The notorious Yasir Qadhi, who has called for the murder of homosexuals and blasphemers, raised money for a charity linked to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, and said that Muslims can seize the property of “filthy” non-Muslims in jihad, says: “We are seeing this campaign, this brutal xenophobic, Islamophobic campaign. Against our nebi [prophet] and our rasul [messenger]. All under the guise of the freedom of speech. All as a result of a reaction of one unfortunate incident. They are using that incident of the beheading of one teacher for doing something to cause this entire campaign against our nebi [prophet].”
This is the usual victimhood propaganda: after every jihad massacre come Muslim spokesmen to tell the world that Muslims are the actual victims of the attack. But note also that Qadhi is specifically denouncing France’s actions taken to defend the freedom of speech after someone who exercised it was brutally murdered. As far as Qadhi is concerned, France defending itself against jihad violence is “brutal,” while the beheading of Samuel Paty is merely an “unfortunate incident.”
Qadhi’s point is that France, and the world at large, must discard the freedom of speech and establish Muslims as a protected class, protected from criticism, in order to avoid charges of “hate” and “Islamophobia.”
Original video:
“Prominent American Islamic Scholar Dr. Yasir Qadhi: The ‘Unfortunate’ Beheading Of Samuel Paty Is A Pretext For A Campaign Against The Prophet Muhammad,” MEMRI, October 23, 2020:
In a Friday, October 23, 2020 sermon at the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) in Plano, Texas, prominent American Islamic scholar Dr. Yasir Qadhi said that the recent beheading of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty was an “unfortunate incident” that is being used as a pretext for a “brutal” campaign in France against the Prophet Muhammad. He said that this attack is one of very few acts of violence committed by Muslims in France and that while the murder of Paty was wrong, it stemmed from anger at the way millions of Muslim citizens are treated in France. He also said that the French government’s “criminalization” of Islam in response to the attack will only make matters worse.
In addition, Dr. Qadhi said that this attack is “bait” and a “tactic,” and that the French government and other Western leaders are praying for more Islamic terrorist attacks to take place so they can have an excuse to clamp down on Islam and Muslims. Dr. Qadhi urged his audience not to “stoop to their level.” The sermon was streamed live on EPIC’s YouTube channel. Sheikh Yasir Qadhi is a Texas-based American scholar who has studied at the University of Houston, at the Islamic University of Madinah in Saudi Arabia, and at Yale University. For more about Dr. Yasir Qadhi, see MEMRI TV Clips No. 7640 and No. 7451.
Yasir Qadhi: “We are all painfully aware of what is happening in the land of France.”
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“We are seeing this campaign, this brutal xenophobic, Islamophobic campaign. Against our nebi [prophet] and our rasul [messenger]. All under the guise of the freedom of speech. All as a result of a reaction of one unfortunate incident. They are using that incident of the beheading of one teacher for doing something to cause this entire campaign against our nebi [prophet].
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“When a president, when a country, when an army act like thugs, and they teach their own people to hate a minority, to have bad things about the minority, this is not freedom of speech. This is nothing but thuggery. This is nothing but an incitement of hatred. Freedom of speech does not apply over here. Less than 7% of France is Muslim. Less than 7%. Don’t tell me that the 90% are intimidated, they’re not going to speak their freedom. On the contrary, the acts of violence that happen at the hands of Muslims is negligible. One act – millions of Muslims.
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“But what is the response? The criminalization of the entire religion of Islam.
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“And we need to be brave enough to say this: the murder that happened was wrong, but it was not a murder that came from the books of fikh. This was a murder that came from the anger of how you are treating millions of your own citizens. This is not a justification; it is a contextualization. And what is the response? You want to make matters worse. This is not how a wise leader acts. You want to cause civil war between your own society.
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“We have to be very careful. This is a bait. They want more incidents to happen. Realize, dear Muslims, it is a tactic. And I speak of France, but this is the reality across the world, across the western world. They are waiting. Some of these people, they are praying for yet another terrorist attack. They want it to happen. Why? Because it will give them the authority to clamp down even more. It will give them the authority to demonize the entire Muslim population. So we cannot stoop to their level.”
