It’s in this audio recording of one of Qadhi’s lectures. Note also his words about jihad, quoting Muhammad: “I have been commanded to fight the people until they testify la illaha illa Allah [there is no god but Allah].”
And Qadhi 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.
Qadhi is an imam in Memphis. 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.
How is it, then, that he misunderstands jihad so spectacularly that he sounds like a greasy Islamophobe? No matter: he was in Birmingham, Alabama to reassure non-Muslims there that the local mosques have nothing whatsoever to do with the Muslims from the U.S. joining the Islamic State, and why should anyone doubt him?
Note also that he blames American foreign policy entirely for the rise of the Islamic State. In other words, he wants the U.S. to stop fighting against jihadis, and to stop supporting Israel, and then presumably all will be well. But it won’t. There will just be more demands.
“Don’t blame mosques for radicals joining ISIS, Muslim scholar says,” by Greg Garrison, AL.com, June 12, 2015:
An Islamic scholar visiting Birmingham today said American Muslims should be able to openly criticize U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East without being viewed with suspicion or having their patriotism questioned.
“It’s not un-American to criticize America,” said Yasir Qadhi, who has a PhD from Yale University and is a resident scholar of the Memphis Islamic Center. Qadhi will speak tonight at 6:30 p.m. on “Is ISIS Islamic?” at the Harbert Center in downtown Birmingham. “If I didn’t love it, I wouldn’t criticize it.”
He said conservative right-wing Americans criticize President Barack Obama and still consider themselves patriotic. “That’s a double-standard that needs to be pointed out,” he said. “We shouldn’t criminalize dissent.”
Too many Muslims are afraid to be open in their criticism of American foreign policy, and that sometimes means radical groups are more attractive to those who are questioning U.S. policy, Qadhi said. “These are evil, vicious people in ISIS,” Qadhi said.
The emergence of ISIS is a result of failed American foreign policy in the Middle East, he said. “We really messed up in Iraq,” he said. “We created a baby Frankenstein.”
Qadhi, a professor at Rhodes College in Memphis and dean of academic affairs at Al Maghrib Institute, has been an outspoken opponent of ISIS. Sending more troops is not the answer, he said.”More bombs and more troops is more trouble,” he said. “More violence, more bombs and more killing will lead to more problems.”
“We are against all extremism,” said Ashfaq Taufique, president of the Birmingham Islamic Society. “They do not follow Islam. It is very important we get the word out.”
Hoda Muthana, 20, abandoned her family and flew to Syria earlier this year to join the terrorist group popularly known as ISIS, the Islamic State in Syria. Muthana graduated from Hoover High School in 2013 and was studying business at UAB before leaving the country.
“We have already been a victim of ISIS recruitment,” Taufique said. “She is there with them right now. She grew up in front of us. I know her. That was a turning point for us.”
The Muslim community lives with the fear of their youth being radicalized by terrorists.
“We are very concerned about our youth,” Taufique said. “We are very concerned about our youth being brainwashed. They can take innocent, weak minds and brainwash them into disobeying their parents.”
Qadhi said that mosques have not been at fault when youth have been lured into ISIS. There is a false perception that people are being radicalized in mosques, he said. “That’s not the case,” Qadhi said. “Every one of these kids is alienated from local mosques.”
When young people are questioning U.S. foreign policy and there is not honest discussion taking place in the mosque, they look for information on the internet, Qadhi said. “This is a battle that is taking place online,” he said.
The average Muslim family is not likely to be affected by radicalism, he said. “To put it in broader perspective, quantitatively there have only been a few dozen of these cases,” Qadhi said. “It is a problem. Each one is a problem. But the average Muslim family is more worried about drugs and car accidents just like any other American family.”…
Stardusty Psyche says
“It’s not un-American to criticize America,”
true
“We are against all extremism,”
true (from a believer’s viewpoint, after all, faith in the true god is not extreme)
“We really messed up in Iraq,”
true
“Qadhi said that mosques have not been at fault when youth have been lured into ISIS”
false, Mosques promote fundamentalist Islam which is an inherently fascistic, expansionist, and dangerous ideology
IQ al Rassooli says
Qadhi is the usual DESPICABLE so called ‘scholar’ that American & European universities produce at the rate of a Dime a Dozen
His ‘love’ for America & Americans is as intense as the love of a Nazi to a Jew!
As a Sharia compliant Muslim, he cannot EVER accept the laws of US Constitution (because it is NOT from Allah) nor can he ever be LOYAL to non Muslim American people (because they are Kuffar/Infidels)
For those brain dead PC idiots read the following for PROOF:
Al Mai’da 5: 51 “O ye who believe (Muslims)! take not the Jews [Yahood] and the Christians [Nasara] for your friends and protectors: they are but friends and protectors to each other.
