Yasir Qadhi – Dangers of recent Hate, Bigotry & Racism

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			alayhi wa sallam was sitting on one of the houses of Medina. And he looked around and he said, Can
you see what I am seeing? Do you see what I'm seeing? They said, What are you seeing or messenger of
Allah? He said, I see trials and tribulations falling upon your houses, like the drops of rain. I
see problems are going to come to you like the drops of rain, the frequency, the quantity will
affect everybody. In another Hadith, our Prophet Sall Allahu alayhi wa sallam mentioned that towards
the end of times, trials would become repetitive by nature. Every time a trial or calamity would
come. The believers would become scared and terrified, they would say we cannot pass this trial,
		

			it's too much. But the prophets have said Allah will open up the doors, Allah will allow it to go
away, then another will come, then they will say this is my destruction, this is going to destroy
me, and so on and so forth. And brothers and sisters, when we look at how many incidents are taking
place, how many issues that we are facing on a daily, weekly, monthly level, those of you that are
old enough to remember back in the 70s 80s 90s, the world was a very different place. Not that I'm
romantically nostalgic, not that I'm saying it was beautiful and perfect. But compared to what we
are seeing now. This is unprecedented. And we are now just grappling with the events that happened
		

			last week in Charlottesville. The events that showed the dark side of this country were white
supremacists que que que Klan Neo Nazis are publicly unabashedly without any shame and HYAH
declaring to the world that there are racists and bigots and they're proud of it. And we saw the
effects and harm that was caused in that particular crowd and incident where a person an innocent
person tragically lost their lives. And two days ago as well, the incidents in Spain and we're still
reeling with those. But today's holds up, we need to clarify, we need to understand Islamically
contextualize what can we as Muslims do to combat this hate, and do not fool yourselves brothers and
		

			sisters, we should not be naive to the dangers of this type of rhetoric. Those who study history can
see parallels to this type of rhetoric and other mass genocides, incarcerations in the lifetime of
our own parents in the 40s. And 50s. An entire generation of Americans was incarcerated, the
Japanese Americans, an entire generation, around a quarter of a million people were taken from their
homes, they were fired, their jobs were taken away, their children stopped going to school and they
were put in the equivalent of concentration camps. This people that were they're still alive. Now,
those incidents didn't just take place in one day. There was a rhetoric there was a language that
		

			was building up to that incarceration, a generation before in the 30s and 40s, Germany, and there
are still people alive who remember that we all know what happened under the Nazis. We all know the
Holocaust were over 11 million people were killed 6 million they say were Jews, but there were five
others don't forget, there were a lot of people that were killed not just the Jews, they targeted
any minority. They targeted people of other races, other persuasions, they targeted people with
different political views. At least 11 million people were purged. Now, those incidents that three
years when that 11 million died, there was 10 years that led up to those three years. You had to
		

			have rhetoric, you had to have language, you had to have propaganda that led up to the events of the
Holocaust that led up to the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans. And what we are witnessing
today right now are the necessary precursors. You cannot have
		

			of mass genocide, you cannot have mass incarceration without these precursors that we are seeing
right here and now. And brothers and sisters, yes, it is true that the kk k is targeting many
minorities that the Neo Nazis that the white supremacists they don't like any minority. But let us
be very clear here, out of all of the minorities, which ones do they hate the most out of all of the
other? Who is number one on their list? We all know who it is. It is us, the Muslim community. And
if God forbid, may Allah protect us if anything were to happen, then we will be the first community
that is going to be targeted. Therefore, brothers and sisters, we simply do not have the time. We
		

			don't have the luxury to ignore the hatred that is fomenting and that is intentionally being
fomented as we speak, what can we do, obviously in one hole, but we cannot solve all the problems,
I'm just going to mention four or five points that will inshallah who to either benefit us first and
foremost, knowledge is power, knowledge, every one of us needs to educate ourselves about what's
going on. We cannot be in a vacuum a bubble of being unaware of the world, we have to keep abreast
of the news. We have to study these groups. We have to know their history, what they stand for, what
they believe, what they preach, who their leaders are, we need to study past incidents. All of this
		

			will better prepare us to engage in dialogue to change minds. If you are ignorant. How can you
convince another person who's ignorant? If you don't know history? How can you teach somebody else
the dangers of history, it is necessary to counter the claims of these groups that we educate
ourselves first and foremost. And again, much can be said and done. But everybody should know the
basics. The Ku Klux Klan, the kk k, has been a staple part of this country for more than a century
and a half. And it was founded right here in the state of Tennessee, by the way, in the 1860s. So
that's 150 years ago. It was founded right here in the state of Tennessee, by whom do you know, by
		