Mount Zion says
In the Video he says it’s a pretext for one unfortunate incident to demonize all muslims, further he says they are just waiting for another incident to happen so they can take further actions against muslims . Really , it’s just one incident ? If that were true than his cute little speach would have been somehow acceptable but he didn’t say a word about how many churches in France are beeing attacked every day or how many vehicular jihad France has endured or how many no-go zones there are across France or how many rapes on western women have occurred not to mention honour killings and wife beatings and FGM . And the reason why a majority would be scared of a minority is that till now France has been so tolerant that whenever french people spoke out against Islam and their evil deeds they would risk to be charged with hate speech no matter how true their statement were , so please don’t give me this crap of muslims beeing the victims here because they are not , the real victims here are all the French people and westerner in general who died at the hands of muslim supremacists. All together his cute little speech on how muslims are persecuted in France made me wanna throw up .
Goofy says
Please let us keep the terminology straight. Phobia are fears which are not well founded in reality. The Koran chapter 47 verse 4 clearly demonstrates that the fear of Muslims killing non-Muslims is well founded in the Koran.
Brando says
Since I often listen to Muslim youtubers in French and English to try to understand them,the best one in FRENCH is ISSA (Jesus ) HAMAD( French-born, Shia ),he was forced to take down most of his videos, but he is like THE MUSLIM SKEPTIC ( the best one in ENGLISH ),
he uses No Takiya/ dissimulation,he says it the way it is. Death for blasphemers,apostates,sex slaves are allowed,military jihad is ok.
YASIR QADHI is also like them,as The Muslim Skeptic said:”We HAVE the TRUTH”.
THE GOOD THING ABOUT MUSLIM SKEPTIC
If I remember rightly he is a HARVARD graduate,in his website he has a READING LIST section of NON-MUSLIM authors that he says people should read, but he does NOT agree with everything in them.
Personally,I think he has Intellectual Doubts about Islam.He knows Too Much REDPILL/BLACKPILL knowledge,here is his Reading List:
https://muslimskeptic.com/reading-list/
“Reading List
This is a small selection of books that I think are worth reading if you are interested in the following topics.
Obviously I do not endorse everything that is in these books. I also include a short reason why the books are beneficial.
Philosophy of Science
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
This is the #1 philosophy book I recommend for anyone interested in being a Muslim Skeptic. Once you understand how the seemingly most solid, unquestionable discipline of all time, i.e., science, can be fundamentally critiqued, then no other modern ideology, namely, the ones that conflict with Islam, stands a chance.
Against Method
This important book in the philosophy of science is great for debunking the supposed rationality of the “scientific method.”
Objectivity
Objectivity is an important concept used in the debates on atheism vs. religion. Science is objective, religion is not, we are told. But objectivity has its own history and is not as unimpeachable a concept as many would like.
Feminism and Sexuality
The Myth of Male Power
Is the patriarchy really this all-powerful force that has been oppressing women for all time, in all cultures? This book has plenty of salient facts to speak to this question and ultimately overturn much of the feminist dogma that has been forced down modern society’s throat.
A Return to Modesty
A valuable critique of the sexual revolution from a religious perspective and a rational one. This is a fun read.
The Manipulated Man
Don’t read this if you are easily triggered. It is extremely subversive and was very controversial when it first came out. That being said, I really love this book.
Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men?
Another book by the author of The Myth of Male Power. More important facts to bring to the whole feminism debate.
Before Homosexuality
Read this to understand the history of how Muslim societies and scholars conceived of same-sex behavior before the Western notion of “homosexuality” was coined in the 19th century.
Gender Trouble
Judith Butler takes feminist thought to its logical but deeply disturbing conclusion: “Biological sex” is a social construction. This is a very influential book and it is discursively useful in arguing against the feminist project because, among other things, it shows the self-defeating nature of feminism as a system of thought.
Atheism
The Experience of God
The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology
Why Does the World Exist?
The Devil’s Delusion
Liberalism and Secularism
There Is No Such Thing as Free Speech
A great extended argument made by Stanley Fish. Critical reading if you want to understand the issue from a deeper philosophical perspective that avoids all the useless cliches and chest-beating of “freedom-loving” patriots and liberal activists alike.