And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them…”
*** The implications of the last sentence is of immense importance “And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them…” meaning that any followers of Muhammad who befriend or under the rule of Christians or Jews (or any none Muslim group) would be considered Apostates to Islam, outsiders to Islam, enemies of Islam who must be slaughtered.
In a nutshell, no Muslim in the USA can ever be loyal to the American Constitution because it is Man Made NOT from Allah nor can any Muslim in the USA be a loyal citizen because none Muslim Americans are Infidels/ Kuffar/ Unbelievers/ Kafiroon to be either subjugated or exterminated***
Furthermore:
Al Tauba 9:29 “Fight [qatiloo] those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His apostle [Muhammad] nor acknowledge the religion of truth [ISLAM] (even if they are) of the People of the Book [Christians & Jews] until they pay the Jizya [onerous Tax for not being a Muslim] with willing submission and feel themselves humiliated”
*** Just to make sure that the listeners would believe what I am revealing, I would like to put forth a challenge worth $200,000 to the first person who can show us all a SINGLE operative verse in Muhammad’s Quran that demonstrates any Compassion & Mercy to all UNBELIEVERS!
Currently, Unbelievers/ Infidels represent 80% of humanity: All Christians Buddhists Hindus Jews Atheists Agnostics etc. That is any and all those who are NOT Muslims! $200,000 for just ONE verse from among over 6200 verses in Muhammad’s Quran!***
This Degenerate Human Mutant of a Muslim should be checked by the FBI for anti American and terrorism related speeches and articles
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
Lilithwept says
You are 100% correct!!! I read a Fatwah produced by one of the big respected universities ( not an illiterate mullah in backwoods Yemen) thatvwhen a muslim comes to swearvthe oath of loyalty when gaining citizenship in a non muslim country, he is encouraged tomlie, practice taqqiyah. For example, if the oath says ” for the good of the people, I swear to …..” The muslim can think ” this only refers to muslims as non muslims really arent people” and its whatbthe muslim thinks and his kntent that is important, not whatbhe is swearing………no muslim will ever have first loyalty tomthe countrybhe has citizenship,in or lives in, a muslims first loyalty will always always, be to Allah, Mohammed, Islamic clerics, Islam and the Muslim Ummah. So all those muslims in our country, how can we be sure any of them are loyal? How can we seperate the ones practicing taqqiyah ” smiling in our faces while their hearts curse us” from those that just want to live , be safe and prosper under American laws? We can not tell the difference!!!! So we need to bann the practice of Islam , to make it so uncomfortanle for the pious, devoit muslims ( and we all know those are where the problems come from) that they leave the US. We have forhotten how to be practicle and ruthless and if we dont relearn we will not survive.
William Lucas Harvey Jr. says
‘Alabama: Imam who said property of “filthy” non-Muslims could be taken in jihad…and mosques not to blame for Muslims joining ISIS”.
Gee – MORE of Islam’s Taqiyya and Kitmen Lying and Deception, known as “The Grand Deception”,
WHO IS Radicalized in “Mosques” – MUSLIMS – WHAT Ideology are Muslims – ISLAM – WHO IS Isis “The ISLAMIC State of Iraq and Syria”.
And this is Alabama, the UNITED STATES, being overrun by FILTHY Muslims, thanks to the “Reign” of America’s “Imperial” Potus, Barack Hussein Obama Jr., and HIS Administration.
Obama – Sooo, VERY Obviously Pro Islam, Muslim Pandering and Sympathizing, and Anti Christian, through HIS very OWN DOCUMENTED Statements such as, “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation”, “Islam has always been part of America”, “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam”, “The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer”, “The Islamic State Is Not Islamic”, and MANY More.
Stardusty Psyche says
Hi William Lucas Harvey Jr.
“Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation”,
We are a secular nation, at least by law, per the First Amendment
“Islam has always been part of America”,
True, at least since the first Muslim arrived, possibly as a slave. Islamic piracy is also part of our early history.
“The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam”, “
True. Slander is an untruth. We should never speak an untruth about Muhammad.
The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer”,
Well, there is no accounting for taste. The depth of devotion in religious songs of all sorts can be emotionally moving.
“The Islamic State Is Not Islamic”,
A preposterous but diplomatically necessary lie.
JPWHITE says
Where on earth did this guy come from, I am curious.
Stardusty Psyche says
Stardust 🙂
Western Canadian says
Wherever he originated, he passed through ‘educational’ systems that resulted in a massive loss of ability to think, reduced whatever ability he might have had to establish a knowledge base, resulted in an over-inflated ego, a nasty habit of self-aggrandizement, combined with habitual personal attacks while pretending to himself, that he is above it all.
Typical troll.