			officers of the Confederate army? Now, those of you that didn't go through high school here, perhaps
you don't understand the Confederates where they were the Confederates, you know, this country had a
civil war. The Confederates were those who are fighting for slavery. They wanted to retain slavery,
they wanted the whites to be superior and the blacks to remain slaves. That's the Confederates.
Obviously, they lost Abraham Lincoln one. Those members of the Confederate army that were still
disgruntled and angry, they founded the kk k, to continue to propagate these views of white
supremacy. And back in the day, there were no Muslims that they hated who did they hate the kk k?
		

			Number One On The List, believe it or not, was Catholics and Jews, even though skin color was the
same, but they hated those religions, then African Americans then this and that, and communists and
anybody who disagreed with them, and they resorted to violence because you cannot, you cannot
convince people to become racist, the average person is not a racist. So they commit acts of
violence. And in order to do that, they began covering themselves up. And so the garb of the kk k,
as we all know, is to have their faces covered in hoods. And by the way, Muslims you should know
where this garb where this dress comes from. It comes from the inquisition of the Muslims in Spain.
		

			I was just in Spain last weekend. Last weekend I was in under loose and you walk into the stores
there, and the store is in andaluz in Granada in kotoba, NCV and Seville and you find these little
icons that from an American's eye looks like a kick a replica. You see figures in hoods, you see
figures with knives, and the first time I saw it many years ago, I thought Why is Spain selling kk k
memorabilia and as the GWOT How can you sell this? They said no, this isn't kk k. This is the
inquisitors. This is the Spanish Reconquista. These are the heroes 500 years ago. So those heroes
What did they used to do? persecute the Muslims kill the Muslims torture the Muslims? The keh keh
		

			keh of America took that garb, the white robes and the cross and all of this, they took it from the
Inquisitors, those who practice the Inquisition. And if you go back in history, the Inquisition was
essentially primarily against us and the Jews in the 1500s Spetz. Spain declared itself to be a
Catholic only country so nobody else could live there. And so they began to persecute minorities,
the kk k took their garb from those particular people 500 years ago, as well, Neo Nazis. You should
know what Neo Nazis are Neo Nazis, Neo means new. These are the new Nazis. We all know the old Nazis
we've all heard of Hitler, we all know but do you know what was the core of their belief? The core
		

			of their belief was racial superiority. The core of their belief is there is one race that is better
than all others. And we have the God given right to dominate all other races. God has chosen us we
are God's chosen
		

			was in people, we are God's preferred race. And then they would say look at civilization. And this
they would boast 80 years ago, and their biological and intellectual descendants say the same thing
today, 80 years ago, they would say the same thing in Germany. Look at what the whites have done,
look at what the Caucasian empires have done. Look at what Europe and Christian dim has done. We are
the number one in the world, we have the pinnacle of civilization, we have done this, we have done
that. Now you fast forward, and you listen to the same white supremacists listen to the same white
supremacist today. And what will they tell you? America is the greatest civilization, we have gone
		

			to the moon, we have built the largest structures, we have done this and that why, because of our
skin color. So they link their superiority to their skin color. And they are proud of any type of
evils that their own civilizations have caused. And so many other things, brothers and sisters, this
can easily be deconstructed by a number of simple points first and foremost. And I want you to
memorize these things and understand them. First and foremost, understand there is no such thing as
a white race or a black race. There is no such thing biologically, scientifically, there is no such
thing, the color of your skin, the melatonin on your skin has nothing to do with your ancestry and
		

			heritage. And every human being is a mixture of cultures. You know, there are famous, you know,
YouTube videos and talk shows where a white racist does a DNA test and he discovers what that his
great great grandfather was an African American, that an ancestor was a native Indian person that
there is no such thing as a white race, all of us are mixed. Every one amongst us we have ancestors
that go here, ancestors that go there, there is no such thing as a pure race, it is a figment of
their imagination. Biologically, scientifically, there is no such thing as whiteness, or blackness
or brownness. It's irrelevant. And even a little bit of education can teach you this, every one of
		

			you here is a mixture of races, I myself have pure Arab blood in me by DNA test, I have pure Arab
blood and Indian blood and this blood, this is the reality of the world. And there's no distinction
in your blood color. There is no distinction in your organs inside, we are all equally human. So
then the claim that one race is somehow different than the other has no scientific or biological
merit. And that's why frankly, you have to be uneducated to be racist, you have to be uneducated to
be a racist. And that's why you really generally don't find educated people that are spouting these
views based upon knowledge. Secondly, as well, the claim that their civilization is superior to all
		

