant to impart a sense of aggression and spirit, of physical readiness! I didn’t mean to say those that cannot perform it should die.

          All reading this: if you cannot perform ten pull-ups do not kill yourself, OK!

          But try, the West needs warriors physically and mentally capable. The one enhances and helps perfect the other, no?

        • You mentioned Steyn, saw him on a short Hannity clip on foxnews,com.

          He’s always outstanding.

        • Thanks for your reply, Roderick MacUalraig. By the way, I agree that physical readiness, wherever possible, is extremely important.

      • Mac You’ll Rage: I was not being pc when I wrote BS rather than bullshit, I was using a literary device, a play on words, BA Bachelor of Arts, MA Master of Arts BS Bachelor of Science. Think it out, I thought it was obvious.

        • I’m with you, Marken, it was a nice one, I just like seeking bullshit spelled in all caps, and in bold. I love it.

          I didn’t think you were PC at all. I just kept going in the way that I do, sorry!

  3. “for us Muslims, an infinitely more amount of respect should be shown ”

    What nerve! What arrogance!

    And I think I’ll get a dog or pig and have it lick all of my belongings….and put a sign in my front window stating such if the situation demands it. They will not be *halal* for this ugly little muslim to confiscate. And I will never bow to his disgusting false god or false prophet.

    • Yes, RESIST!

      Resist the totalitarian!!

      And coming from an IRONCLAD INFIDEL THIS ONE!!!

    • And I will never bow to his disgusting false god or false prophet.

      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

      Bravo, Somehistory! …nor will I. No way. Never.

      Dog-lick be upon this so-callled ..’man of god’ (false god, satan) …oh, and Dog-breath, too! …and may he step in dog poo on his way home and then stink up the place, lol …fun to imagine 😀

  4. Regarding the Foley video, I had never watched a beheading video before until a few weeks ago (a group of Syrian Muslims performing a seemingly extemporaneous beheading on a young man on his knees whom they forced to repeat the shahada and when he apparently didn’t do it right, they immediately beheaded him). When the Foley story hit, someone told me it was curiously tame unlike other beheading videos; then when I tried to find it, I couldn’t locate it. This seemed doubly strange; if it was not gory, if it didn’t show the actual beheading in its gruesome detail, why would it be yanked from the Internet — particularly when you can still find the extremely gory beheading video of Nick Berg? It didn’t make sense. Anyway, I finally found it on Walid Shoebat’s website, and I can confirm it is curiously tame (though still chilling). The moment of beheading with a sword placed before the throat of Foley lasts about 1.5 seconds then merges into another scene, and it never actually shows the act, only the barest minimum of its beginning. It seems rather extraordinary for the entire Internet to censor itself just for the sensibilities of one family.

    • When I first saw it, I wondered if there really was a beheading. They stop filming before any blood is drawn. They cut from action in bright sunlight and strong shadows to a still shot with much less shadows. (Still shots are much easier to doctor up.) The video then goes back to action in bright sunlight as another American is threatened by the purported executioner who, as far as I could tell, has no signs of blood on him.

    • ISIS is a by the book bunch aren’t they. Maybe they will do some house cleaning and execute all of their own who refuse to follow their perfect man’s example. All the Imams should be required to as well or be labeled an apostate.

  6. \\a B.A. in Islamic Sciences from Islamic University of Medina, \\

    Does this include studying the therapeutic uses of camel pee-pee?

    Maybe he did lab work on himself and it affected his mind.

  7. I’m going to disagree with his premise. I would not ban beheading videos. Banning the Foley beheading video was done to limit Obama’s political fallout and calls for action more than any other reason. While I would never blind link a beheading or severed head video or pictures, people who watch videos of either knowingly cannot think “gee, that’s worse than I thought.” I mean they can, it’s just totally unreasonable. I watched one or two many years ago. Not since. You can’t unsee things.

    So now that I’ve disagreed with his premise, hell to the no am I in favor of liming speech critical of Islam. None. Of. It.

  8. The egregious Yasir Qadhi describes the images as “gruesome” and gives support for respect to be shown to the family members by censoring the images.
    Imagine, for a moment, six hundred “gruesome” images, and six hundred bereaved families. This was the accomplishment of Mohammed, when he severed the necks of six hundred (or more) helpless unarmed captives.
    Yasir Qadhi calls for “respect” for that behavior.

  9. He means of course that he doesn’t want images of the VICTIMS OF JIHAD, but he does want images of the victims of COUNTERJIHAD where countries attack by jihadists act in self-defense and civilians (human shields) are collaterally killed.

  10. “For this society, respect should be shown to the deceased’s family; for us Muslims, an infinitely more amount of respect should be shown to our religious symbols and especially to our Prophet (SAW).”