Stardusty Psyche says
Wowww,
Folks up in Western Canada have an amazing capacity for internet psychoanalysis!
Spot on mate, I was really confused about myself but now I see my life so clearly, you are like a revelation to me, my very soul revealed, what an unbelievable work of insight!!!
Now, where is that bridge? I need to sleep…
particolor says
I’m going for a bath after what he said !!
Western Canadian says
You, as usual, flatter yourself.
“Folks up in Western Canada have an amazing capacity for internet psychoanalysis!”
I seriously doubt that any level of psychiatric care would be able to turn you around, you will always remain a lout and a blowhard. As revealed by your juvenile posts.
Don McKellar says
Hi Stardusty Psyche,
My responses to your responses to William Lucas Harvey Jr.
1) YOU ARE CORRECT!
2) YOU ARE CORRECT!
3) YOU ARE CORRECT! In fact, it is moslems themselves who “slander” their prophet when they tell half-truths and obscure the facts about that character. Robert Spencer is an example of somebody who NEVER slanders Muhammad — as he only ever tells the truth about what is in the Islamic texts and what is historically accurate with regards to that character.
4) YOU ARE CORRECT! Religious songs are written that way on purpose, to try and circumvent the rational mind.
5) This is the only one on which you fall down a little, in my opinion. It is indeed a preposterous lie. And telling it is, in long term diplomatic terms, not needed, nor is it wise.
So 4.5 out of 5 stars for Stardusty Psyche.
EYESOPEN says
Sorry Don. Both you and Psyche Stardust are wrong on Number 3.
Slander – according to sharia – is anything that defames, or is insulting to izlam, allah, or Mad Mo – whether or not it be the truth.
Stardusty Psyche says
Hi Don McKellar,
Indeed, the necessity of the lie is highly debatable. I think it was diplomatically necessary to form the coalition of the Arab league kings against our enemies, which Obama has in fact accomplished.
It would also be a big recruitment tool if the Great Satan himself admitted IS is the true Islam.
I think the truth is our best approach, but there is a very big risk that as more Muslims become educated in the true teachings of Muhammad they will seek to join IS.
We Americans are sometimes rather naive about truth and democracy applied in the Muslim world.
Obama only has another 1.5 years in office, and primary season is just around the corner. I think the “nothing to do with Islam” mantra has largely worn out its welcome, particularly in the red states.
duh_swami says
True. Slander is an untruth. We should never speak an untruth about Muhammad.
Half true…Slander also includes telling any truth or fact that tends to show Mahound or Islam in less than a favorable light…This doctrine has a name…Sitr…It comes from a conversation Mahound had with one of his worshippers who was seeking his advice.
Rasool Obama knew this when he made that statement…It is an agreement and an advocacy of sharia law against blasphemy…A slap in the face of free speech from your hero…
Stardusty Psyche says
Hi duh_swami,
Where is your evidence that the former Harvard Law Review president, law professor, senator, and incumbent president of the USA was using the word “slander” in opposition to its legal meaning?
Angemon says
Keyword: “commanded”. It’s not optional.
Westman says
That Yale degree should qualify Qadhi as the next Michio Kaku…. Memorizing the Quran is like memorizing the phone book and even less organized.
He is a typical hafiz, (haf-iz) only haf iz human, lacking in charity (love) unless you are of the Ummah. Listening to the video, he sounds exactly like the firebrand Imams for ISIS, without the growling. Yet he says that Islamic doctrine taught in the Mosques, like his, is not a problem.
The native Americans referred to this as “speaking with a forked tongue”.
Working in an academic environment for many years I quickly learned that incredible memory skills are rarely accompanied by sound logic in the same person.
mortimer says
Westman said, “speaking with a forked tongue”.
Taqiyya is the language of Muslims…no one knows that more than Muslims themselves!
Why bring armies of liars into America. America has a culture of respect for honesty.
Why invite armies of people into American who have a culture of LYING???
Da Rue Stir says
…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 other words he knows jack squat.
Just another imbecil of the compulsive cultural insanity called Islam.
mortimer says
Disagree. He’s a brilliant, professional liar.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
“It’s not un-American to criticize America,” said Yasir Qadhi, who has a PhD from Yale University…
Don’t get me going. Another prestigious Ivy League Moron on the scene. I wonder if he was admitted based on fulfilling an Affirmative Action quota. The gal slated to be our next president, Hill, went to Yale Law Tool. And how about that White House Hafiz, he’s collecting a quarter million a year for having memorized that murder manual the Holy Ko-Ran, another Yale Scholar, like Dr. Qadhi. Yale Uniburpadee sure do pump out those darned hafiz
Maybe it’s not un-American to criticize our country, but it’s sedition to advocate the overthrow its ruling law, the Constitution. But that would do no good, Dr. Qadhi would probably like it in the pokey, give him focus to study the Holy Ko-Ran and run some dawa on a captive audience.
Westman says
How right you are dear Farmer. I guess this is an example of, ” keeping your enemies closer”.
wildjew says
I prefer honest Muslims like this man, the UK imam Sean Hannity that interviews, Anjem Choudary over silver-tongued scholars like Hannity’s Ahmadiyya Muslim guest, Dr. Faheem Younus.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Anjem is my fave hairy Moslem spokesperson. And, if I’m not mistaken, he’s the one who the London Welfare Dept moved into a palatial apartment (valued at over $1 million) after he bitterly complained publicly about his digs in some project. Anjem’s a smart dude. When the killing starts in the streets, probably a big Moslem uprising after Tel Aviv, I’d most like to be murdered by Anjem. He knows his Islam and ain’t afraid to speak the truth about it, taqiyya be damned.
wildjew says
“When the killing starts in the streets….”
It’s coming one day.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Yes, it is. Our born Moslem President Barack Hussein and his war coward Sec’y of State John Kerry are working hard on gettin’ her done, and in the background Prez Hussein’s chief aid Valerie Jarrett spinning the dials at her World Mystery console; she is a Mo-Sis-Hood member who was born in Persia.
Bibi should get a Nobel Peace Prize. He lost his brother to the Entebbe raid decades ago, and maybe now he’ll lose his country. I pray it doesn’t happen. If it does, Bibi will be sure to go down with the ship. And to think some unnamed Ivy League Moron in the White House had the gall to call him a chickensheet. Projection at its worse.
They will rise up across the globe is Tel Aviv happens.
nicu says
And these pussies blame others , again for their own evilness !
somehistory says
In his photo…probably broke the camera…he looks like the demons of insanity and stupidity are sitting in his eyes and the lying ones are on his lips. satan probably does *sleep in his nose*.
Am quite sure he’s as ugly on the inside, due to the evil he promulgates.
Why is it, that they are praised for their *degrees* when all of them are on islam and the sayings of a raper of children, a murderer of those who disagreed with him? Their heads are so full of the evil, there is no room for useful knowledge.
abad says
Maybe this imam needs to move out of a country full of those “filthy non-Muslims” and back to the hell-hole of Iraq
gravenimage says
Classic Taqiyya artist.
Note his main idea: that if only America submitted to Muslim criticism over any attempts to oppose violent Jihad that Muslim “youth” would not be so frustrated that they need to join ISIS.
That so many in the West still consider Qadhi a “moderate” shows just how ignorant these dhimmis truly are.
wayne says
Sharia Law
Daniel 7:1-8 ( KJV )
Great Beasts
In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.
Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
Daniel 7
The first was like a lion,(lion of Justice symbol of England) and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, (Uncle Sam and the eagle) and a man’s heart was given to it. (England and the USA)
Revelation 6
And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. (Christian Nations)
Daniel 7
And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, (symbol of Russia red bear) and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. (Russia or communist)
Revelation 6
And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.
And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword (Red Communist)
Daniel 7
After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. (China or Asian descent )
Revelation 6
And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. (Trade)
Daniel 7
After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. (Middle East)
Revelation 6
And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
(Muslims)
Dan 2
{And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, (5 on each foot not together as yet) part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
And as the toes of the feet (10 Nations no fully together yet) were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, (Muslims are all over the world) even as iron is not mixed with clay. (Now you know why the Muslims can’t get along with each other)
And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, (Jesus) and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.}
Dan 7
I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
And the ten horns (10 toes(10 Nations no fully together yet) out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: (Sharia law) and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. (3-1/2 years)
Revelation 12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, (3-1/2 years) from the face of the serpent.
And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Dan 7
But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.
duh_swami says
What was that waste of space all about?
mortimer says
Yasir Qadhi understands Islam properly. He is as much an expert as anyone can be. He is calling for the surrender of the US to Islamic forces and calling for the destruction of Israel.
He’s a master of doublespeak.
His real message?
Qadhi said: “The life and property of a mushrik [one who worships others besides Allah] holds no value in the state of jihad….” — that is–any non-Muslim may be killed by a jihadist and his property seized.
That’s SOOOOOOOOOOOO moderate of him.
Linde Barrera says
Imam Qadri is quoted: “It’s not un-American to criticize America…..If I didn’t love it, I wouldn’t criticize it.” From his speaking, he implies that he loves Allah, loves the Quran, and he loves Islam. Does this character also criticize those 3 things he loves so well?
duh_swami says
‘Taqiyya’ is the craft of telling the truth, except for the most important parts…Once you know what those important parts are, taqiyya will not work on you.
Dee says
Kick this filthy terrorist muslim out of our country.