			others. Again, a little bit of history disproves them a little bit of knowledge. Every civilization
has its ups and downs. true in this particular generation, by and large Western civilization has
achieved technologically what other civilizations have not. But what typical AI will do, that will
happen in us. These are the years and these are the eras that we distribute between the people 100
years ago, 500 years ago, other civilizations were at their Pinnacle 1000 years ago, others this is
the reality of human beings. The Muslims came, and at one point in time, they were not very
educated. They were not very knowledgeable. What happened they ruled the world for 700 years, middle
		

			Europe, medieval Europe discovered Islamic knowledge, then they became they raised rose on their
ascent. This is the reality. No one race has dominated human history. For all of human history. This
is a blatant lie, as well, you can point out that the superiority of Western civilization. Firstly,
you're basing it only on technology. How about values? How about morality? How about kindness? How
about taking care of elders? Why don't you base a society on taking care of your elders on charity
to the poor? Every survey has shown that Muslim lands by and large are more generous, that Muslims
are the most charitable nation. So on what basis? Do you consider advancement of civilization GDP,
		

			the height of a building going to the moon? These are one factors there are many factors and no
civilization can claim a monopoly on virtue. No civilization can claim we are the best in every era
and every field as well. We have to point out that indeed, it is true GDP wise or other technology,
why certain civilizations right now dominate, but you cannot ignore their own histories. Were it not
for the stigma and the negatives of colonization? Were it not for the fact that England dominated
and invaded half the world or a fourth of the world raped and pillaged and plundered and the history
of England is well known. England would never have been a superpower had it not raped and pillaged
		

			India had not gone to the furthest regions and taken over and acquired and stole and looted. America
would not be America without the pillaging of India. The Founding Fathers many of them came from
India got the wealth from India and came over here. Remember, where was the Boston? The Boston Tea
Party revolt? What was it against east in
		

			India Trading Company East India, how can you ignore colonization? How can you ignore slavery,
America would not be a superpower had it not enslaved millions of people kidnapped them from Africa
brought them here to work in the fields, America would not be America. So don't come and boast and
brag about where you are now, without looking at your own history. And again, these people are
ignorant of history, these races are ignorant of history. It's our job to educate them. And by the
way, this whole notion of one race being superior to another, this links into what is called Social
Darwinism. What is social Darwinism, we've all heard Darwinism, the issue of survival of the
		

			fittest, the best animal survives and whatnot, while in the 1800s, a group of racist basically, a
thinker said, You know what Darwinism also applies between human beings, and the best civilization
has to survive. And they adopted these ideas, and they translated them into a racist type of
rhetoric that yes, white people are the privileged white people are number one. And they started
literally defending the notion that people of other creeds, other faiths, other skin colors are
inferior to them. This goes back to 1850s, pseudoscience, this notion of one race being superior to
another, as I said, race itself, the fancy term is it's a social construct, what is this, memorize
		

			it and use it and find out what it means a social construct, what does it mean, race is a social
construct. I mean, by this, the concept of whiteness or brownness, or blackness, doesn't actually
exist. It has been constructed, manufactured, fabricated by various societies in order to propagate
myths in order that people feel superior. So the notion of whiteness is a social construct, I'm
white, so I'm better than you. And we as Muslims, as intellectual people, as people who research can
easily put this whole theory to shame, it doesn't exist. As I said, there is no such thing as white
or black or brown, our blood is the same, our DNA is the same, our internal organs are the same.
		

			This whole notion of us being separate races is a myth that has no biological or scientific merit.
So first point, as I said, education, educate yourselves. Who are these people? What are their
origins? What have they done in the past? And what might they do in the future? And if you educate
yourself, this is one of the best ways to take on their challenges. Secondly, secondly, understand
psychologically, what is going on? Why is there this rise of xenophobia of hatred of Islamophobia? I
gave a hot beer last year about the Islamophobia industry, there is an industry, a political and
economic industry, there are motives at play, there are people that profit out of selling fear,
		