    “[I]nfinitely more” respect should be shown to Muslims than mere naji kuffar. That’s classic Islamic supremacism straight from the texts of Islam. Yale did a heckuva job. Amazing we tolerate this man’s presence on our planet, much less in our nation.

    BTW, I was searching “supremacism Islam” and before I could type Islam the computer suggested several David Duke links on “Jewish supremacism.” Nice work, Google Chrome. And further exploration reveals that if you search “supremacism” by itself the first page of results is exclusively David Duke.

  11. You must remember what God’s Angel told Hagar, “You will have a boy and his name will be Ishmael and he will be as a wild donkey and his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand will be against him.”

    Now; with a destiny like that what more would you expect from these “Wild Donkey’s”?

    • Christian Arabs and Muslim Arab apostates aren’t like this—but non-Arab Muslims and Western “reverts” are.

      This has nothing to do with being fated or cursed—it has to do with deliberately embracing the evil of Islam.

  12. A fine education and lots of degree’s does not guarantee a decent human being. Neither does memorizing the Quran…

  13. What possible use is his Ma and Ba? How can these “awards” for memorising a comic book fantasy advance the future and wellbeing of mankind?

  15. Wow that ‘sermon’ was THE most outrageous, convoluted mess of *reasoning*–and I mean that sarcastically, since it lacked all reason and common sense–that I have EVER had the displeasure of listening to! ..absolute crazy talk.

    That said, it’s vitally important that we all listen to this rubbish because this is what islam teaches in all of its disgusting *glory* …and again I am being sarcastic, since there is no glory in islam, only hate and bloodlust, with bizarre and twisted rationales to carry out murder and mayhem in the name of allah (hell be upon him).

    BTW, allah is NOT the God of the Bible:

    http://kingmessiahproject.com/is_allah_not_God.html

  16. He bears a close resemblance to the guy who stood on street corners in the Middle East saying “Want to see dirty pictures, sir ?” A common sight in the past, they need to go back to doing that.

  17. “Each society has a self-imposed and ever-changing red-line of taboos that it will not cross, in speech or in images”.

    Right. So why don’t you just shut up and accept that the society you are living in doesn’t share your red lines? Also, news agencies chose to suppress the images of James Foley’s execution out of moral decency, not under threat of death. Further, Islam’s taboos or not “ever-changing”; they haven’t changed in 1400 years.

    Most importantly, James Foley was a remarkable, brave, selfless, intelligent, compassionate human being. Muhammad was a cowardly, self-serving, manipulative, violent, warlord, who contributed nothing of value to the world.
    I am sure there are still people who get offended when people say bad things about Hitler. If anybody outside the “society” of Islam cares about how Muhammad is portrayed it’s only because they don’t want to be seen as bigots, not because they care about Muslim’s feelings. The daily news about how Muslims in their “societies” treat the people who cross their red-lines is more than enough to ensure that nobody except a Muslim will ever care about how they feel when Muhammad is insulted (i.e. correctly portrayed).

  18. “for us Muslims, an infinitely more amount of respect should be shown ”

    With all due *respect*, UP YOURS, SOA!!!

    Jeez the muslim piety, it never ends, but my patience with this nonsense has run very thin …

    • I’ll see you and raise you, Champ. My patience with this nonsense has run out.

      Islam is the enemy of enemies of Western Civilization. It is a better disguised form of evil than either fascism or Marxism. It very cleverly hides behind a religious veil. This fact should never be overlooked. Were the heinous doctrines of Islam, such as death for an apostate or death for one who criticizes or mocks said doctrines, the ideology of yet another secular totalitarian ideology, such an ideology would still have traction but not nearly as much. The most perfectly wicked of all totalitarian, Orwellian-type ideologies could only be a major religion of mankind. None better could be conceived I would argue. Well, mankind got such perfect wickedness. “Islam” is its name.

      Hope you’re well, my friend. Take good care.

      • I’ll see you and raise you, Champ. My patience with this nonsense has run out.

        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

        Good one, Wellington, and my patience has actually run out, as well. I should have stated that too as it would have been more honest. And the remainder of your comment is spot on. Yes, islam is indeed “perfect wickedness”; wholly evil, as I often state.

        And I’m very well, thank you …and some *happy news*, our 7th g’son “William” is due to be delivered by C-section this Friday morning! I’ll share more once he’s born ..and I’m just so thrilled and I can’t wait to meet him!

        Wishing you and yours the very best too, my friend 🙂

        • Congratulations, grandma. And may William grow up in a world which put the totalitarian ideology of Islam behind it long ago.

