Yasir Qadhi

A collection of 26 posts

Shari'a Featured

“Moderate Muslims”, the “handful of extremists” and Shari'a

"The average Muslim can be visibly Muslim and demonstrate the beauty of Islam. That is the biggest victory for Islam and the ummah. Do not trivialise your role. If you can influence your immediate circle to understand our religion is a positive force for society, that’s all we need you to do."

Jihad Featured

Victory by humiliation

Those who think that "the resistance" is a Palestinian struggle against "occupation" must explain why Hamas and Hezbollah, one Palestinian, the other not, both have "Islamic Resistance" in their name, and why no Arab Muslims have ever agreed to divide the land, no matter how small the Jewish part.

Debate Featured

Answering my critics, Part 2

Let us, first of all, be crystal clear about one thing: if I could become Jewish and Israeli tomorrow, I would seize the opportunity with both hands.

Propaganda Featured

Muslims must not debate, will not debate, cannot debate. Part 4

We have all seen Muslims bolt from debates at Speakers' Corner and heard them cut the call on Christian Prince's YouTube channel. When overwhelmed with evidence and unable to dominate, their centre can no longer hold, and things fall apart.

Debate Featured

Muslims must not debate, will not debate, cannot debate. Part 3

Most instructive about Muslim denials of Muhammad’s paedophilia is how they confine their denials and obfuscations to sources that can be endlessly argued over without ever reaching an irrefutable conclusion. Yet Muslims have been completely silent about Shari’a, the law of Muhammad.

Propaganda Featured

Muslims must not debate, will not debate, cannot debate. Part 2

Dr Qadhi well knows that Islam and Shari'a are indefensible and is careful to avoid debates with kafir experts. Yasir Qadhi came under fire from the da'wah gangs for having destroyed the scam of the perfect preservation of the Qur'an, making it very difficult for them to lie to the gullible kufaar.

Apostasy Featured

Every single Muslim is responsible. Part 4

While the relationship between Islam and the kufaar expands Islam, the relationship between the scholars and lay Muslims sustains Islam. The implication of the popular rejection of the relationship that sustains Islam is huge, for it is existential.

Apostasy Featured

Every single Muslim is responsible. Part 3

Increasing numbers of Muslims are finding that hypocrisy will no longer provide them with comfort. Only by joining the likes of ISIS, on the one hand, or apostatising from Islam, on the other, can a Muslim escape hypocrisy and find honesty, with his or her inner human either dead, or set free.

Da'wah Featured

The worst of non-Muslims convert to Islam, the best of Muslims leave Islam. Part 2

This is the problem with 'reverts'. They lack the hardwiring that makes Muslims Muslim. Things that a raised Muslim would be incapable of thinking, a reverts is able to shout from the rooftops. In taking in Western academics in its scramble for Western converts, Islam has ingested a poison capsule.

Da'wah Featured

The worst of non-Muslims convert to Islam, the best of Muslims leave Islam. Part 1

"We are a people incapable of comprehending sarcasm, since it requires a bit of thinking and intellectualising. And we read with great speed and a hopeful eye, not an eye for truth or reality. Some of us are struck with blindness when we read things that go against our hopes."

Jihad Featured

The Annexation of Territory in War: Answer to Dr Meir Finkel, Part 2

Back in 2004-5, when Palestinians saw the Knesset debating capitulating in Gaza, imams in all the mosques instructed Palestinians to be on their best behaviour, because they were about to win back Muslim land without a fight and they definitely did not want to blow it.

Jihad Featured

Give the Qur'an to Jews!

The cause of Jew-killing has nothing to do with being Jewish and everything to do with Jew-hatred. To say otherwise is to say that Jews would still be killed, even if there were no Jew-hatred.

Totalitarianism Featured

Orwell, Jabotinsky, Fascism and Islam - Part 2

"At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying." — Benito Mussolini

Totalitarianism Featured

And STILL they prattle on about a “women’s revolution” - Part 3

The Iranian regime is not against women per se; it is against everyone who is not the Supreme Leader. Everyone is subject to arbitrary control, and the arbitrary power of all strata ends up borne by women, in Iran instrumentalised in the hijab.

Polemics Featured

Msreading Iran

"Women Life Freedom" is not a feminist slogan and this is not a “women’s revolution.” The events unfolding in major parts of the Muslim world mean that after almost 200 years, the 1848 revolutions finally resume: the autonomous individual is far from dead, with a tip of the hat to George Orwell.

Polemics Featured

"Islam is not a religion," Answer to Lloyd de Jongh - Part 2

There can be nothing more tedious than listening to believers in the throes of disagreement. Readers interested in this kind of discourse would do better listening to Mohamed Hijab or Zakir Naik. At least they'll be entertained.

Dissidents/Ex-Muslims

"Take your Islam and go!"

This is much more powerful than the already powerful "Death to the dictator!" Of course, it also implies death to dictatorship, yet nothing can be more direct and unequivocal than "Take your Islam and go!" It is not our Islam, we don't want it, and we don't want those who want it! GO!

Jihad Featured

Anatomy of a madness, Part 4

I read The Satanic Verses in the winter of 1996-97, unemployed and frozen, and again in the winter of 2014-15, Charlie Hebdo on TV 24/7. The third time was in that magical realist summer of 2020, with a fresh-ish MFA to my name, to study the work as art. 12 August 2022: the author survived.

Jihad Featured

Anatomy of a madness, Part 3

I read The Satanic Verses in the winter of 1996-97, unemployed and frozen, and again in the winter of 2014-15, Charlie Hebdo on TV 24/7. The third time was in that magical realist summer of 2020, with a fresh-ish MFA to my name, to study the work as art. 12 August 2022: the author survived.

Jihad Featured

"Will Nupur Sharma ever lead a normal life? Should moderate Muslims speak up?" - A commentary - Part 3

Hindu talk of boycotting Muslim businesses is partly out of helpless despair, and partly out of an urgency to do something when they have no idea what to do. There is nothing either helpless or desperate about jihad murder. It is calculated, meticulously planned, and painstakingly executed.

Totalitarianism Featured

Eid al-Adha, sacrifice no more

While the relationship between Islam and the kufaar expands Islam, the relationship between the scholars and lay Muslims sustains it. The rejection of the relationship between the scholars and lay Muslims is huge, for it is existential.

Polemics Featured

Words, propaganda and head of a newborn babe, Part 2

Propaganda is truth presented in such a way as to achieve a particular effect on the one exposed to it, whether the claim is believed or not is unimportant, therefore whether it is true or not is unimportant. This is exactly why Muslims lie so much.

Polemics Featured

Words, propaganda and head of a newborn babe, Part 1

It is possible that this was not a crime, but it was most certainly not a "botched surgery," as some are so anxious to declare.

Atheism/religion

The panic of the sheikhs

Atheism spooks the sheikhs. People cannot turn to them for answers, and must seek and find their own answers. Lying flat dissolves the CCP’s power over the Chinese people in exactly the same way as a Muslim woman marrying an atheist does.

Palestinians

The double death of "the Palestinians" - Part 1

The kufaar are successful in this life, Muslims are successful in the next life. It's as simple as that. When Muslims sever themselves from the next life, they set their humanity free. They have something to lose here and now, and all the world is better for it. That's the whole story. That's it.