			there are people that benefit out of making one group terrified of another group. And we need to
understand this we are being used as a pawn in a far more vicious game. In other words, and I quote
you now, one of the main advisors of Hitler, and his name was Hitler. Hitler, one of the advisors to
Hitler said, the best political weapon is terror, and, quote, you terrorize your own people, and
they'll do anything, they'll become sheep. This is Hitler's adviser. In the Nuremberg trial when
he's on trial. Now he asked to spill the beans. And he says, Yes, we had to terrify our own people,
make them scared of the other, make them terrified of the Jew of the Gypsy of the communist of the
		

			socialist make them scared so that when we then go knock on the door of the Jew and drag him away,
nobody's gonna say anything. The best weapon of tyrannical regimes is terror. Understand this point,
and therefore brothers and sisters, there are people out there that understand this. They're using
the same tactics, another Nazi propagandist, a very famous that the leading Nazi propagandists are
Herman Goering said, and I quote you, of course the people don't want don't want to go to war. The
people don't want to fight but it's easy to get them to fight. All you have to do is tell them
they're being attacked, create an enemy, all you have to do is tell them they're being attacked. And
		

			x and denounced the passive is denounced those who are against you as not being patriotic. Tell
those people that are the left wingers. They don't love America, they're not patriotic, and then say
that if you're soft, if you're not for the war, you're exposing your country to a bigger terror, a
bigger attack and quote from the propaganda minister of the Nazis, fast forward 80 years. watch Fox
News, honestly, it is Nazi propaganda all over again. They smear the left wing, they make fun of
those that are pacifist essentially saying why do you have to fight? Why do you have to kill? They
mock their patriotism? These aren't the real patriots. Who are the real patriots American Sniper,
		

			that movie that came out killing men, women and children? That's the Patriot now. Right? Look at
what the president tweeted about a
		

			This myth of the Philippine General. So long story here, the president tweeted about this legend.
It's a fake. It's a fake tweet. It's not real. Sorry. It's a fake story. It's a real tweet. It's a
fake story, that in the Philippines when the Americans invaded, they colonized Philippine, and the
people of the Philippines fought back. And Philippines has a large Muslim population that Muslims
fought back as well. There is a myth that one of the American generals, when he saw the Muslims
fighting back, he decided to use bullets dipped in pig's blood. And he then would bury the Muslims
with pigs. So every time a Muslim was killed, he's going to bury them with pigs. This is a myth.
		

			It's a fable. The general is true, he existed, the Muslims did fight back. That's all true. But the
myth of being buried with with pigs or whatnot is completely false. Our president tweets this story
out. This is how you deal with Islamic radicalism. This is a call for genocide. And by the way, look
at the irony in the Philippines, who is invading whom, which country is invading which country who
are the freedom fighters in that particular fight, right, who's fighting for independence, who's
fighting against the invaders, but those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. So
understand the psychological warfare that's going on here. And what what what this will help us do
		

			is to categorize two types of people. Number one, those that are intentionally spreading the lies
Fox News, and those people that come on the media, they know they're lying, our many of our
political leaders, they know they're lying when they say there's an Islamic threat out there. One
Crazy person who runs into a crowd, that's the sad thing, but the country is not going to be
destroyed because of that, but it will be destroyed. If you foment this fear. If you're causing the
Civil War, if you're calling for another genocide, that is one of the what is going to destroy the
country. So understand. The first category people are those who are intentionally lying, they know
		

			they're lying for those people, all that you can do is make dua against them and try your best to
because they have power, they have money, our target should be the second category. And that's the
masses around us. We need to understand the average American has still not met a Muslim, the average
American especially those that don't go to university, they don't understand history, they genuinely
believe like Germans believed in the 1920s. They believe that Jews are out to kill them, Jews are
going to destroy the economy, this propaganda was given to them and German swallowed up that the
Jews are a fifth column, the Jews, they're going to do this and that. So when the Holocaust came,
		

			when Jews are being dragged from their houses, everybody was like, Well, I'm not doing it, but I'm
not going to stop it. We need to educate our fellow Americans, that this is propaganda. Muslims,
American Muslims are here, and we're just as loyal just as patriotic, we are not a threat, we need
to educate them. If we do not frankly, perhaps our own survival is at stake here. It's that group of
people, innocent, but naive, sincere, but misguided. And these are the people we interact with. We
need to understand they genuinely believe that their way of life is threatened. They genuinely
believe that we're out to kill them or take over America. And it is our job to make sure that they
		

			don't have those misconceptions. It's those people we might actually accomplish quite a lot with. As
for the leaders and those that are intentionally misguiding, we ask Allah to protect us against
them. But the average masses, sincerely misguided. That's our job. And each one of us can play a
vital role. So this is second point. Or the third point. I don't need to remind you of the Islamic
stance on racism, it is all understood and well known. Never forget the first racist in history was
bliss. Never forget that IBLEES was the first racist Holika name and Darren Walker, Dr. Holman
clean, the first racist in history was none other than the bliss. So anybody who is a racist, is
		

