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Memphis imam Yasir Qadhi raises money for Islamic charity linked to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood

Sep 12, 2017 1:03 pm By Robert Spencer

Yasir Qadhi is an imam in Memphis and is Dean of Academic Affairs at the Al-Maghrib Institute. He is a hafiz — that is, he has memorized the entire Qur’an. He has also called Jews and Christians “filthy” (in accord with Qur’an 9:28) and said: “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. Yet despite this open espousal of jihad violence, he has won the admiration of an evangelical Christian preacher, James White. I wrote here about how White is credulously allowing himself to be fooled by Qadhi, and letting the imam peddle egregious falsehoods about Islam to Christian audiences without challenge. And you can see here Qadhi continuing his slanders against me, with White’s eager endorsement.

White and his followers justify their coddling of Qadhi, and enabling of him to spread soothing lies to Christian organizations, on the basis of the claim that White has in the same context been afforded an opportunity to preach the Gospel to Muslim audiences. They don’t realize that Qadhi is far smarter than they are, and playing them for the purposes of dawah (Islamic proselytizing). Their objective is to lie to the Christians and mislead them about the motivating ideology, nature and magnitude of the jihad threat, and they know this will not be difficult, because most Christians are woefully uninformed about Islamic texts and teachings, and the pervasiveness of the jihad ideology in the Muslim world. They don’t care what White says to the Muslim audiences, because the Qur’an itself contains many responses to standard Christian theology; Christians generally don’t find them convincing, but Muslims do, and they act as a kind of inoculation against Muslims taking seriously the statements of an evangelist. Yes, many Muslims do convert to Christianity, but this usually happens as a result of a lengthy process, not due to hearing the word of one speaker at one event. White is allowing himself to be manipulated and played for a fool by Yasir Qadhi, whose allegiances you can see in the article below.

“Memphis Imam Raises Money For Islamic Charity U.S. Congressman Says Has Ties to Muslim Brotherhood,” by Chris Alto, Tennessee Star, September 11, 2017:

Last week, Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced an amendment to the State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Act blocking any U.S. funding to Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW). Between 2015 and 2016, IRW received $370,000 in federal funding.

DeSantis explained to the Free Beacon that:

U.S. tax dollars cannot go to groups involved in funding terrorism. Any group tied to Hamas or the Muslim Brotherhood should be ineligible for funding.  It is a slap in the face of the American taxpayer to allow such groups to receive federal funding.

Founded in 1984, IRW is headquartered in the UK but operates as a franchiser of sixteen charity affiliates comprising the largest Islamic charity in the West with revenues in the hundreds of millions. Islamic Relief USA (IRUSA), reputed to be one of the largest affiliate funders of IRW, is also inter-connected to IRW through leadership. For example, IRUSA’s former CEO, Abed Ayoub also served on the governance committee of the IRW.

Between 2012 and 2016, Memphis Imam Yasir Qadhi has been helping IRUSA raise money speaking at a dozen fundraising events. More recently, he undertook an eight-date tour in the UK to raise money for the parent organization IRW. Britain’s Charity Commission which regulates non-profits, questioned IRW’s decision to feature Qadhi, described by  The Times as “a hardline Muslim preacher” who “has been recorded apparently telling students that killing homosexuals and stoning adulterers was part of their religion.”

(FYI, in 2010, Vanderbilt Muslim chaplain Awad Binhazim told students that Islamic law mandates capital punishment for homosexuality and that “as a Muslim he does not have a choice of whether to accept or reject what Islam teaches.”)

DeSantis, has good reason to be concerned. IRW was banned in Israel after a government report determined that the charity provided material support to “HAMAS’ infrastructure.” HAMAS is a U.S. designated terrorist organization. Gatestone Institute documented IRW’s receipt of funds from charities alleged to have ties to al Qaeda and allied terrorist groups. Gatestone also detailed connections between IRW’s leadership, the global Muslim Brotherhood, and other terror groups that have been designated by the U.S. and European governments.