        • First, congratulations. There is nothing like a new baby to take the mind to the most pleasant of places. To give the heart a lift and to renew the spirit.

          I too am fed up…green to the gills with this islam nonsense and death and destruction of human life and dignity and sanctity.

          Two neighbor children came by to see me today and one of them asked me to paint her a picture (I have done that for her and her little sister before) and when I asked her what she wanted a painting of, she said, “Me.”
          I told her it would take me a few days, that I wouldn’t have it ready for sometime, and she is giving me a week. I am already busy with other things, but the kids are so sweet.
          So, I think I’m taking a vacation from this for awhile. You gals and guys will hold down the fort, I know, unless you get wrapped up in baby thoughts and things.
          Take care.

        • Congratulations to you and the parents, Champ. Hope the mom comes through with flying colors!

        • Thank you, Wellington, Somehistory and Graven! …you guys are the best! *Hugs*

  19. The irony not just in the case of Yasir Qadhi is that he can call the religions upon which this Country was was founded , the Judeo-Christian ideology & religiosity that affords Dr Qadhi the right to call the two Great Religions “filth”. He knows very well if we were racists we would not be allowed to say Isl..m is “filth” without losing our life. So, the paradox is Dr Qadhi can be a racist in the US under the Freedom of Religion whereas in an Islami country we cannot and you demand that in this country we give up our right of Freedom of Expression so as not to blasphemy the Prophet in your opinion but you are free to trash what our beliefs have been long before the Prophet suckled his mother. I have a compromise for you and like minded Believers. Put your entire head in a plastic bag and don’t take it off.

  20. Islamic sciences?!? What an oxymoron!

    How do we know this University of Medina even exists? Must we trust Muslims to say it does, since non-Muslims will be murdered for even stepping foot in Medina, Saudi Arabia.

    When an ex-Muslim can safely order a beer in Mecca, then humanity will have won, and the imams will have lost. Anything less means we’re still fighting those SOBs.

  21. When you fight to defend your creator, then how does your creator defend you against your enemies. With all the attributes of being almighty, most powerful, indestructible, why do you mortal defend the Immortal. If your defense of the Immortal is tenable, then the immortal is less than mortal.

  22. This “educated” Mohammedan miscreant has routinely blogged at muslimmatters.org for years.

    It’s quite revealing.

  23. Tennessee imam who called Jews and Christians “filthy” uses ban on Foley vid to argue for blasphemy laws
    ……………………………..

    Damn barbarian—he is using *Islamic savagery* to argue that we should not be allowed to criticize Islamic savagery.

    If Western Infidels were more knowledgeable about what he is doing, they should give him a big *f*ck you!*.

    More:

    In the video above, he calls Jews and Christians “filthy” (in accord with Qur’an 9:28) and says: “The life and property of a mushrik [one who worships others besides Allah] holds no value in the state of jihad….which means if they don’t say la illaha illa Allah, their lives and property are halal” — that is, permitted to be taken by the Muslims.
    ……………………………..

    Notice, he is not talking about any real enemy of Muslims—but just *any non-Muslim*.

    In other words, the barbaric murder of journalist James Foley was *perfectly Islamic*.

    More:

    Now, I actually sympathize with this type of censoring, mainly because I don’t feel that such gruesome images should become commonplace and be seen by millions of men, women and children (and I mean ALL gruesome images, not just of this journalist).
    ……………………………..

    Notice he never quite condemns James Foley’s murder—and how could he? He completely agrees with it…

    And this was not censorship in the classic sense by Twitter, in any case—they are a private company, and their decision not to post images of the beheading of James Foley out of respect for his family was a personal call.

    This is *totally different* from *official censorship*, where there is a legal penalty for breaking blasphemy laws—which is what Yasir Qadhi is arguing for.

    In Dar-al-Islam people are often arrested, fined, imprisoned, flogged, and even sentenced to death under blasphemy laws.

    More:

    Now he has taken to Facebook to argue that the Twitter ban on showing images of the beheading of James Foley shows that every society has restrictions on the freedom of speech, and that “the issue of the cartoons [of Muhammad] had nothing to do with ‘freedom of speech’, but rather with each society’s own views on what is acceptable and unacceptable to show.” That is indeed so, but the idea that anyone should be prohibited from showing cartoons of Muhammad is an attempt to force Sharia blasphemy laws on the West, and to create Islam and Muslims as a privileged class that cannot be criticized — which is exactly the situation in the Muslim societies that Qadhi is here comparing to the West.
    ……………………………..

    Yes—and it’s total bs. What he is arguing for is *Shari’ah law”, where it only Muslims who are “protected” from being “offended”.

