East Plano, Texas Sermon By Yasir Qadhi: Israel Is 'Demonstrably More Evil' Than The Nazis; The U.S. Has Been Taken Hostage By Israel And AIPAC
Dr. Qadhi is the chairman of the Fiqh Council of North America and a prominent leader of the U.S. Muslim community. The East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) is planning to develop a community-centered residential project in Texas, spanning over 400 acres and featuring more than 1,000 residences, a mosque, a K-12 faith-based school, a community college, and commercial shopping facilities. For more clips of Yasir Qadhi, see MEMRI TV clips 11937, 11965, 10590, 10334, 10117, 9859, 9417, 8433, 8401, 7640, 7451. For more clips of the East Plano Islamic Center, see 6847, 6749.
Dr. Yasir Qadhi: "I have visited the death camps of Auschwitz and Dachau. I have visited those very camps [in which] the Nazis perpetrated their crimes, and the tour guide told us that the maximum number – at any one given time – of prisoners In Auschwitz was around 100,000. I'm not comparing, each one is evil in its own way, but the current regime of Israel, starving two million people – it is demonstrably something more evil, in that sense, than anything the Nazis have done.
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"If they believe that even a fraction of what we are seeing now [in Gaza] is justified by one incident on October 7, then we must ask – what then is justified for the Palestinians, who have suffered, not years, not one incident, for decades? What is justified for them to do?
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"In this country, the majority of our follow Americans are now anti-Zionists. The majority of them – from the right to the left. Look at all of these commentators, they are now recognizing that our country has been hostage by AIPAC, has been held hostage by Israel.
"They know this, and all of those scandals taking place, all of these issues taking place – Allah is betraying them from within their own camp. Their own people are testifying against this reality. And these mini-scandals that are taking place, from the White House all the way down to the prisons cells of Epstein and what not... Yes, by Allah, Allah is exposing their standards, Allah is exposing their tactics, and Allah is exposing their control."
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