An Islamic Hate Speaker Comes to Town
But no sooner had Qadhi walked back his previous statements than he appeared at last year’s Islamic Society of North America conference (also in my hometown of Columbus) defending notorious Holocaust-denier David Irving (video is here). As I observed in an article more than two years ago, Qadhi had also posted links to articles by another Holocaust denier, Alexander Baron, on an Islamic online forum.
As I noted back then, Holocaust-denial and anti-Jewish hate speech appear to be a staple for Al Maghrib instructors. The head of Al Maghrib, Muhammad al-Shareef, has published an article entitled “Why the Jews were Cursed,” in which he expounds on such “moderate” themes as the international Jewish control of the media. Another Al Maghrib instructor, Waleed Basyouni, gave a speech in 2006, where he repeats several anti-Jewish libels from the Quran, explaining that from the time of Mohammed, Jews had conspired to subvert Islam:
Do you think Christian know who is God? Do you think Jewish [sic] know who is God? … Seven years the prophet and his companions suffered from the Jew in Medina. Seven years, the Jew try to destroy this, a new Muslims’ country. … They try everything. They try to kill him [Mohammed]. … They try to make deals with the Kufar, so they could attack Muslims. They support the hypocrites. They start everything. Seven years, suffering from them.
Comments made by another Al Maghrib instructor, Ashraf Ismail, were recorded in 2006 by operatives from the Investigative Project on Terrorism. During his speech, he instructed the video camera operators to turn off their equipment and explained how Islam was destined to become preeminent throughout the world. The tape recorders of the Investigative Project operatives, however, continued to roll.
Qadhi’s extremism and associates have not gone unnoticed within the Muslim community. In April, the U.K.-based Quilliam Foundation, an organization funded by the U.K. government to help combat radicalism, put out an alert noting Qadhi’s statements denying the Holocaust and attacking Shia Muslims, where he said that Shia Islam is “the most lying sect of Islam” and adding that “the Shias are allowed to lie and it is their religion to lie.” Qadhi quickly responded by calling the alert “fear-mongering” and “defamatory.”
As I have documented, it is little surprise that such Islamic hate speakers would be coming to Columbus. But the Al Maghrib Institute is a special area of concern. According to local authorities, one former leader and founder of the local chapter was none other than now-convicted al-Qaeda cell member Nuradin Abdi, who pled guilty to conspiring to blow up a Columbus-area shopping mall. As I reported elsewhere, another Al Maghrib student, Daniel Maldonado, was captured in 2007 by Kenyan forces while he was fighting with the al-Qaeda-backed Somali Islamic Courts Union. He was later returned to the U.S. and pleaded guilty to training with a foreign terrorist organization. Maldonado’s profile is still posted on the Al Maghrib forums.
If the example of Abdi and Maldonado are any indication, when Yasir Qadhi comes to Columbus this week bringing his special brand of hate to his three-day Al Maghrib Institute seminar at McPherson Labs on the Ohio State University campus, there is ample cause for concern. No doubt his supporters will enlist the help of the Columbus Dispatch to reassure their readers of Qadhi’s moderation and recount my extensive history of “Islamophobia.” But as our area was home to the largest known al-Qaeda cell in North America since 9/11, and that cell’s alleged direct connections to Al Maghrib (Nuradin Abdi), Yasir Qadhi’s brand of “moderation” is one Central Ohioans could do without.
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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
Do you suppose that Teleprompter Barbie will be a guest speaker [or perhaps, reader].
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.
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…?
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.
bad guy, poor choice, typical
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.
Off with his head !!! Allah akbar.
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.
“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.
“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.
@10. blotto:
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
The auto-generated ad accompanying this piece, at least at the moment, is from ArabMatchmaking.com – “Meet Muslim Girls.”
Priceless
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!
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.
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.
@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.
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.
eon, how about Oberlin?
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
Um, liemaker (#20) Nuradin Abdi was indicted in June 2004, not 2003 as you allege. Sounds like you need to get your facts straight.
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…
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!
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