    More:

    Each society has a self-imposed and ever-changing red-line of taboos that it will not cross, in speech or in images. For this society, respect should be shown to the deceased’s family; for us Muslims, an infinitely more amount of respect should be shown to our religious symbols and especially to our Prophet (SAW).
    ……………………………..

    Look what Qadhi is doing—and not doing—above.

    For one thing, he posits that it only the West that cares about the feelings of the family of this poor victim of Jihad—and this is likely true. Certainly, it is true for Qadhi.

    And then he asserts that it is *much more important* that Infidels show “respect” to the same texts and “Prophet” whose model sanctioned the beheading of this journalist to begin with.

    In other words, for him it is much more important for Infidels to “respect” Muslims butchering us than it is for anyone to show the victims any sympathy—let alone criticize this savagery or actually try to stop it.

  24. The Islamic State has recruiting stations throughout the United States and the world, they are called mosques.

    Wake up and smell the peace!

  26. Max Publius
    How do we know this University of Medina even exists

    It exists

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_University_of_Madinah

    Max Publius
    Must we trust Muslims to say it does, since non-Muslims will be murdered for even stepping foot in Medina

    It is only the center of medina that is of limits, and no there is no death penalty for entering Medina

    WARNING: Non-Muslims are strictly prohibited from entering Central Medina. The penalty is deportation from the country. Documentation will be checked upon entry and anyone not showing proof of being Muslim will be denied entry. However, many parts of the city, notably the outskirts and the Medina Airport, are open to all.

    http://wikitravel.org/en/Medina

    This guy was educated, he is even a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from the University of Houston.

    • Your post is almost humorous. Do you really think I was serious about the school existing? I’m sure it does, but not due to that pathetic wikipedia entry with the photo from 1969. This is no quality school, that is obvious. “University students may study Sharia, Qur’an, Dawah/Usul al-din, Hadith, and Arabic”, lol. Open to only Muslims, as though anyone else would attend.

      The official Saudi laws mean nothing in these matters. Non-Muslims are treated with utter contempt, and are restricted violently in their movements. No one even tempts these laws. When was the last non-Muslim to openly visit Mecca or “the center of Medina”?

      The islamonazi attended Yale, but he rejected education. He’s not the first psycho to do that. Ted Kaczynski is another.

      Not sure of your point, but if you’re Muslim, then you have no leg to stand on while there is not a single church or temple in Saudi Arabia and citizens can be beheaded for leaving Islam.

  27. I am beginning to think America government is surrendering to Muslims. I left Muslim country to seek freedom in America but as for right now they are here in America. As for right now muslim extremist are free to spread hate messages and cause terror in America. Living among the muslim community in America was a big mistake. Telling a muslim person I support Israel or gay rights means you will be harrassed and beaten in America.

    • Why would you leave a muslim country ‘to seek freedom’, and then choose to live in a *muslim community* ?

      If you’re being ‘harassed and beaten’ for your opinions, by muslims, then you need to a) leave the community and b) report the violence to the police. America is governed by decent laws, not sharia.

  28. If you want to do something, support Robert Spencer. Also, join the effective activist and lobbying organization Act for America, run by Brigitte Gabriel.

  29. Yasir Qadhi is speaking from the heart of Islam, which is a false religion led by their father, Satan.
    It is clear to me that Islam is the Beast described Daniel and Revelation. The Beast with “seven heads and ten horns” that comes against Israel and Christians and every other infidel on the planet.
    Seven heads are nations and the ten horns are leaders of these nations. “Three horns are plucked and a little horn emerges.” Mubarak, Qudhafi and soon to be plucked, Assad, would qualify as these three horns. Sadaam Hussein and even Bin Laden would qualify as one of these horns who were plucked if Assad happens to remain. Can you count at least ten Muslim nations that would unite against Israel? There are many more than that!
    So now we await this “little horn”, the antichrist, who will be revealed during the Great Tribulation Period. Technically, the little horn is one of the seven, who becomes the eighth. He suffers a deadly blow and then Satan possesses him and he miraculously is revived, but now having supernatural powers that allow him to rule the world for a short time until he is destroyed by Jesus. More to come …

  30. Just go to his stupid Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/yasir.qadhi?fref=ts and click REPORT option. I just did it – based on the fact that he is spreading religious hate. If people keep reporting the page maybe Facebook will shut it down.
    He should not be allowed to spread his hate all over Internet.

  31. I was born and raised in Tennessee. It was a wonderful place to live with a unique and friendly local culture descended from the American frontier.

    Now, thanks to multiculturalism and the forced import and elevation of those who seek to destroy our culture and replace it with something odious, that is no more. The word Tennessee now means nothing.

    Congratulations to a government who feels our enemies must define how we live.

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