The Impossibility of Religious Freedom
This book provides a useful critique of religious freedom. It doesn’t go as far as it could, but still valuable.
The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse
Love this book. Must-read.
Formations of the Secular
Islam in Liberalism
The Impossible State
General Philosophy
Philosophical Investigations
I don’t recommend this book unless you’re already fairly familiar with analytic philosophy. That being said, it is arguably the greatest work of philosophy of all time, full of amazing insights and mind-bending reflections on the nature of philosophy, language, thought, and meaning. It is also a work that virtually no one understands.
The Claim of Reason
Must We Mean What We Say?
The Threefold Cord
The Order of Things
The Blue and Brown Books
More Wittgenstein. Read this before you read Philosophical Investigations.
Evolution
What Darwin Got Wrong
Darwin’s Dilemma
Signature in the Cell
Mind and Cosmos
A prominent atheist philosopher admits that evolutionary naturalism is bogus. This book made many atheists very angry.
The Non-Darwinian Revolution
Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker
Michael Copeland says
“one unfortunate incident”
Yaser Qadhi is not good at counting. Charlie Hebdo, kosher Hyper market, Toulouse Jews, Nice truck attack, Bataclan murders, Charlie Hebdo II, throat-slitting of priest and police, burning churches, and so on and so on.
“it was not a murder that came from the books of fikh”
Oh no?
The Manual of Islamic Law, “Reliance of the Traveller” lists, under “Acts that entail leaving Islam” (o8.7), “to revile Allah or his messenger’ (o8.7(4)). The penalty is death. The penalty can be carried out, vigilante style, by anyone without blame or legal consequence “since it is killing someone who deserves to die” (o8.4).
As one of the Kouachi brothers said, ““If someone offends the Prophet no problem, we can kill him”.
No, Dr. Qadhi, your narrative has holes in it.
mortimer says
Yes, very good post, Michael. Yasir Qadhi can’t count. It is up to thousands of incidents by Muslim terrorists in France, by now, beginning with the invasion and the plundering of France by Muslim armies in the 8th century.
15% of Muslims worldwide have self-declared to support terrorist groups. Yasir Qadhi supports Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. He is one of the terrorist-supporters … he is a terrorism-enabler.
Peter WF says
In terms of counting he cannot count past 1. So he can simply repeat himself on each of “one unfortunate incident”.
Search “world map average IQ”
Search “world map marry first cousins”
Search “world map muslims”
Search “effects of long term in breeding in humans” – and / or check this out-
https://www.10news.one/what-are-the-effects-widespread-inbreeding-among-muslims/
And on different subject –
“world map corruption”
I didn’t make any contribution to the results of the searches.
mortimer says
Sheikh Yasir Qadhi knows that the textual evidence proves that the Koran is a manmade book, but he keeps repeating the Islamic mantras to brainwash himself daily.
He’s an example of cognitive dissonance … knowing the facts brought by science, but then rejecting them so that he may be part of a vicious, cruel, heartless Bronze-Age death cult.
Obviously, Yasir Qadhi loves being in a death cult.
mortimer says
The assassination is fully justified by Sharia law and Yasir Qadhi is using taqiyya. In fact, a vigilante may on his own initiative and without an official fatwa assassinate a blasphemer. There is no ‘indemnity’ (blood money) payable when a blasphemer is killed.
Yasir Qadhi is a reprehensible liar and an example of why no mullah may be trusted.
Mason Stewart says
Meanwhile, in France
https://mobile.twitter.com/InfosFrancaises/status/1322892596629413888
Dave from San Antonio says
I think people are becoming more and more aware of what the ‘truth’ actually is in islam. It’s a hate of anything, everything and everybody that is not ‘islamic’ or ‘muslim’ in nature. Islam was founded on lies and I think many clerics know it, but if they admitted it…they would lose their influence and power. No intelligent or rational human can read the qur’an and not see how twisted it is.
Dan says
Well said!
somehistory says
““unfortunate incident” that is being used as a pretext for a “brutal” campaign
“one of very few attacks by moslims.”
The terrible killing and beheading …”an unfortunate incident,” but trying to put an end to such attacks is ‘brutal.”