In 2012, Swiss bank UBS closed IRW’s accounts and four years later, HSBC severed its ties to IRW out of concern that funds raised and transferred by IRW were helping to fund terrorism. In 2014, IRW was banned from operating in Israel while the United Arab Emirates blacklisted IRW, the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR also based on ties to terrorism.

Islamist groups including CAIR and IRW affiliate IRUSA launched a campaign opposing DeSantis’ measure which he withdrew on Thursday.

CAIR is a named unindicted co-conspirator in the largest U.S. terrorism financing prosecution related to the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development which was the largest Islamic charity in the U.S. until five of its officers were sent to prison for funneling $12 million to HAMAS. CAIR’s efforts to have its unindicted co-conspirator status removed in federal court only served to reaffirm that the evidence in court supported CAIR’s ties to HAMAS:

[t]he Government has produced ample evidence to establish the associations of CAIR, ISNA and NAIT with HLF [Holy Land Foundation], the Islamic Association for Palestine (“IAP”), and with Hamas

IRUSA was embraced by the Obama administration, partnering on relief efforts. In 2010, the CEO of IRUSA was officially advising the US Agency for International Development (USAID), one of the federal agencies passing money to IRUSA.

In 2013, the Clarion Project alleged that at least four IRUSA officials had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood; then president and board chairman Mohamed Amr Attawia is listed in a 1991 phone directory of Muslim Brotherhood leaders that was introduced into evidence during the Holy Land Foundation prosecution. He remains a director of IRUSA. Others in IRUSA’s leadership have ties to Egypt and overthrown President Mohamed Morsi who was elected to bring the Muslim Brotherhood into power….

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Comments

  1. Peter Buckley says

    Sep 12, 2017 at 1:09 pm

    So has anyone now said to James White: “told you so”? RS?

    Has he learnt anything now about Islam?

    • Dave says

      Sep 12, 2017 at 1:30 pm

      why aren’t these scumbags arrested for aiding terrorists ?

      Bad news : Hillary mafia killed witness to email investigation and some good news
      http://tinyurl.com/y8p9cv5l

      Her gang is emboldened with Mc Master in NSC to help her get away with it

    • Vance says

      Sep 13, 2017 at 1:55 am

      James White responds to Robert’s post:

      http://www.aomin.org/aoblog/2017/09/12/worship-spirit-truth-totalitarianism-robert-spencer-retreads/

      • Peter Buckley says

        Sep 13, 2017 at 3:27 am

        Thanks for that. White says:”Robert Spencer shows us once again the difference between approaching Islam from a worldly perspective or from the biblical perspective.”

        Wasn’t it by approaching Islam from a biblical perspective in the first place, that Christians and Christianity ending up losing the whole of North Africa, parts of the Middle East ?

        And aren’t those “atheist countries” like Russia and China the ones that are the least likely to yield to Islam?

  2. Tom S. says

    Sep 12, 2017 at 1:19 pm

    Robert on InfoWars Right Now (starting about 1:15 EDT)

  3. Peter Buckley says

    Sep 12, 2017 at 1:30 pm

    JW readers can also “enjoy” watching Yasir Qadhi on youtube, bemoaning the fact that so many muslims are now leaving the faith:

    • marina says

      Sep 12, 2017 at 2:53 pm

      Like the part where he says Muslims are leaving Islam. A bright intelligent person can scrutinize Islam and see that it can’t be a religion. It is all lies and fabrication. And Mo cannot be a prophet.

      • Vance says

        Sep 14, 2017 at 12:20 am

        So perhaps White is not wasting his time after all. You make a good case for him to continue presenting the gospel to Muslims.

  4. gravenimage says

    Sep 12, 2017 at 2:40 pm

    Memphis imam Yasir Qadhi raises money for Islamic charity linked to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood
    ………………………..

    “Zakat” is often translated as “charity”–but it more often goes to fund violent Jihad than for clinics or orphanages.

    What this Imam is doing is orthodox Islam.

  5. mortimer says

    Sep 12, 2017 at 5:44 pm

    Yasir Qadhi has been playing James White for a fool… and very successfully.

    James White is playing straight and by the rules.

    Yasir Qadhi is playing with a marked deck.

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