An Islamic Hate Speaker Comes to Town
Yasir Qadhi brings his brand of Holocaust-denying, Hitler-defending, Jew-hating “moderation” to Ohio.
When Dominic Grieve — the Tory U.K. shadow home secretary and attorney general — took to the podium at the grotesquely misnamed 2008 Global Peace and Unity event, he pulled no punches.
While thanking his hosts for the opportunity to speak, he became highly unpopular with the audience when he attacked other event speakers who espouse conspiracy theories and extremist interpretations of Islam and who reflect a “deranged or deeply-warped mindset.”
One of those he mentioned by name was Yasir Qadhi.
Yasir Qadhi, a Houston-based cleric, is quite popular in Islamic circles, speaking around the world and appearing regularly on Middle East television networks. Qadhi also serves as an instructor for the Al Maghrib Institute, aka “Jihad U.” It is in that capacity that he is coming to my hometown of Columbus, Ohio, this week to conduct a three-day seminar for Qabeelat Hayl, the Columbus Al Maghrib chapter.
What specifically troubled Dominic Grieve about his joint appearance with Qadhi was the Islamic preacher’s recorded statements denying the Holocaust and claiming that Hitler never intended to kill the Jews, amongst other anti-Jewish statements. Grieve was referring to a sermon Qadhi delivered in 2001 where he directed his listeners to a book entitled The Hoax of the Holocaust:
All of these Polish Jews which Hitler was supposedly trying to exterminate, that’s another point, by the way, Hitler never intended to mass-destroy the Jews. There are a number of books out on this written by Christians, you should read them. The Hoax of the Holocaust, I advise you to read this book and write this down, The Hoax of the Holocaust, a very good book. All of this is false propaganda and I know it sounds so far-fetched, but read it. The evidences [sic] are very strong. And they’re talking about newspaper articles, clippings, everything and look up yourself what Hitler really wanted to do. We’re not defending Hitler, by the way, but the Jews, the way that they portray him, also is not correct.
Qadhi went on to elaborate that Jews infiltrated the Islamic studies departments at American universities because “they [the Jews] want to destroy us:”
You can use this against them (Jews) so easily. … You go to America, you find that 95 percent of the Islamic Studies professors are Jews, you know that? 95 percent of Islamic Studies [sic] are Jews. And 0 percent of Judaic Studies [sic] are Muslims. I am not advising any Muslim to waste his time studying Judaism but I’m saying, why are Jews studying Islam? There is a reason, not that they want to help us, they want to destroy us … they want to bring about doubts, look at the doubts that exist, look at the divisions, the discord, look at the disunity, look at all these ideologies that are being spread. Know that the Yahood [Jews] and the Kuffar [Infidels] like this type of thing.
Interestingly, I posted a short clip of these statements taken from his sermon on YouTube to request comment from local Jewish organizations. No sooner had the clip appeared than Qadhi’s media company, EmanRush, filed a copyright claim and had the video removed. I did, however, find that the clip is still available elsewhere (which undoubtedly Qadhi will promptly have removed as well).
Now in fairness to Qadhi, after the U.K. policy think tank Policy Exchange circulated a dossier prior to last year’s Global Peace and Unity event noting these statements, and U.K. bloggers also took up the cause, Qadhi published — seven years after the fact — an explanation saying that he had been tricked into making these statements because he didn’t know that the Holocaust-deniers he relied upon would actually be pushing Holocaust-denial.
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26 Comments
1. Yossarian:Hi, I would love to guest post this article at my blog, the Spittoon. If you would be agreeable to this, please will you get in contact. My email address is yossarian [at] spittoon [dot] org
Best wishes,
Jul 16, 2009 - 2:09 am 2. eon:Qadhi will be holding his “seminar” at OSU?
Once more, Ohio State takes another step toward cementing its claim to the title of “Berkeley East”.
If anyone still needs proof of the intellectual bankruptcy of American higher education, well, here it is.