			satanic. And I mean, what I say listen to what I'm saying here, where is he getting this idea from?
Being a racist, go straight back to shaytaan. Literally, that was IBLEES his creed, I am better than
him because of where I come from because of my origin. And that's not how you judge people. So
racism has been alive in humanity since the beginning of humanity. But Islam came to eradicate
racism, one of the fundamental teachings of our religion. And I've said this many times, at a time
when no society preached equality of people, no society, not the ancient Greeks, not the Romans, not
the Chinese, not the Indians. Nobody said all races are equal. Our Prophet Muhammad so Saddam was
		

			the first person to come and say laughably out obedient Elijah million one or the other us further
elaborate Taqwa. This is the first time publicly in front of a million or 100,000 people in Nigeria
without we know the largest gathering of people at that time, and our prophecies and made it a point
to eradicate racism. So we need to learn our tradition. Our Prophet systems, talks talked about
racism, and he said, leave it alone die HAFA in the house
		

			windtunnel leave it for it is disgusting rotting, it's fitted, it's a body that's decaying, like a
dead animal leave it that have been not wanting to leave racism, leave this, this tribalism, get rid
of it. And even as we criticize their racism brothers and sisters, let's be honest here, we still
have quite a lot of racism in our own midst and ranks. So be careful before pointing the finger at
others, we need to cleanse our own hearts as well. And lastly, brothers and sisters time is limited.
Lastly, one of the things we can do is cooperation and unity. First amongst the Muslims, then
cooperate with other groups that are also being targeted. And of course, Muslim unity is the primary
		

			importance once we have Muslim Unity, we then reach out to other minorities as well. We need to
realize I've said this many times before we are less than 1% of this land. That's not a large
number. We think we're a lot because we go to conventions we see mashallah so many people the masjid
is packed. Mashallah, but realize, statistically speaking, we are less than 1% of this country. That
is dangerous, because if the other 99% have wrong ideas, then only Allah can protect and save us. So
we need to unite together. We need to stop bickering amongst ourselves over the most trivial issues,
and especially brothers and sisters. And I need to say this explicitly, the quote unquote immigrant
		

			community needs to form ties and alliances with the African American community. Because the African
American Muslims have been here and done that, even before they accepted Islam, they have seen the
brunt of racism, their ancestors were the actual slaves. And for too long, our two communities have
not really cooperated together, we have much to give our African American Muslim brothers have much
to give as well. And the two of us come together, we will have insha Allah Who to other a critical
mass and find answers and the knowledge and the wherewithal, we need to understand that speak to the
immigrant community that we've only been here I've been here one generation my father came here, but
		

			the African American brothers and sisters have been here 200 300 years, and they have seen a side of
America, and they have had to face the kk k, and they've had to face this racism far longer and far
more effective than we are, we need to learn from them. And we ask them as well to benefit from the
resources that we have put together in sha Allah to Allah we can accomplish a lot. And of course, as
we form unity amongst ourselves, we also then look to other minorities, other people that are being
targeted, because there is strength in our profit system formed alliances with the people of Qureshi
who stood up for justice, he formed alliances and treaties with them. We talked about multilumen ID
		

			we talked about the the the alliances that the process and formed with when he broke the boycott
that took place and he took advantage of that. We talked about Abu Sufian before he embraced Islam,
many of the alliances that the process and formed word pagans, but they stood up for truth and
justice, and there's nothing on Islamic with coming together for the civil good of society, we will
have to come out of our shells, we're gonna have to come out of just going to work in the masjid and
that's it and understand, and I don't wish to end on a dismal or a terrifying note. But the fact of
the matter is anybody who studies history, if you're not terrified, but what's happening right now,
		

			you haven't studied history, if we don't start actively preaching and speaking and educating and
embodying the values of Islam, then if God forbid, an economic crisis takes place or another major
attack takes place or anything takes place. If people start losing their minds and rationality, then
only Allah subhana wa Taala will be our Protector. I pray that Allah subhana wa Tada causes us to
benefit from the Quran and be of the righteous people bought a call at work We've cut out all the
welfare anyway. Yeah, I'll be my female it was afforded my testimony was stopped for a lot of limiti
what a committee said we should be condemned. First off, we don't know Hola, forward Raheem.