And ***one*** attack like this one is more than way too many. There shouldn’t be any such attacks. Besides the fact that their have been more…way more…than a “very few.”
One other interest of mine in this creep’s lies….he is in Plano, which is a hop skip and jump…about half an hour drive…from Irving. Remember Irving and the “clock boy” moslim who was claimed by moslims to be oh-so-innocent of any wrongdoing. There is a large cluster of lying moslims in that area…the “metroplex”… of Texas, and Plan has some of the richest people living there.
Another thing all moslims seem to ignore is the “freedom to speak” should rightly be taken from them before it’s taken from someone drawing a cartoon of a filthy son of satan who lived centuries ago . moslims daily rant against Jews and Christians, and say what they plan to do to these…and are allowed to keep on saying it. There are Jews and Christians in range of these murdering rants.
No one really knows what the fake prophet, lying mass-murderer, raper of children might have looked like, but moslims get all bent out of shape…a constant condition for them in reality…when someone draws a cartoon and says it’s of the creepy filth of the ancient desert who supposedly wrote a book of filthy commands.
He claims what the government of France is saying and doing is a “pretext.” But, the murder and beheading is a most egregious act of terrorism than is needed to try to stop any attacks from taking place. France had ample reasons to do something before this. This terror attack on a teacher of children seemed to be a “last straw.”
This guy in Plano should be investigated pronto. Because anyone who makes such claims, downplaying the murder and beheading, lying about the number of such things, is an indication…more than an indication…of his views, what is in his heart and mind, regarding terror by moslims.
abad says
Deport him all the way back to Syria. He does not belong in America.
GreekEmpress says
+1
Keith O says
This is one very dangerous individual. Mainly because he believes what he is saying.
James Lincoln says
Both need to be investigated by the FBI:
1. The East Plano islamic Center (EPiC) in Plano, Texas
2. American islamic “Scholar” Dr. Yasir Qadhi
SJ says
I’m confused – how did he evade FBI & the Patriot Act?
somehistory says
The “o” ordered that many moslims be allowed in. I didn’t read all about this creep, but if he came in after 2008, it was due to o being a moslim and wanting the U.S to be the “molsim country” he proclaimed it to be as he “fundamentally transformed ‘ America.
Andrew says
Over 38000 attacks by muslims against non muslims since 9/11 in NYC, but where are all the non muslims attacking muslims and setting up their own religion as superior?. Im just asking…
b.a. freeman says
yasir qadhi is an a**hole, and also a boob. i have news for him; i will work vigorously against islam as long as i have breath in my body.
and yes, his “prophet” was a psychopathic monster, so i’m attacking it as well.
OLD GUY says
Islam is a total lie. Muhammad was a sleaze ball con man with no morals. Muhammad only cared about one thing and that was himself. He created a cult type religion that put him in power for the betterment of himself and the control of a small number of followers at that point in history. Others have continued to follow that cult to put themselves in a place of power and personnel wealth.
What has islam brought to the world? Slavery, Child rape, violence, murder and disruption of society. Islam is a cult with no moral values. It’s all about POWER and CONTROL.
gravenimage says
Texas: Islamic scholar rails against France’s ‘Islamophobic campaign against our prophet under guise of free speech’
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Why hasn’t the appalling Yasir Qadhi been deported yet?
livepeanuts says
Those members of this evil cult who speak, publish and teach such evil, aggressive and discriminatory texts about us who would never want to share such a terrible faith with them.
What they say in their books about what should be done to us and what should become of us and how we should be treated, are the ones who are “offended” by simple and harmless cartoons from us of the one who wrote all those evil, aggressive, insulting, discriminatory and false things about US!
Isn’t it OUR time to be offended once and for all put this evil cult in its place OUTSIDE our free world where it has nothing to do or contribute.
Isn’t it time that we put ALL its evil literature which has no respect for us where it belongs?
Just look how derranged this evil literature is and what it does to these people’s minds who have taken it in! Even the crimes it leads to!
Whose is the Sovereignty in our free countries?
Whose is Law in our free countries?
Whose can practice Freedom of Speech in our countries?
Who do these indoctrinated people think that they are?