Since Antioch College finally closed last year due to lack of anyone (including Antioch alumni) wanting to send their kids there, OSU’s only major challenger for the title of “Most Politically Radical Left-Wing School In Middle America” is Ohio University-Athens.
Maybe we’ll get lucky, and their devotion to being “avant garde” politically will sink both schools as surely as it did Antioch.
clear ether
eon
Jul 16, 2009 - 4:40 am 3. Paul -Indiana:Do you suppose that Teleprompter Barbie will be a guest speaker [or perhaps, reader].
Jul 16, 2009 - 4:59 am 4. Steve:I wonder if our “Homeland Security” or the FBI and CIA are investigating Yasir Qadhi and others like him? Let’s hope that it is the case.
Jul 16, 2009 - 5:43 am 5. Lynn:After listening Yasir Qadhi from the link, it becomes so clear why he is agitated.
Fifty seven Muslim states and counting. One Jewish state always under count-down to the time when Islam can wipe the memory of Israel and it’s people from the face of the earth.
…and the faculty of our colleges always eager to present to the students the many reasons why Israel and the Jewish People have no right to exist.
10…9…8…7…6…5…4…3…2…1…?
Jul 16, 2009 - 5:49 am 6. Bill Narvey:Islamist imams, scholars and spokespersons who spew their racist hatred against Jews and non-Muslims are here in the West in far far greater numbers then Western democratic leaders are willing to admit.
It is troubling enough that our Western leaders persist in telling us that the racist terrorist supporting Islamists are few in number, be they within Western democratic nations or from without, when they know that is not true in the least.
Even more troubling is that our Western leaders turn a blind eye to the significance that the vast majority of Muslims, within Western democracies or without, do not speak out against these inhuman racist Islamists and seek to dissociate themselves from this racist Islamic creed.
Jul 16, 2009 - 6:01 am 7. sharky:bad guy, poor choice, typical
Jul 16, 2009 - 6:29 am 8. "progressive"watch:The main thng that I have noticed about holocaust-deniers is that they all seem to support human-bombs(the only Islamic contribution to humanity in the last 1000 years) and beheading.
Jul 16, 2009 - 7:21 am 9. Bill Perron:Off with his head !!! Allah akbar.
Jul 16, 2009 - 8:40 am 10. blotto:Good for him. Look, American Jews voted for Obama and what he stands for. American Jews side with the Left which has become increasingly more anit-semetic over the last couple of years. And so what? I could care less. Let them try to cohabitate in the same party with Muslims. Good riddace.
Now if he starts to preach against America, then I say off with his head.
Jul 16, 2009 - 8:51 am 11. Bohemond:“OSU’s only major challenger for the title of “Most Politically Radical Left-Wing School In Middle America” is Ohio University-Athens.”
You’re overlooking Wisconsin-Madison
“they all seem to support human-bombs(the only Islamic contribution to humanity in the last 1000 years)”
Nope, they even stole that- from the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka.
Jul 16, 2009 - 10:59 am 12. Proud_Kafir7908:“when he attacked other event speakers who espouse conspiracy theories and extremist interpretations of Islam”
What he meant by “extremist interpretations” is actually true islam. Any mahoundian who truly follows mahoundianism, by doing everything that Sura 9 tells them to and emulating Mahound’s behavior as a “perfect and beautiful model of conduct”, as Sura 33:21 states every good mahoundian should do, will be regarded as an “extremist” in our suicidally politically-correct Western world.
Jul 16, 2009 - 11:43 am 13. Thomas:@10. blotto:
Jul 16, 2009 - 12:05 pm 14. Frank:You hit the nail right on but post like yours is not welcomed here and get ready to be deleted.
I saved the video to my desktop, it will exist indefinitely now
Jul 16, 2009 - 12:50 pm 15. Blarty Blarckleblart:The auto-generated ad accompanying this piece, at least at the moment, is from ArabMatchmaking.com – “Meet Muslim Girls.”
