Memphis imam confronted with Geller Report article about his call for killing gays, claims words were taken out of context

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An imam in Toronto calls for killing Jews. An imam in Memphis calls for killing gays. Both, when confronted, claim they didn’t really mean it. If Qadhi is telling the truth, and he did say that the death penalty for gays doesn’t apply today, then why doesn’t he produce that portion of his speech? And when are news outlets going to stop making excuses for these violent savages, and call them out for what they obviously do mean?

“An imam accused of calling for gays to be killed is coming to speak in London,” by Ludovica Iaccino, International Business Times,

A Memphis-based prominent imam, due to speak at an Islamic conference in London in November, has strongly rejected claims that he advocates for the death of homosexuals. To burnish his tolerant credentials, he calls for the prosecution of those who try to forcefully implement “Islamic law in our countries and Western lands”.

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American Muslim scholar and writer Yasir Qadhi made the remarks during an interview with IBTimes UK, following a Daily Mail article and a blog post on Pamela Geller’s website expressing concern at his alleged calls for violence.

Geller is an American political activist known for her anti-Muslim rhetoric and opposition to Sharia Law.

“The UK has banned me from entering the country because of my opposition to jihad and sharia and my support for Israel, but the UK government welcomes Islamic hate preachers who call for the murder of gays and ‘blasphemers,'” Geller wrote on her website, quoting an article which appeared in the Daily Mail on 16 October.

According to the article, “Qadhi said that to ‘kill … the homosexual – this is also our religion’, and that ‘to make fun of Allah and his messenger, the punishment is death'”.

The same quote was reported in an April 2017 article on the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain’s website. Qadhi, however, denied the allegations, arguing that his quotes might have been part of a longer speech in which he was simply quoting “classical and medieval Islamic law”.

“My track record is clear – I have been preaching and teaching Islam and all of its disciplines for over two decades. True, I have evolved in some of my views, as it is to be expected, but I have never in my life called for violence against anyone or any group, and I have never in my life supported extremist and jihadist movements,” he told IBTimes UK.

“Classical and medieval Islamic law does have pretty harsh punishments for matters that our modern societies wouldn’t find problematic. When someone says, ‘The Bible has a verse that calls for those who disobey the rules of the Sabbath to be executed’, he is being factually correct,” he continued.

“Now, whether he is actually inciting the audience to go kill people for collecting firewood on the Sabbath or merely conveying a fact that his audience should know, depends on the context and the speaker’s history and background. So when I quote Islamic law, one needs to see what I mean and what my context is.

“It is not our job or duty or responsibility to implement judicial aspects of Islamic law in our countries and Western lands on other people, and those who do it are mistaken and blameworthy and should be stopped and prosecuted for that.”

Qadhi said in a 2009 speech that the way societies looked at homosexuality now, compared to decades ago, meant that these societies “have regressed, not progressed”.

However, in a more recent speech in 2016, he said: “Allah will not punish you for the feelings of the heart. The point is what our feelings are in our heart must be controlled. So if a Muslim finds himself or herself having same-sex impulses or attractions we say to them: ‘You are no less of a Muslim simply because you feel this way.’ If they act upon it, we say to this brother or sister that you have committed a sin.”

Qadhi, who co-founded MuslimMatters.org, has been described as one “of the most influential conservative clerics in American Islam”. In 2015, the Islamic State (Isis) terror group called for his assassination after the scholar spoke out against the militants.

Qhadi [sic] is one of a group of scholars due to take part in panel talks at the ILMFest, an Islamic conference sponsored by the Texas-based Al-Maghrib Institute, in London on 4 November. He is also an instructor at the vanguard of Islamic studies.

The institute has been at the centre of controversies as some of its students have been accused of being involved in terror plots. It also received widespread criticism for continuing to sell – until 2009 – recordings of late radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a suspected member of Al-Qaeda.

Student Rights, a project of The Henry Jackson Society that calls for “freedom from extremism on university campuses across the UK”, expressed concern over the fact that university students had been given leaflets publicising ILMFest.

“This conference will feature extreme speakers such as Omar Suleiman, Yasir Qadhi, Yayha Ibrahim, and Abu Eesa Niamutullah. The Al-Maghrib Institute has a shameful record of promoting speakers with intolerant and extreme views,” Students Rights said.

Richard Black, Research Manager of Student Rights, told the Daily Mail that British universities should do more to protect vulnerable people.

“Universities should make more rigorous checks to make sure extremist and inappropriate material does not target young and potentially vulnerable people,” he said.

However, a spokesperson for Al-Maghrib rejected the allegations and told IBTimes UK that the institute was involved in anti-terrorism initiatives.

“The Instructors at Al-Maghrib have a track record of countering extremism and promoting a path of moderation in all aspects of life,” Navaid Aziz said….

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Michael Gerardi
Michael Gerardi
6 years ago

Qadhi is a LIAR.

Michael Gerardi
Michael Gerardi
6 years ago

LOL. My sarcasm meter just burned out 🙂

Poppey
Poppey
6 years ago

Pffftt, don’t they all.

Make him stand in the corner, without his trousers – for 20 years.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

muslims always lie, they are always the victim. An “atomic wedgie” awarded him by a gorilla, then posted on “you tube”, will be a good reminder to others who would do the same. Would not be a bad idea to have the qur’an defined as hate literature as that is where all this ignorant violent proselytizing comes from.

Duchess of Pork
Duchess of Pork
6 years ago

Were they translated from Arabic into English?

Michael Buley
Michael Buley
6 years ago

Muslims preach tolerance and diversity when they are the minority. When they are the majority, there is zero tolerance and diversity. We need only look at Muslim majority countries where Sharia is the law. Show me a Muslim majority country where Christianity is ‘tolerated.’ Where gays are not killed. Where people are not beheaded for apostasy, for ‘making fun of Allah and his follower.’ Where women are not beaten at the whim of husbands, and honor killings are accepted, and demanded. Etc.

David Glynn
David Glynn
6 years ago
Reply to  Michael Buley

There’s no such country and the worse of it is they want to spread this intolerance worldwide and the governments and misguided lefties antifa etc are helping them.

tn_tea _ partyer_420
tn_tea _ partyer_420
6 years ago

Muslims are allowed to lie to non-muslims. They get brownie points if they lie in pursuit of jihad

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
6 years ago

He is clearly LYING.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago

To compare islum to Judaism in the 21st century is an argument of false equivalence. When was the last time anyone Jewish killed anyone for working on the Sabbath? Is there any documented, historical instance of anyone Jewish killing anyone homosexual or for working on the Sabbath? But when you’re defending muslums and islum grabbing at straws is the 1st and practically only defense possible.

garry pollackD
garry pollack
6 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

Proof? We know what mooselims yell @ a terrorist attack. What do Jews yell? U don’t know? Why don’t U know?

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  garry pollack

You need more lithium in your diet.

David Glynn
David Glynn
6 years ago

Your armed why are you allowing this to happen?
PROSCRIBE ISLAM!

David Glynn
David Glynn
6 years ago

Drive the muzrats out of America at the point of a gun!

Tearlag
Tearlag
6 years ago

Ah, “context!” How quickly the muzz pick up on the lefties’ favorite excuse words. “Taken out of context” is the favorite way of wheedling out of their idiotic, destructive comments.

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
6 years ago

Yeah right … tacketta, tacoma, taqyatta, tequila or whatever it’s called … it’s just lying.

Islam is a lie.

With apologies to lies.

Karl
Karl
6 years ago

Can you say the word, ‘taquyya’?

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