Yasir Qadhi - Thoughts on New Zealand Mosque Shooting

Yasir QadhiMarch 17, 20190 comments

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In this Friday khutbah delivered shortly after the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand, Shaykh Yasir Qadhi offers a detailed and unflinching response to the massacre that killed 49 Muslims at prayer. He examines the shooter's manifesto, traces the global rise of Islamophobia and far-right extremism, and calls on the Muslim community to respond not with fear, but with renewed faith, civic engagement, and deliberate outreach to their neighbors. The lecture balances grief and urgency with a message of trust in Allah and the power of compassion to overcome hatred.

Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi is one of the most influential Islamic scholars and intellectuals in the Western world. Born in Houston to Pakistani parents, he earned a degree in chemical engineering before studying for ten years at the Islamic University of Madinah, where he completed degrees in hadith and Islamic theology, and later earned a PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University. He served for years as Dean of Academic Affairs at AlMaghrib Institute, taught at Rhodes College in Memphis, and now serves as Dean of the Islamic Seminary of America and resident scholar of the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) in Texas. His lecture series on the seerah, "Lives of the Sahaba," and Islamic theology are among the most comprehensive in the English language.

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