Priceless
Jul 16, 2009 - 1:42 pm 16. Tim:Islam is a murdering cult but whats all the adverts for that other brainless cult called Scientology that keep appearing on the site?????????? Clearly people are easily deluded when two of the most ridiculous creations of man appear on the same page, all we need is an advert for that other monstrosity representing another useless cult ‘Big Love’ and we would have a trifecta!
Jul 16, 2009 - 3:20 pm 17. Proud_Kafir7908:Tim, if ads for Scientology help keep Pajamas Media running, let them run them anyway. It still won’t change my opinion of Tom Cruise’s wacky cult. I’ve seen something similar in how ads for Muslima.com keep appearing on websites featuring articles extremely accurate, politically-incorrect and truthful in their criticism of mahoundianism, regardless of the diametrical opposition between those ads and the articles.
Jul 17, 2009 - 12:11 am 18. Lynn B.:Columbus is not the only place. Cell operating out of the Toledo area was busted a couple of years ago. Two highly regarded “businessmen” and a third who was picked up in Afghanistan at a training camp, flown to the Federal Building in Cleveland to be charged with terrorism. Then there was the KindHearts Charity closed down for supplying weapons to Hamas instead of hospital supplies. This stuff has been going on for a very long time. There are a lot of Sunni Palestinians and Lebanese in OH.
Jul 17, 2009 - 5:39 am 19. Thomas:@10. blotto:
Our conversation would not be complete without this succulent information on the subject:
“Human Rights Watch, which was largely created and funded by Jewish donors to promote traditional human rights concerns, is now cooperating and seeking funding from the leaders of Saudi Arabia – snip – Under the leadership of Kenneth Roth, HRW has been active in the campaigns condemning Israeli responses to attacks from Gaza, as well as during the 2006 Lebanon War, the Palestinian mass terror campaign, and in many other examples, as documented by NGO Monitor.”
The Jewish boss of HRW Kenneth Roth – just like the evil Soros – is received with open arms in Riyad where no other Jew is permitted to enter.
http://jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/07/fundraising_corruption_at_huma.php
It’s quite possible that this a***le imam is representing the New World Order, Multiculturalism, tolerance, and the progressive Jewish Americans.
Jul 17, 2009 - 7:07 am 20. liebuster:Who knows…best is to stay clear fro this swamp.
Just wanted to ask, is there ANY proof that Nuradin Abdi was/is linked to AlMaghrib and Columbus chapter?
Nuradin Abdi was arrested in 2003 and apparently AlMaghrib Chapter in Columbus -Hayl- only started 2005.
If you are going to lie, at least be smart about it. But if the intention was to create fear, mission accomplished; I am so scared now.
Jul 17, 2009 - 7:21 am 21. JFP:eon, how about Oberlin?
Jul 17, 2009 - 7:55 am 22. JFP:eon, by the way, there’s this nonsense to contend with:
http://www.thecourier.com/Issues/2009/Jul/04/ar_news_070409_story7.asp?d=070409_story7,2009,Jul,04&c=n
Jul 17, 2009 - 7:58 am 23. Patrick Poole:Um, liemaker (#20) Nuradin Abdi was indicted in June 2004, not 2003 as you allege. Sounds like you need to get your facts straight.
Jul 17, 2009 - 8:58 am 24. Lynn:I think that people have to be Holocaust deniers because they cannot then further the idea that Israel and the Jewish People are the cause of all the ills in the world. If it weren’t for Israel we could all live in peace together…
Jul 17, 2009 - 12:02 pm 25. Leatherneck:This is another example of the enemy within. Also, another example of Islam.
For those who are slow, I wrote, enemy = Islam.
Yea, I’m waayy off base here.
ROPMA!
Jul 17, 2009 - 3:13 pm 26. Thomas:If you missed it, then enjoy:
“Fall of capitalism, Rise of Islam”
at Chicago Hotel Hilton, by Al Queida!!!
Unbelievable! July 19th 2009.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krRWJmXI9HY&feature=player_embedded
Jul 17, 2009 - 5:19 pm