Yasir Qadhi is an imam in Memphis and is Dean of Academic Affairs at the Al-Maghrib Institute. He is a hafiz — that is, he has memorized the entire Qur’an. He has also called Jews and Christians “filthy” (in accord with Qur’an 9:28) and said: “The life and property of a mushrik [one who worships others besides Allah] holds no value in the state of jihad….which means if they don’t say la illaha illa Allah, their lives and property are halal” — that is, permitted to be taken by the Muslims. Yet despite this open espousal of jihad violence, he has won the admiration of an evangelical Christian preacher, James White. I wrote here about how White is credulously allowing himself to be fooled by Qadhi, and letting the imam peddle egregious falsehoods about Islam to Christian audiences without challenge. And you can see here Qadhi continuing his slanders against me, with White’s eager endorsement.

White and his followers justify their coddling of Qadhi, and enabling of him to spread soothing lies to Christian organizations, on the basis of the claim that White has in the same context been afforded an opportunity to preach the Gospel to Muslim audiences. They don’t realize that Qadhi is far smarter than they are, and playing them for the purposes of dawah (Islamic proselytizing). Their objective is to lie to the Christians and mislead them about the motivating ideology, nature and magnitude of the jihad threat, and they know this will not be difficult, because most Christians are woefully uninformed about Islamic texts and teachings, and the pervasiveness of the jihad ideology in the Muslim world. They don’t care what White says to the Muslim audiences, because the Qur’an itself contains many responses to standard Christian theology; Christians generally don’t find them convincing, but Muslims do, and they act as a kind of inoculation against Muslims taking seriously the statements of an evangelist. Yes, many Muslims do convert to Christianity, but this usually happens as a result of a lengthy process, not due to hearing the word of one speaker at one event. White is allowing himself to be manipulated and played for a fool by Yasir Qadhi, whose allegiances you can see in the article below.

“Memphis Imam Raises Money For Islamic Charity U.S. Congressman Says Has Ties to Muslim Brotherhood,” by Chris Alto, Tennessee Star, September 11, 2017: